Talk:Veteran Instincts/@comment-68.102.185.211-20140813195916/@comment-137.200.0.106-20140819161419

Using Veteran Instincts, you essentially erase the original pilot skill and replace it with a number two higher for the entire game. It does not interact with other cards.

For example, Black Squadron Pilot has a pilot skill of 4. With Veteran Instincts it becomes a pilot skill of 6. If Darth Vader uses Swarm Tactics to raise this pilot's ability, it is raised to Darth Vader's pilot skill level of 9. It does not raise the base level of 4 to 9 and then apply Veteran Instincts to make it 11.

Decoy would work in a similar fashion. If we have the same ships from my earlier example, and Darth Vader is using Decoy, Vader's skill becomes 6 and the Black Squadron Pilot's skill becomes 9.