I donno if anyone can tell, but I've been trying out weird lists recently. What with thinking X wings could be useful again, and now thinking Saboteur could have a use?

But anyways, I've been playing with the K wing, and I really like the Advanced Slam mod for dropping mines. But sometimes I find myself SLAMing just to get out of arcs, but not always in a position to drop a mine. So none of my actions are that good to use, sure I can take a TL for the next turn, but if I already have one, then I'm relegated to taking a generic focus, which doesn't make that big of a difference - especially if I managed to get out of everyone's arc.

But what about Saboteur? It provides an offensive boost (hopefully at least) to make up for the fact that I'm not shooting. And coupled with proton bombs, I can easily get cards under the shields to flip up (again). I can just imagine finally getting rid of that stupid Damaged Sensor Array, just to have Saboteur flip it back up.

Now with that being said, it opens the idea for other crew actions, aka, Lando. Obviously Lando is going to be more defensive minded, but if you're SLAMing to get out of arc, then having focus and evade tokens is kinda pointless, dontcya think?

Saboteur doesn't really synergize with Proton Bombs. Proton Bombs already deal damage cards face-up, and there are probably an equal number of cards that stay faceup (Damaged Engine, Injured Pilot, Direct Hit, Minor Hull Breach, etc.) as there are that turn facedown (Munitions Failure, Damaged Sensor Array if they fix it, Minor Explosion, Thrust Control Fire, etc.), so 50% of the time there will be nothing for Saboteur to do on your K-Wing other than waste oxygen...

So that's a 50% chance the damage card dealt to the defender will be advantageous to Saboteur, then an action spent to make another 50% chance of flipping that damage card faceup, and the opportunity cost of losing your crew slot and 2 points.

Sometimes when you SLAM you might not make it quite out of arc. I'd rather have Lando for those times, or for when ships have higher PS than you and manage to BR/Boost to keep you in arc, or for all of those PWTs. Or take an Intelligence Agent along for the ride, so you can see where those arc dodgers are going to be.

Saboteur is better on a Adv. SLAM K-wing than anywhere else, but I'm not convinced it's good enough there to push other choices out of the crew slot.

C3po is quite the shotgun seat bully hog

Sabatour does best for me on Palob with Moldy Crow. Once you have a pile of focus cookies, you might as well do something else for an action.

If Saboteur wasn't a 50/50 chance and happened automatically it would actually be worth an action.

Under the guidance of the Emperor he'll always succeed...

10 points, three crew slots, and an action is a lot to pay to flip a crit over. On top of all that you have to be within range 1.

I never said it's cost-efficient...

Colzet is a better version of Saboteur than Saboteur will ever be.