After giving it some thought is having Poe Dameron with R2-F2, Push The Limit, and Stealth Device (40) to pricy, crazy. What say you peoples?

Greens fail eventually. I mean it could work, but there have been times where nothing but blanks has been a thing.

Too expensive, too ineffective.

What you're trying is reasonable on first glance - he's like Soontir Fel, right? He has bonus green modifications and 4 dice! - but the issue you run into is that Soontir can stack up three tokens in a single turn, and generally runs around with at least 1 (even if he double-repositioned).

Your Poe needs a Focus and an R2-F2 action, and if he spends the Focus he loses his extra modification. So fundamentally, he's 4 AGI, with only 1 token at best - and while when Soontir does that he's done a bunch of crazy stuff in one turn, this is Poe sitting still and 'turtled up'. And on top of that, he lacks Autothrusters - that Interceptor title is a big deal for stacking SD & AT simultaneously, where they piggyback off one another.

This is emphasised especially when the same price can net him a regeneration droid, which then asks the question - would you rather have +1 agility every round, or +1 hit point, which is like a retroactive evade you can save? Unless you know for a fact your opponent will be relying on lots of 2-attack unmodified shots or something... I'd rather the hitpoint and action.

Give him Comms relay, Jan Ors crew somewhere, and throw on autothrusters.

EDIT: Right, SD means no AT.

Autothrusters instead of Stealth Device, and you might be on to something. His current weakness is that he only ever blocks 2 damage. R2F2 gives him more chances at getting 3 dodges.

This is important because R2D2 Poe is going to be an easy mark for Ion Cannon TIE/Ds.

The R2-F2 question: When is getting extra agility worth more than a defensive action?

Now, the problem is compounded by the number of dice your opponents are throwing. After you've reached parity between mitigation and damage, you experience diminishing returns.

So: R2-F2 is more relevant with Stealth Device and/or Autothrusters, particularly against TLTs.

Is this truly better than R2-D2 or R5-P9, though?

Never rely on green dice.

Comm Relay is always worth it if you have room for Jan Ors crew in your list

R2-F2 can work with PTL but Stealth Device is a big no no... thrusters all day everyday.

Stealth Device and R2-F2 help against Omega Leader.

Autothrusters and Comms Relay do not.

Integrated Astromech is the upgrade to consider.

Autothrusters instead of Stealth Device, and you might be on to something. His current weakness is that he only ever blocks 2 damage. R2F2 gives him more chances at getting 3 dodges.

This is important because R2D2 Poe is going to be an easy mark for Ion Cannon TIE/Ds.

By your suggestion, not only Poe will be easy target, but a lot of ships will be easy targets for it.

poe's ability also only works on one focus

Soont's affects all da focus!

also, upping your agility (easily the ficklest; least reliable defense in the game) doesn't actually make you less prey to Tie/Ds; it just makes you waste points on junk upgrades such as r2-f2 and stealth

Autothrusters instead of Stealth Device, and you might be on to something. His current weakness is that he only ever blocks 2 damage. R2F2 gives him more chances at getting 3 dodges.

This is important because R2D2 Poe is going to be an easy mark for Ion Cannon TIE/Ds.

I just finished a game tonight where I was flying Poe. My opponent had a Bwing firing an Ion Cannon through an asteroid at range 3. He rolls 3 hits. I roll my three green dice. Evade, Focus, Blank. Poe ability changes focus to Evade, and AT changes blank to Evade. Three dodges, no ion. I love love love AT. Luckily it went through the asteroid or I wouldnt have gotten that third die and Poe would be S.O.L. R5-P9 is awesome with Poe, but yeah, at least having that chance to dodge ion cannons and whatnot is a big plus with R2F2. I may throw it in next time and try it out. But AT is a must!!!

poe's ability also only works on one focus

Soont's affects all da focus!

also, upping your agility (easily the ficklest; least reliable defense in the game) doesn't actually make you less prey to Tie/Ds; it just makes you waste points on junk upgrades such as r2-f2 and stealth

Wow, you actually, really don't like green dice.

Stealth Device and R2-F2 help against Omega Leader.

Autothrusters and Comms Relay do not.

Integrated Astromech is the upgrade to consider.

Not as much as you might think; 4 green dice roll an average of somewhere between 1 and 2 evades, OL rolls an average of 1 hit and Jukes 1 evade. it's quite likely that he sneaks a hit through even against 4 agility.

Want to keep Poe alive?

Bring Biggs.

Autothrusters instead of Stealth Device, and you might be on to something. His current weakness is that he only ever blocks 2 damage. R2F2 gives him more chances at getting 3 dodges.

This is important because R2D2 Poe is going to be an easy mark for Ion Cannon TIE/Ds.

By your suggestion, not only Poe will be easy target, but a lot of ships will be easy targets for it.

They will, but Poe is very common, and isn't cheap.

The R2-F2 question: When is getting extra agility worth more than a defensive action?

But the short answer to this is - when you're getting attacked multiple times and OR have additional actions to stack ontop of it - Poe's ability counts for the "focus action" ontop of the defensive action - alot like R2F2 was decent on luke - Lonewolf R2F2 Stealth Skywalker was a pain to take down - but lost too much on his offense.

Poe's ability means if you R2F2 and focus - you're modding attack and defense - the real trick though - is you give up regeneration, which means you reduce the incoming damage, but the damage that still gets through - you can't deal with. So R2-D2 and R5-P9 are probably stronger buys - since you'll take slightly more damage, but you can negate it afterwards.

Every time I roll enough green dice evades to cancel out an attack, I consider it a bonus. Especially If I am playing Rebel. I wouldn't even put R2F2 on Biggs any more.

Have we learned nothing from Han Solo? The best Defense in X-wing is a good Offense. Dead ships can't roll red dice.

Have we learned nothing from Han Solo? The best Defense in X-wing is a good Offense. Dead ships can't roll red dice.

Simultaneous. Fire. Greedo clearly drew a Blinded Pilot crit or Han would have been toast.

Have we learned nothing from Han Solo? The best Defense in X-wing is a good Offense. Dead ships can't roll red dice.

Exactly the way to win is hit first hit hardest and never give the other guy time to recover.