Blue Ace: T70
Flight assist astromech, integrated astromech, primed thrusters (29 pts)
For 29 points you have a ship that can fly out of arc, target lock and then have 180 degrees of repositioning with boost or barrel roll. Low ps and no EPT but could make due in a team needing 30 points filled with a good bluster or arc dodger.
Bringing him “back” would imply that he was ever “here” to begin with.
Blue Ace with FAA is pretty fun to fly though.
For 1 more point I would run Advanced Optics. Then you can bank a focus token giving you a more of a potent offensive punch. He is 30 points, so he needs to carry some weight offensively.
But yeah, he's not that good but a lot of fun to fly. Maybe with an EPT he would be more useful.
23 minutes ago, Jo Jo said:For 1 more point I would run Advanced Optics. Then you can bank a focus token giving you a more of a potent offensive punch. He is 30 points, so he needs to carry some weight offensively.
But yeah, he's not that good but a lot of fun to fly. Maybe with an EPT he would be more useful.
I think he is better with Primed Thrusters and FAA. You can fly him a little more unpredictably. Dial maneuvers that will point him away from enemy ships then barrel roll or hard boost to get on target, then take a focus. Or do a BR from FAA and hard boost to place him with an enemy in arc or set up a kill box etc.
Blue Ace is loads of fun. He should have come with an EPT.
23 minutes ago, BlodVargarna said:Blue Ace is loads of fun. He should have come with an EPT.
Yeah, at very non-Ace PS and no EPT, I don't think he's much more than a "fun" ship. Even with just VI, I'd consider taking him.
Unfortunatley they had to match the pilots for the T 70 to the pilots for the T 65, so he and Hobbie are both shortchanged (cries silently because Hobbie is so much fun)
I was thinking it would be hilarious to match up the two pairs from the 70 and 65, and try to take Hobbie/Blue Ace/Tarn Mison/Jess Pava in the same list. Ultimate X Wing Shenanigans!
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I want to like Blue Ace and I think he will have potential, but when I look at the conditional of FAA on Blue Ace compared to the mind numbing simplicity of 3 action PtL x7 Ryad for 6 points more it makes me wonder if I'd rather put those points elsewhere entirely.
13 minutes ago, Skargoth said:I want to like Blue Ace and I think he will have potential, but when I look at the conditional of FAA on Blue Ace compared to the mind numbing simplicity of 3 action PtL x7 Ryad for 6 points more it makes me wonder if I'd rather put those points elsewhere entirely.
He's surprisingly good with R7-T1 rather than Flight Assist. Advanced Optics is the nice new addition from this wave, giving him the means to get Boost/Focus/Target Lock off a single action.
Primed Thrusters is okay with Flight Assist, but if you're planning to be stressed with Flight Assist, then you'll get around the board fast but achieve next to nothing when you do. It's surprising how bad unmodified dice actually are.
Beside which, if you can do a speed 2 turn plus a speed 1 turn boost, you can 180' in a turn without needing a red move, so you should have limited use for primed thrusters because there's no really good reason for you to ever be stressed.