Got Slave 1 today.

So does the Gunner "kick in" after all the rolls were made and modified on both sides ONLY if the attack resulted in no damage? Card text says when you miss with an attack.

I understand that hit=actual damage point that went through evades and shields (hull damage). So a missed attack means NO hits of any kind were scored and the Gunner will let you make 1 more attack ?

If you take out a shield, that counts as a hit.

Gunner will trigger if, after the dice are rolled, nothing happened to the enemy ship. That is to say, if all of your hits got canceled by evasion dice.

It is amazingly potent. Gunner/Luke(Copilot) + Han Solo lead to a build named "Han Shoots First", which is one of the most defining builds in this game.

With Wave 3, Gunner + DarthVader(Copilot) on a shuttle gives you a very efficient suicide bomber.

Alongside Howlrunner, it gets stupid-good.

Marksmanship applies to both attacks.

Thats great to know! Thank you

I tried a kath scarlett stressy build. Marksman, gunner, hlc. unfortunately for my opponent he was running b wings, which after stripping the shields kath killed in 1 salvo. next salvo took out his a wing in 1 gto 2 for the shield and double damage crit

I think the theory is sound. though maybe without the hlc. If the enemy dodges one, gets stressed, dodges both, gets double stressed. If not stressed generally means a crit went through (hopefully).

Also i've heard good things about 2 bounty hunters with gunners and 2 academy pilots. So i've gotta try that out at some point

I understand that hit=actual damage point that went through evades and shields (hull damage).

"Hit" is defined on page 12 or the rulebook: If there is at least one uncanceled <hit> or <crit> result remaining, the defender is considered hit ...

Damage is not required for a hit.

Most of the time a hit results in actual damage to the target. Depending on other abilities that might not be the case, though. For example draw their fire can result in the target being hit but not damaged.

It the attack results in no hit (= no uncanceled result) then gunner activates.