I was just thinking about it, and what would people say to an Imperial pilot with an ability that denied your opponent their ability to fire back with the simultaneous firing rule? Fair? Unfair? What skill level would you see this going on? Would they have an EPT slot? Personally, I could see this on a PS 6 pilot, allowing you to use him at 6 or give him VI and make him an 8 (two common PS levels for rebel pilots). What type of fighter would this go on? TIE Fighter? Interceptor? Or could this be a great addition to the much-hoped for theoretical TIE Advanced pilots that we all would like to see rolled out? Hopefully we'll get some good discussion out of this.

I don't see that ever happening. Simultaneous Fire is used to justify all sorts of timing issues so this sort of ability would open a huge can of worms.

PS 4 for VI to 6. Don't nerf high PS any more than it already is (or rather dont make it any more harsh than it already is when you overbid 10-12pts on PS.

Eclipse, interceptor pilot, PS4, EPT 23pts.

"If Eclipse deals enough damage to another ship to destroy it, remove target ship from play immediately"

Reverse Fel's Wrath?

Yeah, it's essentially a reverse Fel's Wrath. And Lappenlocker, I'm sorry but I don't agree with that. It doesn't "justify" anything. Initiative rules already expressly lay out order for things. Simultaneous attack is just simulating the fact that two jousting ships are likely firing on each other as they fly past.

An unique Interceptor pilot with the ability:"+ 1 Defence against 360° weapons" + EPT would be fair.

An unique Interceptor pilot with the ability:"+ 1 Defence against 360° weapons" + EPT would be fair.

Should be +1 evade versus all secondary weapons. This will not help an interceptor versus the falcons primary atk but it will help them versus all other turret weapons, missles, cannons, torpedoes, etc. However secondary weapons are already fairly situational.

Personally I rather see a unique imperial pilot with this ability.

"As long as this ship maintains a target lock on his target that ship can't use any actions or special abilities."

This ships trades his special ability to remove your special ability and trades his action for your action. He also needs to maintain and get a target lock on that ship in the first place. Also most ships with target locks need that target lock for missles or torpedoes. There are also EPT in game that allow you to remove target locks from your ship. Providing a direct counter to this special ability. Making it powerful and versatile but not overpowered.

An unique Interceptor pilot with the ability:"+ 1 Defence against 360° weapons" + EPT would be fair.

I think that unique ability is way to restrictive and situational.

Should be +1 evade versus all secondary weapons. This will not help an interceptor versus the falcons primary atk but it will help them versus all other turret weapons, missles, cannons, torpedoes, etc. However secondary weapons are already fairly situational.

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and I think you missed his point entirely.

Personally I rather see a unique imperial pilot with this ability.

As long as this ship maintains a target lock on his target that ship can't use any actions or special abilities.

This ships trades his special ability to remove your special ability and trades his action for your action. He also needs to maintain and get a target lock on that ship. There are also EPT in game that allow you to remove target locks from your ship. Providing a direct counter to this special ability. Making it powerful and versatile but not overpowered.

That seems heavily overpowered. You use one action to deny the target all actions for the rest of the game? Getting a TL early in a game is easy. Maintaining the TL is trivial. The only EPT which removes a TL requires you to perform an action. Which that ability prevents.

How about:

"If your attack destroys your target, you may perform a second attack. Thereafter you cannot perform another attack this round."

How about:

"If your attack destroys your target, you may perform a second attack. Thereafter you cannot perform another attack this round."

The original attack might already be a 2nd attack. (cluster missiles)

So consider replacing the word "second".

I had an Interceptor pilot in mind ...

An unique Interceptor pilot with the ability:"+ 1 Defence against 360° weapons" + EPT would be fair.

What on earth does that have to do with the original question?

An unique Interceptor pilot with the ability:"+ 1 Defence against 360° weapons" + EPT would be fair.

What on earth does that have to do with the original question?

Absolutely nothing.