A random thought with the new TIE shuttle title cards turning up:

• Gamma Squadron Pilot, TIE Shuttle, Tactician x 5

A variation on the old B-wing "Panic Attack" squad - losing a couple of attack dice at medium-long range in return for more attacks, more damage in a scrum, and more stress-dealing opportunities and a couple of hit points in return for better agility. It also bumps them to PS4, which gives a slight edge over most generics.

Alternatively, you can drop to standard scimitars and have a different set of upgrades to further improve them:

• Scimitar Squadron Pilot, TIE Shuttle, Tactician, Systems Officer x 5

Only PS2 this time, but comes with a sort-of-howlrunner effect as green moves by the swarm hand out target locks to one another.

You can play quite a few tunes with this by moving one or two bombers to other 'roles' with the 4-point crew upgrades. Mara Jade + Intelligence Agent, for example, makes for a very annoying blocker, whilst Darth Vader gives you at least one auto-critical ability for hunting aces.

I highly doubt this could be competitive, but it could be super fun. It might be nice to payback those rebel scum who ran stress b-wings!

A random thought with the new TIE shuttle title cards turning up:

• Gamma Squadron Pilot, TIE Shuttle, Tactician x 5

I think the lack of firepower makes spamming this particular shuttle not the best idea.

However, if you were to take two of those guys in a list, that would leave you 60 points. You can get a lot of interesting stuff for 60 points.

For example: 4 black squadron TIEs with crackshot. That gives you 6 ships and a nice mix of control + burst damage.

A random thought with the new TIE shuttle title cards turning up:

• Gamma Squadron Pilot, TIE Shuttle, Tactician x 5

A variation on the old B-wing "Panic Attack" squad - losing a couple of attack dice at medium-long range in return for more attacks, more damage in a scrum, and more stress-dealing opportunities and a couple of hit points in return for better agility. It also bumps them to PS4, which gives a slight edge over most generics.

Alternatively, you can drop to standard scimitars and have a different set of upgrades to further improve them:

• Scimitar Squadron Pilot, TIE Shuttle, Tactician, Systems Officer x 5

Only PS2 this time, but comes with a sort-of-howlrunner effect as green moves by the swarm hand out target locks to one another.

You can play quite a few tunes with this by moving one or two bombers to other 'roles' with the 4-point crew upgrades. Mara Jade + Intelligence Agent, for example, makes for a very annoying blocker, whilst Darth Vader gives you at least one auto-critical ability for hunting aces.

Systems Officer is unique. Only one per army.

5 Scimitars with Shuttle, Tactician, and Saboteur. Nasty if anyone has a damage card assigned to them.. Or throw Mercenary Copilot on each of them instead of Saboteur..

You know, I wasn't all that pumped about the shuttle title, but now I kind of am..

Systems Officer is limited. Only one per ship.

Fixed that for you.

Systems Officer is limited. Only one per ship.

Fixed that for you.

Haha thanx! I guess I still have to learn to think outside of the 40k box...