There’s a lot of talk about our Star Wars Minis theme event for Sunday, February 10 at 1 PM: 200 Point Armies “All Damage From Melee Attacks Are Critical Hits.” But, we’re making a small change and clarifying a few things:
1. All characters will gain Avoid Defeat (“If a character with this special ability is defeated, it makes two saves, each needing a roll of 11 to succeed. If both rolls are successful, then the character is not defeated: instead it remains in play with 10 health“). NOTE: multiple instances of Avoid Defeat do not stack.
Think of it this way: instead of making rolls to attack (for characters with the keyword “Melee“) we’re going to rolling to see if these characters survive (by rolling for “Avoid Defeat“).
2. We should define: “Critical Hit” = A hit that strikes a vital area and deals extra damage. Critical hits occur when the attacker rolls a natural 20 on the attack roll (when the d20 comes up 20). A character who scores a critical hit deals double its normal damage. If the attack deals bonus damage, then critical hits doubles the base damage but not the bonus damage.
So, if you have a character with base damage 10 and he has Jedi Hunter (+4 attack and +10 damage vs characters with a Force Rating), rolls a critical hit, then you double his base damage (10 x 2) and add the bonus damage last so: (10 x 2) + 10 = 30 damage.
Keep in mind, that our theme for the week after (Feb 17) is: “All Damage From Non-Melee Attacks Are Critical Hits.” That means special abilities like Disintegration will trigger.
3. “Droid” characters do not take double damage from critical hits. Pretty straight forward: the character has to have the keyword “Droid” on his/her card.
4. In order for your character to benefit from this theme event, he/she has to have the keyword “Melee” on his/her card.
Next week (Feb 17) when we chanage the theme to: “All Damage From Non-Melee Attacks Are Critical Hits“ to take advantage of this theme, all characters on your team shouldn’t have the keyword “Melee” on his/her card.
Have fun guys!
Regards,
iRoy