He's actually better than that. Normally ships without bomber get nothing from crit results, ships with bomber deal damage to ships and can resolve a critical effect. In Armada there are lots of things you can potentially do with crits, but a faceup damage card is still the default. Vader's ability lets him count crit results as damage results and he gets a black die to go with the three blue, so he is possibly the hardest hitting squadron in the game.

But Vader doesn't get to resolve a critical effect in armada. He is going to be doing more damage numerically, but none of his attacks (as a squadron in armada) will ever be face up damage or any other special effects.

If you really want to see vader be broken as all hell, look no further than today's issue of vader down.

that scene really reminded me of

This . . . . . is beautiful.

BTL Y-wing.

Tangentially related to this, I just read the first issue of Star Wars: Vader Down

Tangentially related to this, I just read the first issue of Star Wars: Vader Down

Vader solo against 3 squadrons of X-Wings. Using the Force to push aside incoming torpedoes? He just tears through all of them until Luke decides to use the Force to ram him.

And who was shooting proton torpedoes at a TIE fighter?! That's just dumb, everyone who played X-wing PC knows that's what missiles are for.

I have a beef with the vader down for seriously pushing suspension of disbelief. In the rebels cartoon he was just flying better, in Vader down he was flat out cheating.

And who was shooting proton torpedoes at a TIE fighter?! That's just dumb, everyone who played X-wing PC knows that's what missiles are for.

Well, all 3 squadrons were X-Wings, so they didn't have any missiles.