Just thinking about how good this is going to be for rebels. Finally an evade token for their crappy 1 and 2 agi. High PS or comms needed though.

T70s can equip comms and lock in the evade for future rounds.

Btl ywings can now get an evade, then fire with their turret.

Thinking something like

Horton + title + r3 + tlt + vector thrusters. He is ps8, can reposition, reroll blanks, cancel an eye on primary to get an evade, then continue with tlt shot.

but. Disappointed.

Expensive conversion.

Not gonna make any sky fall, not even remotely close to competitive or interesting levels.

Anything with a high enough PS to want it probably wants something else. I'd love to hear the design rationale on it because I don't get it.

The Emperor has already won, this droid was our last hope

Yeah, very, very expensive conversion. Converting a blank result might have been a better balance to strike.

As it is I can't see it getting THAT much use given the cost.

Enabling Juke/COmm on T70s is nice enough but it costs 7 freaking points to get there.

Anything with a high enough PS to want it probably wants something else. I'd love to hear the design rationale on it because I don't get it.

Seriously. "Generic X, E and Y wings could use a boost.... let's create a generic astromech that is only potentially useful on high PS pilots and the T-70! And give people two of them!"

Would have been interesting had it just added the evade action to the action bar, triggered in the activation phase somehow, or at the very least wasn't dependent on using a focus of all things. If you really want evade there are already better and more dependable ways to make that happen like Jan crew. There are admittedly some combinations of upgrade cards that make it moderately useful but they're both expensive and fiddly for the payback you get. I don't really get this card either.

It gives you an evade when you couldn't take an action (and your focus is therefore no good). That's pretty useful isn't it?

It gives you an evade when you couldn't take an action (and your focus is therefore no good). That's pretty useful isn't it?

It sometimes gives you an evade at the cost of a result you could focus I to for more damage

Sometimes it does jack ****

Depends all on what you roll

Indeed. Banking on rolling badly and not being able to modify seems like a bad plan.

It probably owuld have been an OK addition to the 1 point astros, but for 2 it just seems questionable.

It gives you an evade when you couldn't take an action (and your focus is therefore no good). That's pretty useful isn't it?

It sometimes gives you an evade at the cost of a result you could focus I to for more damage

Sometimes it does jack ****

Depends all on what you roll

Of course it depends what you roll, it is a die based games, but rolling one or more focus result is pretty common for most ships that take an astromech.

Being a die based game hasn't stopped ffg from releasing upgrades you pay pints for that don't fart out on a roll

Like all the useful astromech, for example

Hell even in the cases where a reroll does jack **** at least you still got the opportunity to reroll

R3s dice dependent nature is so unmerited given the restrictions already in place on the cars itself that it's pretty much condemned it to the same phantom zone as r5d8

It gives you an evade when you couldn't take an action (and your focus is therefore no good). That's pretty useful isn't it?

It sometimes gives you an evade at the cost of a result you could focus I to for more damage

Sometimes it does jack ****

Depends all on what you roll

Of course it depends what you roll, it is a die based games, but rolling one or more focus result is pretty common for most ships that take an astromech.

I really only see this being useful on a decoy biggs. But then you have to pay the points for decoy and the high ps pilot you want to decoy down AND the EPT slot to use decoy.

Absolutely abysmal upgrade. Seriously, we're talking Wave 1 R5K6 or D8 level trash here.

2 Points for the privilege of cancelling a die result that:

1) you have no control over getting

2) might be more useful to you anyway

And all for a crummy evade token. The Tie Defenders get an infinity better version of this for 4 less points.

Every single card FFG releases to try and give the T-65s a bump is such a catastrophic swing-and-a-miss that they've managed to smash their own face in with the bat.

I get it, this wave they had fun 'let's mess with eyeballs' mechanics going on

But I was really, really hoping this lil guy would do something a bit jousty for 1pt, which is all Rookies have been waiting for to get back in the game.

Instead we get something highly situational, high PS favoring, that... costs 2pts? C'mon, now. why?

I get it, this wave they had fun 'let's mess with eyeballs' mechanics going on

But I was really, really hoping this lil guy would do something a bit jousty for 1pt, which is all Rookies have been waiting for to get back in the game.

Instead we get something highly situational, high PS favoring, that... costs 2pts? C'mon, now. why?

that's not really it, though

see both Norra and Sabine just straight up provide the focus result for further modification

this thing needs you to roll it first, on specifically a primary weapon (no TLT to improve odds) and then cancels said result for an evade

it's ******* awful

not only is it inexcusably rng dependent, but it's also PS dependent (that evade does nothing if acquired after being shot)

Both Sabine and Norra are, thankfully, many times better designed than this junk

i can see this working as a bonus on a high ps pilot for only 2 points.....

shoots uses target lock to reroll any blank and eyes (maybe keep one eye) after the re roll is done as you don't have a focus the eyes are useless any way and now you can use it to get a free evade

which poor bastard would you burden with this that you wouldn't give another astromech?

hell, given how horribly situational and rng dependent it is, I'm not convinced saving the 2 points wouldn't just be the better course of action

They're trolling us at this point. That's the only explanation, trolling I says!

FFG: introduces a failsafe for bad rolls and having no actions, two situations that occur with regularity in any game

The forum: this droid is FFG rubbing their taint on my face and asking me to pay for it

FFG: introduces a failsafe for bad rolls and having no actions, two situations that occur with regularity in any game

The forum: this droid is FFG rubbing their taint on my face and asking me to pay for it

Ohhhhhh good call

FFG: introduces a failsafe for bad rolls and having no actions, two situations that occur with regularity in any game

The forum: this droid is FFG rubbing their taint on my face and asking me to pay for it

FFG: Introduces a card with a high cost and mediocre ability

This Forum: This card has a high cost and mediocre ability

Circlejerk: DAE Forum complainers?!!!11

a failsafe for bad rolls and having no actions that can just flub out on bad rolls, eh?

or do jack **** when faced with a greater pilot skill

A+ design there

a failsafe for bad rolls and having no actions that can just flub out on bad rolls, eh?

or do jack **** when faced with a greater pilot skill

A+ design there

I'm still not clear - do you like R3 or don't you?