Diamond Boron Missiles vs Nantex

By markrivett, in X-Wing Rules Questions

If you target lock a Nantex, then that Nantex takes a tractor token to rotate their arc, is their agility 2 or 3 for the purposes of determining whether the Diamond Boron Missiles will affect other ships within range 1?

Thank you in advance

10 minutes ago, markrivett said:

If you target lock a Nantex, then that Nantex takes a tractor token to rotate their arc, is their agility 2 or 3 for the purposes of determining whether the Diamond Boron Missiles will affect other ships within range 1?

Thank you in advance

Agility doesn’t change, its still 3

12 minutes ago, markrivett said:

If you target lock a Nantex, then that Nantex takes a tractor token to rotate their arc, is their agility 2 or 3 for the purposes of determining whether the Diamond Boron Missiles will affect other ships within range 1?

Thank you in advance

As @Innese said, the Nantex is still agility 3. Being tractored doesn't affect the agility of the ship, it affects specifically the amount of defense dice rolled. RR page 21 (bolded and underlined effect):

"TRACTOR
A ship is tractored while it has equal to or greater than a
specific number of tractor tokens, according to its size: a small
ship requires at least one tractor token, a medium ship requires
at least two tractor tokens, and a large ship require at least
three tractor tokens. A tractor token is a orange token.
The first time a ship becomes tractored each round, the player whose effect
applied the tractor token may choose one of the following effects:
• Perform a barrel roll using the [1 󲁞] maneuver template. The player applying
the effect selects the direction of the barrel roll and the ship’s final position.
• Perform a boost using the [1 󲁞] maneuver template.
This move can cause the ship to move through or overlap an obstacle. After a
ship is moved this way, if an opponent moved it, the ship's player may choose
to have the ship rotate 90˚ to the left or right. If they do, the ship gains one
stress token.
While a tractored ship defends, it rolls one fewer defense die.
• Some special weapons inflict tractor tokens instead of dealing damage.
• Huge ships have additional rules for tractor tokens (see Appendix: Huge
Ships)."

@Innese is right.

The rules reference says that "While a tractored ship defends, it rolls one fewer defense die." If there was any ability that said it reduced the agility of a ship, that would affect DBM.

7 hours ago, 5050Saint said:

@Innese is right.

The rules reference says that "While a tractored ship defends, it rolls one fewer defense die." If there was any ability that said it reduced the agility of a ship, that would affect DBM.

Such as the Delta-7b configuration

swz_delta-7b.png

45 minutes ago, nitrobenz said:

Such as the Delta-7b configuration

swz_delta-7b.png

Even still, that's not an ability as much as a change to the fundamental capabilities of the ship. An ability that changes a ship's agility would be more like that ubiquitous pilot seen in every Scum list ever, Sarco Plank...

SarcoPlankPilotCard.png