Ok, I understand that the stresshog gets to fire twice, and with the R3-A2 astromech it drops two stress on the defending ship. How do you negate the stress that your ship receives?

I know I am missing something, just need that last piece of the puzzle.

Thanks!

You don't. You just stack stress on that Y-wing. I've seen them end the game with 10+ stress tokens.

You just suck it up.. You can´t take actions. But neither can the enemy ace in a fragile Interceptor or the like whose life depends on arch dodging and defensive focus..

IME the answer is that you assume your stressbot is going to die very quickly and take the heat off the rest of your list whislt it does (and be very good value into the bargain, it's a huge threat for its cost), so you build a couple of other big damage threats and enjoy the free reign one of your big threats will have whilst the others get focussed down.

Ok, Thanks! I was not sure if there was a way to mitigate it. Now it makes more sense.

Yeah the only way is to do greens and maybe have another ship in the list that can remove stress tokens from friendly ships. So like Wingman or make it easier for you to clear them (if you then don't shoot the next rounds) with Kanan Jarrus.