Talk:Expert Handling/@comment-26007043-20150115003059/@comment-26249115-20150327064214

The text straight out of the X Wing Minatures Game Rules of Play:

"Actions

During the Activation phase, each ship may perform one action immediately after moving. A ship may perform any action shown in the action bar of its Ship card. Additionally, certain pilot abilities, Upgrade cards, Damage cards, or missions may allow ships to perform other actions. Each of the possible actions is described in detail over the next few pages.

If an ability allows a ship to perform a 'free action,' this action does not count as the one action allowed during the 'Perform Action' step." - found top left of page 8, first 2 paragraphs.

Rules for Actions continues:

"Other Actions

Some card abilities include the 'ACTION:' header. A ship may resolve this ability during its 'Perform Action' step. This counts as that ship's action for the round.

Card abilities without the 'ACTION:' header may be resolved when specified on the card and do not count as the ship's action. Howevver, a ship cannot perform the same action more than once during a single game round (not even when the action is a 'free action')" - found bottom left of page 9, last 2 paragraphs.

Analysis:

Because FFG has now added both words "free action" to the Errata of the card, the "ACTION:" header now only denotes when this card takes effect (during the "Perform Action" step of the Activation phase) and no longer consumes the one action allowed to an elite Expert Handling equipped pilot because Expert Handling is now labelled as a "free action" do not count as the one action allowed.

If they removed the "ACTION:" header some laser-brained nerf herder would use it anytime that a target lock was aquired on them.