I'm sure it's early but this sure looks to me like it could be a potent 21 point combo if you have stressed out ships. If Cracken is close to someone Wingman can kindly pull off Stress at the start of Combat. Then when Cracken demonstrates his attacking ability he gets to give out a free action; possibly to the ship he just took removed the stress from allowing them to actually take the free action. The added bonus is the Airen can still do all of this while stressed himself.

I'm sure there are many ways to figure out how to use that but I'm thinking just a k-turn with an ally then setting up that ally to really make it count.

I'm sure it's early but this sure looks to me like it could be a potent 21 point combo if you have stressed out ships.

Yeah that all works quite nicely. Honestly Airen is IMO one of the best pilots in Wave 4, and perhaps even in the top from wave 1 though 4. Being able to give out a free action, and one not limited to your action bar, so droids, and upgrades are fair game, during combat is pretty big. Considering the cost it's even better.

The only problem is that he'll have a massive bullseye on him and in a fairly flimsy ship.

The only problem is that he'll have a massive bullseye on him and in a fairly flimsy ship.

Yeah, the trick is going to be making the other ships in your squad a bigger threat so that he is always 2nd or 3rd on the target priority.

He may be a "threat" that is asking to be taken down but he is also cheaper than Biggs who people often put up just to be shot at. Give Cracken a Hull Upgrade and he's still cheaper than Biggs and takes just as much to kill before you start putting more points into Biggs.

He may be a "threat" that is asking to be taken down but he is also cheaper than Biggs who people often put up just to be shot at. Give Cracken a Hull Upgrade and he's still cheaper than Biggs and takes just as much to kill before you start putting more points into Biggs.

Biggs has an extra attack die, and forces the issue.

Airen, however, could be kept alive, and be severely annoying.

This does bring to mind an interesting question:

Why not have both?

Airen also helpfully supplies an extra action to Biggs, which can be R2-F2. Garven or Kyle could pass Biggs extra Focus Tokens for added tankiness...

I was actually looking at that same possibility when putting together a squad with the squad builder with unreleased pilots. It looked something like this:

Cracken + Wingman (21)

Blount + Assault Missile (22)

Biggs + R2F2 (or SD) (28)

Hobbie + R2D6 + PtL (29)

Not exactly sure of the timing with Hobbie but if he can use PtL to take both of his actions and the TL removes the Stress gained from PtL he'll basically have TL + Focus every round. Perhaps the only issue there is that he really isn't going to work that well with Cracken as Hobbie will already be using all of his actions and should be destroying his own stress at the same time.

I would point out gladly that Cracken gives out 2 actions when he uses Cluster Missiles... and can easily afford a Munitions Failsafe if he's hiding behind Biggs.