Rules Questions and Insights (?)

[<CK>Trix]

One of the items that I've realized I've been playing wrong deals with stress. Page 17 of the main rule book has this for stress:

Stress
There are several factors that can cause pilots stress, such as executing difficult (red) maneuvers (see Step 4 on page 7). While a ship has at least
one stress token, it cannot execute red maneuvers or perform any actions (even free actions).

I've altered the important part of the rule that I know I've been playing incorrectly with bold and underlining. Now, this doesn't prevent upgrade cards or pilot abilities from giving another pilot that is stressed evade or target lock tokens, such as with Dutch Vander's pilot ability



but it does keep the stressed pilot from performing free actions, even when given a free action as from the upgrade "Squad Leader":



Then there are a few things like Night Runner's ability that the FAQs deal with

Row 1 column 1 If “Night Beast” is stressed before he executes a green maneuver, he cannot perform a free focus action since the free action is granted before the stress is removed during the “Check Pilot Stress” step. If “Night Beast” executes a maneuver that causes him to overlap another ship, he can still perform a free focus action.

With Stress, the tense of the word along with the overall wording really determines if something can be done while a pilot is stressed.

if anyone has questions or has a different understanding, I would love to hear it.

[Fadril Adren]

Good catch! I am thinking that the new printed rules that comes in the new Starter Set (The Force Awakens) will elaborate on this to make it more clear. There are many hints coming from different blogs that say that the rules will be better defined, less ambiguous, and overall clearer and concise. While this sounds really good, my GW FAQ and Army Book rules and eratta player in me is a bit skeptical. Although Fantasy Flight DOES do a much better job at rules clarification in my opinion.

My question is.. did the FAQ for X-Wing have an update or clarification for Stress?

- Fadril

[<CK>Trix]

The only clarifications for stress that I've found in the FAQs is dealing with pilot abilities or upgrade cards and how stress affects the results of the abilities or upgrades.