I hated the missile boat in the old TIE Fighter game. After progressing through gradually faster and more maneuverable ships all campaign up to the awesome TIE Defender, you get handed what was supposed to be the hard counter to the TIE Defender...a brick with a bunch of missiles. At the time, it was one of my biggest gaming letdowns.

4 hours ago, DarthEnderX said:

It just feels lazy. Like "We couldn't think of a way to make the Gunboat interesting, but people won't stfu about it so we have to add it. So instead, we'll take all the interesting stuff the Missile Boat does, the SLAM, the reloads, the jamming beam, and give it all to the Gunboat."

I might feel better about it if the Gunboat eventually gets an Aces pack, and the new model actually gets a Missile Boat redesign. Then at least you could have different models for the those in Assault and Missile Boat configurations.

I won't hold my breath though, the Vaksai only got a repaint instead of a new model...

it was a loss too. The vaskai looks so much meaner in jostero's artwork with the pods attached.

4 hours ago, DarthEnderX said:

It just feels lazy. Like "We couldn't think of a way to make the Gunboat interesting, but people won't stfu about it so we have to add it. So instead, we'll take all the interesting stuff the Missile Boat does, the SLAM, the reloads, the jamming beam, and give it all to the Gunboat."

I might feel better about it if the Gunboat eventually gets an Aces pack, and the new model actually gets a Missile Boat redesign. Then at least you could have different models for the those in Assault and Missile Boat configurations.

I won't hold my breath though, the Vaksai only got a repaint instead of a new model...

Not sure how I feel about this. An Aces pack usually means that the model is released broken or has fallen too far down the power curve to be really usable. It would also make me buy at least 2 in order to have a good representation in my epic games. Other than that, I'd welcome a MB Ace. All the Aces have just been repaints of the original models though.

2 hours ago, MasterShake2 said:

I hated the missile boat in the old TIE Fighter game. After progressing through gradually faster and more maneuverable ships all campaign up to the awesome TIE Defender, you get handed what was supposed to be the hard counter to the TIE Defender...a brick with a bunch of missiles.

A brick? It was the fastest ship in the game.

Or are you just referring to it's appearance?

Anyway, I never really cared for the Missile Boat either. Or the Gunboat for that matter. But as flyable ships in Star Wars: TIE Fighter, they deserve to be in this game.