...holy cow, it's not red dice creep at all.

By clanofwolves, in X-Wing

Posted at
30 minutes ago, Panzeh said:

Keep in mind that in this era of (mostly) 1-action ships, the TIE fighter was by far the best.

Depends on what wave we are speaking about, the Bwing was a better ship overall, and either 4Bwings or Biggs walk the dogs could easilly go toe to toe against Tie swarms (other lists could aswell prior to this, but i agree they were at a disadvantadge, specially wave 1 era), we could argue that either advanced sensors or FCS didn't make them a truly "one action" ship sure. Nowadays basic profiles require EPTs and/or several upgrade slots to be able to compete due to upgrade creep multiplying value.

Edited by DreadStar
Posted at
1 hour ago, DreadStar said:

Depends on what wave we are speaking about, the Bwing was a better ship overall, and either 4Bwings or Biggs walk the dogs could easilly go toe to toe against Tie swarms (other lists could aswell prior to this, but i agree they were at a disadvantadge, specially wave 1 era), we could argue that either advanced sensors or FCS didn't make them a truly "one action" ship sure. Nowadays basic profiles require EPTs and/or several upgrade slots to be able to compete due to upgrade creep multiplying value.

I'd put FCS B-wings firmly not in the 'one action per turn' camp. Even if the FCS is quite inflexible so it's not really the equivalent of a 2nd action, it's definitely more than nothing.

Posted at
10 minutes ago, LordBlades said:

I'd put FCS B-wings firmly not in the 'one action per turn' camp. Even if the FCS is quite inflexible so it's not really the equivalent of a 2nd action, it's definitely more than nothing.

We'll call it 1.5 actions per turn, and it seems to be the most popular System slot by far.

Posted at
1 hour ago, Lampyridae said:

We'll call it 1.5 actions per turn, and it seems to be the most popular System slot by far.

It's probably the least situational system, also the cheapest.

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The counterpoint is that it wasn't the most popular back then because it wasn't particularly effective against swarms, specially compared to advanced sensors. Getting something out of FCS against a swarm was not common.