On the dual card for intensity that is coming with the tie aggressor, if Poe doesn't use the focus he gains after boosting or brolling, can he flip that card same turn?

Yes. There is nothing preventing you from flipping that card back over in the same turn you originally used it. The two sides have different timing windows and are different effects, so there's no interaction between them.

That's awesome. So you.can basically run Poe with intensity for the same price as push the limit but not be hindered by stress. That is going to be fun to fly.

19 minutes ago, Browncoat50 said:

That's awesome. So you.can basically run Poe with intensity for the same price as push the limit but not be hindered by stress. That is going to be fun to fly.

Basically. It does have a few differences. A big one is that Intensity won't let you Focus+Target Lock. Another is that even with Poe's ability, you might sometimes want to spend his Focus token (such as when an enemy rolls a big attack against you and your defense dice come up as double eyeballs). If you do spend or lose the focus some other way, then you don't have it to flip Intensity back up.

22 hours ago, EdgeOfDreams said:

Basically. It does have a few differences. A big one is that Intensity won't let you Focus+Target Lock. Another is that even with Poe's ability, you might sometimes want to spend his Focus token (such as when an enemy rolls a big attack against you and your defense dice come up as double eyeballs). If you do spend or lose the focus some other way, then you don't have it to flip Intensity back up.

Or if you'd rather spend that focus on R5-P9 and recover a shield...though I would assume you'd run R2-D2 if you were running Intensity with this intent...

14 minutes ago, ZealuxMyr said:

Or if you'd rather spend that focus on R5-P9 and recover a shield...though I would assume you'd run R2-D2 if you were running Intensity with this intent...

Yeah, if you're taking Intensity, you're pretty much forced into using R2-D2 or BB-8 as your droid. R5-P9 just has too much anti-synergy with Intensity.

15 minutes ago, EdgeOfDreams said:

Yeah, if you're taking Intensity, you're pretty much forced into using R2-D2 or BB-8 as your droid. R5-P9 just has too much anti-synergy with Intensity.

Just use Kyle + Moldy Crow + Recon Spec and/or Garvin for extra foci...no list ever suffered from trying to spend all your points on making one synergistic thing work...

You do have the nice substitute for a shield regen with BB-8, though:

• Poe Dameron
• Black One
• Intensity
• BB-8
• Primed Thrusters
• Integrated Astromech

Slightly cheaper than normal Push The Limit Poe, and arguably more useful, as you're not limited so much by stress.

In a normal turn, Poe reveals a green move, barrel rolls, and picks up an evade token. He then performs his manoeuvre, and focuses. Since he generally doesn't have to spend his focus, at the end of the turn he can use his focus to 'restock' intensity.

Maintaining a continuous free evade token on Poe goes a long way to make up for a T-70's normal lack of agility. Alternatively you can use Intensity to focus and Target Lock if you anticipate being clear of attackers.

It essentially turns him into a mini-fel. Being able to perfom a white move (or even a red move), then boost, and pick up and hang onto a focus works wonders, and talon roll/boost/focus is as close as you're going to come on the board to the takodana "corkscrew of exploding TIE/fo fighters". The fact that he's also essentially impossible for one ship to target lock if he moves second just makes him nastier.

Still, beware of stuff like hotshot co-pilot! This build does help with Carnor Jax (a bit) as you can assign a focus to yourself, and use Poe's ability, even inside Jax's bubble. You just can't spend the focus to re-enable intensity at the end of the turn.

21 hours ago, Magnus Grendel said:

Alternatively you can use Intensity to focus and Target Lock if you anticipate being clear of attackers.

Uhh... how?

Barrel roll, trigger intensity, receive focus token, manoeuvre, target lock.

Spend target lock when shooting, use Poe's ability to not spend the focus token, "restock" intensity. Rinse and repeat.

Ahh, yeah. BB-8. I'm being blind.

I ran a proxy Intense Poe the other night and found it vastly superior to Stressed Poe:

Poe Dameron (PS9) - 33pts

• Intensity (2pts)
• BB-8 (2pts)
• Primed Thrusters (1pt)
• Black One (1pt)
• Autothrusters (2pts)

Total: 41 pts

You can pull all the regular Poe/BB shenanigans like hiding behind asteroids and 1 banks in and out of arcs, but you can also Segnor Turn, boost, and grab a focus or evade with Intensity. OR you can hover at range 3, grab an evade with Intensity, and innately focus. With Autothrusters that gives you a guaranteed two evades plus the luck of two more dice.

It's also kind of neat that this Poe build can barrel roll, focus or evade, execute a green maneuver, and then boost even if he started with 2 stress.

If he starts with 3 stress, he can execute a green, then boost and focus or evade. It's kinda crazy.

If he is ionized and has two stress, he can still do a boost and focus or evade.

Now, that's one hell of a pilot.

Not to mention being able to acquire an evade token in a ship that doesn't have the evade action, and - with Black One in his back pocket - be a right bugger to even lock on to, let alone hit, with secondary weapons...

And he is crazy fun to fly. You can change your direction last minute by barrell rolling one way instead of another, pick and choose when to boost in for an attack or out to avoid an arc, or even just cover a crazy amount of ground barrell rolling forward, manuevering 3 green straight, and boosting forward.

I am wondering if Comm Relay instead of Primed Thrusters might sometimes be a better choice. Give yourself the evade in your first turn with Intensity. Flip the card back over on turn 2 with a focus. You hold onto the evade token then until you need it. You're more self sufficient than comboing off of another ship with Jan Ors crew.

42 minutes ago, Joe Censored said:

I am wondering if Comm Relay instead of Primed Thrusters might sometimes be a better choice. Give yourself the evade in your first turn with Intensity. Flip the card back over on turn 2 with a focus. You hold onto the evade token then until you need it. You're more self sufficient than comboing off of another ship with Jan Ors crew.

I'd disagree, Primed Thrusters allows you to perform a red manuever and still perform a boost action, grabbing you an evade or focus in the process. That's super useful when Signor Looping in for the kill or K-Turning without making yourself vulnerable.