Anyone else think we'll see IG-88 as crew sometime? If so, which one(s) and what ability?

It would be pretty hilarious if they made it non-unique. I think IG-88A's ability would be a good candidate for recycling.

IG-88 Crew

1 point

Scum Only

After you perform an attack that destroys the defender, you may recover 1 shield.

That being said I'm not sure we will see him as a crew, but maybe, you never know.

Crew has always been a different ability to the ship ability. Sometimes they'rethematically linked (Dash is all about rocks, Luke is all about getting mini-focus through the Force), sometimes they're not (Boba is about rerolls, until he's about upgrades, Vader is a badass pilot but straight up bad company as a crew).

All that said, IG-88B was the canonical bounty hunter. So he'd be the one to go for.

Bonus points: Mechanically speaking, IG-88B is arguably the strongest of the Agressors, so if you'd have to fly someone else for a change if you took the crew.

Boba is a bounty hunter, hence his Imperial pilot ability and his crew card. Scum Boba was just given a non-thematic but powerful ability to make up for his not very well appreciated Imperial ability.

I hesitate to call Imperial Boba's ability bad. It won me the semi-final round of a Store Championship, an opponent accounted for my actual 2 bank and would have blocked me in front of a Vader and Echo and I just 2 banked the other direction and boosted.

Nope, it is thematic - he's here to get a designated crew.

and he'll aim the crit at crew compartment to blow 'em up

Boba is a bounty hunter, hence his Imperial pilot ability and his crew card. Scum Boba was just given a non-thematic but powerful ability to make up for his not very well appreciated Imperial ability.

I hesitate to call Imperial Boba's ability bad. It won me the semi-final round of a Store Championship, an opponent accounted for my actual 2 bank and would have blocked me in front of a Vader and Echo and I just 2 banked the other direction and boosted.

I agree on Imp Boba's ability: underrated. Then again, that's my opinion on most abilities that give you extra maneuvering shenanigans. "Blue Ace", Imperial Boba Fett, Lt. Lorrir, Ello Asty... I'm happy to fly any of those guys any time, and you can usually get some solid results out of them, yet I've seen all four (and some similar pilots) get crapped on.

Nope, it is thematic - he's here to get a designated crew.

and he'll aim the crit at crew compartment to blow 'em up

Scum pilot card, I think.

When he's working alone, he's a badass able to take on all comers.

Thematic enough for me...

All that said, IG-88B was the canonical bounty hunter. So he'd be the one to go for.

Canonically, there's only IG-88, no letters, no indication of others.

Nope, it is thematic - he's here to get a designated crew.

and he'll aim the crit at crew compartment to blow 'em up

Scum pilot card, I think.

No Desintegrations.

All that said, IG-88B was the canonical bounty hunter. So he'd be the one to go for.

Canonically, there's only IG-88, no letters, no indication of others.

In "Legends" canon, they're in multiples.

IG-88 _A became the core of the 2 nd Death Star, after all...

It would be pretty hilarious if they made it non-unique. I think IG-88A's ability would be a good candidate for recycling.

IG-88 Crew

1 point

Scum Only

After you perform an attack that destroys the defender, you may recover 1 shield.

That being said I'm not sure we will see him as a crew, but maybe, you never know.

LIMITED, for all that is holy.

Do you really want to see Bossk regen 3 shields per kill?

Well, yeah, but the canonical status of Legends is that it isn't. .

All the bounty hunters should get a crew card, imo. I also think the Aggressor should get new Title card that allows a crew slot.

More Iggy.

All the bounty hunters should get a crew card, imo. I also think the Aggressor should get new Title card that allows a crew slot.

More Iggy.

All unique

The crew motivates who ever is piloting.

A: 2 points: at the start of the activation phase you may gain 1 stress. if you did, turn a face up damage card face down.

B: 2 points: after performing an attack that does not hit, you may gain a stress. If you did, remove one shield from the defender.

C: 2 points: during the end phase if you have an evade token you may perform a free boost action.

D: 3 points: after performing a turn manuever you may perform a free barrel roll, even if you are stressed. If you do gain 1 stress.

Edit now we need a 4 crew ship, maybe change these to be useable on epic ships.

How about IG88 crew gives the ship I it is equipped to the same pilot talent as a IG88 ship in your list. So Boba could have IG88B's ability that would be fun

I'd like a unique IG-72 too tho.

My first thought was to allow them to integrate into the IG network.

I looked at this 2 ways:

3 points Gain the pilot ability of each other friendly ship with the IG-2000 title.

7 points Pick an aggressor pilot gain that pilot skills along with any pilot skill from each other friendly ship with the IG-2000 title.

A more powerful version of the same idea.

I think this is the more obvious version but a bit hamfisted in its approach. Not all scum ships can benefit so we are really looking at A and B (C only with an engine upgrade) but they can provide some decent addons. Hound's Tooth would love B and Fett and A would be great in a swarm. Ultimately I think it would help the bring the aggressor into more multiple ship builds.

My other thought was use the "best" ability from IG and make it a crew ability.

6 points After you perform an attack that does not hit, you may immediately perform a cannon weapon attack. You may change 1 focus result to a hit result. You cannot perform another attack this round.

Basically this is the scum version of Luke Skywalker. A slightly more expensive gunner with the 1 focus ability.

Well, it's true...all of it.

"... upgrade your Shadow Caster with the abilities of each IG-2000 in your squad..."

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2016/6/2/stay-in-attack-formation/

Well, it's true...all of it.

"... upgrade your Shadow Caster with the abilities of each IG-2000 in your squad..."

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2016/6/2/stay-in-attack-formation/

from a certain point of view*

ignoring the minor Fel's Wrathing for now, I do want to bring up the SLAM bomb controversy before we get too excited about IG crew

articles kinda lost everyone's trust after that

Are we all missing this?

Top row of upgrades, fourth card from the left. That looks a lot like an IG-88 crew card to me.

And -- as dewbie420 pointed out -- it would seem that that crew card lets your brobots be bros with people who aren't bots.

Of course, the real question is whether it'll allow you to share the ability of ONE brobot or ALL brobots -- if the latter, epic might get pretty crazy.

Epic was already crazy. I wouldn't be sad if they made it crazier.

It's also something of diminishing returns - there aren't any non-aggressor ships in the game that have boost and speed 3 sengors loops and cannon slots and a crew slot to take the upgrade ... indeed, I don't think there are any scum ships in the game that even claim most of them. Party Bus with Engine Upgrade is probably the best bet to date, and even then, you'd get to pick your pilot very carefully. Marolo with HLC, Bossk, IG-88 and a lunatic of your choice could be fun, though if you go the perma-stressed route you miss out on IG-88C's pretty little tricks, and the shield point is worth less on a YV-666 than it would be elsewhere...

See what I mean? Even in epic, it's awesome everywhere, yet not ideal anywhere.

It is pretty obvious if u just read yhe article. U gain the pilot abilities of all IG2000 in your squad.

I think this for the reason that no one is playing really other than Brobots when it comes to IG's.

So we can expect to see:

-double tapping

-shield generation

-free evade from boost

-sloops turned in to hard sloops

That is bringing so many different types of combinations for Scum that it is almost scary, but I'm excited!

Since there are multiple IG pilots, will the crew be unique? Or no?

It must be because if they shared whatever ships pilot ability you put it on, that be nuts with Palob, Dengar and torkil

It is pretty obvious if u just read yhe article. U gain the pilot abilities of all IG2000 in your squad.

I think this for the reason that no one is playing really other than Brobots when it comes to IG's.

So we can expect to see:

-double tapping

-shield generation

-free evade from boost

-sloops turned in to hard sloops

That is bringing so many different types of combinations for Scum that it is almost scary, but I'm excited!

Except that

Double tapping requires TEH GUN, what means you're stuck with Moralo Eval (and he wants his 4-lom+dengar+Zuckuss)

aaaand FFG doesn't love us so it's most likely IG-B himself. Just because making us sad Mercs is what FFG likes to do.

Shield generation is 146% worse than regen rebels have.

free evade from boost requires a boost.

Sloops on crew-hurling ships? Not a single one yet.

It is pretty obvious if u just read yhe article. U gain the pilot abilities of all IG2000 in your squad.

I think this for the reason that no one is playing really other than Brobots when it comes to IG's.

So we can expect to see:

-double tapping

-shield generation

-free evade from boost

-sloops turned in to hard sloops

That is bringing so many different types of combinations for Scum that it is almost scary, but I'm excited!

Except that

Double tapping requires TEH GUN, what means you're stuck with Moralo Eval (and he wants his 4-lom+dengar+Zuckuss)

aaaand FFG doesn't love us so it's most likely IG-B himself. Just because making us sad Mercs is what FFG likes to do.

Shield generation is 146% worse than regen rebels have.

free evade from boost requires a boost.

Sloops on crew-hurling ships? Not a single one yet.

Isn't JumpMaster who has sloops? And Firespray has place for IGb ability etc..

I'm sure that they didn't wrote that just for no reason in to that article?