CR90 Gunner/Skywalker

By Blendwerk, in X-Wing Rules Questions

Greetings,

can I equip my CR90 with a Gunner or Luke Skywalker?

I read it here in the Forum that these cards are forbidden in the Epic Tournaments Rules, but I only find "Navigtor" to be banned.

What is correct?

Epic Play Card Restrictions
This section describes official restrictions and changes to card text in Epic
X-Wing tournaments:
• Biggs Darklighter’s card text should read “Other friendly small and large ships at Range 1 cannot be targeted by attacks if the attacker could target you instead.”
• Navigator cannot be equipped to huge ships.

Once upon a time, they were banned.

However, you can still equip them now, it's just a terrible idea.

If you trigger gunner off of any but your last possible attack, you forfeit all of the remaining attacks, see.

As stated they once were banned but that ban has since been lifted after seeing how they will rarely cause any problems.

Depending on how you equip a CR 90 you could have a lot of attack each round. If you use Gunner/Luke then you may get to repeat an attack but you also forfeit all other attacks you could have made. At that point you are looking at spending a crew slot for the Gunner/Luke vs. spending a hardpoint slot to get another weapon system you could fire in addition the the main gun. If you consider all the valuable crew you could put on the CR 90 you may want to reconsider that lost opportunity.