Luminous Quasar said:

My bad. To be more clear, what I meant by the "no" was that you couldn't skip declaring an objective to engage. You still have to do that, and then the engagement continues as normal.

Edit: now that I have a computer instead of my phone, I'll expand:

Let's say that you're the LS player and you only have an A-Wing ready.  You've engaged 2 of the 3 DS objectives, but have not yet engaged The Emperor's Web.

1) You declare that you are engaging The Emperor's Web…

2) … with the A-Wing

3) Your opponent may choose to defend.  Let's say they don't, for simplicity sake

4) The edge battle happens.  You will automatically win as there are no defenders, but you may still choose to play cards such as Target of Opportunity or Battle of Hoth (upcoming).  This also counts as winning an edge battle for purposes of cards like Hit and Run.

5) Strikes.  In this instance, you'll strike with the A-Wing.  You place a focus token on it and resolve its combat icons.  The single unit damage icon would do damage to a participating enemy unit, but as there are none in this example nothing happens.  This could change if you gave the A-Wing targeted strike.  You could also have a trick up your sleeve like Crossfire to add some pain.  Additionally, the A-Wing's reaction triggers and you draw a card.  Yay!

6) Reward unopposed.  The A-Wing in this example is unopposed so you get to deal one damage to The Emperor's Web as the unopposed bonus.

I hope that gives you some idea of why you might want to engage with no blast damage icons (and why the defender might want to defend).

dbmeboy said:

Thanks again dbmeboy for willing to explain the detail. Now .. based on your  sample of the conflict phase above .. just to clarify again .. in step 1 you declare to engage The Emperor's Web (objective) but after step 6 there is no follow up to this (besides to put 1 damage as the unopposed bonus).

So I take it since the A-Wing doesn't have a blast damage icon, that means the Objective can't be hit (except for the damage that is caused by unopposed bonus). Is it correct? 

If let's say there was a surviving defender and (again) since the A-Wing doesn't have a blast damage icon, this means there will be no damage at all for The Emperor's Web … is it correct? 

Luminous Quasar said:

Correct on both.

Luminous Quasar said:

While the A-Wing's strike will not do any damage to The Emperor's Web in that example, there are a handful of other ways you could get damage through.  For instance, Target of Opportunity would still deal damage to it.  Also, Crossfire could be played to give the A-Wing a blast damage icon.  With 2 copies of one of those and one copy of the other, the unopposed A-Wing would destroy The Emperor's Web in a single engagement (unlikely, but possible).  Alternatively, you could use Battle of Hoth (upcoming fate card that deals one damage to or removes one damage from a target Hoth objective) to hit a Hoth objective your opponent controls for one more damage.  But yes, barring any other tricks the A-Wing will only do the single unopposed damage and not even that if there is a surviving defender (though it will then have gotten to do its unit damage).