Crew Card Ideas: Kylo Ren

By TheBard, in X-Wing

BAH! His standout power was stopping a blaster bolt mid-air! NO ONE ever did that in the movies before him!

That (maybe?) wasn't a blaster pulse, I'm guessing that was something like a miniaturised proton torpedo ie a physical bullet or maybe some other kind of dense projectile. They went to the trouble of making it blue and crackly and special. Finn's buddy was killed by one, which is why he bled PG-13 instead of the wound just being cauterised, All Ages style. Although apparently the weapon is an EL-16 HFE blaster rifle. Begs the question of why he didn't halt Chewie's bowcaster shot with it either.

He was distracted and not completely on his game at the time.

Since he can stop a blaster bolt.

Kylo Ren - 5pts

"All enemy ships at range 1 roll 1 less attack die."

OR

Since he can also force torture knowledge from people and cry when they escape.

Kylo Ren - 4pts

"At the beginning of activation phase, choose 1 enemy ship at range 1-2, you may look at that ships dial, then you may change your dial. Skip your "Perform Action" step this round."

Kind of like an intelligent agent and stay on target combined.

Since he seems to have the whole, "Powered by pain' thing, I think it would be cool to have something in the theme of "When your ship is dealt one or more damage in a round, roll one additional die for each roll for the remainder of the round." I'd think somewhere in the 2 point range as an Imperial. It could get ugly if he had access to rebel regen, but as an Imperial, I like it.

It's a shame they already gave vader crew his ability, cause it works be perfect for kylo ren

Yup, and I rather think the Emperor's ability would have worked pretty well for Vader (always force-doing things from a distance, which we never really saw the Emperor do).

The Emperor's ability, then, should probably have borrowed the 'Battle Meditation' from the Zahn books. And given the current meta, one that boost generics. Something like:

"Add an [Elite Talent] to the upgrade bar of all friendly pilots that do not have one." Same cost and crew slot usage for that. EDIT: Or maybe that's too much, given 'A-Wing Test Pilot' adds an EPT for 0 cost (although this is generally considered a rebalancing pass...of course, rebalancing IS actually needed on the generics, so maybe that's okay) and R2-D6 adds an EPT for 1 cost. If you are bringing a Palp shuttle along, how many other ships can you even take? 5, maybe? And they'd have no points to spend on the EPT slot that was added...so maybe bump his cost down to '4' for that, instead of '8'... and just rename his card as-is to Darth Vader, with the current Darth Vader card becoming Kylo Ren?

Edited by xanderf

Once per game, after you lose a quarter of your list, immediately suffer two damage

"Everytime the ship equipped with this upgrade misses an attack, it immediately suffers 1 damage.

Costs: -4 points"

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Edited by RougeLeader

"Your opponent has to tell you his plans whenever you ask, If he lies to You, You may throw a tantrum"

6 points

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none of these are serious, so I thought I would join in.

"Everytime the ship equipped with this upgrade misses an attack, it immediately suffers 1 damage.

Costs: -4 points"

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Hilarious....!

Couldn't help myself.

As a more serious effect inspired by tantrums, how about something like:

After you perform an attack, if you are Stressed, you may change one hit into a crit.

Couldn't help myself.

Oh man I LOVE HISHE!

Once per round when any dice roll does not go your way, you may force one dice to be re-rolled. Your ship suffers one damage from your tantrum.

... Actually this could just about be spot on. Rerolls or pick the value, I wonder? For one damage, it could preserve a stealth device... or act like a Vader-shot that actually needed to hit.

Whenever you deal an attack that hits, you may spend one stress token to add one crit result to your roll.

It's kind of thematic, how he punches his bow caster wound and gets amped up, and how he takes out his stress and anger on things by wrecking consoles, and it seems like a descendant of the Vader crew card, which is cool. You could run both and just stomp something.

Yorr, PtL on a Decimator, K-Turn a Phantom and hit with the attack and then ditch the stress and ACD cloak. Incentivizes some alt builds of certain ships, and you don't see Yorr a lot. You could also intentionally run through debris to trigger him.

Edited by ParaGoomba Slayer

Kylo Ren

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If Han Solo or a ship with the Han Solo upgrade card is at Range 1, at the start of Combat, you may destroy that ship or remove the upgrade card.

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Edited by Lampyridae

"Your opponent has to tell you his plans whenever you ask, If he lies to You, You may throw a tantrum"

6 points

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none of these are serious, so I thought I would join in.

but doesn't work against female pilots :P

Well, jedi usually do stuff with focus, and stress.

Maybe making him a reverse luke/ezra - putting stress on attackers if you roll any focus results whilst defending?

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"Sir, that's not quite what 'hack the computer system' means...."

"After you preform an attack that doesn't hit you may discard an upgrade card from this ship to deal one face up damage card and stress to the defender"

Cripple yourself to hurt your enemies.

Did Han teach him the blaster bolt trick?

Once per round, You may search through your damage deck to take a damaged console Crit card, and in exchange, all friendly ships on the board gain 2 focus tokens and a stress.

"Console Fire" or "Damaged Sensor Array"?

Rule should include 'reshuffle the deck".