X-Wing's First PS1 Named Pilot

By Firespray-32, in X-Wing

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The convention for the ship previews is to display a card fan of the pilots, with generics lowest to highest and then named pilots lowest to highest. The fan of Scyk pilots goes PS2 (Cartel Spacer), PS5 (Tansaari Point Veteran) and then has four named pilots just as the GR-75, Raider and Gozanti expansions did before it.

If you look closely, the pilot skill sequence is 1, 3, 5, 7. There's a PS1 pilot in the named pilot fan.

Probably an obscure Galaxies reference.

For one, I think the Light Scyk was the first Privateer ship you ever got and there were a number of trainers kicking about.

It's been years but I recall Graz was one of the first 'elite' level NPC pilots you had to blow up over Tatooine, or something.

Those were the days.

Great concept though.

Beyond the fact that we're actually getting a Scum Epic, I'm probably excited for the new Scyk Unique Pilots the most.

Thinking about this has made me absolutely convinced that we have to be getting Rebel Veterans fairly soon. The Scyk of all ships will have six unique pilots while the Rebel Y-wing has only two. Neither of which have an EPT. Unacceptable!

I won a Scyk at a store tournament way back when after I already purchased two. After playing with them, decided I didn't need three and traded one for a new damage deck. Oh well...

Edited by gamblertuba

Thinking about this has made me absolutely convinced that we have to be getting Rebel Veterans fairly soon. The Scyk of all ships will have six unique pilots while the Rebel Y-wing has only two. Neither of which have an EPT. Unacceptable!

I won a Scyk at a store tournament way back when after I already purchased two. After playing with them, decided I didn't need three and traded one for a new damage deck. Oh well...

Then you compare the number of x-wing, b-wing, a-wing t-70 etc unique pilots to the rest of Scum's small ships and suddenly the Y-Wing not having more than 2 uniques doesn't seem like that big of a deal... I wouldn't say no to more Y-wing pilots for both factions however :P

(But I really want more Kihraxz and Starviper pilots)

Since Scyks are cheap, maneuverable ships that could be used as blockers, perhaps its a named pilot whose special ability is blocking related. The low PS allows it to move first to get where it needs to be to be bumped into.

Thinking about this has made me absolutely convinced that we have to be getting Rebel Veterans fairly soon. The Scyk of all ships will have six unique pilots while the Rebel Y-wing has only two. Neither of which have an EPT. Unacceptable!

I won a Scyk at a store tournament way back when after I already purchased two. After playing with them, decided I didn't need three and traded one for a new damage deck. Oh well...

Then you compare the number of x-wing, b-wing, a-wing t-70 etc unique pilots to the rest of Scum's small ships and suddenly the Y-Wing not having more than 2 uniques doesn't seem like that big of a deal... I wouldn't say no to more Y-wing pilots for both factions however :P

(But I really want more Kihraxz and Starviper pilots)

But compare the total screen time devoted to Y-wings to any other ship. The Y-wing is all over the place!

I hope it's some idiot with a negative point cost.