Swivel-Mount Batteries
Expansions
Galactic Republic Fleet Starter (SWM34)
Separatist Alliance Fleet Starter (SWM35)
Card text
Modification.
When you reveal a command, you may exhaust this card to choose 1 of your hull zones and mark it with a focus token. While attacking a ship from that hull zone, add 1 die of any color from an adjacent hull zone’s armament to your attack pool. While attacking from adjacent hull zones, remove 1 die from your attack pool. When you ready this card, remove that focus token.
Properties
| Type | Turbolaser |
|---|---|
| Faction | Republic / Separatist |
| Unique | No |
| Recur Type | |
| Ready Cost | 1:
|
| Points | 8 |
Timing
The effect of this Upgrade Card triggers during Attack Step 3: “Resolve Attack Effects”
Official rulings
If Swivel-Mount Batteries is discarded while exhausted, the focus token would remain, but there would no longer be any negative or positive effect associated with that token.
Jul 18, 2021 | Source: AMG Rules Forum
Question: When does the “add” and “remove” die effects of Swivel Mount Batteries take place?
Answer: Dice can only be added during the “Resolve Attack Effects” step of an attack. Which is after dice are rolled.
The die is removed after gathering dice into your attack pool, but before rolling dice.
Jun 15, 2021 | Source: AMG Rules Forum
Question: Does a Salvo attack lose a die when attacking from a hull zone adjacent to a hull zone marked with a focus token from Swivel Mount Batteries? What about Counter?
Answer: Yes. All attacks that originate from an adjacent hull zone are affected.
Jun 15, 2021 | Source: AMG Rules Forum
Question: Does Swivel Mount Batteries remove a die when making anti squadron attacks in “adjacent hull zones”?
Answer: Yes.
Jun 15, 2021 | Source: AMG Rules Forum
Community rulings
If you do not reveal a command dial, you cannot exhaust this card.
Jun 23, 2021 | Source: KARM
When this ship is attacking another ship or squadron from a hull zone that is adjacent to the marked Focus token hull zone, remove 1 die after you gather die, but before rolling your initial attack pool.
This includes any attacks made by card effects such as Ordnance Pods if you choose to use its effect on an adjacent hull zone to the marked Focus token hull zone.
Jun 23, 2021 | Source: KARM
If you ready this card, remove the Focus token.
Jun 23, 2021 | Source: KARM
If a ship is equipped with an upgrade card that would increase its battery armament in a hull zone that would grant a colored die not found printed on its ship card, (for example, a Munificent-class Comms Frigate equipped with High-Capacity Ion Turbines) and you place a Focus token on that ships front or rear hull zone, you would be able to choose the colored die granted by that upgrade card as a die to be added in a Focus hull zone attack.
Jun 23, 2021 | Source: KARM
Swivel-Mount Batteries does not add an extra die to a Salvo attack as the attack uses the “printed rear armament.”
However, if the hull zone performing a Salvo attack is adjacent to a hull zone with the Focus token it would lose a die from its attack pool.
Jun 23, 2021 | Source: KARM