Maybe a TIE/Interdictor Title that affords them deadeye (or maybe a Han Crew style ability?) and a reduction in cost for all munitions added would help them out?

Beyond that, I don't think Punishers really have a place in 100/6. 300/12 they see some use because they often survive long enough to unleash their payload into huge ships because of everything else on the field.

Maybe the cruise missile will help them out as well, who knows.

I just saw the Title on the OP (I didn't really give it too much thought before) and laughed.......

"Viable Punisher Builds"

I beat Tom "3 Regionals, 1 Open, 1 National" Reed with a Redline list last year. I've no intention of letting him live that down.

In fact I've beaten Tom Reed with Redline and Scott Reed with Outer Rim Smuggler. This presumably makes me some sort of demigod.

On 24/03/2017 at 4:38 PM, John Rainbow said:

Try the new and upcoming rockets! They could do great things for the punisher.

True, but they will do more for the cheaper bomber.

The punisher needs some special love.

Pretty much the only reason i am giving the punisher the benefit of the doubt when we get unguided rockets is because unguided + LWF + Jammer makes a potentially pretty dang durable 3die ship. Im fully expecting the bomber to, yet again, take the flame from the punisher that is unguided missiles and leave it in the dirt again .

Even if it doesnt and the Punisher is actually pretty decent, you'll still see more bombers with it because 19pts for a 6hp 2agi 3 die attack is pretty dope. I dont expect the punisher to ever get a legup over the bomber until it gets a title or a system slot that is just flatout amazing on the punisher.

Also i am 100% sure bomlet generator is scurrg only. Given that its the only starwars ship to use that tech...

2 minutes ago, Spider said:

True, but they will do more for the cheaper bomber.

The punisher needs some special love.

They'll be about the same for the generics I think. Bombers go up to a pseudo 3/3/6/0, Punishers go up to a pseudo 3/2/6/3, which are pretty solid and pretty balanced stat lines.

But they do nothing for the named Punisher pilots and those are the ones who need the most love.

On 24/03/2017 at 5:30 PM, balindamood said:

What about light-weight frame? Any better than MK II engine?

Played with Deathrain at a local event last weekend and one thing I noticed was that Lightweight Frame did a great job of keping him in play, it triggered for nearly every attack and really helped reduce incoming damage. I played five games and only lost him once thanks to that extra evade coming up from the LWF. It's now my go to mod for all future games flying the Punisher.

1 minute ago, Thunderchild said:

Played with Deathrain at a local event last weekend and one thing I noticed was that Lightweight Frame did a great job of keping him in play, it triggered for nearly every attack and really helped reduce incoming damage. I played five games and only lost him once thanks to that extra evade coming up from the LWF. It's now my go to mod for all future games flying the Punisher.

Am I the only one that finds it funny that a heavy-bomber has a lightweight frame?

Heavy bomber that uses superglue instead of rivets to hold everything together. You'd be surprised how much weight rivets add!

In all seriousness though, LWF on a 1agi ship is actually really good. I find it largely doesnt help on 2agi since its counterproductive with range3/obstructed. Punisher might as well treat it as +1 agi since the only way he wouldnt roll +1 die from it is either A) 2die attack obstructed/range3 or B) someone has damaged weapons so theyre attacking with 1 die.

I'm looking forward the inevitable forum whine about OP 20pt scimitars!

Hahahahahaha.

They're ****. *Arguably* better than a naked Kihraxz.

8 hours ago, Stay On The Leader said:

I beat Tom "3 Regionals, 1 Open, 1 National" Reed with a Redline list last year. I've no intention of letting him live that down.

In fact I've beaten Tom Reed with Redline and Scott Reed with Outer Rim Smuggler. This presumably makes me some sort of demigod.

ahh the absolute joy of beating Scott with jank. He doesn't know what to do with it if it's not meta ?

Ive seen lists of 4 punishers with Accuracy correctors, and had LWF. It was really stupid and died to a Falcon+z95s list real quick, it did however beat a biggs miranda list which astounded me. The damage was too consistent for regaining low agility ships to deal with so it has a particular niche I guess....

I have been farting around with deathrain lately with 2 bombs, LWF, AM, and advanced sensors. For some reason I keep running out of bombs. I have been running K-wings heavily for 10 months and rarely need more than 4, but I have emptied this thing the last 6 ganes straight.

Anyone else having this problem?