19 hours ago, MacchuWA said:

Adding torpedoes to the ghost can often catch opponents off guard, who aren't used to it having a rear arc without a docked shuttle, and it leaves your opponent with only a very small area (range 2-3 in the side arcs) where you can't hit them. Six points for Proton Torps, Extra munitions and guidance chips might be a good buy,and a defensive crew like C-3PO or Cheebacca on Keyan might keep him alive longer. Alternately, maybe an engine upgrade on Kanan, but without a way of getting a second action, you're almost always going to want to use Jyn, so that might not be the best option.

Silly question, but I haven't used the VCX often; can you fire the torpedoes fore AND aft, or just aft?

RoV

11 minutes ago, Rat of Vengence said:

Silly question, but I haven't used the VCX often; can you fire the torpedoes fore AND aft, or just aft?

RoV

You can fire front and rear. the Rear arc is torps only unless you have the phantom docked.

I'll be playing today against a Dengar/guri list. lots of greens on Dengar and K4

15 minutes ago, taulover55 said:

You can fire front and rear. the Rear arc is torps only unless you have the phantom docked.

I'll be playing today against a Dengar/guri list. lots of greens on Dengar and K4

Thanks mate. Not sure I would fire forward when I have that lovely 4 dice primary, I'd rather keep the threat of a rear shot, but it's worth checking.

Let us know how the game goes

RoV

1 hour ago, Stoneface said:

Flew the Ghost with Keyan vs Fenn, Manaroo and Kath and suffered two serious drubbings. So bad I don't want to talk about it.

Just to say, if they were Mindlinked then he's running something pretty close to possibly the best list in the world right now. Bobatanni is not that much worse than Paratanni, and Kath isn't that much worse than Boba.

well, Guri went down in Flames early.

I didn't shoot dengar on one turn as didn't fancy the retaliation shot. i then couldn't catch him in arc. i think i'd have fared better with Recon spec and TLT and dropped gunner.

ah well, i'm dreaming up a Scummy list to look at removing Dengar quickly now.

22 hours ago, taulover55 said:

Kanan Jarrus (53)
VCX-100 (38), Fire-Control System (2), Autoblaster Turret (2), Proton Torpedoes (4), Jyn Erso (2), Gunner (5), Guidance Chips (0)

Keyan Farlander (45)
B-Wing (29), Fire-Control System (2), Heavy Laser Cannon (7), Push the Limit (3), B-Wing/E2 (1), C3P0 (3)

I don't own a VCX, but I like the toughts in this forum. I applaud anyone who doesn't put a TLT on their ship: kudos mate! Autoblaster (although functionally impossible, I've debated it to nauseous-ness on this forum, let's not dig it up) is a great choice.

But I love bunny-trails, and in that vein, I love this B-Wing build. I don't have a C3PO (no Tantive, even with all of heychadwick and the Tydirium crew's temptations, errrr, haha) but with a few changes, would be so very fun. It's a bit expensive, but maybe there is a way to fly him.

Sorry. Back to the forum's OP topic. Carry on....

22 hours ago, taulover55 said:

22 hours ago, taulover55 said:

I'm not sure about you guys, but the forum engine is a bit whacked on my computer right now, sorry.

I think that Gunner on a ship with a 4 dice primary is not going to trigger often enough to be worth the points. Granted there will be times when you are shooting at something slippery but relatively few ships have the defensive mods to escape harm completely, especially as there will be no autothrusters at R1-2 either.

It will happen sometimes of course but not enough to make Gunner a reliable investment I think. They work better on fat turret ship I think.

9 minutes ago, Karhedron said:

I think that Gunner on a ship with a 4 dice primary is not going to trigger often enough to be worth the points. Granted there will be times when you are shooting at something slippery but relatively few ships have the defensive mods to escape harm completely, especially as there will be no autothrusters at R1-2 either.

It will happen sometimes of course but not enough to make Gunner a reliable investment I think. They work better on fat turret ship I think.

He didn't trigger at all on the VCX really. My dice where hot though when i got a target!! lol

17 minutes ago, Karhedron said:

I think that Gunner on a ship with a 4 dice primary is not going to trigger often enough to be worth the points. Granted there will be times when you are shooting at something slippery but relatively few ships have the defensive mods to escape harm completely, especially as there will be no autothrusters at R1-2 either.

It will happen sometimes of course but not enough to make Gunner a reliable investment I think. They work better on fat turret ship I think.

I don't run with gunner, but I will say that alllll too often the stupid x7 defenders walk away damage free from the 4 dice primary. Even assuming that I roll all 4 hits (which is a valid assumption, but not 100% of the time reality), they almost always have an evade + focus token + palpatine, so they have to roll 2+ blanks on their 3 dice in order to walk away damage free, or in otherwords, 75% of the time I won't hit. Now that being said, I would hardly expect someone to spend the evade token or palpatine in order to trigger gunner, but his presence on the ship still caused a damage that otherwise wouldn't have happened.

6 hours ago, Stay On The Leader said:

Just to say, if they were Mindlinked then he's running something pretty close to possibly the best list in the world right now. Bobatanni is not that much worse than Paratanni, and Kath isn't that much worse than Boba.

Yep, they were linked. Part of it was dice. Two proton torps couldn't take out Fenn. A bump on Fenn that failed by less than the thickness of a credit card that delivered 3 hits and 2 crits on Keyan with no return fire. But a lot was of it was bad anticipation on my part. The worst was getting stuck between Kath and Manaroo while skirting the edge of the board. No where to go. Lost 2 games to that build.

I did win one with 4 blue sqd T-70s vs OL, Pure Sabac, Backdraft and anothe Striker. My dice finally woke up. Didn't lose a ship.