So,

I've been looking at Jek Porkins ability and it would seem to me he has some real mobility potential.

Set up this way, you can K-Turn and drop stress and take an action, maybe barrel roll and drop stress again.

Barrel roll and drop stress or K-Turn, drop stress and TL or Focus.

If you take a hit, you can try and clear it with R5-D8 and the Hull Upgrade is there as a cushion (but not needed if you want to save 3 points)

This makes him very slippery actually with the ability to still fire and move uninhibited.

I ran some test flights with him and he's pretty **** effective.

Id rather you PTL engine upgrade

That is certainly option 2, but that is getting up there at 36 points. This one can be fielded for 31, which is somewhat economic. At 36 points I think better pilot alternatives are available.....

Because we all know how lithe and nimble Porkins was...

I think I like the PTL engine more as well. I think it lets you do more. Your still mobil, but now you can double up on focus target lock when you have a clean shot. It also lets you repair and take an action. It's only 2 points more.

R5-D8 requires an action. That is a reason for PTL.

OK, your selling me on PtL :-)

That is a large number of points on a very large man.

I like PTL/Engine with the regenerating droid, if for no other reason than it lets him get the hell out of there to lick his wounds for a bit.

However, Hull means he has space for more wounds, making him and his droid both more effective.

That is a large number of points on a very large man.

Points per Pound (PpP) is still within the normal limits

Come on guys, enough with the fat jokes. Be the bigger man.

Surely the term is "girth gifted" not "fat"

He's not fat!

He just happens to be packing big ordnance!

Anorexicly challenged

Porkins is pound for pound the most pilot you get per point in this game, aside from Chewy. That gives him, for me, three armed and operational death stars out of four in the more pilot to love department.

It's a real shame that Daredevil is not viable on him without also taking Engine Upgrade. Since it is an either or, I would prefer PtL, Engine Upgrade plus the Droid.

Can't wait to bust out ol' Porkchop.