Targeting Scrambler

Expansions
Upgrade Card Collection (SWM38)
Interdictor (SWM16)
Card text
While a friendly ship at distance 1-3 is defending at close range, during the Spend Defense Tokens step, you may exhaust this card to force the attacker to reroll up to 4 dice of your choice.
Properties
Type | Experimental Retrofit |
---|---|
Faction | Neutral |
Unique | No |
Recur Type | |
Points | 5 |
Timing
This Upgrade Card may be exhausted to resolve its effect during the “Spend Defense Tokens” step.
Official rulings
Multiple copies of this card can each resolve their effect during the same attack. Each card’s effect must be resolved separately.
Mar 9, 2020 | Source: FAQ v5.1.1
Community rulings
When a friendly ship (including the ship with this card equipped) is at distance 1-3 of the ship equipped with Targeting Scrambler, and that ship is defending at close range. That ship may, during the “Spend Defense Tokens” step, exhaust Targeting Scrambler to reroll up to 4 die chosen by you, in the attackers attack pool.
Jul 13, 2020 | Source: KARM
Targeting Scrambler can be used on any friendly ship defending at close range, such as from a ship, squadron, or armed/unarmed station.
Jul 13, 2020 | Source: KARM
Targeting Scrambler cannot be used on an attack that is not at close range.
Jul 13, 2020 | Source: KARM
Targeting Scrambler cannot reroll a die that has been modified by Lando Calrissian card effect.
Jul 13, 2020 | Source: KARM
Multiples of Targeting Scrambler CAN be resolved in the same attack, as each ship in range is independent of each other at resolving its own copy of the card in the same timing window thus not prevented by the “While” effect in RRG.
Jul 13, 2020 | Source: KARM
Targeting Scrambler may be used on an Armed or Unarmed Station controlled by that player as it is treated as a ship while it is defending or attacking, and “Stations are treated as ships when resolving effects”. It is considered “friendly” as its station card is kept near the controlling players fleet, and any damage cards drawn are drawn from the controlling players’ damage deck.
Also per the following from Rebellion in the Rim RRG about “Controlling additional Forces”.
“Unless otherwise instructed, those ships are activated like other ships and are part of that player’s fleet.”
Jul 13, 2020 | Source: KARM
Any accuracies rolled as a result of Targeting Scrambler cannot be spent as they must of been spent during the “Resolve Attack effects” step. However, a ship with SW-7 Ion Batteries equipped can use any blue die accuracies as damage, as they are “unspent”.
Jul 13, 2020 | Source: KARM