So, this really doesn't get used much, but the potential is there.

This is what it says:

"ACTION: Choose 1 ship at Range 1-2 that has a lower pilot skill than you.

The chosen ship may immediately perform 1 free action."

What if it said:

"ACTION: Choose 2 ships at Range 1 that have a lower pilot skill than you.

The chosen ships may immediately perform 1 free action."

I would certainly attempt using it more often if that were the case.

Of course that would make it better. It would give a netto +1 action, which is always a good thing.

I think it's interesting that squad leader is almost exactly the same as coordinate, and VI Fenn is a great coordinator. But he highlights that the platform, or rather the PS, is the important part here. And there lies the problem of squad leader - you'd want to combine it with VI, but both use the same slot. So squad leader is limited to PS9. Which out of the 12 native PS9 ships want to give away an action?

Vader, Soontir, Quickdraw and Kylo can't.
Fenn, Talonbane and Dengar can't.
Sheathipede-Fenn can! Han maybe, he has enough rerolls without actions. Poe might be another option, because he can BB8-roll and Optics-Focus, but VI is too important for him. And Wedge also has his problems.

So none of the high PS pilots want to waste their action on another ship. Usually it is the other way around! These highPS aces should be supported by dedicated support ships.

14 minutes ago, GreenDragoon said:

Of course that would make it better. It would give a netto +1 action, which is always a good thing.

I think it's interesting that squad leader is almost exactly the same as coordinate, and VI Fenn is a great coordinator. But he highlights that the platform, or rather the PS, is the important part here. And there lies the problem of squad leader - you'd want to combine it with VI, but both use the same slot. So squad leader is limited to PS9. Which out of the 12 native PS9 ships want to give away an action?

Vader, Soontir, Quickdraw and Kylo can't.
Fenn, Talonbane and Dengar can't.
Sheathipede-Fenn can! Han maybe, he has enough rerolls without actions. Poe might be another option, because he can BB8-roll and Optics-Focus, but VI is too important for him. And Wedge also has his problems.

So none of the high PS pilots want to waste their action on another ship. Usually it is the other way around! These highPS aces should be supported by dedicated support ships.

That is exactly why it doesn't get used! I was thinking 4 points, but the opportunity cost is pretty big so I think 2 points is good.

1 hour ago, GreenDragoon said:

Of course that would make it better. It would give a netto +1 action, which is always a good thing.

I think it's interesting that squad leader is almost exactly the same as coordinate, and VI Fenn is a great coordinator. But he highlights that the platform, or rather the PS, is the important part here. And there lies the problem of squad leader - you'd want to combine it with VI, but both use the same slot. So squad leader is limited to PS9. Which out of the 12 native PS9 ships want to give away an action?

Vader, Soontir, Quickdraw and Kylo can't.
Fenn, Talonbane and Dengar can't.
Sheathipede-Fenn can! Han maybe, he has enough rerolls without actions. Poe might be another option, because he can BB8-roll and Optics-Focus, but VI is too important for him. And Wedge also has his problems.

So none of the high PS pilots want to waste their action on another ship. Usually it is the other way around! These highPS aces should be supported by dedicated support ships.

I guess you could use it with VI + EI Tycho.

A lean Vader could get away with this just fine, he'd still have his native action.

Squad Leader -- at 2 points, a R 2 limit, and a PS limit -- should simply give a free action to another friendly ship. "Once per turn, after you perform an action, you make allow another friendly ship, at Range 1-2, of the same or lower PS value, to perform a free action on its action bar."

1 hour ago, Jeff Wilder said:

Squad Leader -- at 2 points, a R 2 limit, and a PS limit -- should simply give a free action to another friendly ship. "Once per turn, after you perform an action, you make allow another friendly ship, at Range 1-2, of the same or lower PS value, to perform a free action on its action bar."

Oh man that would be so awesome on the FennBug. Coordinate to one ship and Squad Leader to the other.

4 hours ago, Boba Rick said:

Oh man that would be so awesome on the FennBug. Coordinate to one ship and Squad Leader to the other.

Yeah, a good reason to leave it an action. I like the R1, 2 ship version best.

I really should be called wing leader or element leader, though. Nothing in x-wing is played at the squad level, even in epic.