Plasma Torpedoes Vs. Reinforced Deflectors = Hilarious
First game against a Lambda with Reinforced Deflectors
I'm interested in why they decided this upgrade needed to be large ship only. 3 points is a pretty heavy price for an upgrade that wont even trigger at all in some match ups. Would it really be overpowered on Bwings?
Like some previous posters have said, I was excited about the deflectors before I found out the waffle existed. The waffles are too delicious to pass up. Waffles 4 lyfe!
I'm interested in why they decided this upgrade needed to be large ship only. 3 points is a pretty heavy price for an upgrade that wont even trigger at all in some match ups. Would it really be overpowered on Bwings?
Oh absolutely. Four B-Wings with Deflectors would last ungodly long against any list with a number of 3+ATK ships (like, say, four B-Wings). The idea of sitting through that mirror-match alone is probably what prompted the restriction.
I can't even see using this on a Palpatine shuttle over baffle but then again I use my palp mobile as an aggressive ship with great blocking potential and 3 big red dice so maybe I'm against the 'norm'. I also want people to think they can kill the shuttle easily (spoiler alert the old girl is actually pretty tanky) since that means they give the aces more unmolested turns of ripping into ships.
I'm interested in why they decided this upgrade needed to be large ship only. 3 points is a pretty heavy price for an upgrade that wont even trigger at all in some match ups. Would it really be overpowered on Bwings?
Oh absolutely. Four B-Wings with Deflectors would last ungodly long against any list with a number of 3+ATK ships (like, say, four B-Wings). The idea of sitting through that mirror-match alone is probably what prompted the restriction.
It would be great on B wings. Take that HLC shot you can't hope to cancel, then recover a shield. Typically takes at least 3 attacks to clear a B wing (or two good ones with whiffed defense), and this could increase that average to 4+.
But consider it on Corran Horn with R2-D2. 3 agility often behind a focus or evade plus the possibility of 2 recovered shields per turn on a high PS ship that can perform two attacks.
Downside is you can no longer take FCS. But the two greatest threats to Corran are Heavy Laser Cannon and Twin Laser Turret. This would eliminate HLC as a major threat.