Ability

Zero Company Trick's explosive strike

Superseded. What two previews described as Trick's own explosive strike is the Soldier's Rocket Strike, which he carries because he starts as a Soldier.

Outdated

Confidence: Confirmed
Verified: 29 August 2026
Version: Pre-release evidence, plus retail launch-build ability cards (August 2026)

What it does

Kept as a record of how this attack was evidenced before it was identified, not as a separate ability. Two written previews described Trick charging a long-range explosive strike, one pricing it at 10 Advantage; two more described him firing a rocket launcher that destroys cover and hits clustered enemies. All four were watching the Soldier's Rocket Strike, on an Operator whose starting Specialization is Soldier.

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

Read Rocket Strike instead — the cost, the ranks and the Vulnerable effect all live there, and they apply to any Soldier rather than only to Trick. What survives here is the one thing this record got right before anyone could name it: 10 Advantage is the entire maximum pool, so the ability is not something to fit into an Advantage budget. It *is* the budget.

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
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
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.

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.

Open the Squad Builder

Editor’s note

Superseded on 2026-08-29, and kept rather than deleted so the links and the reasoning survive. This record existed because two previews described an attack nobody could attribute. It carried two deliberate ambiguities. The first was whether it was Trick's at all, given that the site already held the Soldier's rocket as an official class ability and a previewer playing Trick as a Soldier would describe exactly this. The second was whether 'charges up' meant a multi-turn wind-up or an aiming step — the difference between costing the pool and costing the pool and a turn. Both are answered, and in the direction the record predicted. It is the Soldier's Rocket Strike; Trick starts as a Soldier, which was published on 2026-08-14. And it is not a wind-up: a retail guide describes firing it after the Operator has already moved and attacked, because it costs no Action Points at all. The prompt was a reader's correction, not a source, and it is worth being exact about what work it did. It asserted three things — Soldier ability rather than his, 10 Advantage, otherwise free. None of them was entered on the correction's say-so. Each was checked against published evidence first, and the correction's value was in saying where to look. That is the intended relationship between /corrections and content/, and this is the first time it has run end to end. Confidence rises to `confirmed` on being superseded, which reads strangely and is right: what this record now asserts is that these previews were describing Rocket Strike, and that is no longer in doubt.