Zero Company Rocket Strike

What it does

Costs 10 Advantage and no Action Points at all. It fires a rocket that detonates on impact, damaging all targets caught in the blast and destroying cover — and because it spends nothing from the turn, it can be fired after the Operator has already moved and attacked. Retail ability cards give its base damage as 12, 16, 20, 24 and 28 across the first five ranks, reaching 34 at the sixth, where survivors are also left Vulnerable so the next attack against each of them critically hits.

The ladder carries its own evidence, and it is weaker than the ability’s. EA published what each ability does at its first rank; guide writers read the rest off the shipped game’s Focus Tree. Nothing here has been reproduced by this site, and no source has published what any rank costs.

The squad's answer to Outlaws fighting in numbers and to droid formations arriving a dozen at a time — and the strongest single reason to bank Advantage. Ten Advantage is the entire pool at its known maximum, so the turn this fires, nobody else in the squad spends anything: it is not a purchase to budget around, it is the budget. What it does not cost is the turn. No Action Point is spent, so the Soldier moves into position, takes an ordinary shot, and fires the rocket anyway — which makes the real question when the pool fills rather than whether the turn can afford it. The final rank is what ties it to the rest of the squad: leaving survivors Vulnerable turns one area attack into a set-up for everyone else's, and the Soldier's own extended grenade range is the natural way to collect. The tension is the pool starting each fight empty while enemies are most tightly packed on turn one.

Other Soldier abilities

• Zero Company Brutal Strike
• Zero Company Strength
• Zero Company Armsmaster

Sources

• Star Wars Zero Company: How Some of the Greatest Minds in Tactics Games are Pushing the Genre, Again

  Xbox Wire · Tier 2 — Developer interview · accessed 6 August 2026

  Supports: Greg Foertsch and James Brawley on the eight Specializations, Combat Stim + Gunslinger synergy, Advantage, and Specialization changes on authored characters

• Lead Zero Company To Victory on August 27

  Electronic Arts · Tier 1 — Official · accessed 6 August 2026

  Supports: Operator introductions; 3 Action Points per turn; Advantage caps at 10; the eight Specializations; Bonds in the Personnel Facility; Hawks' species options

• Ultimate Star Wars Zero Company Classes Guide

  Hack the Minotaur · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 1 September 2026

  Supports: Per-class ability tables. Soldier — Rocket Strike "Tier 1: 12 Base DMG / Tier 2: 16 Base DMG / Tier 3: 20 Base DMG / Tier 4: 24 Base DMG / Tier 5: 28 Base DMG / Tier 6: 34 Base DMG; applies Vulnerable"; Brutal Strike "1 AP" with "Tier 1: 12 Base DMG" rising 13, 14, 15, 16 to "Tier 6: 18 Base DMG" and a Daze effect; Strength increasing melee damage and grenade throw range across six tiers to "+6 Melee Damage; +6m throw range"; Armsmaster "Increases Blaster Damage and Grenade Damage by +2. Cannot Upgrade". Assault — Sweeping Salvo "Costs 4 Advantage". Gunslinger — Open Fire "Costs 9 Advantage", upgradeable to fire 3 times at Tier 6. Scout — Combat Recon granting "+1 Advantage for each assessed enemy" over ranges of "16m to 24m" with areas expanding to "7m". Bylined Hack The Minotaur, updated 2026-08-27. Re-read 2026-09-01, when the page header gave "Latest Update: August 31, 2026". Four claims taken on that pass, none of them present on 2026-08-28. On the unlock point: "Operators can unlock a Secondary Specialization once you hit Cycle 18 in game." On pairing: "you can't double up" on the same class, with "The exception to this is the Astromech class and Tel-Rea". On the secondary's ceiling, which is the claim to read carefully because no other publisher makes it: Secondary Specializations "allow you to use all the abilities for that class but they're Focus Tree upgrades cannot go past Tier 5, so a Secondary Spec will always be slightly weaker than if you had used it as your Primary Specialization." And on the class count: "Star Wars Zero Company has 12 classes split into 8 standard Specializations available to any operator and 4 exotic classes", the eight named as "Assault, Gunslinger, Heavy, Medic, Scoundrel, Scout, Sharpshooter, and Soldier" and the four exotic as Jedi Padawan, Mandalorian Warrior, Astromech and Clone Commando. **Nothing has been taken here from that last name.** It is the first naming of this database's unrecorded fourth exotic class, it is a bare name with no described ability, and it is one publisher's — so it is a research lead recorded in `content/exotic-classes.ts` rather than a record.

• Star Wars Zero Company: Specializations Tier List

  GameRant · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 28 August 2026

  Supports: Assault entry — "Sweeping Salvo, which acts as a close-range AoE Disorient (-20% Chance-To-Hit) that also deals solid damage, is up there with the best offensive abilities in the game, and it costs just 4 Advantage." Soldier entry — "Rocket Strike (Ultimate): Fire a powerful rocket that explodes on impact, damaging all targets in the blast", "Brutal Strike (Standard): Rush and strike a target, dealing Melee Damage and Dazing", "Armsmaster (Passive): Increases Blaster Damage and Grenade Damage by +2", with no Advantage cost given for Rocket Strike. Gunslinger entry — "Open Fire (Ultimate): Fire 2 Times at any combination of enemies", with no cost given. Bylined William Parks, published 2026-08-27

• Star Wars Zero Company: How to Use Trick's Rocket Strike

  allthings.how · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 29 August 2026

  Supports: "Spend 10 Advantage to fire Trick's area-effect rocket"; "Action Point cost: None"; and because it "does not cost Action Points, you can also fire it after Trick has already moved or attacked in the same turn". The guide presents the rocket as Trick's "special action" rather than as the Soldier's class Ultimate — the conflation this site's own records have described since 2026-08-14, and the reason the attribution here rests on Trick's published Soldier class rather than on this page's wording. Bylined Sehaj Padda, updated 2026-08-28

• 12 hours in, Star Wars Zero Company is a solid strategy RPG, but it's missing XCOM 2 or Baldur's Gate 3's spark

  GamesRadar+ · Tier 3 — Hands-on preview · accessed 13 August 2026

  Supports: Abilities section — Trick charging a long-range explosive strike; the astromech entering battle armed not with a blaster but with grenades, ally buffs and enemy disruption; the Jedi Padawan's kit as battlefield control, Force pushing enemies and deflecting blaster fire back at them; the Backup system selecting one character per turn. By Ali Jones

• Star Wars Zero Company Hands-On Preview — Tactics on Tattooine

  Press Start Australia · Tier 3 — Hands-on preview · accessed 13 August 2026

  Supports: Unit abilities section — Trick's one-time-use rocket launcher costing 10 Advantage, against Hawks spending much less to regenerate an ally's Action Point; many abilities limited in uses per fight; Advantage generated as enemy units are dispatched. By Harry Kalogirou

• STAR WARS Zero Company™ Specializations and Weapon Classes

  EA Help · Tier 1 — Official · accessed 30 August 2026

  Supports: "Every Specialization includes a unique set of abilities" and "Each Specialization includes three types of abilities" — Ultimate ("a Specialization's most powerful ability"), Standard ("an active ability you can use during combat") and Passive ("always-active abilities... without needing to be activated"). Note that this is three *types*, not three abilities: nothing on the page says how many Passives a Specialization has, and the per-Specialization ability lists sit behind collapsed accordions that are not in the retrieved text. "Most abilities cost Action Points (AP) to use... These special abilities cost Advantage instead of AP. Advantage is a shared resource that your squad can earn as a battle progresses." On authored characters: "Authored Operators have assigned Talents that you can't change, and some Authored Operators have Specializations that you can't change." On dual specialization: "Later in the game, you'll be able to choose an additional specialization for your Operators." Combat stat definitions — Weapon Damage "The amount of damage dealt by the weapon when attacking"; Critical Hit Damage "The additional damage applied when an attack Critically Strikes"; Critical Chance "The chance the weapon has of critically striking a target for extra damage"; Range "The optimal weapon range for combat. Attacking outside of this range incurs a Strike Penalty." All four Weapon Class panels, read on 2026-08-30 by expanding the page's accordions in a browser — combat stats as printed: Blaster Rifle "Weapon Damage 10, Critical Hit Damage +6, Critical Chance 5%, Range Medium"; Repeater "8, +4, 5%, Medium"; Blaster Pistol "6, +4, 5%, Short"; Longarm Blaster "12, +12, 5%, Long". **All four are 5%.** Action types and costs, verbatim: the Blaster Rifle is fired "once per turn as a Fast Weapon using 1 x AP" with "additional shots in the same turn cost 2 x AP"; the Blaster Pistol "is a Fast Action weapon, which means each shot costs 1 x AP"; the Longarm Blaster "is a Slow Action weapon, which means each shot costs 2 x AP"; and the Repeater "deals significantly more damage if you invest additional AP while firing it. The more AP you spend, the more Rapid Fire Damage it deals", with no fixed figure given. The eight per-Specialization panels expand too, but their ability lists are **inside screenshots** rather than in text — the Assault panel's image reads "SWEEPING SALVO / ULTIMATE / Unleash aggressive blaster fire that deals damage and Disorients all enemies within a large cone", "BULL RUSH / STANDARD / Charge into an enemy, dealing Melee Damage and Pushing it backwards", "FLEET OF FOOT / PASSIVE / Increases this Operator's First Movement by 1.0m", "STRIKE THE FLANKS / PASSIVE / This Operator gains a +20% Critical Chance bonus against Exposed enemies". An image caption on the same page names a "Final Action attack". Page header "Updated 2 days ago", retrieved 2026-08-30.