The card says "discard your target lock to perform this attack twice." So, hypothetically, if I had the Falcon with a Weapons Engineer, and thus could have two target locks on two different ships, would I be able to perform this attack once against one ship and once against another? I can see this being useful if you had a couple of damaged ships in front of you and managed to take out the first one with the first salvo, then possibly take out the second ship. And I can't seem to find anything against it in the rules or FAQ, but I may hve missed something.

So: can cluster missiles target two ships?

I'd have to say no. The card says, "…perform THIS ATTACK twice." You are making the same attack (same dice, same target) twice. If it allowed you to attack more than one target, it would say so specifically.

Gullwind said:

nimdabew said:

That's because the gunner card uses different words than Cluster Missiles.

The question was about cluster missiles with weapons engineer, not gunner. I was quoting the cluster missile card. With gunner, yes, you can attack a different ship with the second attack, but the question was whether you could attack a different ship with the second cluster missile attack.

I would have to say no, you spent one target lock to shoot the missiles. Those missiles have to be shot a the target you spent the lock on. Core roles, and verified in latest FAQ, states that you can't take the same action twice, even if for some reason a ship gets two of the same action. So you can't even spend both target locks to justify splitting the shot.

CPTMcMurphy said:

Spending the target locks isn't taking an action, so you actually could spend both target locks in one turn… though that would require using the gunner. In this case, you have to fire the cluster missiles at the target you discarded a target lock on in order to fire… and it only has you discard a single target lock to make the attack twice.