I am a slave to the love that dare not speak its name ..... that's right, I love the humble Y-Wing.

I'm really pleased that FFG have decided to buff a little shine onto the trusty old warhorse with the Most Wanted release, but 'more' is not the same as 'enough' so I've been thinking about other possible improvements that reflect the versatility and multiple roles that Big Yeller has been asked to fulfill during its long lifespan.

With a few exceptions, I've also tried to add a few penalties for their use - the idea being that the Y-Wing was modified for different roles that it was not originally designed for - therefore its performance in those areas would be sub-optimal.

Advanced Bomb Bay - modification - Y-Wing and TIE Bomber only - 3 points:

Your Torp slots are replaced with bomb slots. Players may choose any 1 or 2 speed maneuver template to place bomb tokens. Player may choose to detonate bombs immediately after placement or at the end of the activation phase.

Ion bombs - 2 points - Once detonated, all ships within range 1 of an Ion bomb token receive 1 Ion token but receive no damage

(to offer a possible counter to this how about:

Hardened Systems - Modification - 2 points. Small-Based ships are treated as large-based ships when applying Ion effects)

Title: BTL-S3 Y-Wing: You may increase or decrease the range of any equipped turret weapon by 1 range band. When firing outside the range designated on the upgrade card, receive 1 stress token.

Title: BTL-A4 LP Y-wing "LongProbe" Remove the Turret Icon from your upgrade bar. Increase your agility by 1

Of course upgrades and all very nice, but what I'd really like to see are some new pilots.

Davish Krail - PS 5 with EPT slot - Whenever you receive a stress token you may immediately give that token to another friendly ship at range 1 and receive a focus token.

(Synergizes well with Stay on Target and gives a good reason for the "I can't maneuver!" line shouted by Dutch just before he buys it - so it keeps it nicely thematic)

Lieutenant Telsij - PS 7 - Once per round, when a friendly ship at range 1 performs an attack, you may convert 1 focus result to a crit result and change all other focus results to hits.

(he was Horton's wingman at Endor so I'm thinking along the lines of something that compliment's Horton's ability - basically using abilities to generate a Target lock / focus style Combo)

Rogue Squadron Pilot - PS3 with EPT

Perhaps FFG can release these in the forthcoming (but hitherto unannounced and thus entirely speculative) Battle of Yavin expansion which will also include the long awaited buff to the TIE Advanced

I'd love some 'alt-pilot' ships, such as Keyan in a Y-wing, Tycho+Ibby in an X-wing etc. Is it so much to ask that I want enough named pilots to make up the full 12 members of 'Red Squadron'? (probably)

When the paints rubbed off its gone too far.

Custom cards... Is your solution. I hope to make some up maybe even today for new pilots

I too would like to see pilots in other cards. I mean isn't Key an technically the surviving Y-wing from the death star attack in a new hope? Heck keyans ability in a ywing would be fun.

I want more pilots all we get is upgrades I like that i can now get 3 attacks in one turn and the 2 named pilots have the best abilities but I WANT MORE