Action and free action confusion

By Mishgun2k, in X-Wing Rules Questions

Hello,

Played Boba Fett with engine upgrade and push the limit today. Long story short lost both games.

I am not sure if I did this right. I would move my ship, turbo boost, and then turbo boost again via PTL card.

I thought you can perform one action, and a free action in one round. Now looking closely at the rulebook it seems that I cant do that since it is the same action.

So, no turbo-boosting twice ?

Please let me know. It didnt help me in the end but I would like to play this right.

No, you can't take the same action twice in the same round, even if it is a free action. All actions must be different.

Note that gaining a token from any source is not the same as doing the action itself. Ex: If a ship like for example 'Garven Dreis' handles your ship a focus token, you can still perform the 'focus' action on your turn.

Yep, taking a free action, still counts as an action (though it doesn't count as your one action for the round) and you can't perform two actions with the same name in the same round

Thanks guys, I dont feel too bad. My opponent won both games so my unintentional cheating didnt really have a huge impact on the game.

I will know better for the next time.

What they said.

On a side note, kind of related, keep this in mind with stressed ships, as well (see this a lot with PTL). If your ship is stressed it cannot use an action - even a Free action. But if it gets, say, a focus token or Target Lock passed to it, rather than a free focus or target lock "action," it can make use of them.