Talk:Deadeye/@comment-28173985-20180430170910/@comment-454133-20180430182327

I can answer the question, but if you disagree and want to discuss further, please go to the FFG Rules Forums. That's the best place to argue out the rules text in fine detail. (we're not set up very well for that; rules arguments tend to clog the wiki activity feed and make it hard for us admins to answer new questions coming in etc).

The short answer is no, you cannot use Deadeye to reroll attack dice with a focus token.

The reason is: rerolling attack dice is its own effect, defined in Target Lock. Target Lock's rules text says you can spend the lock during the Modify Attack Dice step to reroll your attack dice. More specific to your question, that's Target Lock's rules text instructing you to spend your target lock, not the attack itself. Likewise effects like R4-B11 can instruct you to spend a target lock for other effects but they're not the attack.

However, Deadeye very explicitly limits itself to when the attack itself instructs you to spend a target lock. I can think of only two ways this might happen.

1) A secondary weapon tells you to spend a lock in order to fire it.  Most torpedoes and missiles are this way.  Deadeye lets you spend a focus token instead.

2) Maybe: The secondary weapon explicitly tells you you can spend a lock for some effect during its attack, which none currently do.  Instead, some secondary weapons won't require you to spend the lock to fire, so you have it during dice modification (but then it's not the attack telling you to spend the lock, it's the lock's rules text).  It's still kinda iffy whether this counts as an attack, but I'd guess it does.  That would be something to argue in the FFG forums only; it's entirely hypothetical right now.

You can also track down FFG's contact info and ask their customer support staff. If they answer you it accomplishes two things: it gets you a definitive answer, and it puts this issue on FFG's radar so they might put it on a future FAQ.

I hope that helps!