14 hours ago, ficklegreendice said:

If anything, it just makes me happy that the protectorate and SCURRG aren't utter garbage wastes of development time and some really nice models

I would say the Scurrg was a waste of development, because it was a GUNBOAT. Also it was made with a broken combo that will be all FAQed up soon. Also, what an obscure ship to make! The game it was featured in contains an actual canon ship that could easily be slotted into this game, except for the rampant prequel hate. So three strikes Scurrg, you suck.

Well, the expansion did come with Cad Bane...so maybe I was too harsh.

38 minutes ago, GrimmyV said:

Well, the expansion did come with Cad Bane...so maybe I was too harsh.

I think Cad Bane deserved a bit more than being a worse version of Sabine.

I’ve got a January Regional, so hopefully that’ll give enough time to get a Gunboat list ready.

If Silencer and Gunboat x2 is even remotely viable, that’s my list... an Avenger with reinforcements sounds pretty good to me.

14 minutes ago, Azrapse said:

I think Cad Bane deserved a bit more than being a worse version of Sabine.

Hopefully, the next Scum ship is his Rogue Class Starfighter...

5 hours ago, Odanan said:

Hopefully, the next Scum ship is his Rogue Class Starfighter...

seems like it would basically be a TIE phantom? That’d actually be nice. Include some sort of soft boost via some upgrade to cloaking ships to help the TIE Phantom just a bit... maybe via a modification? Let the players choose between three cloak mods

I'd hope to see the Rogue-class as the first ship where different pilots got different action bars, so Cad could have Cloak but not the others - but they'd probably do that via a title.

Either way, i'd love to see it in the game, because it's a great looking ship.

5 hours ago, Azrapse said:

I think Cad Bane deserved a bit more than being a worse version of Sabine.

Yeah, maybe he should have been a cross between Boba and saboteur, only better. Or a unique condition that really FAQs up a pilot’s special ability and/or EPT.

7 hours ago, Azrapse said:

I think Cad Bane deserved a bit more than being a worse version of Sabine.

Certainly he does, as he's also far superior to the Imperial version of Sabine.

Here is the latest update in the proper thread The lack of k-turn is a bit pants, but I’m not overly disappointed.

OS-1 lets you fire torps and missiles with weapons disabled with no catch. So slam, fire torp, slam, fire missile, slam away and reload both at once, rinse/repeat. Going to be nasty, and I bet it is hard for Nymn to bomb.

So:

Adv. slam got adjusted for the glorious gunboat.

nu is 18 points

rho is 21 And has an ept

no k-turn, but 4 straight. (Even though its red)

named pilots have good synergy.

Overall I have to say very good. There are ways you can make the ship work. Oh also that new ept makes minions failsafe viable, who would of thought?

Just now, Joe Censored said:

OS-1 lets you fire torps and missiles with weapons disabled with no catch. So slam, fire torp, slam, fire missile, slam away and reload both at once, rinse/repeat. Going to be nasty, and I bet it is hard for Nymn to bomb.

Nym can still catch you at Ps 10, but he's going to have a lot more trouble trying to predict where you are going.

The simple answer to that is to bring more Gunboats and see how well he survives 3-4 missiles in a single turn.

Just now, NakedDex said:

The simple answer to that is to bring more Gunboats and see how well he survives 3-4 missiles in a single turn.

Easily enough when only one of them can actually target him.

GUNBOAT GUNBOAT GUNBOAT

Maybe it's just the nostalgia talking, but I really like the way this ship is shaping up! It doesn't sound like it's going to single-handedly shift the balance to pure Imperial, but at the same time it appears to be a pretty solid ship that will be a lot of fun to fly.

Of course, there could also be some bias from my preference for secondary weapons!

Os-1 means I have to buy a missile boat model now... There is no better way to represent this craft with what's possible in the assault gunboat pack... Unless you drop the attk Value to 1.

GUNBOAT: The perfect ship

18 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Easily enough when only one of them can actually target him.

I don't see how that could be?

4 minutes ago, NakedDex said:

I don't see how that could be?

Because he has higher pilot skill and repositioning and you have a donut-everything-but-range-2-3-in-arc.

I'm so glad I have a TIE Aggressor. U-Rockets is very valuable in these guys now.

27 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Because he has higher pilot skill and repositioning and you have a donut-everything-but-range-2-3-in-arc.

I see what you're saying, but I've honestly never had issue holding him in at least 50% of my arcs using any variant of the 4x Bomber lists I've run extensively, nor any of his high PS buddies, and these guys look like they'll be flying in much the same manner, albeit with a more open dial. Flying that style of list allows you to blanket an area with overlapping arcs, which can be shockingly hard to get out of short of a literal retreat beyond range 3. If I can keep Dash honest using that style, I can certainly keep Nym in someone's sights each turn.

Now, maybe it's the practice I've put in with those flight paths and formations on a slightly different platform - and things could certainly go sideways when it comes to actual table time - but I feel reasonably confident these can be just as efficient, if not more so, as the Bombers. Either way, I'm looking forward to seeing how it'll turn out.

19 minutes ago, Celestial Lizards said:

I'm so glad I have a TIE Aggressor. U-Rockets is very valuable in these guys now.

you need a TL to fire with the OS-1 title

I just realized that if I want to do damage with a cannon when I SLAM, I need to buy some M3-A Interceptors - I don't have any Flechette Cannons. Sad.

Whelp, guess it's Tractor Beam for these guys.

4 minutes ago, Parakitor said:

I just realized that if I want to do damage with a cannon when I SLAM, I need to buy some M3-A Interceptors - I don't have any Flechette Cannons. Sad.

Whelp, guess it's Tractor Beam for these guys.

well, you could also use Karsabi's ability

you can even fire HLCs after a SLAM