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Raid Formation

When 1 or more of your units use ANTI-FIGHTER BARRAGE, for each hit produced in excess of your opponent's fighters, choose 1 of your opponent's ships that has SUSTAIN DAMAGE to become damaged.
The Argent FlightFaction ability

When 1 or more of your units use ANTI-FIGHTER BARRAGE, for each hit produced in excess of your opponent's fighters, choose 1 of your opponent's ships that has SUSTAIN DAMAGE to become damaged.

Source: Prophecy of Kings

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  • The Anti-Fighter Barrage step happens during each space combat, even if no fighters are present in the system.
  • RAID FORMATION occurs when hits are produced, not after hits are assigned. As such, cancelling any hits will not prevent an opponent’s ships from becoming damaged.
    • If any of the anti-fighter barrage dice are rerolled, the number of ships that become damaged will depend only on the rerolled values.
  • The Argent player may choose a damaged ship. This will have no effect.
  • The chosen ship becomes damaged, it does not use its SUSTAIN DAMAGE ability. As such, effects that trigger when a ship uses its SUSTAIN DAMAGE ability, such as the Direct Hit or Reflective Shielding action cards, cannot be played.
    • The chosen ship may be repaired by the Duranium Armor technology later in the same round of combat.
    • If the Letnev player owns their Non-Euclidean Shielding faction technology, this will not reduce the number of ships that the Argent player chooses.
    • The ships cannot be repaired by the effect of the Empyrean player’s flagship, the Dynamo.
  • If the Argent player plays the Waylay action card, hits in excess of their opponent’s fighters will first cause chosen ships to become damaged, then those same hits must still be assigned.
    • For example, say the opponent has three fighters and three dreadnoughts, undamaged. The Argent player plays Waylay, and rolls five hits. This allows them to cause two of the dreadnoughts to become damaged. The opponent then has to assign all five hits. The final dreadnought may use its SUSTAIN DAMAGE ability to cancel one of those hits.
  • If the Argent player is in combat with the Nekro player, and the Nekro player has their mechs participating in the space combat via the effects of The Alastor, those mechs may become damaged by the effect of RAID FORMATION.

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Metali Void Shielding

  • Metali Void Shielding has no effect when the Argent player resolves their RAID FORMATION faction ability.

Sources

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