Just musing this morning about A wings (which i think are fine anyway) and game up with a title idea after reading wookiepedia.

"A wing E2 (title)

2 points

A wing E2s had their cannons adapted to fire behind them.

Place the range ruler behind the rear horns of the movement nubs, anything in ranges 2 and 3 may be shot at as normal."

It give you a *very* limited read fire arc and a close up 'dead zone' you cant fit but would allow snap shots at people tailing you.

Its very situational but could be fun.

Doesnt require a new ship chit, or reprinted fire arcs etc, you just fire *straight* back.. no room for wiggling about

Just allow them to take Anti-Pursuit Lasers.

Just allow them to take Anti-Pursuit Lasers.

Yeah thats actually a lot easier, good call!

Althought i did think my idea allowed a cunning played to aim their ship well, deliberately over fly their opponent with a view to 'crossing the T' to put them right behind you but keep you out of their arc.

Like a very limited firespray as you'd have to be a really good judge of manouvre to make it work

I've suggested some mechanic to represent the A-Wing laser swiveling before as well. Anti-pursuit lasers might be a neat answer.

Oh i know its come up a few times, i think i read your post before actually.

I was just suggesting a fix other than having to reprint the ship chits, that was just a simple 'directly behind' firing option.

Anti-pursuit lasers would be so nice on Arvel. Well, I'd prefer something like Enhanced Scopes for Arvel. Theoretically, he could use decoy with a Green.

This one's baaaack.

Firstly, E2 means Expanded Mark II. A B-wing/E is an B-wing Expanded to carry two pilots.

The main issue here is changing the baseplates of the A-wings but I see you've cleverly dodged that.

However, more importantly it'd fundamentally change how they fly, either to the benefit or detriment of the ship. I'm fairly sure it's to the detriment because I'm fairly sure FFG've already tested it.

Ever thought the rear arc on the Firespray was odd? Yeah, it makes sense, but where have we ever seen a Firespray shoot backwards in flight? The rear arc was completely out of nowhere. Nobody questions it now because we're used to it but who opened their Slave I set up and wasn't surprised to see the rear arc?

Why has it got one? My theory is that they originally did it for the A-wing (flipping the guns backwards is established in Legends lore) and it didn't play well. It felt odd. Fun but not very RZ-1 A-wing Interceptor. However, they liked the mechanic, wanted to use it, and put it on the Firespray which was probably having problems playtesting due to being a large based arc ship with actually hitting enemies (I wouldn't be surprised if the bomb mechanic was originally to protect its rear).

I was not surprised to see the rear firing arc. I'm pretty sure I remember playing X-Wing alliance and being able to control the guns like a turret when flying a firespray, except that they were locked to only swivel in the vertical plane.

If anything needs a rear firing arc it's the Lambda.

But I agree, APLs on A-Wings would make sense for its swiveling cannons.