FFG Article - Scum and Villainy

By SpikeSpiegel, in X-Wing

I went into a mild period of hysteria with this article, the game is definitely getting turned on its head, and I cannot wait. This is beyond excellent!

Very very very excited for the upgrades, Illicit or no. Definitely upped my excitement for the Star Viper; Xizor at 31 points should put Guri and the generics right where we thought they'd be. And, dear god, the IG-2000 is only PS6, all day erry day.

Accuracy Corrector is a systems upgrade. So far all of the ships capable of taking systems upgrades have 3+ attack. So that means you either roll 3 hits (four if you're a Phantom), do any modification with target locks on blanks or focus into hits (or pocket your focus for defense), or Accuracy Correct for two hits and be happy

Segnor's Loop It was predicted a while back and makes sense on a droids ship... K turn bank...

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This move is going to be devastating, especially when jousting.

Autoblaster turret!

Z-95's appear to have 3 upgrade slots. Hmmm...

Can't really tell but it looks like missiles and torps.

The PS7 pilot at the end looks like an EPT, Missile, and an Illicit slot

This release looks INSANE! I love it! I really don't like being a bandwagoner, but this is one exception I will gladly make without any guilt.

Z-95's appear to have 3 upgrade slots. Hmmm...

Can't really tell but it looks like missiles and torps.

The PS7 pilot at the end looks like an EPT, Missile, and an Illicit slot

From what I can tell, its ability is to get an extra attack dice if there are no friendly ships within range 1 or 2

I really hope that y-wing title they mentioned can be put on rebel ones...

No PS9 Pilots for Scum. Interesting!

Z-95's appear to have 3 upgrade slots. Hmmm...

Can't really tell but it looks like missiles and torps.

The PS7 pilot at the end looks like an EPT, Missile, and an Illicit slot

From what I can tell, its ability is to get an extra attack dice if there are no friendly ships within range 1 or 2

Could be it. I can definitely see 'when attacking' and 'range 1-2'. Could work well with 'lone wolf'

Accuracy Corrector seems a little too good for 3 points... isn't that what a Target lock is? The ship is correcting your angle of fire for you? Strange.

From what I can tell, its ability is to get an extra attack dice if there are no friendly ships within range 1 or 2

Sharp eye! That looks about right, and is going to make it very potent with Lone Wolf

Would need to get the Star Viper...

Man, that S-Loop looks so good.

New "Salvaged Astromech" slot.

No Astros for the Alliance it seems, though we might be able to use the Y-Wing Title (Crew? Bombs? Looks like 2 BTL-B titles to me so likely Bombs!) and possibly the TWO Automatic Turrets!

I went into a mild period of hysteria with this article, the game is definitely getting turned on its head, and I cannot wait. This is beyond excellent!

Very very very excited for the upgrades, Illicit or no. Definitely upped my excitement for the Star Viper; Xizor at 31 points should put Guri and the generics right where we thought they'd be. And, dear god, the IG-2000 is only PS6, all day erry day.

Star Viper will be interesting to watch, I fear power creep but FFG has been good in the past.

31 points is 2 more then Wedge... and he gets an extra agility, 2 more action options. While costing him a droid slot, 2 pilot skill and shifting a shield to hull. Granted we don't know the dial...

If you can field 4 generics, it negate the x-wing (if that even matters on a different faction).

Starviper and IG-2000 both have 3 red s-loops

Bodyguard

At the start of the combat phase, you may spend a focus token to choose a friendly ship at Range 1 with a higher pilot skill than you. Increase its agility value by 1 until the end of the round.

And it looks like IG88D can S-Loop with hard turn 3 templates instead of 3 banks

Whoa.

New Illicit Upgrades.

Boba's Better!

The M3-A has 3 Cannon Upgrades in it. The Flechette, Ion, and "Mangler"(?) Cannons.

Segnor's Loop? Awesome.

Super Excited for S&V!

Better and more expensive. He can equip illicit upgrades now :) very cool.

Looks like you won't be able to field more than 2 IG-2000's in a standard game if they're 36 points a pop.. Would be really cool to see 4 of them in an epic game..

Boba Fett getting in on those swarms and all up in the face of Outrider titled YT2400s

Edited by ChiSoxBoy

Bodyguard

At the start of the combat phase, you may spend a focus token to choose a friendly ship at Range 1 with a higher pilot skill than you. Increase its agility value by 1 until the end of the round.

And it looks like IG88D can S-Loop with hard turn 3 templates instead of 3 banks

Could go well with recon specialist

I want 4 IG-2000s! :o

The Most Wanted set is incredible value. I'm going to pick up an Hwk and Firespray then once I get Most Wanted I'll already have a sizable fleet for the Scum! (It's going to be hard to stop saying Rebel Scum because that's going to confuse people now.)

When Boba gets to forget about "No Disintegrations," he's one mean ruthless SOB.

Edited by catachan23

If the other Bounty Hunters are as good as Fett in the pack, I have 2 Firesprays waiting for that release, tis madness

I wonder what that R4 Astromech does.