Covert Ops states that you can deploy as an operativr, if so you gain infiltrate. So in an army when Cassian is your listed commander and you have no another commander in play I wonder if Cassian can be nominated at end of the turn as the commander.

Further to that of you had operative Luke would it be possible to legally build a list with Cassian as your commander and essentially swap in operative Luke with the corresponding command cards as the new leader end of turn 1 . As operatives they both could still issue commands though there would be no turn 1 morale bubble.

I'm sure that as with all the other "new" keywords that were on past releases, the RRG will update before the release of Cassian and Iden to give us the full details of how Covert Ops works. It's possible that Covert Ops will require the army to have a second Commander, or you have less than two Operatives for instance.

We should (I assume) get the updated RRG sometime this month, as the B2s have Cycle, which isn't yet in the RRG (not that there seems to be any confusion on how it works).

3 hours ago, Lochlan said:

We should (I assume) get the updated RRG sometime this month, as the B2s have Cycle, which isn't yet in the RRG (not that there seems to be any confusion on how it works).

Count Dooku also came with an upgrade that that has a Keyword that isn't in the RRG yet (Demoralize X). They need to get on that.

9 minutes ago, arnoldrew said:

Count Dooku also came with an upgrade that that has a Keyword that isn't in the RRG yet (Demoralize X). They need to get on that.

Well at least in that case Dooku was released earlier than FFG expected. Still, could use an update to the RRG.

This was the first thing I thought of for cassian. This would easily be a very useful part of his ability for sure. 4 courage rebels would be pretty nice.

Yes, that's where my mind went, aka how to start the game with operative Luke as a commander, or have cassian as a coomander, field him as an operative for the infiltrate then haven in become the commander.

On 2/1/2020 at 8:20 PM, syrath said:

Covert Ops states that you can deploy as an operativr, if so you gain infiltrate. So in an army when Cassian is your listed commander and you have no another commander in play I wonder if Cassian can be nominated at end of the turn as the commander.

Further to that of you had operative Luke would it be possible to legally build a list with Cassian as your commander and essentially swap in operative Luke with the corresponding command cards as the new leader end of turn 1 . As operatives they both could still issue commands though there would be no turn 1 morale bubble.

I'd say that you cannot nominate another commander in that case, the rule for nominating another commander is when your last commander was defeated and in this case Casian won't be defeated:

"If a player’s last commander is defeated, that player can promote a new commander during the End Phase."

So in that scenario you will be the whole game without a commander. We'll have to see a rules update to really see how that abbility will work.

11 minutes ago, Lemmiwinks86 said:

I'd say that you cannot nominate another commander in that case, the rule for nominating another commander is when your last commander was defeated and in this case Casian won't be defeated:

"If a player’s last commander is defeated, that player can promote a new commander during the End Phase."

So in that scenario you will be the whole game without a commander. We'll have to see a rules update to really see how that abbility will work.

Yeah that's my read on it so I'm fairly sure some rules will change , I reckon covert ops is probably only possible if another commander is available.