Dammit, this thread makes me want to break out my T-65s again, but I just got new toys to play with (Dash, Inq, Imp Vets)

arrrrghhh

I never put mine aside! I use it all the time!

It ? Singular?

Yeah i know. I played armada before xwing and that was one complaint i had is theres no way to actually protect a ship except either Biggs or a MUCH deadlier ship to draw attention.

Quite a few ships that you simply dont want to target, but theyre usually not insanely strong either.

i would run Howlie with a couple TIE Adv quite often. She took quite a while to go down and did a lot of damage in return. Sadly in Xwing there isnt even a pseudo-escort available. Though if i bring something insane such as Vess/xD im sure Howlie wouldnt be shot at rofl (also would be redundant anyway)

I thought that too and was fairly disappointed. But it is really a matter of scale. But the time you are playing in X-Wing single map range you're right on top of whatever ships you wanted to escort/protect. But if you zoomed out and stayed X-Wing scale the escort fighters would really encounter the bombers, or whatever, several maps before.

The bombers would have a choice, unlike Armada, to either engage the escort or get obliterated from behind as keep on toward their intended target. That is why Armada has that option to hold up fighters and/or bombers that are engaged by escorts but X-Wing doesn't, scale or more to the point timing.

So other than having escort fights on empty maps and survivors pursuing the targets I'd love to see some extra rules, or mission rules to protect what you're escorting. How about a Biggs ability/token that is transferable once he dies, with a one turn delay maybe?

Yeah i know. I played armada before xwing and that was one complaint i had is theres no way to actually protect a ship except either Biggs or a MUCH deadlier ship to draw attention.

Quite a few ships that you simply dont want to target, but theyre usually not insanely strong either.

i would run Howlie with a couple TIE Adv quite often. She took quite a while to go down and did a lot of damage in return. Sadly in Xwing there isnt even a pseudo-escort available. Though if i bring something insane such as Vess/xD im sure Howlie wouldnt be shot at rofl (also would be redundant anyway)

Well, lack of dumb "tanking" is good, actually. As a player coming from 40k I HATE he way a single face can take all the heat, and it's (SURPRISE!) 2+3++ with ton of wounds re-rolls and FnP

soooo

Yeah.

Tanking isn't always good.

Dammit, this thread makes me want to break out my T-65s again, but I just got new toys to play with (Dash, Inq, Imp Vets)

arrrrghhh

I never put mine aside! I use it all the time!

It ? Singular?

Yeah, I only have the one from the old core. What!? I'm broke, cut me some slack! Planning on getting more though!

Single ship expansions make for excellent presents, they are rather inexpensive, gorgeous and recognizable to look at so even non-players will see the attraction.

Larger ships and Epics are nice for people to pool their resources together and give for instance.

Dammit, this thread makes me want to break out my T-65s again, but I just got new toys to play with (Dash, Inq, Imp Vets)

arrrrghhh

I never put mine aside! I use it all the time!

It ? Singular?

Yeah, I only have the one from the old core. What!? I'm broke, cut me some slack! Planning on getting more though!

Single ship expansions make for excellent presents, they are rather inexpensive, gorgeous and recognizable to look at so even non-players will see the attraction.

Larger ships and Epics are nice for people to pool their resources together and give for instance.