Considering it was canon that Anakin Skywalker was "the best starfighter pilot in the galaxy" I'm sad that he's not in the game. I knw Vader techncally is Anakin, but it's not the same thing. I'm thinking a Delta-7 Interceptor, with probably Saesee Tiin and Obiwan as the other unique pilots. Considering Anakin's rapid fire prowess, I'd say:

Anakin Skywalker (Pilot skill 9, Att3, AGI3, Hull 3 Shields 1, Interceptor-like dial) Probably 32 or so points.
Once per round after you perform a primary weapon attack, you may perform another attack.

What do you think - Is the Prequel trilogy still relegated to the scrapheap or, with the advent of the ARC and Y-wing, do all the ships of that era have a place in the game?

Delta-7 makes the most sense, the ROTS Interceptor requires heavy force use to be effective, whereas the Delta 7 could theoretically be used by regular pilots.

Here's the thing, you could do separate faction, but the ARC-170 sets a better precedent. The game doesn't necessarily need any more factions. Most Republic ships were later coopted by the rebellion from scrapyards and battlefields, and a lot of the CIS ships being salvaged(or straight up bought back pre-war by the Hutts in the case of Vulture droids) by the Hutts and the underworld makes plenty of sense.

I would love more prequel ships in the game, even better if they have the matching pilots to go with them. But FFG seems to be stuck in their anti-prequel rut for the time being.

1 minute ago, markcsoul said:

I would love more prequel ships in the game, even better if they have the matching pilots to go with them. But FFG seems to be stuck in their anti-prequel rut for the time being.

I'd say the Arc-170 is showing an easing up, and Star Wars Destiny which has a ton of prequel characters shows that there has been an overall easing of restrictions

2 minutes ago, MandoBard said:

I'd say the Arc-170 is showing an easing up, and Star Wars Destiny which has a ton of prequel characters shows that there has been an overall easing of restrictions

I thought so as well, but then they release the new wave and it's 2/3 legends ships. I thought for sure they were going canon hear on out, and with the new movies not generating enough ships for every wave that meant a good chance for more prequel ships.

In retrospect I think they only added the ARC to have another ship with an auxiliary arc with unique firing rules through it's title to match up with the Tie S/F to be the "theme" for that wave.

There only one vehicle for Anakin Skywalker. And that's the

PODRACER

although spinning is a good trick and pretty hard to pull off in a pod I'm sure the plucky kid can do it. (Seeing the Azure Angel on the table next to Red Five would be an awesome sight tho)

We do need the Eta-2 with Vader, Royal Guard generic, Imperial Inquisitor generic and one more named pilot...

anyway, this ship is very TIE like and would make it past FFG 'rule' for imperial small bases all being ties.

and thr V-wing needs to show up for the scummies with maybe a generic pilot or two for the IMPs. Scummies could even use their trash-tro-mechs.

I'd take an ETA-2 with only Named pilots. Obi and Ani for the republic and Ani and VADER for the empire... that would be the right amount of confusing! Put some titles in front of thier names.

3 hours ago, Astech said:

Considering it was canon that Anakin Skywalker was "the best starfighter pilot in the galaxy" I'm sad that he's not in the game. I knw Vader techncally is Anakin, but it's not the same thing. I'm thinking a Delta-7 Interceptor, with probably Saesee Tiin and Obiwan as the other unique pilots. Considering Anakin's rapid fire prowess, I'd say:

Anakin Skywalker (Pilot skill 9, Att3, AGI3, Hull 3 Shields 1, Interceptor-like dial) Probably 32 or so points.
Once per round after you perform a primary weapon attack, you may perform another attack.

What do you think - Is the Prequel trilogy still relegated to the scrapheap or, with the advent of the ARC and Y-wing, do all the ships of that era have a place in the game?

Add 2'er talon-rolls and 3 segnors..

and pilot ability to perform the same action twice...

3 hours ago, MandoBard said:

I'd say the Arc-170 is showing an easing up, and Star Wars Destiny which has a ton of prequel characters shows that there has been an overall easing of restrictions

SW Destiny is closer to SW LCG where the abstraction allows for charachters from the entire star wars universe. So yup you do have Rey vs Padme.

As for prequel ships again the question is how do you split the ships up among the primary faction. It is easy with TFA because the factions are just decendants from the OT. Sort of like Maximals and Predacons in Transformers Beast Wars. Maximals are with the Autobots and Cons with cons.

However when you look in the prequels does Republic go with Rebels or Galactic Empire? Being the so called "light side" you would say they are wit the Rebels which is ironic because the clone wars were fighting a rebellion against the CIS. So shouldn't the Imperials get all the Republic stuff? You see how it gets confusing?

I think we are going to see more prequel tie ins like the ARC-170 but I doubt they will have prequel pilots like Anakin, (He already has the TIE Advanced and a crew upgrade card). You could argue that the Firespray is the empire's prequel ship. But I think Empire might get some other prequel ships like the Clone Wars Y-wing and the Sith infiltraitor, Rebels get the rest and all of the CIS stuff will go to Scum.

5 minutes ago, Sciencius said:

Add 2'er talon-rolls and 3 segnors..

and pilot ability to perform the same action twice...

After you perform a Barrel Roll gain 1 evade token. done, 55 points.

Don't check under the helmets of the Advanced pilots.