So this post is going to have a lot of conjecture and assumption, based on what can be seen from the forces of the resistance expansion pack picture. I'm specifically interested in one card, and it's implications for one pilot. On the left of the front row is an Illicit upgrade card. The title is mostly covered, so I'm going to call it Burning Skies (you can see Bur and S in the title). From what can be seen on the card, it looks like it adds the SLAM action to your action bar. I immediately thought of one pilot: Emon Azzameen in the Andrasta Firespray. I would imagine that this is going to be something we see, at least somewhere, when this comes out. Because of Emon's ability to drop bombs in a ton of different locations, plus now the ability to SLAM to get a better position (and Advanced SLAM would give the free bomb action after), plus being in a large base ship to do so, I think this could be big. Turn two in a jousting situation could have Emon behind your ships doing a bomb straight on top of them. Cluster Mines especially would hurt a formation and next turn he can use his ability to drop a Proton bomb on top of you again if you can't clear the way fast enough. Oh, and he has a rear arc and primary weapon value of 3, just to add some more fun to the whole shtick.

Again, I know I might be reading too much into things, but let's just say I'm right for now, how would you guys set him up?

I think after zooming in on the card snip it says "Burst of Speed"

And i'll agree with you that it adds the SLAM action to your action bar which with Advanced Slam in your mod slot makes for a very dangerous Emon and will also open up the shenanigans on the other large base ships. And heres the build i would use , plus whatever the cost of the upgrade.

And you guys realize this is going to make dash all the more annoying, albeit at the cost of the EU, but if you can avoid a shot with EU you can avoid it even better with SLAM

Heres my build that enemy aces would not like to be on the receiving end.

Unfortunately, based on the second line of text on the SLAM it looks like the upgrade might be a one-shot ("after you [perform a SLAM] action, d[iscard this card]"). But using it on Emon is still a brilliant idea - it only takes one connor net to really mess up an ace's day, and a followup proton bomb should be lethal. I might go with K4 or Dengar rather than navigator though - he's flexible enough dropping bombs as is, and since two of his bombs take an action he'll appreciate the free mods when shooting.

I'd be inclined to go EM>Conner rather than Andrasta title. I wouldn't expect to be in a good position to use more than two bombs, and it's VERY expensive to equip two conner net cards.

Yeah, but I like the flexibility of different bombs. I think I'd run Conner, Thermal, and Clusters. Normally I'd say you are right about not dropping as many in a game, but with his flexibility in where he drops them, combined with the new upgrade we are seeing, I think he could use all three most games.