I feel that all 3 are weak to TRC90 spam

I destroyed a MC80 with Advanced Projectors with a combination of attacks from a CR90 and 2 MC30's. The fact that I could push 8-10 damage the turn prior to soften it up with my TRC's helped a lot. It also mitigated his redirects becuase they were in small bursts

The switch at the beginning of wave 2 had nothing to do with x-I7s or the ruling.

Speak for yourself. My switch had everything to do with my 6-point defense being completely invalidated by a 6-point offense.

The switch at the beginning of wave 2 had nothing to do with x-I7s or the ruling. It was because in wave 1, you had to survive shots from glads and assault frigs that had high damage, but basically no accuracy results. In wave 2, Mid range attacks from mc80s and isds meant an accuracy to turn off your brace AND high damage. Thus the change. If people are starting to go back to projectors, then theoretically it means that they fear the large base ships less than they did a few months ago (perhaps based on their local meta etc. now that wave 2 is old news).

i think this is a very interesting perspective... i think people told themselves they took out AP because of XI7, but subconsciously were including ecm to protect brace... now we have a meta shift once again away from fewer big attacks, to many smaller attacks, and AP is looking pretty good again... i dont personally own the card, but have been experimenting online with it and am thinking of including it for regionals on my motti ISD as gladiator insurance because lets face it, you are going to have to go through a reiken swarm or clonisher to get 1st place, and i think AP is potentially good against those lists

I feel that all 3 are weak to TRC90 spam

I destroyed a MC80 with Advanced Projectors with a combination of attacks from a CR90 and 2 MC30's. The fact that I could push 8-10 damage the turn prior to soften it up with my TRC's helped a lot. It also mitigated his redirects becuase they were in small bursts

that's because EVERYTHING is weak to trc90 spam, they are pretty much broken

Kidding aside. They are consistent damage. While not broken and there are tricks one can use (my DtO uses Intel Officer) to mitigate their ability to TRC.

I feel that all 3 are weak to TRC90 spam

I destroyed a MC80 with Advanced Projectors with a combination of attacks from a CR90 and 2 MC30's. The fact that I could push 8-10 damage the turn prior to soften it up with my TRC's helped a lot. It also mitigated his redirects becuase they were in small bursts

that's because EVERYTHING is weak to trc90 spam, they are pretty much broken

After a game last night I can say that AP w/ ECM on Defiance can tank two TRC90s pretty comfortably but a bit has to do with the fact that the Ackbar Defiance is one of the few ships that can consistently one shot a TRC90 at long range (6 reds + 2 blues w/leading shots). Generally means you don't have to take shots for multiple turns consecutively. More play testing is required of course and I got to get more games against Demolisher.