Ordinance Mod Idea

By Carpatheon, in X-Wing

Munitions Magazine - 0 pts Modification

Any time you use Ordinance flip it over instead of discarding it.

Action: You may flip any used ordinance card back face up.

This would help addess the cost issue of ordinance but would prevent them from being to powerfull as you cant use them every turn, unless your PTL or Vader.

It would also make then much more fluffy, since most ships, especially bombers carried dozens of muntions each. Also this would make the munitions failure crit much more feared.

This fix requires a minor change to the rules. Flipping cards over instead of discarding them, but other than that I think its a pretty elegant fix.

Also points cost could be tweaked but I feel that Ordinance is a little exspensive as is for a one use weapon.

It totally invalidate Munition Failsafe (which cost 1).

There is also already a thread about ordinance and ideas to fix it. No need to create a new one.

Edited by Wildhorn

If you aren't able to modify the dice roll, there isn't much point in taking ordnance. I think the gold standard for a fix is that a generic X-wing would benefit from taking one. If you have 3 dice and can either TL or Focus for better results, why bother with ordnance? When you have a weapon that can reliably do more damage than that, you will have a fix.

I think being able to use the TL in the attack is the way to go, but most people think FFG would make a sweeping fix via FAQ.