Kylo Ren Dead on Arrival?

By Animewarsdude, in X-Wing

In reference to his ability alone, his ship ability give his condition to the ship that attacks him first during the round, while his crew ability costs 3 and costs you an action to give his condition to another ship. And his condition is just allowing you to look through the Critical effect deck and pick on of the following:

-Reduce PS to 0

-Deal 1 damage if the ship bumps another ship or an obstacle (flip)

-Cannot attack this round (flip)

-Cannot perform a straight maneuver (flip)

And he only deals this crit when he gets a critical result, which means you could use his condition and potentially never really get it to trigger. In my mind it seems the base damage output of the ship and the other critical effects in the deck would be far more attractive than one of the above.

So what is everyone else's thought on Kylo Ren?

He looks rather pathetic and useless … just like in the movie. Nice one FFG, you got the spirit of the character.

Fun with vader

I think [Condition(s)] must start slowly and not break the game... Stronger ones can come out later.

Without seeing most of the upgrades I like the crew more than the ship.

Put that crew on a doom shuttle and you have the stuff of Fel's nightmares.

You can guarantee a blinded pilot or ps 0 and he's useless?

The **** world is this? I want out!

I just love that he isn't as good of a pilot as Rey.

19 points for Kylo in a Tie Shuttle, interesting bit of filler with Rexler

The wave isn't even printed and sky is falling. Someone pass the popcorn.

I just love that he isn't as good of a pilot as Rey.

Maybe he needs a teacher :P ?

What, you're not going to put Kylo Ren on Rear Admiral Chiraneau?

You can guarantee a blinded pilot or ps 0 and he's useless?

The **** world is this? I want out!

That's the thing. You can not guarantee it. Well, except maybe if you combine Vader, Ren and a Decimator. Hmm, ok. maybe not completely useless.

Kylo + Vader for DOOMShuttle.

Action: Kylo. Attack. Miss or not who cares, Vader for crit hit which "deals the card instead of suffer a crit" which completely bypasses shields.

Limited as to what goes through but you can slap PS0 onto Dengar pretty easily which im sure would really tick a few scums off lol

I'm going to try this for fun.

Kylo Ren 34

Comms Relay 3

Sensor Cluster 2

Juke 2

Reinforced Deflectors 3

Recon Specialist 3

Ysanne Isard 4

51 points.

Action: Kylo. Attack. Miss or not who cares, Vader for crit hit which "deals the card instead of suffer a crit" which completely bypasses shields.

Nope, the crit doesn't bypass shields.

edit - stand corrected!

Edited by Mu0n

Action: Kylo. Attack. Miss or not who cares, Vader for crit hit which "deals the card instead of suffer a crit" which completely bypasses shields.

Nope, the crit doesn't bypass shields.

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Note the 2nd paragraph. "When you suffer critical damage during an attack, you are instead dealt the chosen faceup damage card"

Yes, vader doesnt go through shields. Except hes still causing you to "suffer a critical hit", which triggers this condition to deal the card instead. Dealing cards goes through shields.

still dont think hes worth 3pts though. Would it kill FFG to give imperials even 1 cheap crew thats actually good?

I'll go ahead and update my x wing release bingo sheet, thanks!

Honestly, most important thing about Ren?

Ept

Your expert handling shuttle dreams from WAVE 3 gave finally been answered!!!

Honestly, most important thing about Ren?

Ept

Your expert handling shuttle dreams from WAVE 3 gave finally been answered!!!

Truth.

I love the reaction i get outta expert handling decimators. This thing looks even more like it SHOULDNT BE DOING THAT but i'll do it anyway :D

Also, "I'll Show You the Dark Side". Doesn't say that Kylo has to be the one to assign the damage.

Grandfather and Grandson (ship or crew) team up.

I said it months ago when people were pushing for a Heroes/Villains of the New Order expansion with the Upsilon shuttle and a Kylo Ren crew card.

And I'll say it now....FFg should havewaited til episode 8 came out before making his crew card, to get a better idea of what he might be able to do in ship combat.

This crew card is somewhat proof I was right.

Wouldn't wampa be great with kylo ability since you don't need to be the ship that uses kylo to make the crit?

Also sad that kylo doesn't flip over a system upgrade to do something

Edited by Oberron

That condition is really spectacular. The critical damage doesn't have to come from the ship that inflicted the condition. Kylo being PS 6 works well with his ability. A higher PS ship that he is about to shoot will end up with the condition if they attack him. That 0 point EPT that changes an eyeball into a crit against your chosen target might work well for him.

Wouldn't wampa be great with kylo ability since you don't need to be the ship that uses kylo to make the crit?

Also sad that kylo doesn't flip over a system upgrade to do something

Not really. Wampa doesn't do critical damage. You'd be better of with Winged Gundark.

EDIT: I never thought I would ever read, let alone type that last sentence.

Edited by WWHSD

Wouldn't wampa be great with kylo ability since you don't need to be the ship that uses kylo to make the crit?

Also sad that kylo doesn't flip over a system upgrade to do something

no wampa actually would be counterproductive.

Wampa rolls a crit, but the opponent never "suffers a crit" because he cancels it and deals them a facedown.