That armoured cruiser will make a great lead unit for an old school ackbar line, everything you ever wanted, turbo laser upgrade, leading shots, gunnery team and best of all an external rack powered killer front arch to stop some fast small base screwing your gun line..... Park in front of me will you.... Eat 8 dice with rerolls. And a lovely gunnery team for your assault frigate...

2 hours ago, Drasnighta said:

Yeah, and that flotilla next door has to take all 4 damage on one arc with co defense tokens...

1 shield + 3 hull = dead

Does all the damage need to be on one arc?

From a single shot. If you're relying on double arcing then you'd need five damage to account for the extra shield.

8 minutes ago, Ophion said:

Does all the damage need to be on one arc?

Yes.

RRG pg 4

When a ship suffers damage and a hull zone isn’t speci ed, the ship’s owner chooses which hull zone suffers all of that damage.

10 minutes ago, Ophion said:

Does all the damage need to be on one arc?

When a ship is told to take damage and the instructions don't provide a hull zone to take it in, the ship's owner chooses one hull zone for it to go to.

Edit: @Drasnighta is a maple-syrup smelling, moose-riding, maple leafed Canadian ninja.

16 minutes ago, Snipafist said:

Edit: @Drasnighta is a maple-syrup smelling, moose-riding, maple leafed Canadian ninja.

This legitimately makes me sad

1 minute ago, Drasnighta said:

This legitimately makes me sad

Don't be sad!

Are we friends again?

2 hours ago, Onidsen said:

If only the MC80A could take a weapons team...

If the twins were an officer upgrade, they'd be amazing! Maybe even OP. As a weapons team, they are making us ask the question - are they worth the opportunity cost of not getting Gunnery Teams?

I dunno, at least on the MC75, they feel like a natural fit. I'm not sure I've seen a ship in the game with its weapon distribution quite that evenly balanced between front and side arcs. I mean, I guess the AF Mk II A is in the ballpark, but something about the MC75s arrangement feels...very effective.

I love the art on the Ordnance cruiser. Pretty spiffy.

16 minutes ago, xanderf said:

I dunno, at least on the MC75, they feel like a natural fit. I'm not sure I've seen a ship in the game with its weapon distribution quite that evenly balanced between front and side arcs. I mean, I guess the AF Mk II A is in the ballpark, but something about the MC75s arrangement feels...very effective.

I love this distribution. I normally play the maneuver game hard, but this will let me focus on getting good at some other styles.

I find it interesting to compare the MC75A with a combat Interdictor.

• Same hull, flak & defence tokens.
• 5 Dice front left & right compared to 4 for the Imperial.
• Extra squadron, less engineering, larger command.
• Larger base.
• 4 extra shields.
• Speed 3.
• Different slots but the all important defence slot for ECM/RBDs

Advantages & disadvantages but that's quite a lot of net gains for only 11 points. Imagine adding High Capacity Ions and Minister Tua to an Interdictor to even the differences a little and you are only paying one more point for the Rebel. We always new that the Interdictor Experimental upgrades were too cheap and the ship too expensive (a tax).

32 minutes ago, xanderf said:

I dunno, at least on the MC75, they feel like a natural fit. I'm not sure I've seen a ship in the game with its weapon distribution quite that evenly balanced between front and side arcs. I mean, I guess the AF Mk II A is in the ballpark, but something about the MC75s arrangement feels...very effective.

I'll agree on that one.

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Wow, i am just floored by this new addition to the Rebel navy! Fellow rebels, i think this will be a great wave for us .

I'm even torn as to give in and add a 3rd to my pre-order, or stick with my "2 large ships to my fleet per wave" philosophy...

46 minutes ago, xanderf said:

I dunno, at least on the MC75, they feel like a natural fit. I'm not sure I've seen a ship in the game with its weapon distribution quite that evenly balanced between front and side arcs.

The interdictor.

4 minutes ago, scipio83 said:

The interdictor.

Well, there's no *real ship* as can match the Interceptor.

I mean, has weapons evenly distributed...

Speed 3!

59 minutes ago, xanderf said:

I dunno, at least on the MC75, they feel like a natural fit. I'm not sure I've seen a ship in the game with its weapon distribution quite that evenly balanced between front and side arcs. I mean, I guess the AF Mk II A is in the ballpark, but something about the MC75s arrangement feels...very effective.

It's harder to maximize than you think. The differing ranges between the front and side arcs makes it somewhat difficult to get the most out of them. What can often happen is a ship approaches which ever arc threatens them least and park there. For example, an AFII or MC80 can equal or beat it in a broadside fight, so they can aim to stay in that side arc. ISDs can beat the front arc, so they can aim to trap the MC75 in a front arc duel. Don't get me wrong, I love the **** out of the ship, but it is not the easiest to fly properly.

MC75 Ordnance Cruiser is the MVP of this preview.

Give that thing Rapid Reload, Assault Proton Torpedoes, Ordnance Experts, and ECM just in case... warp that thing in with Raddus at range 1 of 3 enemy ships and shout "Now THIS is Podracing!"

2 minutes ago, Crabbok said:

MC75 Ordnance Cruiser is the MVP of this preview.

Give that thing Rapid Reload, Assault Proton Torpedoes, Ordnance Experts, and ECM just in case... warp that thing in with Raddus at range 1 of 3 enemy ships and shout "Now THIS is Podracing!"

And drop off a loaded HH while you're there.

5 hours ago, Cade Bulkin said:

you are right. I saw him, got excited, and then got distracted by everything else. WHAT DOES HE DO!?!?!?!

If I was to wager, a guess he is going to be similar to Governor Pryce. Pick a round, your ship will go first, Large/medium only. maybe some other sort of drawbacks.

edit: to back up the claim this was pulled from the Hi res image-

Medium or…

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8 hours ago, geek19 said:

And that Vapes a flotilla. IIRC, there's no defense tokens spending on their end either, so poof, no scatter!

I don't think that's how it works. Let's say you do 4 dmg with that attack and WAB, if the flotilla still has all its shields, best you can do is strip it completely from shields. It still lives.

1 minute ago, Sybreed said:

I don't think that's how it works. Let's say you do 4 dmg with that attack and WAB, if the flotilla still has all its shields, best you can do is strip it completely from shields. It still lives.

You're incorrect. You need to choose a hull zone and that's where all the damage goes. 4 damage that way and the flotilla dies. If it happened in 4 individual packets of 1 damage, it would work the way you believe it does, but it's a single packet of 4 damage.

3 minutes ago, Sybreed said:

I don't think that's how it works. Let's say you do 4 dmg with that attack and WAB, if the flotilla still has all its shields, best you can do is strip it completely from shields. It still lives.

But it has to suffer all damage on one hull zone since the damage does not specify a hull zone. 1 shield + 3 hull = dead flotilla.

Just now, Snipafist said:

You're incorrect. You need to choose a hull zone and that's where all the damage goes. 4 damage that way and the flotilla dies. If it happened in 4 individual packets of 1 damage, it would work the way you believe it does, but it's a single packet of 4 damage.

Hmmm, are you sure? It's worded like what happens when you hit a debris field. It's 2 dmg on any hull zones. Are you sure this is different?

1 minute ago, Sybreed said:

Hmmm, are you sure? It's worded like what happens when you hit a debris field. It's 2 dmg on any hull zones. Are you sure this is different?

Debris field says any one hull zone as well.