Luke Skywalker Crew Card

By codeinfused, in X-Wing Rules Questions

For reference, the card reads:

Luke Skywalker (7)
Unique
After you perform an attack that does not hit, immediately perform a primary weapon attack. You may change 1 focus_icon.png result to a hit_icon.png result. You cannot perform another attack this round.

I'm curious how people interpret the second sentence. "You may change 1…", note that it does not read "You may then change 1…".

So there are 2 possibibilities, the luke-focus only applies to the second attack, after the first fails… or, the Luke crew card works more like the Luke pilot (the pilot has the defensive version of this, change 1 eyeball on every defense roll).

What's your opinion? Works for both attacks, or only works on second attack?

As I interpret it he needs a miss to trigger his ability. Therefor only change the die on the second attack.

Tinnitus is correct.

After you perform an attack that does not hit is the trigger for the ability. Until and unless that trigger is met, the card does nothing.

Makes it a pretty terrible card, it seems. Marksman + Gunner is 1 more point. I guess the only reason to take Luke is if you want to free up your Elite skill for Tactics or other instead of Marksman.

codeinfused said:

Makes it a pretty terrible card, it seems. Marksman + Gunner is 1 more point. I guess the only reason to take Luke is if you want to free up your Elite skill for Tactics or other instead of Marksman.

The biggest thing here is that Marksmanship requires an action, while Luke does not. Han+Marksmanship+Gunner is a very popular combo, but I've got a buddy who prefers to run Han+Luke+Millennium Falcon. He uses the Evade action each turn to reduce incoming damage, and relies on Luke to keep the damage output up. Trades a little bit of offense for a very reliable boost in defense.

The other thing to remember is that since Marksmanship is an action, you're vulnerable to action denial such as blocking. Han's high PS and large base means that he's going to be easy to block, and the potential for action transferral are going to be limited.