New Rules Reference Questions – obstacles and tractors

By markrivett, in X-Wing Rules Questions

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New section on Obstacles:

“While a ship is not executing a maneuver, if it moves through or overlaps an obstacle, it suffers an effect based on the type of obstacle (after resolving its move, if applicable):”

Read within the greater context of the Obstacles section, am I correctly interpreting this to mean that a ship that ends its maneuver on an Asteroid or Debris Cloud will suffer the outlined effects, and suffer them AGAIN on the following turn when they maneuver off the obstacle whether their template overlapped or not.

Secondarily, a ship with Fine Tuned Controls that lands on an Asteroid may boost or barrel roll off the asteroid, but will FIRST suffer the effects of maneuvering on to the asteroid, and THEN suffer the effects when they barrel roll/boost off the asteroid.

New section tractor tokens:

Previously, a medium and mlarge base ship with ONE tractor token would suffer the defense dice penalty. Now, that ship must be “tractored” (2 and 3 tokens respectively) in order to suffer that penalty.

Edited by markrivett

a ship moving off an obstacle without it's template crossing the obstacle is still not overlapping or moving through that obstacle, just like previously. a ship with fine tuned controls can boost or barrel roll off an asteroid as long as the template used is not overlapping that obstacle, just like previously.

yup, a ship must now be tractored to roll one less dice while defending, increasing the number of tractor tokens needed to two for medium sized ships and three for large sized ships.

1 hour ago, meffo said:

yup, a ship must now be tractored to roll one less dice while defending, increasing the number of tractor tokens needed to two for medium sized ships and three for large sized ships.

I'm so glad they changed that. I always though this was kinda crap how a large ship with 1, still got hit with a defense penalty.