Talk:"Hobbie" Klivian/@comment-69.180.49.132-20150125040017/@comment-25999489-20150125060727

There are a couple of answers to your question. First off, to answer what you insinuated, he cannot perform a target lock action while stressed. However, pilots can acquire target locks through other means (Dutch Vander being a great example, as well as a great pairing for Hobbie). Additionally, because target locks are not removed at the end of the turn, it is very concievable for Hobbie to obtain a stress token AFTER aquiring a target lock, allowing him to spend the target lock to remove it. Case in point, my favorite tactic is to equip Hobbie with R3-A2, use a target lock action (or acquire one from Dutch), declare an attack, stressing Hobbie and the defender, roll the attack dice, spend the target lock (unstressing Hobbie), and grinning. It works even better with flechette torpedoes, where you declare, stress, spend the target lock to shoot the torps, destress, stress the enemy ship again.

tl;dr: He doesn't have to acquire a target lock while he has stress.