Howdy folks,

so I got my hands on Eons and finally got to tinker a bit with some ideas for upgrades and new pilots.

So here are a couple of upgrades and pilots I think might be useful for scum:

Jabba The Hutt

My take on the Jabba. A nice fix for Scyk's and Y-Wings in scum as well as giving nice options for ships that already have an illicit.

Now let's hear it for the StarVipers

First on the line, the Black Sun Ace of Aces

Talonbane Cobra

I didn't want to change his ability as I think it's already really good.

Aaand some upgrades that could fix the StarViper

Advanced Autothrusters

Keeping the same point cost as normal autothrusters is one way of 'decreasing' the total cost of SV which are famously overpriced

Lightweight Alloys

SV version of Chardaan Refit. Could be a nice addon to the generics.

Engine Override

I think a card like this could fix one of the main problems with SV and Scyk: the horrible stress clearing. Basically an Unhinged Astromech for speed 2.

C&C guys, I will post some other upgrades I have in mind later on, let me hear what you think about those

Decreasing the Hull value would be brutal methinks

I'm not a fan of jabba being like the emporor. I am a fan of him adding illicit upgrade icons.

I'm happy with your starviper fixes, not thrilled with slaping adv on autothrusters maybe make it a title?

The super combo of green 2s, free evade token, and evade action makes them amazing for a net -1 cost. Probably to strong of a buff...but defenders got a super buff too.

These look pretty interesting. I'd probably drop the cost more on lightweight alloy, and advanced autothrusters seems too close to autothrusters in name and function for my taste.

Are you planning to submit these for th custom card league?

Yeah, a straight -2 points + adding Evade would barely make the generic StarVipers worth taking. Add in the loss of hull and just noooooooooope.

Love Advanced AT and the idea of TBC riding a StarViper though.

A -2 to modifications would do the Star Viper well as well as a cool title gimmick to reward bumping. All I want is a 25 pt autothruster Enforcer

Your wording for Jabba doesn't work, by the by. 'You' and 'your' on card always refer to the ship equipping the card, not the player. You'd have to put 'friendly ships gain an illicit slot' for him to do what you want.

And yeah, being the anti-emperor is just lame, he's a crime lord not a force user. Something on theme would be grand, I've see a number of suggestions for him giving some sort of bounty to specific ships, making them easier to hit for your whole list, but I like the idea of him giving out stress to your whole list in order for it to hit harder.

Something like 'Friendly ships may spend a stress token to reroll any number of attack dice. When you execute a white manoeuvre, each friendly ship gainst stress tokens until it has one stress token. When you execute a red manoeuvre each friendly ship gainst stress tokens until it has two stress tokens.'

And the illicit thing.

I've been playing Jabba as

"When attacking or defending, you may cancel one Hit or Evade result."

8 points.

I love adding the Illicit upgrade!!!

These look pretty interesting. I'd probably drop the cost more on lightweight alloy, and advanced autothrusters seems too close to autothrusters in name and function for my taste.

Thought about, and came up with this instead:

Retrothrusters

This allows you to get Autothrusters as a second modification, but also limits the cost, so you don't end up with 2 evades from cloaking and SPA.

Aaaaand this

Lightweight alloys 2.0

Are you planning to submit these for th custom card league?

Yeah, could be a good idea I'm gonna post the entire combo in the topic

Stygium only costs two points

I'd like to see Retrothrusters give the Viper a white full stop and a red 1 backwards.

i.e. when you reveal a 1-speed manoeuvre, you can instead execute a white stop or a red 1 back straight'.

It would need a rules card for backwards manoeuvres though.

If any ship looks like it should be able to fly backwards for me, its the StarViper.

Stygium only costs two points

Sh** I thought it's 3... still it might be actually a good idea

I'd like to see Retrothrusters give the Viper a white full stop and a red 1 backwards.

Now that's a sweet idea, would make up for some really cool playstyle

I love both the new "Light Weight Alloy" and the Retrothrusters. Yes yes yes!

I think Jabba should make his underlings nervous. Like they're under a lot of pressure to do well.

Jabba

Crew Crew

8 Points

When a friendly ship is attacking, it may reroll one attack die. When a friendly ship performs an attack that does not hit, it receives one stress token.

Or something along those lines. Something that would give a buff to everyone, but if they screw up they feel bad about it because they're afraid of disappointing their boss.

"When a friendly ship destroys an enemy ship, it removes all stress tokens assigned to it and it is assigned a focus and an evade token. Until the end of the game it may retain one focus and one evade token at the end of the round."

Kill things, get paid for it.

E: and I think your Lightweight Alloys work in the original way, but adding +1PS would help Xizor and Guri a lot.

You'd have to lower Talonbane's by 1 to compensate though.

The other great thing to do would be to allow the StarViper to take a single action at the start of combat in exchange for a stress token.

Making Guri able to actually arcdodge would be amazing.

Engine Override would make starvipers overpowered by giving them the shenanigans of TIE Interceptors, but with better survivability.

EDIT: This assumes EO would be combined with PTL, allowing both boosting and barrel rolling out of arcs.

I would think Jabba would do well with something in the vein of Xizor. His ship gets a benefit while friendlies suffer. Something along the lines of the stress suggestion that has been mentioned would be good.

Engine override is probably too much, but i definitely like that "advanced autothrusters "