"While a friendly ship or unique squadron is defending, after the Spend Defense Tokens step, if it spent fewer than 2 defense tokens..." (Luminara Unduli fleet commander)
But what happens if a ship spends a Brace token to activate Thermal Shields, and then a Salvo token during the spend defense tokens step? Did it spend one or two tokens when it comes to Luminara's effect?
@Sabelkatten That "logical way" really doesn't seem logical to me, as it ignores the timing windows given on the card and creates a new one.
“While a friendly ship or unique squadron is defending, after the Spend Defense Tokens step, if it spent fewer than 2 defense tokens, it may either ready 1 of its defense tokens it did not spend, or choose another friendly ship at distance 1-5 and ready 1 of that ship's defense tokens."
When the entire card is quoted, it's clear that there are two different timing windows: "While a friendly ship or unique squadron is defending" and "after the Spend Defense Tokens step." The upgrade card never mentions "during the Spend Defense Tokens step," so we can't impose that timing window on the card.
My breakdown of the two timing windows:
While defending: Did the ship or unique squadron spend fewer than 2 defense tokens? (If the answer is "no," then you cannot use Luminara's ability. If yes, move on to #2.)
After the Spend Defense Tokens step: If the answer to #1 is "yes", then "it may either ready 1 of its defense tokens it did not spend, or choose another friendly ship at distance 1-5 and ready 1 of that ship's defense tokens."
It seems logical that once damage has been totalled then that would be the end of the defence tokens step, but below are two relevant clips out of the “Defence Tokens” entry in the new erratta: -
Defense tokens can be spent by the defender during the “Spend Defense Tokens” step of an attack to produce the effects described below:
Salvo: If the defender is a ship, it performs a salvo attack after the “Resolve Damage” step of this attack.
So unfortunately it appears to still be two tokens spent.
I think it should be that way as well, but the arguably most logical way to read the text is that "...after the Spend Defense Tokens step, if it spent..." means "spent during Spend Defense Tokens step".
I was hoping there was some official answer out there.🤔
It spent two tokens while defending, so no Luminara.
My take on it: - is a salvo token a defence token? The answer is yes. So if you use a brace and a salvo that is two defence tokens.