So as I understood this. I have to discard whatever that means to ready this card at the end of the round. And, pero Thrawn spoil, that icon means dial so... Do CIS got Piett and SFO on the same card for 4 points?

That's a different icon from the one on the Thrawn card.

1 minute ago, Formynder4 said:

That's a different icon from the one on the Thrawn card.

Is it? I asked for a second opinion and was told is the same with the color twisted. I guess it cannot be the same.

It is important to note that the droid can't boost concentrate firepower tokens like Piet can.

I presume T-series droid forces up to spend a dial to refresh the card _instead_ of using it for the turn (as opposed to SFO that gets you to use your next stacked dial)

A guess I've heard from another thrend suggest the symbol on the T-series is any command token.

Just now, PT106 said:

I presume T-series droid forces up to discard dial _instead_ of using it for the turn (as opposed to SFO that gets you to use your next stacked dial)

But that means two ways of resolving the same mechanic. Munitions don't require you to discard command tokens instead of using them. They ask you to discard, that's all. And you also have to consider the timing said which is status phase.

6 minutes ago, PT106 said:

I presume T-series droid forces up to spend a dial to refresh the card _instead_ of using it for the turn (as opposed to SFO that gets you to use your next stacked dial)

The droid is a token not a dial. Notice the corners on Thrawn's card that are not on the droid. That denotes that it's a dial where the simple circle means token.

18 minutes ago, Orcdruid said:

The droid is a token not a dial. Notice the corners on Thrawn's card that are not on the droid. That denotes that it's a dial where the simple circle means token.

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It does look like a 4pt officer that does almost the same job as Piett.

Even in the future machines are taking the jobs decent human beings once did. Did anyone stop to consider Mrs Piett and the five little Pietts (and little Betsy's barely two) before they made this droid?

6 minutes ago, flatpackhamster said:

It does look like a 4pt officer that does almost the same job as Piett.

Even in the future machines are taking the jobs decent human beings once did. Did anyone stop to consider Mrs Piett and the five little Pietts (and little Betsy's barely two) before they made this droid?

I think your timeline is a bit...backwards.

13 minutes ago, flatpackhamster said:

It does look like a 4pt officer that does almost the same job as Piett.

Even in the future machines are taking the jobs decent human beings once did. Did anyone stop to consider Mrs Piett and the five little Pietts (and little Betsy's barely two) before they made this droid?

Just be thankfull they havent given it the guns yet....yet.

2 hours ago, flatpackhamster said:

the jobs decent human beings once did

Serves you right for being racist.

The Tactical Droid is the same as Piett except; they only apply to the ship the droid is equipped to and the cost for using it is higher.

Piett costs 1 command token for one pretend dial command. But the Tactical Droid costs 2 command tokens for one pretend dial command (-1 for the first use); one to ready the card, one to trigger the effect.

Piett is great for letting you get multiple full commands off each turn; you use your dial for your main command, then a token for your Piett command. Even better with the SSD, where you get a free token anyway. But that will be a bit harder with the T-droid? TT-droid? T-rex?? Whatever we're going to call it. Because you need a way to generate that second command token.

So yes, the T-droid is a slightly better SFO (recurring, but takes a bit more planning and needs tokens). But it is 4 times the points. It's quite a bit weaker than Piett, and an officer, so is a lot cheaper (scaled down to 1/3-1/4 due to being an officer, then a bit less due to the extra token?).

3 minutes ago, Grumbleduke said:

Piett costs 1 command token for one pretend dial command. But the Tactical Droid costs 2 command tokens for one pretend dial command (-1 for the first use); one to ready the card, one to trigger the effect.

Piett is great for letting you get multiple full commands off each turn; you use your dial for your main command, then a token for your Piett command.

I wonder how upgrades like this Tactical Droid (specifically - 'spend X to refresh the card') work with upgrades that FORCE a refresh.

IE., one of the cool things about Piett was that, on the Interdictor (title), you could use him twice a turn - the Interdictor FORCES a refresh of a card. Can it still do that, if the card cannot automatically refresh but requires paying something? (And if so - wow, hella buff to the Interdictor title!)

1 hour ago, xanderf said:

I wonder how upgrades like this Tactical Droid (specifically - 'spend X to refresh the card') work with upgrades that FORCE a refresh.

IE., one of the cool things about Piett was that, on the Interdictor (title), you could use him twice a turn - the Interdictor FORCES a refresh of a card. Can it still do that, if the card cannot automatically refresh but requires paying something? (And if so - wow, hella buff to the Interdictor title!)

I was wondering how the no recur icon ( the arrow) works with exhaust like Interdictor (good for you) or Ms-I ion cannons (bad for opponent if the wording stays the same) It is the waiting game now till we get the new rules. We have waited this long so we can wait a little longer.

9 minutes ago, Wolf_58 said:

I was wondering how the no recur icon ( the arrow) works with exhaust like Interdictor (good for you) or Ms-I ion cannons (bad for opponent if the wording stays the same) It is the waiting game now till we get the new rules. We have waited this long so we can wait a little longer.

I thought the stream meantioned new rules in the article. Maybe more articles to come? I wonder if they'll be released before the new stuff is released?

10 hours ago, Formynder4 said:

I think your timeline is a bit...backwards.

I see you subscribe to oppressive colonialist notions of time.

MS-1 Ion Canons seem like they'll interact normally. The new system covers how cards are readied, not how they are exhausted.

The interaction with Interdictor will depend on how the rules are defined; hopefully it will be worded in a way that makes it clear.

I find it interesting that the tactical droids are not limited beyond available slots in the lists. In X-wing tactical droids are one only per list.