I could still see Rexlar and Black Squad with Attani being a potential thing.

If cheating is your thing, sure.

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Scum only.

Why did I just reply to an older post?

I kinda like it on 4x KFighter.

Three can perform a K-Turn and get stress, the fourth can perform a green move to clear the stress, then take a focus action and give each other K-Fighter the focus. Pretty economical. Likewise, one K-Fighter can focus and the other three can perform target locks. With the last point you can add inertial dampener to each. Again, have 1 ship perform the focus then the rest of them hit the breaks and still have an action. Could be pretty interesting.

I kinda like it on 4x KFighter.

Three can perform a K-Turn and get stress, the fourth can perform a green move to clear the stress, then take a focus action and give each other K-Fighter the focus. Pretty economical. Likewise, one K-Fighter can focus and the other three can perform target locks. With the last point you can add inertial dampener to each. Again, have 1 ship perform the focus then the rest of them hit the breaks and still have an action. Could be pretty interesting.

...I just realized that this would be horrible. The second 2 K-Fighters to K-Turn would already have stress. More work shopping needed.

Especially since the card doesn't say that removing a token lets you remove the token from the other ships. So making a green maneuver with the last ship wouldn't clear stress from the other ships.

All in all, this upgrade seems WAY more likely to be a liability than it is to be a benefit.

One ship in the link gets hit with a flechette cannon and they all end up stressed, and they ALL have to make green maneuvers to get rid of it.

It might have been an interesting card at 0 points, I can't imagine actually spending points on something that is more likely to bone you than it is to help.

at least, it should have been: focus, evade and stress.. would at least make for some **** hard to catch folks.. oh well.

MAAAAYBE the card will shine with another upgrade, arriving in wave nine with the assault gunboat and avenger, exclusively.

Even just having a red maneuver kill the action on any lower PS linked pilots is a huge problem; not to mention how likely you are to let your opponent choose your maneuver for you if you ever want one of the lower PS pilots to do a red themselves.

Seems largely bad. Potentially cute, but seems extremely hard to use.

Even just having a red maneuver kill the action on any lower PS linked pilots is a huge problem; not to mention how likely you are to let your opponent choose your maneuver for you if you ever want one of the lower PS pilots to do a red themselves.

Seems largely bad. Potentially cute, but seems extremely hard to use.

What on Earth are you talking about?

Lower PS linked pilots will have already moved and acted...

Mindlink benefits a lower skilled pilot who takes a red maneuver, because the higher skilled pilot can perform a green and then focus.

You just have to stagger your movment a bit, this card requires planning. Still, if your first KFighter makes a red turn, the second can make a green manuver to clear stress and take a focus, giving the first one focus even if he took a red manuver this turn. Next turn just flip the order. This way, your ships will always have focus, and an amazing action economy. Works best with many ships with the same PS and EPT, coincidentally something Scum has in abundance. Slightly vounrerable, it is true, but even a stress hog or tactican can't really mess much with your action economy.

Manaroo combos well with this too, giving you an additonal focus to play with (or two, if she takes Recon Specialist, transfers both focuses away then regains one focus).

I really love this card.

Still interesting, just can't figure out what ship it goes with yet.

PS3 Jumpmaster (25pts) with Mindlink (1pt), Unhinged (1pt), K4 Security Droid (3pts) and a Plasma Torpedo (3pts) and some Guidance Chimps (0pts) each? 33pts a pop and you can run 3.

After they fire their plasma salvos with bonus modifications, they can jam up the field and still pretty reliably get their actions.

Even just having a red maneuver kill the action on any lower PS linked pilots is a huge problem; not to mention how likely you are to let your opponent choose your maneuver for you if you ever want one of the lower PS pilots to do a red themselves.

Seems largely bad. Potentially cute, but seems extremely hard to use.

What on Earth are you talking about?

Lower PS linked pilots will have already moved and acted...

Mindlink benefits a lower skilled pilot who takes a red maneuver, because the higher skilled pilot can perform a green and then focus.

Didn't get much sleep last night and started speaking in backwards talk. Flip all that around its something vaguely coherent.

Still interesting, just can't figure out what ship it goes with yet.

Having the mindlinked pilots at the same PS makes it a lot more flexible and can prevent some major problems. A couple of Black Sun Aces would be my gut response, though I'm vaguely curious if there's any value in 4 Tansarii Vets with it led by Sessiru with a Tractor Beam.

Probably not actually good, but interesting.

Even just having a red maneuver kill the action on any lower PS linked pilots is a huge problem; not to mention how likely you are to let your opponent choose your maneuver for you if you ever want one of the lower PS pilots to do a red themselves.

Seems largely bad. Potentially cute, but seems extremely hard to use.

What on Earth are you talking about?

Lower PS linked pilots will have already moved and acted...

Mindlink benefits a lower skilled pilot who takes a red maneuver, because the higher skilled pilot can perform a green and then focus.

Didn't get much sleep last night and started speaking in backwards talk. Flip all that around its something vaguely coherent.

A lower skilled pilot can perform a Focus for a higher skilled pilot who is going to take a red maneuver!

Backwards is the same :-P

Kinda want to put this on palob and friends so when he steals a focus everyone gets it, mean my hwks can make a bit more use of red manoeuvres and engine upgrades to get better positions and still get the focus tokens

Plus there is no range restriction on the card so one ship that slow rolls can boost everyone anywhere on the board

Even just having a red maneuver kill the action on any lower PS linked pilots is a huge problem; not to mention how likely you are to let your opponent choose your maneuver for you if you ever want one of the lower PS pilots to do a red themselves.

Seems largely bad. Potentially cute, but seems extremely hard to use.

What on Earth are you talking about?

Lower PS linked pilots will have already moved and acted...

Mindlink benefits a lower skilled pilot who takes a red maneuver, because the higher skilled pilot can perform a green and then focus.

Didn't get much sleep last night and started speaking in backwards talk. Flip all that around its something vaguely coherent.

A lower skilled pilot can perform a Focus for a higher skilled pilot who is going to take a red maneuver!

Backwards is the same :-P

I said vaguely! I mean you create a problem when the lower PS pilot wants to perform a red. That is generally better though now that I think about it. There's definitely potential in a cheap ship doing greens and focus in a corner somewhere to buff the rest of your squad.

Palob with Mindlink, K4 sec, crow title and Blaster Turret

Guri or Xizor with Mindlink, AT, FCS.

Palob green moves, gains a target lock's and performs a focus action. Xizor/Guri gains a focus token, moves then performs either a boost or barrel roll action.

Essentially getting PtL on the VIPER without sticking to green moves. I like it.

I think it works well with 2 ships, especially at diff pilot skills.

All you have to do is a) make sure you never program a red on both in a turn and b) Don't have any stress-giving actions on the lower PS ship.

I'm making a Manaroo/Dengar 'Married Bliss' (yes they married in the EU) list right now with Attanni as their EPTs.

So.....you can gain the Focus from someone you are linked with even if you are stressed. That can be pretty interesting. It's not necessarily a free action.

Guri pops to mind so that whomever Guri is linked with can get that free Focus, too, even if stressed.

If you have it linked with someone that does a red move, the other person can then do a green and clear it to do the Focus action to pass back to the person that did the red move. So, maybe Guri combined with Dengar could mean Dengar can get a Focus after doing a red right move that is unexpected.

Yeah that was my thinking with my list:

Dengar - 33
Attanni Mindlink - 1
Gonk - 2
Unhinged Astromech - 1
Punishing One - 12
Experimental Interface - 3

Manaroo - 27
Attanni Mindlink - 1
RecSpec - 3
Unhinged Astromech - 1
Hull Upgrade - 3

Binayre Pirate - 12

Pirate does it's own thing (blocking, hopefully), Manaroo stays back and takes a focus action, get's two tokens. Dengar gets a focus. He does whatever move he wants, still has a focus. If he can, he uses his action on Gonk or rolling or whatever he feels. Then Manaroo can choose to give her own two focus tokens (and any gained locks) to Dengar or the Pirate. Potentially giving Dengar 3 focus in a turn!

3x glaive squadron pilots with mk 2 engine, x7 title, and mind link, assuming the points fit

This is a really interesting upgrade but with stress builds being so obnoxious these days I'm not sure it will find a place. White K-turn, mk 2 engine, and actionless evades seems like a good place to start though. Maybe 2 defenders with a Soontir or other anchor ship that doesn't rely on the mind link.

3x glaive squadron pilots with mk 2 engine, x7 title, and mind link, assuming the points fit

Mind Link is Scum only, according to the latest preview.

3x glaive squadron pilots with mk 2 engine, x7 title, and mind link, assuming the points fit

This is a really interesting upgrade but with stress builds being so obnoxious these days I'm not sure it will find a place. White K-turn, mk 2 engine, and actionless evades seems like a good place to start though. Maybe 2 defenders with a Soontir or other anchor ship that doesn't rely on the mind link.

Scum Only

EDIT - Ninja'd!

The Mindlink allows Kaa'to Leeachoas to really pay it back.

They have a lot of natural synergy with it.

Kavil + blaster turret + R4-B11+ attanni mindlink

Or

Kavil + blaster turret + R4 astromech + engine upgrade + attanni mindlink

Paired with

Guru + AT + Sensor jammer + attanni mindlink

Can be quite fun to run

Palob Godalhi (20)
Attanni Mindlink (1)
Twin Laser Turret (6)
"Gonk" (2)
Feedback Array (2)

Guri (30)
Attanni Mindlink (1)
Sensor Jammer (4)
Cloaking Device (2)
Autothrusters (2)
Virago (1)

Black Sun Ace (23)
Attanni Mindlink (1)
"Hot Shot" Blaster (3)
Munitions Failsafe (1)

Total: 99

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Two sources of tokens when stressed, and Gonk+Feedback array on the TLT.