Can I play this when the opponent has no Fighter units?

No, the card targets.

Perhaps to take advantage of Darth Vader´s "Reaction: After you play a [Sith] event card, deal 1 damage to a target unit. (Limit once per turn.)"?
That is of course assuming you could play it because of the target restriction anyway

But can you really do that? I mean play the event without a target? In every other card game I know, there has to be a legal target in order to trigger an effect (an effect that requires a target of course, so one that says "target" or "choose" or something like that)


I couldn't find the right passage in the rulebook, however I have found this in FAQ:

Can I use the ability on the Tribal Support (Core 0151) objective to discard a card from my hand even if there are no Ewokunits in my discard pile?

Yes, you can. The Tribal Support objective does not target anything. You can initate an effect that does not target even if you cannot complete that action successfully.

Which suggests that you cannot initiate an effect that does target, if you cannot complete that action successfully.

But can you really do that? I mean play the event without a target?

Right since it targets you cannot do it.

Perhaps to take advantage of Darth Vader´s "Reaction: After you play a [Sith] event card, deal 1 damage to a target unit. (Limit once per turn.)"?

True enough. I just never use this card with Vader so that didn't pop to mind last night at 11:42 PM. But since the card does say target you cannot use it.

I believe there must be some sort of targeting involved for an enemy Fighter unit to become "target enemy Fighter unit".

edit: thanks Toqtamish, now I look stupid

lol, to be fair I edited mine 10 minutes before you posted again.

Perhaps to take advantage of Darth Vader´s "Reaction: After you play a [Sith] event card, deal 1 damage to a target unit. (Limit once per turn.)"?
That is of course assuming you could play it because of the target restriction anyway

this is the thing I was trying to find out (;

but after your discussion about target-ing I delved into rulebook and found this on page 27:

TARGET: The term "target" refers to a game element (most often a card) chosen as the subject or recipient of an effect. The controller of a targeting effect chooses all targets for the effect. If there is no valid target for a targeting effect, the effect cannot be initiated.

That's what I always thought but just somehow overlooked it.