Talk:Lieutenant Blount/@comment-62.10.6.72-20170625150743/@comment-454133-20170625151806

No. With Blount you could do no damage because all your hits were cancelled by evades (or you rolled all hits), but still count the attack as having "hit". An attack hitting doesn't necessarily cause damage, and Blount's ability is a great example of when this matters.

There are several effects that care about that... for example, Stealth Device will always be lost on a ship Blount shoots, even though his attack did no damage. For example, Blount attacks and rolls all blanks, and the defender rolls 4 evades -- total miss, right? And the defending ship will take no damage. However, Blount's ability says treat the attack as hitting; Stealth Device's language says "if you are hit by an attack", so it gets discarded.

Adv. Homing Missiles are another example. They don't do normal attack damage, and instead deal a face-up shield-piercing damage card if the attack hits (and then they cancel all dice so you can't get normal damage on top of that effect). Blount's attack always hits, so he cannot fail with Adv. Homing Missiles.