It's essentially the Imperial T-70 X-Wing

We still have no idea about that new Tech upgrade, and I'm wiling to bet it will be very good on the TIE/sf. Currently, none of the tech upgrades are any good on them. Fortunately, it looks like this tech helps where the TIE/sf needs it: defense. The first line seems to say "When def..."

It looks like it's called Sensor Clusters, and its' something like "when defending" something something "spend" something something "results" something something. My money's on a defensive version of weapons guidance - spend a focus to turn a [blank] to an [evade].

Also, Quick Draw may just be capable of some ridiculous john woo shenanigans. The following will take some nasty flying to pull off, but with Push The Limit and Electronic Baffle theoretically can lead to Quickdraw unloading four 3-dice attacks (they're all primary weapons, remember) in return for one shield lost. Queue the doves. Bonus points if you barrel roll sideways into this position!

Hah, I posted that picture on Facebook the other day and got a lot of good responses. Like, it will be an kncrediorare occurrence but the one or two times it might happen will be glorious.

I'm very very interested in the new systems card no-one seems to be talking about much. Looks like its called "Collision detector" or similar. Will maybe let you barrel roll or boost onto an asteroid and gain something if you roll no damage?

I've seen my own picture pop up on facebook and here! I'm so proud As many have pointed out, that's what you do to every large ship *unless* you're against a ghost with autoblaster & phantom :/

4 ABT hits - no thanks, even for the amazing amount of attacks you can make

No, you are not, not by a longshot.

At the very least it should have its **** evade action. I can understand not giving imps yet another 3agi ship but wtf...this guy is going to die faster than the defender, which already dies pretty quick once the dice gods decide to say no to your prayers.

I think the fact that this ship is fairly squishy is a point in favour of this trick being intentional. I don't think you'd want something as powerful as an activation-phase attack on an overly-resilient spaceframe.

Yeah thats technically possible but i dont see how youre going to fly like that.

Look at the position. Hes 1/2 forward, howd he get there? There is no way to intentionally offset yourself by 1/2 a base to get that way.

If someone somehow manages to pull that off seriously hats off to them but i doubt we'll ever, ever see that work.

Now against a Huge ship thats going to happen very **** easily. Be hitting both fore and aft but its still 8 dice on a 0agi ship if quickdraw's ability goes off. Though less effective if Reinforce is around.

Nevermind then. I guess I should do a better job of actually reading the card. Clearly they thought of this. Still an impressive ship.

most impressive*

the one attack per round limit isn't a bad deal at all, as it just simplifies things a bit

baffle rage isn't much for the long term, but hopefully he'll make 31 points back with that damage potential. A lot of it will depend on having an FO dial, though (but, as poe said, "this thing can really move!")

"Double the Fun"

Quickdraw, PTL, Baffles = 33

Rexler Brath, Ion Cannon, TIE/D, Predator = 43

Zeta Leader, Wired, Comm Relay = 24

100 points

This list, with a PS7 minimum, drops 5 3-dice attacks on someone the first turn, has control, and has a ship dangerous to both PS8 and PS9 aces. Lots of ways to adjust points, you could drop to Maarek or Vessery to free up points for a tech on Quickdraw, or to upgrade Zeta to Omega Leader (although I think Quickdraw fills the anti-ace roll pretty well). I kind of like the Quickdraw/Brath combo, though, as Quickdraw can drop two attacks into a likely target to drop shields/tokens before Rex starts dealing damage and potentially flipping crits.

Yeah thats technically possible but i dont see how youre going to fly like that.

Look at the position. Hes 1/2 forward, howd he get there? There is no way to intentionally offset yourself by 1/2 a base to get that way.

If someone somehow manages to pull that off seriously hats off to them but i doubt we'll ever, ever see that work..

Edit: with baffle and opportunist you could turn this into, potentially, 4 four dice attacks! At the cost of 4 shield and hull...