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So today while playing one of my opponents flew Etahn A'baht's E-wing.
His rule say's, When a defending enemy ship that is within range 1-3 and in his firing arc, the attacker may change one hit into a crit.

Is this ability conferred to all the ship on his list?
When he shot at me with Dash he used this ability. I am just not clear if it should be open to all on his list or just to Etahn.

Also would this ability work on a HLC? I am just not sure of the order for changing die around.

It was a pretty darn fun game we had and it came down to the wire. I had gotten a couple of lucky (well unlucky for him) hits on Dash, stripping his shields. So I turned my entire focus on Dash removal. Then he had 4 turns of not missing an evade roll. as the HLC and Etahn whittled away at me. I finally cleared Dash and stripped Etahn shields. We spent a turn or two trying to get back into arc. I got behind him as he pulled a green and got a shield back from R2 at the same time he landed on a rock and rolled a hit to lose the shield and I got close enough without having to boost, so I focused up and got 4 hits on him. We only had a couple of minutes left on the clock.

 Nicorex wrote:
So today while playing one of my opponents flew Etahn A'baht's E-wing.
His rule say's, When a defending enemy ship that is within range 1-3 and in his firing arc, the attacker may change one hit into a crit.

Is this ability conferred to all the ship on his list?

Yes.

When he shot at me with Dash he used this ability. I am just not clear if it should be open to all on his list or just to Etahn.

Also would this ability work on a HLC? I am just not sure of the order for changing die around.

When attacking with HLC, you immediately change any crits into hits. You may then modify the dice with focus or with any ability you may have (such as Etahn's ability or Marksmanship) to change a hit back into a crit. It should also be noted that any crit results from rerolls are not changed into hits, only the initial roll result is.

Good to know. Thanks

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:

 Nicorex wrote:
So today while playing one of my opponents flew Etahn A'baht's E-wing.
His rule say's, When a defending enemy ship that is within range 1-3 and in his firing arc, the attacker may change one hit into a crit.

Is this ability conferred to all the ship on his list?

Yes.

When he shot at me with Dash he used this ability. I am just not clear if it should be open to all on his list or just to Etahn.

Also would this ability work on a HLC? I am just not sure of the order for changing die around.

When attacking with HLC, you immediately change any crits into hits. You may then modify the dice with focus or with any ability you may have (such as Etahn's ability or Marksmanship) to change a hit back into a crit. It should also be noted that any crit results from rerolls are not changed into hits, only the initial roll result is.

I thought a single die roll could only be modified once. So if a HLC modifies a crit into a hit, would you be able to modify it back to a crit without rerolling it first?

 ClassicCarraway wrote:
I thought a single die roll could only be modified once.

Nope.

You can only reroll a die once.

So if a HLC modifies a crit into a hit, would you be able to modify it back to a crit without rerolling it first?

Yes.

Turning a crit into a hit with the HLC is not part of the "Modify Dice" step when performing an attack.