Talk:Darth Vader/@comment-24.78.12.133-20180627162419/@comment-454133-20180627164849

Vader's ability only happens for the normal action he gets from the Perform Action step. An action from Coordinate wouldn't meet that requirement.

There's... possibly an edge case, as there often is. Let's say Vader has Squad Leader equipped. As one of his two actions during the Perform Action step, he grants a free action to his Upsilon buddy. The Upsilon in turn uses the action to Coordinate Vader. Since this is during the Perform Action step, there's... a ghost of an argument that Vader could perform 2 more actions (for a total of 4 actions, or 3 if not counting the Squad Leader action)... but it's a very weak argument because of how the ability is worded. I don't think I'd allow it if I were TO. But if you and your buddies are okay with it during a casual game, you could try it out and see if you like it.

BTW the Second Edition Darth Vader can apparently perform up to four actions in a round if he really wants to, though he'll then have to spend a few rounds rebuilding his charge if he wants to do that again (and he doesn't have a lot of actions on his bar, so he'd need an upgrade card with the Action header). But that kind of mass-activity burst is built right into Vader now. ^_^