I've stopped using E-wings after the appearance of the Upsilon expansion and the way Kylo has flooded the game everywhere. I'm just too afraid of the opponent picking Direct Hit on ISYTDS and killing the ship outright. Not a huge issue with other expensive 2-hull ships that die in one hit anyway, but for R2-D2 Corran, it's a critical issue.

Just out of curiosity, has this been a major issue in your experience? If you still use E-wings, how do you kit them out and fly them?

This might not be the correct forum for this question, but I couldn't find a better category.

For quick reference, you can't be assigned a Direct* Hit on ISYTDS. It has to be a crit with the Pilot trait.

2 minutes ago, jwilliamson12 said:

For quick reference, you can't be assigned a Direct* Hit on ISYTDS. It has to be a crit with the Pilot trait.

Nice one. Guess I can put Corran back on the field.

Your pluralization of "E-wings" suggests there are multiple. There is only Corran Horn. Unless FFG releases an E-wing fix (unlikely) Corran will always be alone. Now it looks like Corran will die alone.

4 minutes ago, despotic said:

Nice one. Guess I can put Corran back on the field.

I think there are some new EP's that make the E-Wing pretty dangerous. It's expensive, but putting something like Expertise, FCS, and R5-P9 on Corran would be fun. You get in, do as much damage as possible using an expertise/target lock combo, then you recover a shield using the focus token you didn't have to spend thanks to Expertise. Next round, you bullet out of the way, and regen with your focus token again if necessary.

10 minutes ago, jwilliamson12 said:

For quick reference, you can't be assigned a Direct* Hit on ISYTDS. It has to be a crit with the Pilot trait.

It still only takes two rounds for "I'll Show You the Dark Side" to make Corran Horn a waste of half your points.

4 minutes ago, jmswood said:

It still only takes two rounds for "I'll Show You the Dark Side" to make Corran Horn a waste of half your points.

Yeah, as a rebel player I'm not too happy that ISYTDS bypasses shields. Make E-Wings and B-Wings very risky to run with their low hull. We like our shields, dang it.

yes, IWSYTDS is very serious threat to all of our ships. Determination is the best want to handle it, but really...running determination on your Corran Horn/Miranda list and then facing nothing but Paratanni is a real problem too...