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By Jarval, in X-Wing

Wow that dial is surprisingly open.

It's a better dial than a lot of small ships. Comparing it to the Lambda and saying it's a challenging dial is just weird.

...you lost me...

Surprisingly open means the dial is unrestricted and has a lot of options. Lambda has the most limited dial in the game

Uwing is missing 1 and 3 turns and a non-title kturn. And it has 6 greens with only 1 red. Thats an open dial and is insanely good.

Nowhere did i say the Uwing is a challenging dial. The lambda is a challenging dial because a misjudge three turns in advance can royally eff that ship up.

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Wow that dial is surprisingly open.

It's a better dial than a lot of small ships. Comparing it to the Lambda and saying it's a challenging dial is just weird.

...you lost me...

Surprisingly open means the dial is unrestricted and has a lot of options. Lambda has the most limited dial in the game

Uwing is missing 1 and 3 turns and a non-title kturn. And it has 6 greens with only 1 red. Thats an open dial and is insanely good.

Nowhere did i say the Uwing is a challenging dial. The lambda is a challenging dial because a misjudge three turns in advance can royally eff that ship up.

I believe he's referring to the article not you.

Meh, not too impressed. Still getting one because the model is beautiful and I'll be flying one.

Still bitter it doesn't just have side arcs to act as a Nam huey.

In space?

Yes, in space. No reason you couldn't have side guns operated from inside, or a force field keeping the atmo in.

Bistan looks awesome shooting out the side.

Gimme my huey!

Dude... HOTRHan just got an awesome build

Han Solo (HOTR) 46

Rage (1)

Snuggling Compartment (0)

Inspiring Recruit (1)

Kanan (3)

Counter Measures (3)

Scavenger Crane (2)

Total: 56pts

I take back what i said about Inspiring Recuit being meh. This gives Han back his original ability for the cost of a crew slot, rerolling up to 3 of his 3/4 dice (lets be honest how many times does a 4die hit solidly blank out) and have a focus on top of it. Counter Measures to mess with TL's and add a green die, Crane to keep doing it. Kanan because falcon greens suck.

Dude...thats mean....lol

Meh, not too impressed. Still getting one because the model is beautiful and I'll be flying one.

Still bitter it doesn't just have side arcs to act as a Nam huey.

In space?

Yes, in space. No reason you couldn't have side guns operated from inside, or a force field keeping the atmo in.

Bistan looks awesome shooting out the side.

Gimme my huey!

Snuggling Compartment (0)

Awwww, I like the sounds of that. warm and cuddly.

Meh, not too impressed. Still getting one because the model is beautiful and I'll be flying one.

Still bitter it doesn't just have side arcs to act as a Nam huey.

In space?

Yes, in space. No reason you couldn't have side guns operated from inside, or a force field keeping the atmo in.

Bistan looks awesome shooting out the side.

Gimme my huey!

Yeah, but the side guns would most likely be anti personal, not armor. Kind of like the little Turret Poe uses at the beginning of TFA.

Oh yeah, fluffwise, not likely. Gameplay-wise, awesome :)

Meh, not too impressed. Still getting one because the model is beautiful and I'll be flying one.

Still bitter it doesn't just have side arcs to act as a Nam huey.

In space?

Yes, in space. No reason you couldn't have side guns operated from inside, or a force field keeping the atmo in.

Bistan looks awesome shooting out the side.

Gimme my huey!

Done.

Huey-Duck-mickey-and-friends-37665348-26

Snuggling Compartment (0)

Awwww, I like the sounds of that. warm and cuddly.

This is the second post I've seen that the poster appears not to have an M key available.

Meh, not too impressed. Still getting one because the model is beautiful and I'll be flying one.

Still bitter it doesn't just have side arcs to act as a Nam huey.

In space?

Yes, in space. No reason you couldn't have side guns operated from inside, or a force field keeping the atmo in.

Bistan looks awesome shooting out the side.

Gimme my huey!

Yeah, but the side guns would most likely be anti personal, not armor. Kind of like the little Turret Poe uses at the beginning of TFA.

Slight spoiler for people who haven't been watching the trailers/tv spots

Maybe, but from what we see in one of the trailers, or tv spots, the U-wing's side guns are able to blow apart a AT-ACT's front legs to make it come crumbling down.

its a joke thats been around since it was spoiled. Someone mentioned Rey crew on a ship with the Snuggling Compartment to get pseudo double action plus an illicit.

Naturally, kinda blew up lol.

Meh, not too impressed. Still getting one because the model is beautiful and I'll be flying one.

Still bitter it doesn't just have side arcs to act as a Nam huey.

In space?

Yes, in space. No reason you couldn't have side guns operated from inside, or a force field keeping the atmo in.

Bistan looks awesome shooting out the side.

Gimme my huey!

Yeah, but the side guns would most likely be anti personal, not armor. Kind of like the little Turret Poe uses at the beginning of TFA.

Oh yeah, fluffwise, not likely. Gameplay-wise, awesome :)

Meh.

Here's hoping the movie is far better than this set.


Inspiring Recruit is, aptly, the only inspiring card. And it's general faction and will likely do more on Manaroo or Whisper or a Palp Deci to protect Imp/Scum aces from R3A2 as anything.


Not sure if the U-Wing or HotR was more underwhelming.

Edited by AllWingsStandyingBy

Meh, not too impressed. Still getting one because the model is beautiful and I'll be flying one.

Still bitter it doesn't just have side arcs to act as a Nam huey.

In space?

Yes, in space. No reason you couldn't have side guns operated from inside, or a force field keeping the atmo in.

Bistan looks awesome shooting out the side.

Gimme my huey!

Yeah, but the side guns would most likely be anti personal, not armor. Kind of like the little Turret Poe uses at the beginning of TFA.

Slight spoiler for people who haven't been watching the trailers/tv spots

Maybe, but from what we see in one of the trailers, or tv spots, the U-wing's side guns are able to blow apart a AT-ACT's front legs to make it come crumbling down.

Hmm. Missed that. Interesting. Since the AT-ACT is a cargo transport, it might have weaker armor, but still....

Do you remember which trailer/tv spot it was?

Not enough. We still need a Missile slot on the Y-wing to get that bloody LRS.

I'm exceedingly underwhelmed by this.

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Not every single release needs to be tournament based. There's a ton of people that play this game for fun, and on an entirely non-tournament/non-competative basis.

Wow that dial is surprisingly open.

It's a better dial than a lot of small ships. Comparing it to the Lambda and saying it's a challenging dial is just weird.

The dial is nice, although the 0 k-turn from the title comes with a pretty hefty cost.

1) You broadcast pretty clearly what your next move is going to be

2) You sit for an entire combat phase with 1 less agility

On another note, FFG is selling it as a blocker, and it can certainly do that, but without re-positioning shenanigans, it isn't to the level of the bumpmasters. I'd love to get a barrel roll on this guy.

I still think it is a solid ship, and I'm excited to build some squadrons with it.

Edited by ObiWan

why would you want LRS with Black One being a thing?

That title single handedly killed my bomber list because i cant acquire up close, and he just strips TLs all willynilly at a distance. And that title is pretty common.

Bodhi gives you almost the same reach of LRS but doesnt give you the 1-2 range deadzone. Far superior imo. Black One is a lot less likely to strip TLs when he has people able to gun him down.

Wow that dial is surprisingly open.

It's a better dial than a lot of small ships. Comparing it to the Lambda and saying it's a challenging dial is just weird.

...you lost me...

Surprisingly open means the dial is unrestricted and has a lot of options. Lambda has the most limited dial in the game

Uwing is missing 1 and 3 turns and a non-title kturn. And it has 6 greens with only 1 red. Thats an open dial and is insanely good.

Nowhere did i say the Uwing is a challenging dial. The lambda is a challenging dial because a misjudge three turns in advance can royally eff that ship up.

I think you were actually both agreeing.

Though I'll come out and say that the dial is not going to be THAT forgiving. It's a large-based ship with a fixed forward firing arc and only one hard turn maneuver. You have to plan that 0-K during the preceding planning phase, or sacrifice the extra green die if you want flexibility.

It's a better dial than the Shuttle's, but it's still going to be a difficult dial to dogfight with.

Edit: Wrong quote.... Edit2: Ah ok the quoted post got edited... :D Nevermind then.

This reads like a complaint about the lack of power creep or FFG not throwing over the meta again after like 2 months.

It might not be the new must-field ship, but that is not a bad thing.

Edited by Tobbert

Hmm, interesting interaction: Cassian pilot + Inspiring crew.

Cassian: "At the start of the Activation Phase, you may remove 1 stress token from another friendly ship at range 1-2"

Inspiring Recruit: "When a friendly ship at range 1-2 removes a stress token, it may remove an additional stress token"

Cassian pilot can de-rage someone without needing a green maneuver. Interesting.....

Baze is a nice cheaper Gunner. That will be nice for Rebels.

Umm, I guess. Except for the fact that he's a terrible version of Gunner. The most utility of Gunner comes out of token-stripping a ship then hitting it for damge (or being able to force damage through token-stacked defenders who eat the 1 HP). You can also stack it with Tactician or R3A2 to double-stress something.

Situations where you actually shoot at a different ship than the first target using Gunner are incredibly, incredibly rare and situational. While it might sometimes be useful, you'd have to be an idiot not just pay +2 points for the basic Gunner and gain sooooo much more utility and flexibility from the ship. The 2points you save by taking Baze will never compensate for the sacrifices to the Gunner ability. Hell, you can't even use Baze when only one enemy ship is in arc/range.

Sad that such a cool looking character is literally worse than the Wave 2 generic he's competing against.

More jank, for tge purposes of more biggs + wingspan from me

1.) cass

Expert handling, fcs, rey and jan (35)

potential tl + focus + evade

2.) El Heffe

Fcs, gunner, jyn and eu (37)

full offensive mods with gunner, eu for blocking and jyn for ability

3.) biggs with r5p9 and integrated

This could some infuriatingly janl bull with biggs if you can fly it okay enough

How does Inspiring Recruit interact with Captain Yorr? Does the second stress disappear or go to Yorr?