So Saturation Salvo

By Lobokai, in X-Wing

4 hours ago, thespaceinvader said:

It wouldn't get 'most' rebel ships.

It would get about half of them.

The ONLY reasonable use I've seen is on Double Edge, who can tolerate missing with his first attack.

And I suppose YV88 builds with Failsafe and Cruise Missile, but YV88 is dumb and bad even if you don't spend another 5 points to guarantee the miss.

So what ships could it not potentially get using unguided rockets and Sat Salvo? So rebel ships with 3 evades? A-wing, E-wing, looks like with the exception of those two this combo can hit most anything else.

No.

Saturation Salvo works on things with LOWER agility than the missile's cost, not the same.

So it only gets 0 and 1 agility, all the 2s and 3s get ignored. So all the x wings, all the attack shuttles, Dash.

Admittedly, Rebels are the most vulnerable faction to that combo, but you'd be better off spending your EPT to actually HIT them than to get a small chane of damage on a miss.

how is there a four page discussion about this bookmarker card?

Because people are really desperate for it not to be crap, given that there are three copies of it taking up space in the wave.

The card is doa. The extra copies are just FFG trying to put enough cards in the packs to justify cost.

2 minutes ago, DXCrazytrain said:

The card is doa. The extra copies are just FFG trying to put enough cards in the packs to justify cost.

I think you're right. I also think they should just fill out all the extra space with Autothrusters and Cruise Missiles. Nobody has ever said "oh, I wish I had less Autothrusters and Cruise Missiles!" I have 12 copies of Stealth Device and I still don't feel bad about it because I can give them to people.

21 minutes ago, Kieransi said:

I think you're right. I also think they should just fill out all the extra space with Autothrusters and Cruise Missiles. Nobody has ever said "oh, I wish I had less Autothrusters and Cruise Missiles!" I have 12 copies of Stealth Device and I still don't feel bad about it because I can give them to people.

That'd be nice but then how would they get you to buy doa expansions? FFG might not be able to balance ships but they can balance their checkbooks no problem.