TIE Reaper: Everything We Know

By Celestial Lizards, in X-Wing

2 minutes ago, HolySorcerer said:

Too bad Death Troopers is two points.

It takes up 2 slots so if you decide to just take the 1 trooper it's only 1 point.

28 minutes ago, HammerGibbens said:

Palp Aces will get a huge boost and I think a low PS Reaper with Tactician OPSpec throwing out a jam every turn and stressing when able, not caring if he lands his shot or not because he's giving a focus either way will also be a mean little bugger to have on the table.

An amusing idea here:

Give him Krennic's condition and purposely spend any hit/crit you rolled, causing "damage" but still "this attack missed" to spawn a focus :)

Course thats either dump tactician or get a third crew somewhere.

2 hours ago, Vineheart01 said:

Course thats either dump tactician or get a third crew somewhere.

Another TIE Reaper!

Reaper w/Krenic, Echo, Whisper. @Crit Happens make it happen.

2 hours ago, Vineheart01 said:

An amusing idea here:

Give him Krennic's condition and purposely spend any hit/crit you rolled, causing "damage" but still "this attack missed" to spawn a focus :)

Course thats either dump tactician or get a third crew somewhere.

This would be hilarious with a Gunner/Vader combo. You can basically guarantee four damage! ... and then you die after using it at most twice.

I said it before... Krennic and Jerjerod should be “friends”.

20 minutes ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

I said it before... Krennic and Jerjerod should be “friends”.

Even with Krennic being "free", I still don't think Jerjerod is worth the points or the slot.

ISB- is almost certainly ISB Agent.

I am hype for two more generic imperial only crew. My Bomber Buddy will RISE AGAIN.

4 hours ago, Celestial Lizards said:

Vermeil is freaking amazing, I know that much. Jam tokens are going to be huge for him.

Krennic looks so, so good for Defenders, Interceptors, Reapers, and Strikers. Can't wait to get him on the table.

Exactly. So happy they went full on "Military Director"/ "Weapons Research" with him. Pairs wonderfully with Phantoms, too- great against tanks like Kanan!

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There's also that Multilayered Camo small ship only card.

43 minutes ago, Celestial Lizards said:

There's also that Multilayered Camo small ship only card.

I'm guessing "Multispectral", but either way, I'm totally in.

4 hours ago, Celestial Lizards said:

Palp Aces will also love this. Most likely we will have a cheaper taxi that can actually move out of danger.

I literally just started flying Palp aces last night and now it's going to get even gooder.

May I just say, in a very undignified way, SQUEEEEE!

Advanced Ailerons looks like you might treat x manuveurs as green, which would be nice with systems officer. My hope for the unspoiled officers is that maybe one of them gives a Stridan-like effect so you can throw locks out to range 2-3.

The PS3 pilot reads (so far):

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And Major Vermeil:

When attacking, if the defender does not have any focus or evade tokens, you may change one of your blank or focus results to a hit.

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2 hours ago, HolySorcerer said:

Even with Krennic being "free", I still don't think Jerjerod is worth the points or the slot.

I don't know, on a Decimator with Determination, getting rid of a non pilot crit, especially if Krennic’s ability continues after his.. ahem.. departure, it seems worth it to me.

7 hours ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

I don't know, on a Decimator with Determination, getting rid of a non pilot crit, especially if Krennic’s ability continues after his.. ahem.. departure, it seems worth it to me.

It definitely does. Conditions are only discarded when the condition says. So unless the condition says it's discards if Krennic isn't in play (which would be lame AF and make no sense), it'll stick around.

If Jerjerrod discarded the card entirely he'd definitely be worth it. As is, he's on the cusp. With Kylo around, probably worth it.

I reckon you could make quite a tanky decimator with those two seeing as how Krennic isn't actually doing anything during the game you may as well get some use out of him eh?

Never thought I`d ever be seriously considering Jerjerrod.........

Krennic, Jerjerrod, and Kallus or Courier Droid.

The Reaper feels like a real solid anti-Poe card. You can jam before he moves to strip his Focus, putting a few limitations on the current "focus all the time" build.

2 minutes ago, Biophysical said:

The Reaper feels like a real solid anti-Poe card. You can jam before he moves to strip his Focus, putting a few limitations on the current "focus all the time" build.

Yup, and Krennic is a solid regen counter, especially for predictable-movement R2D2 regen.

Feels like this is pretty anti-poe design.

Just now, thespaceinvader said:

Yup, and Krennic is a solid regen counter, especially for predictable-movement R2D2 regen.

Feels like this is pretty anti-poe design.

Which is interesting, because this feels a lot like an "Imperial starfighters buff box", and Poe is the most notable Rebel starfighter.

3 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Yup, and Krennic is a solid regen counter, especially for predictable-movement R2D2 regen.

Feels like this is pretty anti-poe design.

Not just that, it's a good counter to Fenn and M9-G8, too. Because you can discard any result, not just a hit or crit, then as long as you get to roll the dice you're golden, modified or not.

Plus, you don't actually hit - so theoretically (though it's a touch expensive) you could pair it with gunner - fry a shield then fire again at a now shieldless target.

16 hours ago, Kieransi said:

I've got two Strikers already... Think I can get by with a Reaper/Reaper/Striker/Striker list, or should I buy another Striker?

I'm pretty sure the Scarif Garrison insist you take 3 strikers:

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I'm just slightly sad that I didn't get round to trying to scratchbuild a reaper. And glad that I didn't start and have this announced halfway through.

So is this going to make the TIE shuttle obsolete too?

4 minutes ago, DarthMuz said:

So is this going to make the TIE shuttle obsolete too?

It probably won't be quite as cheap or quite as tough (2 shields don't make up for -1 agi) but probably.