Question on spending die icons

[mazz0 2,910]

Coming back from a few years without playing, so plenty noob questions arising.  Here's one from reading the Rules Reference, page 7:

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Spend: When a die or die icon is spent, remove that die from the attack pool.

So when it comes to spending a die that's obvious enough, but it's surprising what it seems to say about spending an icon.  My reading of it is pretty unambiguous, but surprising enough that I feel the need to ask for confirmation - to spend an icon you remove the die it was on, so if you have a double-hit showing and you want to spend one hit, the other hit is lost because you remove the die.  Is that right?

[mazz0 2,910]

Interestingly the phrasing on "cancel" is slightly different:

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Cancel: When a die or die icon is canceled, remove it from the attack pool.

It says "it" rather than "that die", implying a single result can be cancelled without cancelling the die it was on, and by extension that the same is not true of spending (or that careless phrasing was used).

[Drasnighta 26,831]

This was an asked question previously (and actually arose with people making funny dice on KDY with things like Double-Acc, and Acc-Crit and such...)

The response is, basically, you can't remove a Die icon from a Die, so you have to remove the Die itself... 

Even if you're only spending part of the value shown, the full die must be cancelled.

 

 

TL;DR    it = that die

 

I can dig out the actual emailing in a few hours if its needed...  

[mazz0 2,910]

17 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:

This was an asked question previously (and actually arose with people making funny dice on KDY with things like Double-Acc, and Acc-Crit and such...)

The response is, basically, you can't remove a Die icon from a Die, so you have to remove the Die itself... 

Even if you're only spending part of the value shown, the full die must be cancelled.

 

 

TL;DR    it = that die

 

I can dig out the actual emailing in a few hours if its needed...  

Cool - thanks for the quick answer!  Email?  Did FFG send it out personally rather than an FAQ or something then? 

[Triangular 1,134]

@mazz0 Maybe you'll find your answers at Star Wars Armada wiki?

It's more complete, better interlinked and easier to handle than the RRG.

[Drasnighta 26,831]

6 hours ago, mazz0 said:

Cool - thanks for the quick answer!  Email?  Did FFG send it out personally rather than an FAQ or something then? 

Yes, its one of my "Collection".

 

As Errata, its too "minor" to make a big deal of as a correction effectively, and essentially, it comes down to the fact that, of the two ways to do it, one is physically possible and one isn't, so the assumption is you do what you can do rather than doing the impossible