Knowledge and Defense

While an allied Trooper unit within 1 and in LOS of a unit that has the Guardian X keyword defends against a Ranged attack, it may cancel up to X hit hit results during the Modify Attack Dice step. For each hit hit result canceled in this way, the unit with the Guardian X keyword rolls 1 defense die matching the one on its Unit Card. After converting any defense surge def. surge results according to its surge chart or by using Surge tokens, the unit with the Guardian X keyword gains 1 Suppression token, then suffers 1 Wound for each Blank result. A defending unit that has the Guardian X keyword used on it gains a Suppression token as normal.

A unit cannot use Guardian X if the defending unit also has the Guardian X keyword. If multiple allied units can use the Guardian X keyword during an attack, the player who controls those units declares which unit is using the Guardian X keyword and resolves their ability before choosing whether to declare that another unit is using the Guardian X keyword.

A unit cannot use Guardian X if it has a number of Suppression tokens equal to or greater than its ?.

The Pierce X keyword can be used to cancel block block results on defense dice rolled by a unit using Guardian X; treat canceled block block results as Blank results. After using Pierce X in this way, any unused Pierce X value can still be used to cancel block block results rolled by the defending unit.

Additionally, a unit with the Guardian X keyword cannot benefit from Backup and ignores the corps Rank requirement to provide Backup.