Fighter Ambush

Expansions

The Corellian Conflict (SWM25)

Card text

Setup: Before deploying fleets, the second player sets aside all of his squadrons.
After deploying fleets, the second player deploys all of his squadrons. Each of his squadrons can be placed as normal or at distance 1 of an obstacle, but all his squadrons must be beyond distance 5 of the first player’s edge.

Special Rule: After a squadrons performs an attack against a ship, if the defender was dealt at least 1 damage card, the squadron’s owner gains 1 victory token.

Properties

Category Defense
Victory Points 15

Official rulings

Squadrons that were set aside before deploying fleets due to Fighter Ambush’s Setup effect cannot be set aside by Invisible Hand‘s ability. Those squadrons would be deployed during the “After deploying fleets” timing, which is after Invisible Hand‘s ability is resolved in the “While deploying fleets” timing.

Reference

Nov 1, 2022 | Source: AMG Rules Forum

Community rulings

The standard obstacles are used during setup, which are 3 asteroid fields, 2 debris fields, and 1 station.
Before deploying fleets, the second player sets aside all squadrons, these squadrons will be deployed in the “after deployment” phase.. If the second player has an upgrade card such as Rapid Launch Bays the second player can choose to set squadrons aside to those ships, but will not be able to deploy them in the “after deployment” phase.
In the “after deployment” phase, in the second players timing, the second player deploys all squadrons that were set aside and they can be placed as normal or at distance 1 of any obstacle but beyond distance 5 of the first players edge.

Aug 11, 2020 | Source: KARM

The special rule:
After a squadron performs an attack against a ship, if the defending ship was dealt at least 1 damage card then the attacking squadrons owner gains 1 victory token worth 15 points.
Note: If the defending ship is only being dealt 1 damage card, and if that damage card is immediately discarded due to a card effect such as Medical Team or some other effect before that card can resolve or otherwise be placed on that ships ship card, then no victory token is scored as no damage card was actually dealt.

Aug 11, 2020 | Source: KARM