Has anyone found a good use for this objective? I am considering it along with some strategic squads, and hammer heads with external racks (but no OE). Also in the running is Salvation and Admo with Sensor team + Xi7 instead of OE. Yellow and Blue objectives would be VIP and Salvage run, probably. Thoughts?

I've tried it with a Leia fleet in the last Vassal tourney, but found it quite underwhelming. 2 rerolls that may or may not be useful, and that may be in range, just doesn't hold up to the likes of potential point-scoring objectives like (for example) Most Wanted.

BACON!!!!!!!

Bacon is always the first thing I target during breakfast.

Bacon is just delish. I have it only I weekends tho.

Sato.

But then again. Most wanted.

The real issue with Beacons is that two of your beacons are always initially placed in such a way as to be functionally useless.

The other issue is that by mashing them objective tokens, enemy strategic squadrons can then make your existing tokens also useless.

Broken objective due to placement rules mentioned above.

This is one I like, but I know I'm in the Minority.

because its a "broken' objective, its more likely to be chosen by my oponent, especially if I have heavy punishers in the Defense and Navigation categories... Which leads me to be able ot use those two rerolls critically outside of what would be normal...

The most common of that is getting Rerolls on Satovation. That's a disproportional bonus to most bonuses, because really, Bonuses like that are hard to come by in the Rebel Alliance...

It does make it a niche objcetive for sure... But I also enjoy the false sense of security it grants my opponents, before I can disabuse them of that notion.

Use a shuttle or squadron with strategic to move the tokens where you want them. It is really silly and fun to do.

An overlooked point of Targeting Beacons is the fact that, yes, you've only got 2 (because the other two are way out of range)...

But unlike Planetary Ion Cannon

They are effectively limitless .

There is no once-per-turn Restriction. There is no "Discard the Token to use"... They are Unlimited in their usage... This can include Double-Arcing a Target for Both shots... or bouncing them between targets with Strategic...

23 hours ago, Drasnighta said:

An overlooked point of Targeting Beacons is the fact that, yes, you've only got 2 (because the other two are way out of range)...

But unlike Planetary Ion Cannon

They are effectively limitless .

There is no once-per-turn Restriction. There is no "Discard the Token to use"... They are Unlimited in their usage... This can include Double-Arcing a Target for Both shots... or bouncing them between targets with Strategic...

Essentially they are like Task Force Organa, but without all the exhausting and restrictions.

On 26/7/2017 at 7:45 PM, Drasnighta said:

but I know I'm in the Minority

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Now I'm in the mood for Bacon.

Search and eat mission activated.

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