3 minutes ago, theBitterFig said:

I'd suppose Finn. Add a blank every time? That's great for Heroic!

Ah, k, yeah...makes sense. Heroic Finn does seem super solid as filler.

FFG prize support hates him! See how he made everyone buy the dice app with one simple trick:

2 hours ago, LagJanson said:

You, sir, have no honour.

There is more honor in victory.

24 minutes ago, millertime059 said:

There is more honor in victory.

Except when the victor doesn't play by my rules and definition of honour.

1 minute ago, LagJanson said:

Except when the victor doesn't play by my rules and definition of honour.

no u

1 minute ago, skotothalamos said:

no u

Dang it. Defeated by a superior argument.

1 minute ago, LagJanson said:

Dang it. Defeated by a superior argument.

I was just offering spelling help.

2 hours ago, gennataos said:

We talking about Cova Nell? Don't assume gender!

Nah, it was Finn. That ability seems so much to be what Sunny's ability wants to be.

2 hours ago, theBitterFig said:

I'd probably go lean. But do we know that Finn will have a Talent slot? Sometimes Quickbuilds will include Talents that pilots can't normally take. 104th ARC, and some of the Obsidian TIEs, for example.

If any of the characters from TLJ deserve the heroic slot, it would be Finn and Rose, as absurd as that sounds. I guess that the main argument for sinking 8pts into a deluxe Z95 is that Vennie's ability but easier to proc is pretty good on a 2 agi ship. And the strain isn't that bad anyway. If you roll a blank on your 1 die defense, add another 1 and reroll them both! If you saved that double focus for defense in junction with heroic, then you can literally expect* 2 evades on both defensive rolls (and yes, even with the strain on the latter one). I'd have to see the gate of storms numbers once it's updated to include Finn pilot in the defense side.

*Yes, there are infinitismal odds where that is not going to happen, but they will be those stories shared similar to how you used Heroic/First Order Vanguard to reroll 4 blanks into 4 more blanks. We are talking about fraction of a percent.

11 minutes ago, player3010587 said:

and yes, even with the strain on the latter one

You lose the strain after you defend...so literally no down side!

1 minute ago, Ablazoned said:

You lose the strain after you defend...so literally no down side!

Exactly. And if you roll a focus on defense, strain yourself again. Oh no, I'm out of tokens! Just looks like I have a 3/8 chance of triggering heroic on 2 dice heaped on top of my 3/8 odds of 1 evade!

Ok, so I did the math. I recant my statement saying that only 1 evade was sub 1%: it's actually about 2% without pre-existing strain, and then I forgot about the pre-existing strain, so you gotta watch out for it. All the same, the odds of getting 2 evades without pre-existing strain are 53% with the odds of 3 evades are 45%. That's insanely good on a chassis that will not roll 0 evades unless it swings for the fences (be that as a result of not having a focus or going high when defending when strained. Because whereas you always heroic before you strain when you still have a native 2 agi, when you are strained, the same strat takes some of the odds from getting 1 evade and spreads them to the extremes of 0 and 2 evades).

So, Finn pod OP, PLZ NERF? (I know you're not saying that at all)

This pack really feels like a reboot to the entire faction. Up to this point, from a competitive standpoint, it might as well have been a two-ship faction.

• Filler ships (A-Wings don't count)
• Dedicated support ships
• Coordinate (C-3P0 doesn't count)
• Jam (Jamming Beam doesn't count)
• Make Falcons and Bombers viable (maybe?)

3 minutes ago, gennataos said:

Filler ships (A-Wings don't count)

Wait... why do A-wings not count as filler ships?

2 minutes ago, LagJanson said:

Wait... why do A-wings not count as filler ships?

Maybe they do, but not for me. I think of filler ships as "is it better to spend those points on upgrades and/or bid or another ship"? At 32 points, that's a bigger block of points than I'd consider for that role.

1 minute ago, gennataos said:

Maybe they do, but not for me. I think of filler ships as "is it better to spend those points on upgrades and/or bid or another ship"? At 32 points, that's a bigger block of points than I'd consider for that role.

Ok, that's fair. I disagree, but can't argue that we should feel the same way about it.

2 hours ago, player3010587 said:

If you saved that double focus for defense in junction with heroic, then you can literally expect* 2 evades on both defensive rolls (and yes, even with the strain on the latter one). I'd have to see the gate of storms numbers once it's updated to include Finn pilot in the defense side.

Focus doesn't matter. As soon as Naboo joins the war, all focus tokens are calculate tokens. Sorry, not all focus tokens. Just one of them. You can just ignore the other one.

30 minutes ago, skotothalamos said:

Focus doesn't matter. As soon as Naboo joins the war, all focus tokens are calculate tokens. Sorry, not all focus tokens. Just one of them. You can just ignore the other one.

Thank God Padme is just one pilot and thus not a spammable version of Dead to Rights. That and unless she doesn't mind going slow or doing red maneuvers, her time on target won't be too bad by herself. She's still going to be nasty (see Naboo Handmaidens or @RStan's I4 Jedi Jank), but the effectivity of Finn is not going to be destroyed by 1 single faction. We have precedent for such an effect: even though Phasma is the definition of worthless when you play against Resistance, she is amazing against the other factions. By the same token, the ubiquity of a ship won't guarantee the immediate success of its counters: Death Troopers and Thannison have a difficult time making a meaningful use of their abilities on wary Republic players despite their massive effect against Rebels.

I know you're right in pointing out that we should learn how to play against Padme, but I'm too excited by Ric being a diet TIE Defender.

4 minutes ago, Brunas said:

A solid 5/7

7 hours ago, unfassbarnathan said:

F

33 minutes ago, Transmogrifier said:

Selfless is like using craft glue for woodworking but it's okay because the things would work fine just sitting atop one another

• Reb
  • Hope
    • A more interesting version of generic Bs become viable either via cannon scaling (3 atk pays less) or Advanced Sensor ini-scaling
    • Es become playable
  • Exp: Some uninterestingly different version of 4-ship salad/beef continues to be the only competitive list
• Imp
  • Hope: Defender becoming good? Bad thing to hope for I know, but Defenders are just cool
  • Exp: Phantom Nerf
• Scum
  • Hope: Ini-scaled Advanced Sensors could mean cool things for generic Starvipers, some interesting Brobot build
  • Exp: No clue
• Res
  • Hope: No broken combos, falcon + T70 becomes a (non-degenerate) thing
  • Exp: RZ2 Up
• Fo
  • Dont know/care
• Rep
  • Hope: Jedi remain A-Tier somehow, but okay with 7B/R2 not being that way
  • Exp: N-1 meta maybe but super dependant on many piece costs
    • Jedi untouched due to newness -- or -- nerf via Mace/R2/7B, with some underused pieces get a slight buff, but overall power decrease
• CIS
  • Hope: Nantex swarm meta, my body is ready
  • Exp: Nantex swarm meta, my body is ready