Hello again everyone,
I am back with more ruling questions that have been building up the more me and my friends play. Hoping to get some answers for these so we can know how to handle these situations next time they arise.

1st Question: Does Damage Reduction reduce damage taken from Pawn of the Dark Side?

2nd Question: Can the electro staff ability (which activates a living character if an attack lands) stop a character from continuing to move if they are hit by it because of Attack of Opportunity?

3rd Question: Can you force a Draw Fire from an enemy shooter if they are adjacent to an ally but can clearly see the person with Draw Fire?

4th Question: Does a character using Grenades hurt themselves if they use it on an adjacent enemy?

5th Question: Can anyone clarify Darth Vader of Lothal's Rival ability? He's the one from V-set 11. His Rival ability states: "Cannot be in a squad with any commander without a Force rating who is not a Trooper." So this confuses me because is it saying he cannot be in the same squad with any commander unless they have a Force rating and they are also not a trooper. But what trooper commander has a Force rating? I have not seen one. I find it very hard to understand which commanders he can and cannot be with? Is it just basically you can only run him with other Force rating commanders and that's it? Because that's what I am getting at.

6th Question: Cab you start a character with emplacement on a Rebel trooper cart? Or is that not possible?

7th Question: How do you go about determining what something can heal when it comes to living characters on machinery? Characters like AT-RT, Luke's Landspeeder, ISP Speeder etc, can they be healed like normal with abilities like Heal 10? Can they be healed with the Bacta Tank since there are living characters on these big pieces of machinery? And can they also be repaired with things like industrial repair or what? Seems silly to think an entire big speeder is getting healed with Heal 10 just because there is a person on it yet its the speeder that is taking the damage kind of.

8th Question: Does Nute Gunray decrease Grevious on Wheel Bike's Speed 8 to Speed 4 with his terrible commander effect? I know it should with Grevious being a Cyborg but the Wheel Bike should not be getting slowed down but that's just me.

9th Question: If a Gungan Shield Bearer let's just say for this example mounts onto a character like the Rebel Troop Cart, can he protect the entire troop cart from blaster fire because being on the troop cart is also like being adjacent to it and his ability allows him to protect any ally who is adjacent to him? It makes sense on paper but looking at it on the game map doesn't seem right as they is no way the Gungan should be able to cover an entire troop cart with his small shield. This is just an idea one of my friends thought of in case we wanted to try faction-less battles where we can mix and match. And would this also apply for things like the AT-St or even the AT-AT? Seems way too crazy for that to work but just wondering.

10th Question: If a commander effects states something like: "Commandos gain Blank." Does that mean all allies with Commando in their name would gain the bonus or just commando followers since generally commanders can't benefit from other commander effects?


And that's all I got for now. Some of these questions I've been burning up to know the answer to but I also like to wait until I have gathered up a lot more questions so I can get them all answered at once and not just spam this question area with my posts.

Thanks for reading, I really appreciate this community.

All that is pretty much spot on.

2. Your question would apply to an unactivated character moving outside of its turn. Failing the Electrostaff save would not interrupt the movement, but the character would not be able to take its normal turn that round.

I always thought Cyborg trumped Mounted Weapon, but that shouldn't matter either way in this case.

Mounted weapon I don't believe has any bearing on whether a character is eligible for a CE. It is only Droid and Savage characters that are normally ineligible for CEs (unless the CE specifies), so even if the wheel bike was non-living it would still be eligible for the CE.

Also cyborg specifically says it is able to get CEs "Cyborgs can be affected by commander effects."

Oh, yeah. You're right, I forgot to check the card and thought that it specified living.

I forgot too, until UrbanJ's post made me go look.

Yeah, Wizards didn't plan their rules for mixed-faction battles, much less the AT-AT being used outside of their scenario.

BZ, your group should just customize rules for Energy Shield and such as you see fit for your purposes. :)

That's the jist. Mounted Weapon is the primary determining factor of non-living from WotC. Droid would be next. Cyborg straddles the fence by counting as Droid and as Living for purposes of various effects.

There are a handful of other goofy cases, like Bacta Tanks / Atgar Cannons are living, but also machines that can be 'healed' via Industrial Repair.

Bless your heart, SWM.