Guardian

UNIT KEYWORD

While a friendly trooper unit at range 1 and in line of sight is defending against a ranged attack, a unit that has the guardian x keyword may cancel up to x hit results. For each hit result canceled, the unit with the guardian x keyword rolls a defense die matching its defense. After converting defense surge results according to its surge chart, the unit with the guardian x keyword suffers 1 wound for each blank result.

• Guardian x cannot be used to cancel critical results.
• Hit results are canceled during the “Modify Attack Dice” step of an attack.
• A unit that uses guardian x to cancel hit results is not a defender and does not gain suppression tokens.
• A defender that has all of its hit results canceled by a unit with guardian x is still the defender, and gains a suppression token as normal.
• A unit cannot use guardian x if the defender also has the guardian x keyword.
• The pierce x keyword can be used to cancel block results on defense dice rolled by a unit using guardian x; treat canceled block results as blank results. After using pierce x in this way, any unused pierce x value can still be used to cancel block results rolled by the defender.

For example, a unit with pierce 3 attacks an enemy unit, and another enemy unit uses guardian 2 to cancel 2 hit results. After converting surge results, the unit using guardian has rolled 2 block results. The attacking unit uses pierce to cancel the 2 block results and the unit using guardian suffers 2 wounds. Now the defender rolls defense dice, and the attacking unit can cancel 1 more block result rolled by the defender since only 2 of its original pierce 3 was used so far.

Related Topics[]

Abilities, Attack, Dice, Cancel, Pierce, Suppression, Weapons