sensor jammer

By mrgoodtrips, in X-Wing

am i right in assuming that the sensor jammer denies you re rolls but if you have a focus still availabe(some can have 2 assigned) then you can change it back into a hit as it is not re rolling.

mrgoodtrips said:

am i right in assuming that the sensor jammer denies you re rolls but if you have a focus still availabe(some can have 2 assigned) then you can change it back into a hit as it is not re rolling.


That seems to be the case. It also seems that since many of the abilities we have seen so far in Wave 3 involve target locks, this is an ability designed in part to counter target locks.

Yes. A focus token doesn't change the die result at all, what it does is make a focus result do a damage (or cancel one if used to defend). So if the attacker doesn't have a focus it's effectivly a miss, and if they have one it forces them to spend it, thus denying them the chance to use it on their own defense. A rather cleverly writen upgrade I'd say.

Defender modifies the dice before the attacker. They would have to do this right after the dice roll. Then the attacker could use a target lock/Han to reroll any other dice or a forus to turn eyes (including the one from sensor jammer) into hits.

Vonpenguin said:

Yes. A focus token doesn't change the die result at all, what it does is make a focus result do a damage (or cancel one if used to defend). So if the attacker doesn't have a focus it's effectivly a miss, and if they have one it forces them to spend it, thus denying them the chance to use it on their own defense. A rather cleverly writen upgrade I'd say.

This isn't the way the rules actually structured. Focus tokens do change results, and that change is done by physically changing the die:

Page 12: Change: Some effects change one die result to a different result. To resolve this, the player physically picks up the die from the common area and rotates the die so that its faceup side displays the new result.

Page 12, Spending a Focus Token: ...change all {Eyeball} results on the attack dice to {Hit} results.

Emphasis mine. The end result is largely the same, but since multiple effect can change the same die, it's much cleaner to keep the actual change in mind. The Advanced Proton Torpedo is a good example of this - the Torpedo changes blanks to eyeballs, and then you can spend a focus token to change those eyeballs to hits.

Well now I feel silly. Sorry. My mistake.

This is actually something of a trend I find with X-wing's rules… A lot of the rules are written almost brutally simple, and it's easy for experienced gamers to compress them in their minds. I've done the same sort of thing more than once :)

So my question is that if I spend my focus to get 2 hits, then the defender changes it to and eye, does that focus no longer apply. I have no other focuses by the way.

So my question is that if I spend my focus to get 2 hits, then the defender changes it to and eye, does that focus no longer apply. I have no other focuses by the way.

The defender would have to use their ability first, so your scenario cannot happen.