Ok guys.
You guys have jumped threads. The thread about stress on the defender is here
THIS thread is about FCS and target locks.
I personally don't mind threads that occasionally ever off topic, but there is a currently active topic for discussing this particular off topic tangent.
Edited by ForgottenloreSorry about that! Your right. My badd. Sometimes I lose track of which thread I'm on.
My headcanon is that stress is also stress induced on the ship itself. Structural stress. The Defender goes fast, to throw it in a tight turn causes more structural stress on it than on a bomber.
That's (to me anyway) also the reasoning behind the red K-Turns in ships with inertial dampeners that ensure pilots aren't smeared across their cockpits.
But in this game the Defender doesn't go any faster than your standard Tie.
Sorry about that! Your right. My badd. Sometimes I lose track of which thread I'm on.
What he said. Replied in the other topic.
But same can be said about pretty much any ship. It's not a Defender weakness, it's just what makes ion weapons good.An Ion attack with a focus has about a 70% chance of hitting against 3 un-focused agility die. Against 4 the odds drop down to 60%.
Against focused agility die, with 3 its about 50/50 whether you get Ioned. With 4 the odds drop significantly to only a 30% chance of being Ioned. That's what makes whisper so **** good. So really its not that hard to Ion a 3 agility ship. I've actually had a Defender walked off the board before by a Y-wing. Didn't help that I got stressed/Ioned and couldn't focus.
Your write that stress effects every ship. However, other ships can do a green bank to remove it. The defender only has straight. There in lies the problem. If you want to remove stress you have to go straight. So one of the best ships with the best trained pilots in all the empire (Stress is a Pilot thing) cannot shed stress and must keep doing whites and gaining no actions. I guess these super trained pilots, who must survive 20 battles with normal ties, and who take numerous test and trials, then get tested by Vader himself. Just to get to fly the defender are so burned out by the time they get to fly it they cannot calm down without drugs or something. (You get my point)
I'm not saying everything should stick to the fluff 100%, but this is not even near the fluff of the ship or pilots.
There are only 2 reasons why this thing is called a defender, because it looks like one and Rexler. Other than that, it should be called something else.
Losing your action is brutal in this game.
I was talking about Ion token, not stress. I said earlier that stress is the bane of Defenders.