Tried Poe, his mom (Shara) and Dutch today. Did really really well against a Imperial bomber list.

["Poe, his Mum and a Dutch(ie)" sounds like the beginning of a list of regrets from a weekend bender]

Is Norra with R3A2 and Ezra terrible? Or with Push and Ezra?

Always target lock, take a stress to throw one at an enemy, attack. If you get a decent attack roll, spend lock to add an eyeball and Ezra to crit. If you don't get a good roll, spend the target lock, and you can still change one eyeball to a crit.

Holy Crew Combos! I love Ezra with Norra Wexley! I don't usually play Rebels, so I really am not that familiar with Ezra crew. It's not used that much that I've seen and I hadn't thought about it. Using R3-A2 is also a great way to get that stress!

Your averages might come out to be about the same as you don't have dice modification (unless you went PTL route), but your overall damage maximum would be really good.

OK...just ran through the probability calculator of Norra w/ Ezra:

1 hit = 3%

2 hits = 24%

3 hits = 59%

4 hits = 12%

Expected Damage: 2.8

Crit Chance: 96%

Norra w/ just a Focus or TL (same numbers) for comparison:

0 hits = 1%

1 hit = 14%

2 hits = 42%

3 hits = 42%

Expected Damage: 2.25

Crit Chance: 37%

OK....let's try it with PTL (for a Focus), and Ezra:

1 hit = 1%

2 hits = 5%

3 hits = 50%

4 hits = 42%

Expected Damage: 3.33

Crit Chance: 96%

saw a guy yesterday running Shara, TLT Ywing, and tycho. NO idea why he was running Shara, and he was insisting she was amazing at the start of the game.

That changed quickly lol. Shara doesnt do anything for the ARC itself and its not a support ship.

saw a guy yesterday running Shara, TLT Ywing, and tycho. NO idea why he was running Shara, and he was insisting she was amazing at the start of the game.

That changed quickly lol. Shara doesnt do anything for the ARC itself and its not a support ship.

myup

Shara's ability might've been...eh but it's on an expensive ship built for combat not for handing out its own modifiers

but she is an ARC with a native ept, so PTL + bb-8 + tailgunner will probably be alright on her

the funny thing is usually hes like me and finds these really off the wall combos that may not be amazing but theyre oddly effective.

Yet he ran Shara with VI, R7-T1, and kyle crew. Kyle crew i can kinda understand, but if hes going for the clear stress > focus route he should either go PTL or Targeting Astro and just bounce between free focus or free TL lol.

Played against Norra last night and man she hits like a truck. He was running PTL which let her add and convert an eyeball every shot and Kanan which let her easily destress every turn.

The thing that stood out though was how much of a difference the aux arc makes being on a small base. Against a Firespray there is still plenty of room to either side to arc dodge it. But with the ARC the dead zone to the sides it so much harder to reliably fit a ship into when up close. There were several turns where I had to make a decision whether to try a very iffy dodge into it and risk having no defense or trade shots with a pile of dice.

The list also had Biggs/Wes which added a huge amount to her survivability. Without them it's likely she'd have gotten maybe a shot or two off. But with them it meant she always stuck around till last and poured out an immense level of damage (have to shoot Biggs and regen Wes is just too good a closer to leave till last). Overall was more impressed with it than I thought I would be. It may or may not be top tier tournament meta but certainly a very solid ship and I'll be buying at least one.

yaknow...lots of fangs/arcs but i havent seen any tie/sf comments on these forums...

were they not available at gencon? nobody has spoiled the Omega Specialist price either.

No....just few actually care about it. I don't think they are as good as the ARC-170. Oh, there is a thread about it that we can go bag it there.

well since it's the ARC thread, I'll tell you why the ARC is better:

it's the sexiest ******* model in the game

the SF isn't a slouch, but nothing holds a candle to these babies!

when it comes to guns, until the Noisy Cricket is a thing, size does matter lol

Gonna look at an A-10's gatling gun and say size doesnt matter? Heheh....that thing is the epitome of a BFG

*lifts an x-wing out of a swamp using the force*

Lifting X-Wings is a hobby of mine, that is how this game work. Call me unimpressed.

yaknow...lots of fangs/arcs but i havent seen any tie/sf comments on these forums...

were they not available at gencon? nobody has spoiled the Omega Specialist price either.

I made the mistake of posting in the Battle Reports forum . I'm trying to get people to share their experiences there, but looks like that might be in vain. I'll have to just make a TIE/sf thread in the main forum, because the TIE/sf is just AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL! I can't believe more people aren't talking about it!

ARC-170? Yeah, it's a beautiful model, but it doesn't stand on its own two legs - it seems to excel only when Biggs is present (yes, there are some exceptions).

. I'm trying to get people to share their experiences there, but looks like that might be in vain. I'll have to just make a TIE/sf thread in the main forum, because the TIE/sf is just AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL! I can't believe more people aren't talking about it!

ARC-170? Yeah, it's a beautiful model, but it doesn't stand on its own two legs - it seems to excel only when Biggs is present (yes, there are some exceptions).

nothing wrong with that

in fact, it makes the X-wing playable, and everyone wants that

now if you mean "While Biggs is alive" then eh, have to disagree

Biggs is there to get you past the initial approach, where your low speed and agility can easily screw you over. Once you've been signed, sealed; delivered, though, you can start abusing the slow roll aux-arc without much issue

Biggs also enables ARCs to just plow straight through Dengaroo, which is not something I believe the SF can accomplish so easily

Shara's abiity with Weapons Engineer works well to help others, especially if you are getting those Target locks for free when Dutch is next to her. So you can instead focus with Shara's actual action. It worked well for me last night.

So what about the way the ARCs fly makes X-Wings better? Is it just that the rear arc covers the wingmen well?

So what about the way the ARCs fly makes X-Wings better? Is it just that the rear arc covers the wingmen well?

it gives Biggs another home

so the ARC model's weight is far more centered than the K's so it's far more well behaved on a magnet

Hope they perform well. I wouldn't mind seeing those a lot in tournaments.

@fickle, you need a magnet with a countersunk hole ;-) my K-Wings behave nicely

they do perform well, but they're very unforgiving

both to **** ups and dice f***ery, with only Norra being able to rectify RNG bull using r2-d2. So, as useful, green dice can and probably will ruin games even when you only get 1 agi (your opponent still has green dice; you may sometimes get obstructed range 3 defenses which mean jack **** in the face of dice)

so I personally doubt they'll show up very often unless you just like the ship

which, hey, what's not to like ? It's beautiful!

which, hey, what's not to like ? It's beautiful!

Incoming heresy in 3... 2... 1... I think with the FFG model they replace the B-Wing as my favourite ship in terms of looks alone

I tried out Braylen with gunner and R3-A2 alongside Biggs and Corran. He even against x7 defenders, stressing is very rude.

Nice! I got to see some of them last night as a couple of them made the 9 hour drive back from GenCon. Of course, us poor South Eastern citizens won't own them until they hit the stores.

i could have them by now since i was able to goto gencon but i stopped trying to goto any convention because every time i try life says NOPE and i waste money.

Granted, this was the first convention that ive seen with my new job. New job so far literally never has any of those "GET TO WORK NOW" moments......i love my job lol

i'll be sure to keep some time off stashed for next year.

I absolutely can't wait for this things to hit shelves, I'm going to buy two and then maybe a shadow caster for BMST throw those on Sabine in her BEAUTIFUL TIE

we'reeeeeeeeee back!

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