Sabine's Tie fighter article now up

By Karhedron, in X-Wing

Given that theyve gone in order in the past, yeah next is the UPS Deliv- er i mean Bat Shuttle.

Both hopeful and disgruntled at that thing. Hopeful because its probably just going to be a lambda replacement. Disgruntled because its a lambda replacement lol

I know everyone is excited for the new TIE Fighter but. . Unkarr / Quadjumper with Ketsu crew and EMP. .

Block target at PS3, issue tractor token as per ability, EMP them and yourself via illicit, use Ketsu crew to keep the tractor token on target at the end of the round if they didn't die, ram them again in the next phase due to Ion, assign a second tractor beam token to them . . use Ketsu crew to keep both tokens on the target if they didn't die this round. .

All for 20 points.

Oh Sh** She's terryfying with blackmarket slicer tools and Recon Specialist....

edit: I speak of Ahsoka btw, since none of those are attacks, soontir's and ptl aces are very scared of this old padawan....

23 points and death to aces....

Edited by Tailsgod

Given that theyve gone in order in the past, yeah next is the UPS Deliv- er i mean Bat Shuttle.

Both hopeful and disgruntled at that thing. Hopeful because its probably just going to be a lambda replacement. Disgruntled because its a lambda replacement lol

Edited by Nhoj4

oh wait its only pilot skill lower than yours.... soontir is safe.... barely

Small bonus, but rex is at a perfect ps to troll the **** out of enemy huge ships

oh wait its only pilot skill lower than yours.... soontir is safe.... barely

Roark says hi.

oh wait its only pilot skill lower than yours.... soontir is safe.... barely

Roark says hi.

Roark DOES say hi

Edit: but not for long since he's in a hwk and they don't live long

Edited by Tailsgod

oh wait its only pilot skill lower than yours.... soontir is safe.... barely

Roark says hi.

Roark DOES say hi

Edit: but not for long since he's in a hwk and they don't live long

Neither does Soontir, if someone is flying alongside him hacking into his Interceptor and he can't shoot them.

oh wait its only pilot skill lower than yours.... soontir is safe.... barely

Hasn't the ship already served it's purpose if Soontir is prioritizing a ship that is under 20 points that the rest of his buddies can't even target?

Rex has a potential to become a ghetto Biggs, maybe even in the same suqad as Biggs to biggs after Biggs dies.

Feel weird that Ahsoka comes with this ship. Did she ever get inside it much less fly it?

This game used to have so much flavor.

I agree.

No she never even touched the ship. We see her in an A-Wing for a couple seconds but that's about it.

Given how she operated the Rebel equivalent of a covert ops ship is pretty appropriate.

Still nothing explicit about the Captured TIE modification but it seems clear you cannot be attacked while you have it but lose it if you attack. The question is whether you also lose it for things like detonating the EMP and dropping a bomb.

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Feel weird that Ahsoka comes with this ship. Did she ever get inside it much less fly it?

This game used to have so much flavor.

I agree.

No she never even touched the ship. We see her in an A-Wing for a couple seconds but that's about it.

Rex hasn't touched it either and while Sabine certainly has we never see her piloting it :P

For competitive sake im glad they added that last blip about "last ship in play"

Otherwise, Asohka could just stall every game to time and really mess up the scoring. If that was a thing and i was a TO, i'd just rule it as "If this event happens, you lost if you go to time and you still havnt shot. If time was called on the turn you fired, you still lost" just to prevent that insane level of trolling (in the bad way)

Also, Roark would basically become Biggs because of that MASSIVE bubble he has making Asohka untargetable. Hes about as hard to remove as an Xwing and cheaper if bareboned. Slap Dorsals so he at least has SOMETHING and leave it at that lol. Meanwhile Asohka also could share her PS12 with Swarm Tactics if you really wanted to :D

Edited by Vineheart01

i think the illicit is the big winner in this reveal. Thats nasty. Dunno about putting it on a squishy TIE but thats naaaasty.

Asohka....why? Why keep giving a supporty ability on a nonsupport ship? Focus > action isnt bad persay (still kinda crap since its taking her action to give one while other forms of this dont via pilot abilities) but thats going to leave her squishy tie wide open for attack. I liked Asohka in Clone Wars....such a disappointing ability :P

Have to admit though the captured tie is funny. VI Asohka, only VI PS9 pilots would be able to stop her from delivering the EMP. Thats dope. Not at all meta breaking but thats still dope and funny.

Also...anybody notice that thing isnt unique? You can run 3 of these things (Zeb sadly wouldnt work) and torp scouts CANNOT shoot you until you have an awesome position. now THATS funny!

edit: Derp, nvm, its got the Unique dot on there.

initial impressions:

Captain Rex (pilot): the mechanics here are a bit admin heavy - lots of things of game state conditions to track for a single ability. I wish this were less clunky. The effect is fun though, especially for only 14 points.

Captain Rex (crew): I'm not sure where the best place for this is? Using the free focus offensively means you need Gunner (wont work with TLT due to new timing) and Luke crew already exists. Using it defensively means you want to be high PS. But if you are sinking points into a high PS ship that you are expecting to miss attacks with, what are you doing with your life?

Ashoka Tano: I like the fact that you can use it to trigger your own actions, including barrel roll, but also Crew, Illicit and Elite "Action:" type abilities. Similar to Arien Cracken but with the ability to keep herself safe longer.

Rex needs Biggs or better a high PS ship with decoy

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Holy crap! Rex and Biggs people! Rex and Biggs! They are nuts together.

I can't believe some of you didn't realise that the bit with Speed 1 TIE maneuvers was a part of a diagram spanning 2 pictures, describing 2 turns.

With Veteran Instincts equipped, Ahsoka Tano executes her maneuver after The Inquisitor and "Omega Leader," flying into position to detonate her EMP Device, ionizing all ships at Range "1" of her position.

In the subsequent round , with The Inquisitor and "Omega Leader" doomed to limp forward at Speed "1," Ahsoka deploys her Proton Bombs and executes her Speed "1" maneuver to get just outside of the blast radius.

Still no dial to set/reveal, s o yeah, wrong anyway.

Edited by Mef82

Spyshoka is 24 points.... that steep but what you get is a dangerous little noone but the best can hit

throw in Roark and you have two cheap ships causing hell at 43 points......

I have a dasterdly idea

^The TIE dial (and as far as we can tell it's the standard Imperial one) doesn't have a 1-forward though.

^The TIE dial (and as far as we can tell it's the standard Imperial one) doesn't have a 1-forward though.

It's ioned from the EMP Device (it hits you as well), so it HAS to perform the 1-forward.

Thing is, she's ioned. The 1-forward maneuver doesn't reveal a dial, and the Proton Bomb drop condition starts with 'when you reveal your maneuver dial'

Thing is, she's ioned. The 1-forward maneuver doesn't reveal a dial, and the Proton Bomb drop condition starts with 'when you reveal your maneuver dial'

Well right, the example is screwed up anyways.

But the 1-forward thing is fine.