1 hour ago, Drasnighta said:

Technically, in a way, he is correct though.

- Make the assumption that the squadron Killed, and now protected by Rieekan, is an escort ...

Anyone around him would be invincible, as any firepower you have is wasted killing the dead guy...

With the Changes though, now you're going to have to decide wether that Ace gets protected, or wether you save Rieekan's effect for a Ship this turn.

That does directly impact the survivability of rebel squadrons.

Not trying to say he is wrong or incorrect, but i mean a non rieekan escort has the same effect as a rieekan'ed escort. Its just that IMO if the group of squadrons only has the one escort that has been rieekan'ed and no other escort, then surely the opposition would of recognised this and deployed his squadrons appropriately? If there are multiple escorts then you can shoot at one of them instead.

(Im sure someone can come up with a situation i havent considered, i dont know everything -_-)

My opinion has always been that rieekan is a threat extendet, not an immortality device, because at the end of the round, whatever happens, if rieekans ability has effected something, then that something is destroyed, only now you cannot guarantee that you are safe from a counterattack.

And besides, not all the firepower you have to use against the rieekan escort is useless, there are at least a couple of uniques such as on the rebel side ten numb who can use what their dice rolls to their advantage, even if that is a unique case (haha puns... I'll leave now)

Yes rieekan in specific circumstances and fleets can be annoying, but when you know what those circumstances are you can try and plan around them, something expected when playing such a strategic game as armada, IMO thats part of the fun of the game whether you win or lose.

Give Me something like this:

Point-blank defense coordinator:

You may exhaust this card When attacking squadrons to set the dices instead of rolling.

officer, 4 Points mby

gives you a once per turn boost to Take out key squads. Also, makes worth concentrating firepower into flak fire. Best is 4 dmg against commons and 3 against aces.

24 minutes ago, Coldhands said:

Give Me something like this:

Point-blank defense coordinator:

You may exhaust this card When attacking squadrons to set the dices instead of rolling.

officer, 4 Points mby

gives you a once per turn boost to Take out key squads. Also, makes worth concentrating firepower into flak fire. Best is 4 dmg against commons and 3 against aces.

In the eyes of ffg that would be even worse than adding a antisquad dice i recon, quick question, when you say attacking squadrons do you mean a singular squadron or all the squadrons in that attack arc? Because you wrote squadrons i took that as multiple sqds

i meant 1 squad only. I dont speak rule language well:D

What about an upgrade that works kind of like Bossks special ability.

High Speed Targeting Array

4pts. Offensive Retrofit

When attacking squadrons you may add 1 blue die set to the accuracy icon to your attack pool.

By itself this only effects aces but it could als be used to gain rerolls through leading shots against generics. if you're afraid of it being too abused then you could limit it further by restricting it to squadrons that have already taken hull damage.

A black dice at 8 points in Offensive Retrofit could upgrade really well all those ship against squadrons at close range : For Imp's: VSD, ISD (2x), QF (2x), Raider, Gozanti For Reb's: MC80CC, AF MarkII, Pelta CS, Hammerhead and GR-75.

Flotilla could be a good bargain for a cheap AA platform and do all the stuff they are good at.

My only concern with this idea is the fact that a ISD and a QF could take two of them. 2 ISD with 2 blue and 2 black dices ... this could be horrible for those squadrons trap in between

15 minutes ago, DOMSWAT911 said:

A black dice at 8 points in Offensive Retrofit could upgrade really well all those ship against squadrons at close range : For Imp's: VSD, ISD (2x), QF (2x), Raider, Gozanti For Reb's: MC80CC, AF MarkII, Pelta CS, Hammerhead and GR-75.

Flotilla could be a good bargain for a cheap AA platform and do all the stuff they are good at.

My only concern with this idea is the fact that a ISD and a QF could take two of them. 2 ISD with 2 blue and 2 black dices ... this could be horrible for those squadrons trap in between

You can't take duplicate upgrades, even if you have the slots for it.

15 minutes ago, DOMSWAT911 said:

My only concern with this idea is the fact that a ISD and a QF could take two of them. 2 ISD with 2 blue and 2 black dices ... this could be horrible for those squadrons trap in between

You can't put 2 of the same upgrade on 1 ship.

D*** you @Drasnighta and your fat fast fingers.

Thank's Dras and Meg, did forget this particular rule, that is at last important.

So this way, we could see something like what I propose be a viable solution for ship fleet?

I really do miss them... but maybe I'm the only one who is nostalgic?

I highly doubt we'll see an upgrade anytime soon that entitles you to reliably eliminate an entire arc worth of TIE Fighters in a single turn without some serious drawback.

ie: Ruthless Strategists will allow you to do it, but at a cost of a bunch of damage to your own forces - and having to have your forces in place to do so.

Impetuious will let you do it, to one dude, but not a whole arc worth.

Kallus will let you do it, but only to aces who have additional defenses...

10 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:

ie: Ruthless Strategists will allow you to do it, but at a cost of a bunch of damage to your own forces - and having to have your forces in place to do so.

Impetuious will let you do it, to one dude, but not a whole arc worth.

Kallus will let you do it, but only to aces who have additional defenses...

The beauty of all 3 of these fitting on a single ship that already has 2 dice in its AA pool...

As fragile as they are, I <3 me some raiders. lol