25 minutes ago, Punning Pundit said:

Except that, by and large, you should not be equipping more than one Torpedo or Missile to your ship.

Also depends on what it is you are loading up. Seismic Charges are pretty cheap and EM makes it only 1 pt each. Flechette Torps are also only 1 pt each if you go that way.

Even then, I've had plenty of Tie Bombers run out of Homing Missiles (I usually use 2) and survive to end of game. I think going with just one is pretty lame. Getting 2 is usually worth it more often than not.

I am of the firm believe that Torpedoes should have been with two shots for the price. Extra Munitions has demonstrated this capability. Therefore I would support future copies of all the munitions that come with an extra munitions token but NOT combined with extra munitions for two points more. For example, an A-Wing can equip a 5 point Double Proton Rocket which adds an extra munitions token.

As for Ion Torpedoes, I use them for EPIC but I do believe for the damage output they are priced a little high. Compared to Assault Missile and Homing Missile, they just don't do the damage and the odds of having splash damage on a 100pt dogfight is minimal. Either increase them to do 2 ion splash damage or reduce by 1 point.

Slightly off topic, but I'm thinking this may be the best place to price-check a card for the [CCL] contest.

Just as inacurate as Flechette Torpedo, but has to actually hit to have any effect. If it hits a Deci or Ghost, though, it can be extremely powerful.

5 hours ago, Rakaydos said:

Slightly off topic, but I'm thinking this may be the best place to price-check a card for the [CCL] contest.

No, it really isn't. Please use your own CCL threads for CCL things.

Ion torpedoes:

1: Sacrificing the target lock makes the attack miss small ships too often to be worth it.

2: Just 1 ion token has no effect on those ships you actually can hit.

3: Against good player's the times you can actually benefit from the Ion AoE usually comes at the same time you would be Ioning your own ships.

Proton torpedoes:

1: Because you get the free Focus mod it devalues the one modification token you might actually have on you when you finally line up a perfect shot. No re-roll's make this a Dead-on-arrival card and it has been so since day 1 of X-wing.

2: If that is not enough proof try counting out on your fingers how many times you've seen a Proton torp fired by anything but a Jumpmaster.

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