Played an Epic 200 pointer, which finally gave me the points to experiment with the costly new Tycho build some people have been talking about. I lucked into a YT-2400 a couple of weeks ago, so I managed to have all the cards at hand besides the Test Pilot title. He is absolutely as fun as was predicted:

Tycho (26)

Daredevil (3)

Push the Limit (3)

Experimental Interface (3)

Proton Rockets (3)

A-Wing Test Pilot (0)

This dude is super wiggly. I managed to go head-to-head with and out-dance a VI Whisper for the first few rounds of the game until it got hurt and bailed across the board. I think the 33 point non-rocket version of Tycho would be just as fun, but the 2-attack of the A-Wing is sill this guy's downfall, which means the rocket is nice to have around. You'll start to wish you had one to fire every second turn, though.

I lost the game, but Tycho was the last ship standing, and was hilarious great to maneuver the whole time. You definitely need to double the amount of stress tokens you bring to a normal game, 'cause he will hoard them like crazy. Here's his token collection after 4 rounds:

My interpretation/the way I played it was that you can PTL into the EI action.

But, incidentally and anecdotally, I found that I usually wanted to Daredevil then Boost rather than the reverse.

Now can you PTL and then use EI? Or do you have to use EI after your first action then PTL?

You can trigger PTL off of EI and vice versa.

That sounds really great! Tycho with PTL is one of my favorite things ever, and Proton Rockets seem like they might finally give him the punch that might convince the meta he's worth taking again.

Tycho is without a doubt one of my favorite pilots in the game (and in the lore)

Sadly Jake does the job better for less?

Tycho has always been worth taking (in my heart) <3

Jake does not do the job better, Jake does a different job.

If the job is just arc-dodging in a general sense, then yeah, Jake is better. I think he's just flat-out better in an objective, value-for-points sense, too.

But Tycho doesmove completely differently. You might have to be a master pilot to take advantage of it in a way that Jake couldn't equally provide to a less seasoned player. But I'm distinctly NOT a master pilot, and I still had a lot of fun/success with the Tycho build. He'd be a much bigger target at 100 points, though, so I'm not confident that he'll have a role outside of Epic play.