Last night I ran into a problem question. While using a Falcon with Gunner co-pilot if I pull the Blinded Pilot crit card- "the next time you attack, do not roll any attack dice."- I skip my attack, flip the crit facedown, then Gunner kicks in and I can roll his attack. This much I know. Here's the problem. Let's say i'm flying an X-wing and I have a target lock from a previous round. Now lets say a higher skill pilot attacks and lands the dreaded Blinded Pilot crit on my X-wing. After skipping my attack and flipping the crit facedown can I spend my target lock to attack? Target locks deal with "rerolling" attack dice but since I didn't roll any to begin with does this work? I understand the Gunner is not a "target lock" but why would this crit affect one and not the other?

Thanks

You could theoretically spend your target lock on the X-Wing's attack to reroll all zero of your dice. This would not be a wise move. Gunner works here because it initiates a brand new attack. Gunner isn't just rerolling dice, but a whole new primary weapon attack. Indeed, if you had target lock and gunner, you would wait for the second attack, then spend the target lock to reroll some of the dice in that attack.

You could theoretically spend your target lock on the X-Wing's attack to reroll all zero of your dice.

I agree, you can't spend a TL to make a 2nd attack, just use it to reroll dice from an attack, or fire a secondary weapon.

Gunner is different because it's a new attack, hence a new pool of dice. You roll zero for the first attack, miss, Gunner goes off, and the new attack isn't affected by the Blinded Pilot because it's already flipped face down.

Target Lock works all on the same attack. It doesn't add any new dice, just rerolls the ones that are already on the table. So as Sable says (and Vanor reinforces) you can spend the TL, but there's nothing there for you to reroll.

Thanks for helping me clear this up and I couldn't agree more that a target lock rerolls dice, not starts a new attack.