Ability

Zero Company Trick's explosive strike

Trick's charged long-range explosive attack, reported at 10 Advantage for a single use per fight.

Preview-reported

Confidence: Strongly supported
Verified: 13 August 2026
Version: pre-release preview build (August 2026)

What it does

A long-range explosive strike that Trick charges up. One preview prices it at 10 Advantage and describes it as one-time-use; another describes the charging without naming a cost. Two further previews describe Trick firing a rocket launcher that destroys cover and hits clustered enemies.

Belongs to: Trick
Cost: Advantage
Ultimate: No
Tags: explosives, anti-cover, advantage-spender, multi-target

Build value

Why it matters when you are planning a squad

The most expensive purchase anyone has recorded, and the price is the whole point: 10 Advantage is the entire maximum pool. It is not an ability you fit into an Advantage budget — it *is* the budget, and a squad built around it can afford nothing else that fight. That makes it the sharpest test of whether a dedicated generator earns its slot, and the clearest case for spending Identify Weakness on a single hit.

Sources

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

Costs, and why most are blank

A cost is recorded here only where a source states one. Most abilities have been named without one, and an inferred number would be indistinguishable from a measured one on the page — so the field says “not published” instead.

Every named ability

Build around it

The Squad Builder knows which abilities compete for the shared Advantage pool, and says so before you commit a slot to two that do.

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Editor’s note

The in-game name is unpublished, so the name here is descriptive — but unlike the 2026-08-11 records it is not transcribed from a caption, and the figure of 10 Advantage is written down rather than spoken. Two separate ambiguities are deliberately left open. First, whether this is a Trick-unique ability at all: the site already carries the Soldier's rocket attack as an official class ability, and a previewer who played Trick as a Soldier would describe exactly this. Trick's starting Specialization is a standing unknown, and until it is answered the two records stay separate rather than being merged on a guess. Second, whether 'charges up' means a multi-turn wind-up or simply an aiming step. If it is a wind-up, the real cost is a turn as well as the pool.