"Stabilize rear deflectors. Watch for enemy fighters" - Thanks Gold 5. That's another quote from you, but it's Y-wing related. How about an X-Wing quote: "Switch your deflectors on, double front."

These got me thinking, maybe we can represent these in some way for the X-Wing. How about this (and I have no idea about how powerful these may or may not be):

"Stabilize Rear Deflectors" - [focus] - When defending, if you have at least one shield and the attacker is outside your firing arc, cancel one [hit].

"Deflectors On, Double Front" - same as above except inside your firing arc.

I like this quite a bit! It makes Garvin quite useful, and adds a bit of extra oomph to rec spec crow Katarn.

To refine the idea a bit, I think I'd want to see this as an X-Wing/E-Wing mod called something like "variable shield geometry", and possession of a focus token at the start of the combat phase would let you switch between these states.

What makes this idea cool is that it gives elite pilots a choice between R2D2/R5P9- to get that shield token- or R2 + PTL for action economy and lots of greens to burn stress. L

The downside is that anything that helps Biggs has the potential of making him a defensive monster. Super tank Biggs + 5 Bandits could be terrifying.

It's entirely possible to make an 'Articulated S-Foils' modification or something that's X-Wing Only. Just because B-Wings also have S-Foils doesn't mean they can use the upgrade.

Anything to increase the unpredictability of the X-Wing will go far in making it's great high PS pilots worth something.

Alternatively, a modification that makes it's Astromechs cheaper or better would be pretty **** great. Even a 2-3 pt discount on Astros go a long way to make both Generic and Named pilots better.

The X-wing fix will come in wave 10. Why? Because wave X. Yup, I went there.

The X-wing fix will come in wave 10. Why? Because wave X. Yup, I went there.

I'll give it a go!

Just to add a small addendum to the discussions that I haven't noticed elsewhere in this thread, B-wings also have S-foils, so potentially using that as a rationale to improve the X-wing then applies to the B-wing too.

If they take my switch agi and firepower idea for a turn then, you'd have a 3 agility 1 AD ship for a turn... I'd love that XD

Switching to +1 att -1 agi for both X-Wings and B-Wings?

Sounds familiar. Expose as a state, switching costs an action?

Do you want to switch to Tie Phantom or Tie Advanced?