They're supposed to have like 5 crew aren't they? Can't even get one crew slot out of it?

FFG didn't want Sabine to help them, so they gave it no crew.

Then, after they released the ship pack, they actually sat and read Sabine's card text closely.

What's wrong with Sabine? Isn't this the kind of ship she was meant for?

It's also disappointing cus I really would have liked to have a Paige Tico crew card.

Because Sabine is too good and FFG won't fix her they just have to change the design on every future ship they make instead.

26 minutes ago, Stay On The Leader said:

Because Sabine is too good and FFG won't fix her they just have to change the design on every future ship they make instead.

This

27 minutes ago, Stay On The Leader said:

Because Sabine is too good and FFG won't fix her they just have to change the design on every future ship they make instead.

...not that it makes any difference, so long as you have a cheap support ship with a crew slot oh the Phantom II they released in the VERY SAME WAVE.

17 minutes ago, FTS Gecko said:

...not that it makes any difference, so long as you have a cheap support ship with a crew slot oh the Phantom II they released in the VERY SAME WAVE.

It's still a 15 point tax to Sabine in its cheapest configuration. (14 with Zeb on Sabine's Masterpiece)

Balance.

The fluff reason is that crew slots are for supernumeraries, and all 5 have tasks in the normal running of the ship.

Balance, but it can also be explained by the crew being completely occupied with operating the ordnance silos. Crew tends to be more co-pilot type.

Maybe they could have given it a "Team" slot?

Sabine pilot card for the Resistance Bomber?

6 hours ago, Azrapse said:

It's still a 15 point tax to Sabine in its cheapest configuration. (14 with Zeb on Sabine's Masterpiece)

Welcome to Imperial's world where, if we want to run Palpatine, we have to pay his 8 points plus 21 for the clunkiest piece of gosa in the verse.

UGH NO MORE SABINE.

Paige Tico and the pilot should have been in the pack. Also, that bomber only does its thing for 4 minutes at the sart of the battle. Meh.

Crew is busy operating the turre...

NVM, this ship didn't end up making sense due to the many design space workarounds they had to deal with

Same reason they get no EPT nor turret slots. But three copies of bombslings for your friends' Scum Nyms.

10 hours ago, Kingsguard said:

It's also disappointing cus I really would have liked to have a Paige Tico crew card.

She is the latest in a VERY long line of characters that need to be in this game.

K-2SO anyone? An actual pilot of a U-Wing in the movie?

Meanwhile, we have Ahsoka Tano, who really has no role in the GCW, in the game.

This game needs a entire wave of ship-lite or ship-less fluff added to it for the Star Wars fans.

4 hours ago, JohnWE said:

Maybe they could have given it a "Team" slot?

Would have been an innovative and cool design idea.

3 hours ago, BlodVargarna said:

Would have been an innovative and cool design idea.

Totally agree. A team slot would have been very interesting.

Sabine is a Disney character, she will never be nerfer to please the Mouse

1 hour ago, Arkanta974 said:

Sabine is a Disney character, she will never be nerfer to please the Mouse

She is the real Mary Sue in Star Wars.

7 hours ago, Darth Meanie said:

Meanwhile, we have Ahsoka Tano, who really has no role in the GCW, in the game.

She was a Fulcrum agent for years and actually showed up to help the rebels in person a few times, in Rebels.

6 minutes ago, UnitOmega said:

She was a Fulcrum agent for years and actually showed up to help the rebels in person a few times, in Rebels.

Stop saying these logical and consistent with the lore things! It's unsightly to make sense.
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TBH FFG didn't want the ship to be OP.

So instead we got something that was okay, because FFG has designed a game where ONLY OP things are truly worth using.

Honestly, even without Sabine's normal ability, her adding of bombs would kind of **** with the balance of the B/SF-17. It seems built around a combination of Two Bombs Once/Bomblets Forever/One Bomb 4 times. If you could equip Sabine, then you'd make that 8 bombs - it just overcomplicates the munitions you need to track when thinking about the ship.

45 minutes ago, UnitOmega said:

Honestly, even without Sabine's normal ability, her adding of bombs would kind of **** with the balance of the B/SF-17. It seems built around a combination of Two Bombs Once/Bomblets Forever/One Bomb 4 times. If you could equip Sabine, then you'd make that 8 bombs - it just overcomplicates the munitions you need to track when thinking about the ship.

Now heres an argument that makes sense. They could nerf sabines damage all they wanted, but dat bomb slot + silos......

Forget tracking the bombs, the choices of control and area denial are mind boggling. For the trolls clusters and proxy mines could choke half a play area in damage....

I'd be very surprised if the bomber doesn't cause some ragequits in epic as is.