Been having some fun scheming up some Rebels -based alternative cards. First, the Rebellion's early, unmodified A-wings:

RZ-1 A-Wing Interceptor

A-wing only. Title.

Increase your shield value by 1. Your upgrade bar gains 1 missile slot. Your action bar loses the Boost icon.

(0 pts)

The Two-seat A-wing that Ezra and Kanan fly (Double missile upgrade rather than title):

RZ-1T Trainer

A-wing only. Occupies two Missile slots

Your upgrade bar gains one crew slot.

(1 pt)

Quarrie's Prototype from "Wings of the Master"

• Blade Wing Prototype

B-Wing only. Title.

Your action bar gains the boost icon.

When attacking with a cannon secondary weapon, you may roll one additional attack die.

(10 pts)

And bonus: Something to make the B-Wing more thematically accurate, without giving it a huge boost.

A/SF-01 B-Wing

B-Wing only. Title.

Your upgrade bar gains a Cannon icon.

When you equip a Cannon upgrade, you may equip another Cannon upgrade of equal or fewer squad points for free.

(0 pts)

Of course it would be awesome to see Wedge in an A-Wing or Hera in a B-wing as well.

Done before...

Phoenix Squadron "ace" expansion, based on the SW Rebels TV show.

( Here is the full bunch of A-Wing Rebels' pilots, if you don't mind one more Sabine)

DESIGN NOTES:

Ace expansion focused on the TV series Star Wars Rebels for the Custom Card League 2nd Season .

The Phoenix Squadron Pilot with 0 PS is not only a joke/reference to how bad they were in the series, but opens, along with the custom upgrades, a new way to play with the A-Wings (as cheap, swarmy blockers)

Phoenix Squadron Vets are straightforward. Those are the most talented (or lucky) pilots that managed to survive the series. They offer a cheap Elite upgrade.

Ahsoka, a canonical A-Wing pilot, got a new ability (something uncommon, but possible in this game, when changing ships) that gives her an “Ace Killer” status. Considering she beat the **** of Darth Vader, that’s a pretty cool ability.

Hera is just being Hera.

The exclusive A-Wing upgrades are all based on legends or canon material. It seems reasonable that the A-Wings in Rebels are not the more advanced RZ-1 models used later by the Alliance, but the (now Legends) R-22 Spearhead .

About the B-Wing:

The canonical Blade Squadron would fill the gap for the PS 3 and cheap elite.

Quarrie, the engineer that created the Blade Wing prototype got a negative ability and low PS, in accord to his statement “Oh I don't fly, too dangerous.” This is a guy that knows everything theoretical about flying, but who doesn’t seat in the cockpit. Sure his “inability” is compensated by a squad cost discount.

Braylen is the same pilot of the ARC, but now in his specialized ship (got and EPT for that). I wanted to give him a new ability, but couldn’t think of any at the moment.

And here is Hera again (should I change the name of the expansion to “Hera’s Ace Pack”?)

The Rotating Cockpit and Multi-Cannon are based on cards by Rakaydos. My Rotating Cockpit is simpler but weaker. And Blade Wing Prototype exists basically to allow the Multi-Cannon (which was designed to kill only ships with low agility).

The 3 crew upgrades are a tribute to characters that showed (or will show) in Rebels. I especially like the Hondo card (so many possibilities!).

PS: well, I had to add 2 B-Wing pilot cards not Rebels-related to complete the pack (but they are new canon and maybe even show up in Rebels some day).

It has been confirmed though that the A-wings in Rebels are RZ-1's. the ones we see at Endor were just "hotrod' refits that stripped out most of the shields and weapons to make them even faster.

Oops. But it would be so cool though (except those cards would be fantastically overpowered)

Two Seater on the TIE Phantom: run Palpatine around in a cloaked ship!

Or, you know, put it on a Nym Havoc so that it can take both a salvaged astromech and a crew.