Ion Cannon Battery: A Red Herring

By TIE Pilot, in X-Wing

The not spoiled Ion Cannon Battery from the Raider that we managed to get by filename fishing: it just occured to me that it might be false. It wasn't officially spoiled and the other card we got that way (the Scyk dial) proved to be wrong. Given that the spoiled card looks fairly terrible in comparison to the Ion Cannon (double the cost PLUS two energy in exchange for turning the hit into a crit (canceled by shields against most things) and gaining an extra attack die that does nothing but improve the hit chance as it's still capped at one damage) I wondered if it's not actually the real thing.

It shoots at range 4, and it is the most accurate of the all the battery weapons at that range because it doesn't buff defenders. Ionizing something that far out is awesome because they could still be outside of range 3 of the Raider/CR-90 next round. It's better than turbo lasers for small targets.

Several other cards were found that way that turned out to be completely accurate - the Ion Torpedoes from Wave 5 and the K4 Security Droid from Wave 6 were both found by trying the file names. There may have been others.

I'd wager it's pretty close, if not exact. The Scyk dial was just barely different. A color difference. Perhaps the ICB isn't final, but I'd expect it to be pretty close. It'll make Huge ships quite the support ship...