I've been thinking, if you can't get that Lightweight Frame on your Unguided Rockets/Punisher because you need those 2 points elsewhere, I'd say it's still worthwhile to take Long Range Scanners, that way you can acquire the target lock early on when there's a distance (and later on, although with lower PS it's more difficult to judge) and then if you do get an enemy at R1, go for the primary since then you can use the Target Lock and Focus.

When you're anywhere near range 3 you're going to want to focus anyway in all likelihood.

10 hours ago, Rakky Wistol said:

I understand that they are worse rookies. That's the point I've been trying to make.

Yes, it might be more tactically advantageous to shoot the "bad rookie" first (or still focus fire the actual dangerous thing in the list) but how many of these are you going to see once everyone figures out that they are just a bad rookie Xwing?

I hope the dial gives us a surprise and that the names pilots all have EPTs and good abilities. I hope I'm wrong but from the information we currently have it's still just a 19pt rookie pilot in an Xwing with lots of ways to lose it's red dice and BR which is yet another way it loses the "3 red dice att" that everyone says it has.

Much depends on the dial or pilot abilities.

To get a Rookie X-Wing to 6 health requires taking the integrated astromech with a generic 1-pt astromech. Say R2. Compare that to a Scimitar pilot with these rockets. So, yeah, your X-Wing has got a great dial...but to have the same PS, health, agility, and attack (better at some ranges and worse at others - but on average 'the same'), for 22 pts instead of 18 pts ...

I dunno, that feels like kind of a big difference. Can take LWF and *still* get 5 of those in a list, while you've got just 4 of those Rooks...

I was comparing new aggressor but the bomber results in much the same stat line but for less with a worse dial and no sheilds (which might be noticible between rookies 2 and Bomber 0 even at an extra Hp).

I think the bomber is going to be a better platform for these than the aggressor unless the PS scale, EPT, or Pilot ability makes them better. 4 bombers with that loadout + sessmics with an academy blocker is probably fun times vs. most other 20/5 lists.