Okay, say you're using a huge ship or a small ship gets coordinated. Your first action is a linked action, say, lock > calculate. For the SECOND action, can you then do another linked action that ends in a calculate?

To my knowledge, no. You can only do one calculate per ship per turn. Thus preventing token stacking. Well, unless you're using Lando (rebel) crew. In which case if you're lucky you can stack evades or focuses.

Welp... Threepio is getting pushed out of my CR-90's airlock. Thought I had a sure fire combo going, but should have known better!

Thanks for the assist!

There are ways to get more then one Calculate, Focus, or Evade token. But none of them involve taking multiple Calculate, Focus, or Evade actions.

Yeah, it's all making sense now. I'm just rarely in a position to take multiple linked actions with the lists I normally run, so I wasn't clear on how multiple linked actions would interact.

It's kind of like how if you use supernatural Reflexes to do a barrel roll before activating Vader, you can't do a second one via Vader's ability or as a normal action.

You can only take a particular action once per turn. Though you can only take one calculate action you can "gain" any number of calculate tokens per turn. "Gaining" a calculate token (or other tokens) is not the same as taking a calculate action.

On 11/9/2019 at 7:54 AM, Kehl_Aecea said:

Welp... Threepio is getting pushed out of my CR-90's airlock. Thought I had a sure fire combo going, but should have known better!

Thanks for the assist!

Honestly I think he'd be great in huge ships. He's not expensive to start with, you're getting a free calculate action with whatever action you have a team for anyway, and it will work great with Bombardment Specialists etc.

I'd consider him and Perceptive Copilot with a Liberator, Sheathipede, and Comms team. You get a free 1-3 coordinates and 2 calculates at the start of your turn, then you double-focus, and you're free to reinforce or lock, whichever you prefer. Seems pretty sweet.

Alderaanian Guard (146)
Targeting Battery (9)
Point-Defense Battery (10)
C-3PO (8)
Perceptive Copilot (8)
Comms Team (8)
Optimized Power Core (6)
Liberator (5)
AP-5 (32)

"Dutch" Vander (40)
Expert Handling (2)
Ion Cannon Turret (5)
Proton Torpedoes (13)
Veteran Wing Leader (2)
Gray Squadron Bomber (31)
Ion Cannon Turret (5)
Proton Torpedoes (13)
Gray Squadron Bomber (31)
Ion Cannon Turret (5)
Proton Torpedoes (13)

Jake Farrell (36)
Juke (7)
Crack Shot (1)
Phoenix Squadron Pilot (30)
Crack Shot (1)
Phoenix Squadron Pilot (30)
Crack Shot (1)

Total: 498

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I've been mostly ignoring the existence of C-3PO since if you have to chose between doing a Calculate or a Focus action, it's generally better to have a focus token. But yeah, I could see him being quite good on a Huge ship. You're already probably going to be getting free calculate tokens fairly regularly.

10 hours ago, Faerie1979 said:

I've been mostly ignoring the existence of C-3PO since if you have to chose between doing a Calculate or a Focus action, it's generally better to have a focus token. But yeah, I could see him being quite good on a Huge ship. You're already probably going to be getting free calculate tokens fairly regularly.

Double-calculate is usually better than single focus.

But not 6 points better, and his ability is trash, so.

His ability could work, sometimes, on a 1 Agility ship, if the enemy isn't shooting you from range 3 or farther, and there's nothing between you and the enemy... Okay, yes. C-3PO's ability is trash.

1 minute ago, Faerie1979 said:

His ability could work, sometimes, on a 1 Agility ship, if the enemy isn't shooting you from range 3 or farther, and there's nothing between you and the enemy... Okay, yes. C-3PO's ability is trash.

It's pretty much always better to use the calculate to turn a single focus than to throw it away before knowing what you'll roll.

5 minutes ago, ClassicalMoser said:

It's pretty much always better to use the calculate to turn a single focus than to throw it away before knowing what you'll roll.

Which is why I've been ignoring his existence as Crew. I only have one ship other then the CR-90 that has crew slots. And that ship has Focus on every pilot. So why would I chose to Calculate rather then Focus?

8 minutes ago, Faerie1979 said:

Which is why I've been ignoring his existence as Crew. I only have one ship other then the CR-90 that has crew slots. And that ship has Focus on every pilot. So why would I chose to Calculate rather then Focus?

C-3PO gives you two calculates. That's what his card means by "After you perform a calculate action, gain a calculate token." You end up with two. You can spend one on attack and the other on defense if necessary, or two on two separate defenses, which is really convenient. If you think about it, the likelihood of rolling 3 or more focus results is far less common than rolling one on two different rolls, so 2 calculates are mathematically better than a single focus (except in cases where you aren't getting shot at or where you're not shooting and only defending once). That's what he's good for.

Still not worth 6 points though. He should be priced at 3 like IG-88D who does the same thing.

You would think rolling 2 or 3 focus wouldn't be particularly common. But I seem to do so fairly often. Then again I also seem to roll 3 to 4 hits fairly often. And have gotten 4 crits a few times too. Personally, I'd rather have something that can let you reroll, but that seems like a fairly uncommon ability.