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So the other day i was playing around with a list that had chewbaca flying the YT-1300 and he had draw there fire and the title which gives the evade action..I used draw there fire to take a hit off one of my ships and wanted to use my evade token i had on him at the time but was told i could not do that. I thought when you suffer a hit you may use the evade token?

You can as that's the point of evade tokens? You spend them to generate a dodge?

No, you can not do that. Draw their fire takes an uncanceled {crit} result from the ship you're protecting, which means it happens after the step where you compare attack dice to defense dice + evade tokens and determine how many hits the target suffers. At that point it's way too late to go back and add an evade token to the results. The evade action will only protect the YT-1300 from attacks made against it (which is still a very useful thing to have).

Here's the relevant line from the rulebook about canceling attack dice.

"All abilities that allow players to cancel dice must be resolved at the start of the “Compare Results” step."

By the time you pull an uncanceled crit over with draw their fire you're already past the compare dice step, so no more canceling effects allowed on those rolls.