I'd assume TL'd. Since most of these guys are gonna use PTL it's a pretty good deal, much like it is on Omega Ace...

Omega Leader stops the enemy modifying their dice when attacking you or defending against you if you have a lock on them. That is a like a beefed up Dark Curse. I love it.

And yeah, you PTL for a lock and focus. Use the focus if needed, save the lock to make the enemy far worse.

He totally would negate a lot of upgrades that ship might have too. Mangler? Nope. Any defensive abilities? Nope.

Omega Leader with Juke and Comms Relay is a very nasty ship for 26 points.

Anything with 1 agility that you have a TL on, is basically taking whatever damage you roll. With two agility you have to roll perfect to cancel one attack die. Dirty.

I'm liking Omega Leader with Juke/Comms and Omega Ace with PTL/Comms for 52 points. Now to figure out what to spend the other 48 on.

Nevermind, totally misread Omega Leader's ability.

Oh look. The X-Wing fix doesn't seem to be "throw out your T-65s and replace them with T-70s" or "literally turn T-65s into T-70s". Look at my surprised face.

Integrated Astromech looks OK on the face of it. MJ said earlier today that a 1-point shield upgrade would give the PS2 T-65 near-as-dammit 95% jousting efficiency, and that doesn't take into account the benefit an R2 Astromech or BB8 give you before they blow up, nor the ability to pick and choose what crit you cancel. That won't crush the meta, but it's better than a Blue Squadron (while admittedly lacking the Blue's barrel roll and predictable "death clock").

I have to ask now, if you discard the EPT astromech, do you lose the EPT? Because if not, that's great.

Based on Epic, you would.

Uh-oh. You're right about Epic. Hmm.

Eh, could still pair it with any of the 'discard' EPTs. IE., R2-D6 with Crack Shot or Adrenaline Rush, for example. You get your once-a-game ability, and then can discard the droid to cancel a bad crit without losing anything.

I have to ask now, if you discard the EPT astromech, do you lose the EPT? Because if not, that's great.

No, you wouldn't. There are a limited number of precedents, but a ship's price and loadout don't change as the result of play.

If that were completely true, we wouldn't need Extra Munitions.

Also every discard to use card ever.

According to the rules, when you discard a card attached to a ship you flip it over and leave it near that card, so that point values can be determined at the end of the game if that ship gets destroyed.

You're talking about something entirely different. Of course cards can be discarded. The point is whether that effect can be chained: if someone forces me to discard Royal Guard TIE, do I lose my second modification?

Omega Leader with Juke and Comms Relay is a very nasty ship for 26 points.

Between him and The Inquisitor, the Imps are getting a lot of cheap, yet nasty, pilots.

A-Wings with Juke? Yes please.

I'm also thinking A-Wings with Cool Hand. Give em' PTL and Cool Hand, boom, you have three actions that turn. Tycho boost into R1, PTLs to TL, Cool Hand's to get a Focus, then drops the Prockets with the double modifier.

I'd probably still want Juke. Being able to turn an evade result into a focus, forcing them to either spend a token or take more damage? Yeah, baby.

So Luke can Juke, but he can't Sloop? That's poop.

With Lightning Reflexes he can Sloop.

Eh, could still pair it with any of the 'discard' EPTs. IE., R2-D6 with Crack Shot or Adrenaline Rush, for example. You get your once-a-game ability, and then can discard the droid to cancel a bad crit without losing anything.

Yeah, R2D6 and Crack Shot was where my mind went immediately.

I am in agreement that this isnt the X-wing fix, at least I hope not.

It does help a little but doesnt solve the problem. It does at least make the named pilots a bit more palatable.

Cool Hand looks good with stuff like Glitterstim too for the scum builds. Inject the stim, get a stress, then also get an evade token to make your defence EVEN better.

I'm thinking of using it instead of Crack Shot now.

oh look, more unique Aces and Leaders

We couldn't come up with better names? Come on every single pod racer in the phantom menace had a name and place of origin. Please tell me that The Force Awakens can at least do better than The Phantom Menace!

Remember FFG was doing this stuff a year ago. They were barely done filming when they made these names.

But even in all this time they have been able to develop the franchise with the Imperial Raider corvette in collaboration with Lucas Films under the management of Disney. Wes Jenson had his character name at the start and it wasn't just Red Leader although you never heard his name in the movie just his call-sign Red Leader.

FFG is not faultless and I am declaring this a fault. Granted might not even be a major one as Biggs can face Whisper even though in the movies. Also this really has to do more with the aesthetics than the gameplay, but it is poor implementation of it none the less.

Now of course it is rather easy to shift the blame onto Disney as all these Episode 7 products have more of the Disney marketing feel than any of FFG's products before. Still why I believe the new core set release was all dictated by Disney I don't think they directed the names to be "______ Leader" or "______ Ace".

Oh and since the T-70 can also take it it negates any closing of the gap between them.

You're talking about something entirely different. Of course cards can be discarded. The point is whether that effect can be chained: if someone forces me to discard Royal Guard TIE, do I lose my second modification?

I think the only situation that might come up is if you have the pilot skill permanently dropped to 4 or less.

You only would discard a card if an in game effect tells you to anyway. So until it gets an errata, R2-D6 is a great astromech to use.

You don't necessarily need an icon on your ship's bar during the course of the game, modifications and titles don't have an icon anyway.

If there was a card that targeted titles, it would mainly be used to eradicate Millennium Falcon or the IG-2000 lists.

Oh and since the T-70 can also take it it negates any closing of the gap between them.

There isn't a gap between them. The T-65 is a better jouster, the T-70 has a little arc-dodging capability to make up for its lower efficiency. The gap that needs making up is between the X-Wings and basically everything else on the Rebel side.

WOOO! T-70 standalone! This is it FFG! A chance to give us the T-65 fix we've been waiting for all this time!

Oh.

Oh and since the T-70 can also take it it negates any closing of the gap between them.

The T70 can take it, but it doesn't want to. They're probably going to want to spend the two points for Autothrusters.

This is a very surgical fix. It helps the lower PS generics by giving them just a slight bump in durability for as low as one point. Players can now decide if they want to use a T-65 with an R2 Astromech and Integrated Droid for 22 points, or spend 26 points for a Blue Rookie with Autothrusters. It also doesn't really help the higher-PS aces like Wedge, Wes or Luke, as they'll probably all want Engine Upgrades.

But even in all this time they have been able to develop the franchise with the Imperial Raider corvette in collaboration with Lucas Films under the management of Disney. Wes Jenson had his character name at the start and it wasn't just Red Leader although you never heard his name in the movie just his call-sign Red Leader.

FFG is not faultless and I am declaring this a fault. Granted might not even be a major one as Biggs can face Whisper even though in the movies. Also this really has to do more with the aesthetics than the gameplay, but it is poor implementation of it none the less.

Now of course it is rather easy to shift the blame onto Disney as all these Episode 7 products have more of the Disney marketing feel than any of FFG's products before. Still why I believe the new core set release was all dictated by Disney I don't think they directed the names to be "______ Leader" or "______ Ace".

First, I think you mean Garvin Dreis/Red Leader.

Second, it is pretty clear where the restrictions are. They didn't even use the actual name of the Poe's squadron. Black Squadron. This should tell you the amount of information that LFL gave FFG. And as good as the relationship is between LFL and FFG, LFL has been much, much more strict with the new movies. And FFG can only use names that LFL approves. LFL probably wanted something a bit more generic, since they did not have all the minor character names filled out at that time (who FFG would not have access to information about).

Yeah I was about to say, Wedge says 'good shot Janson!' in Empire has he is Wedge's snowspeeder gunner.

The rebels always got named pilots in the films due to them being the good guys and being on screen (and talking) more. The Imperials, save for a few choice characters, were all just faceless, nameless cannon fodder.

Eh, could still pair it with any of the 'discard' EPTs. IE., R2-D6 with Crack Shot or Adrenaline Rush, for example. You get your once-a-game ability, and then can discard the droid to cancel a bad crit without losing anything.

Yeah, R2D6 and Crack Shot was where my mind went immediately.

Or R2-D6 and, say, 'Draw Their Fire' - by the time you are considering chucking a droid to avoid another hit, you are probably not interested in pulling damage from anyone else, any more.

Actually, that's an interesting thought.

If I had R2-D6 and 'Draw Their Fire' on the same ship...could I use DtF to pull a crit over from a nearby friendly, then chuck the droid to cancel it? That seems...like it might have some potential.

And there's your X-wing fix.

Kind of sad. I was really hoping for a Rogue or Wraith Squadron title. =(

TL;DR

IT'S NOT THE FIX! THE FIX FOR THE T65 WON'T BE SOMETHING THAT MAKES THE T70 BETTER ALSO.

And on another note, wow! There's some cool stuff in there!

I bet between waves 8 and 9 we get a Rebel Aces set. Probably with a T-65 and the black T-70.