Hello everyone!

I think the new "Linked Battery" might bring back some B-Wings into this game

There are a lot of people out there, who love these classic ships, so let's find out what we can do.

How about a cheap Pocket ace? Good old Keyan Farlander!

Keyan Farlander (29)
Linked Battery (2)
Hera Syndulla (1)
B-Wing/E2 (1)

Total: 33

This might work pretty easily... Keyan will always have something like an offensive focus, as long as he uses a lot of red maneuvers in the game.

And he can always reroll at least one of his dice, for one point cheaper than the real Predator.

This means he can still take something like VI.

Or how about the old B-Wing Swarm?

Blue Squadron Pilot (22)
Linked Battery (2)

Blue Squadron Pilot (22)
Linked Battery (2)

Blue Squadron Pilot (22)
Linked Battery (2)

Blue Squadron Pilot (22)
Linked Battery (2)

Total: 96

Have you got some more ideas?

Would love to see some B-Wings back with this awesome new Predator-like ability!

I really don't see this being better than FCS, unless you are going to use the system slot for something else.

You are not the only one that thinks that and earlier post on this has been made.

Sunny bounder with focus goes up to over 40% chance of triple hit or triple crit.

I don’t think 33 points is ‘pocket ace’ territory but then maybe that qualifies for B-wings.

Sunny sounds more like it

26 minutes ago, hawk32 said:

I really don't see this being better than FCS, unless you are going to use the system slot for something else.

And then the B-wing becomes even more expensive.

46 minutes ago, Schu81 said:

Keyan Farlander (29)
Linked Battery (2)
Hera Syndulla (1)
B-Wing/E2 (1)

Total: 33

If you go this way, why not Ibitsam : E2, Hera, Collision detector, Linked Battery and Stay on target for 34 pts.
Absolutely not competition viable, but should be fun enough for casual nights !

22 minutes ago, Rakaydos said:

Sunny bounder with focus goes up to over 40% chance of triple hit or triple crit.

I forgot about Sunny, I know linked heavy does make it fairly good and not in need of target lock with that. I was thinking about all the small ship cannon carriers but still a little skeptical.

• B-wing thanks to the primary firepower cannon slot often goes empty unless it is ion or HLC. But again with linked B-wings starting at 24 points it might be expensive. Too much for the old BBBBZ list.
• TIE Defender with the base one starting at an expensive 30 points I don't think this will be good. Especially since it doesn't work with any of the titles. Maybe Marrek since he doesn't like TIE-D anyways but I still think mangler would be better.
• Scyk the fragile body even with the extra hull from the errata still makes this a ship not worth investing a lot of points into. Thankfully linked battery is cheap but again with the scyk firepower of 2 makes it a rather weak proponent. Might have greater reroll efficiency since it only rerolls 1 die.

So given there currently is only 3 small ships with cannon upgrades, it doesn't seem like it will see much play. There is a slim chance for B-wings and Scyks to none for TIE Defenders but that is it. I think if linked batteries are going to make an impact they will have to be with the ships from the same wave.

I'm putting together a post of the sunny bounder math.

It would have helped Firesprays and Aggressors, I don't see it doing much for b-wings.

55 minutes ago, hawk32 said:

I really don't see this being better than FCS, unless you are going to use the system slot for something else.

It's the classic flexibility vs potential. FCS will provide better rerolls and can aid other secondary weapons while Linked Batteries can be used for every single shot without set up, making that first shot and switching targets less troublesome.

5 minutes ago, SabineKey said:

It's the classic flexibility vs potential. FCS will provide better rerolls and can aid other secondary weapons while Linked Batteries can be used for every single shot without set up, making that first shot and switching targets less troublesome.

This is very true.

Also, free collision detectors.

Me: Likes this card. Wants to use on GUNBOATS and Defenders.