Advanced Ailerons for the Reaper

By Sciencius, in X-Wing

What is "visible":

ADV**

AIL**

TIE Rea**

Treat your **

maneuver **

Immidiate**

reveal your*

stressed, *

a white [right bank]*

So the last part (colored blue) seems identical to Adaptive Ailerons. So the interesting new part is the text before (here colored green), what makes sense here?

Changing the colour of one of your turn manouevres, either the 2 to white or (hopefully) the one to green would make the most sense to me.

39 minutes ago, Sciencius said:

So the last part (colored blue) seems identical to Adaptive Ailerons

Not quite. Compare the cards:

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The first two lines ("Immediately before you reveal your dial, if you are not stressed") looks the same from the text we see.

BUT

Look at the next line:

"A white" is level with "stressed" and there is no fifth line of text. That means there is more text on the fourth line of advanced ailerons, but much less overall than on adaptive ailerons.

If you wanted to do this, I think you'd probably need to move the word maneuver to line 4, and the only way you can do this is by removing 'or' and 2 out of the 3 maneuvers - which is why my personal suspicion is that it only allows the straight.

Combined with the speed 2 red turn (a 'feature' shared only with the Lambda, YV-666, Kimogila and TIE Bomber, so don't expect a particularly great native dial), and I suspect we're looking at a bloody awful shuttle-esque dial by default which you can turn into a white hard turn (I doubt green simply because the Striker doesn't have one and this shouldn't be better) at a cost of a striker-esque minimum forward speed of 3.

I'd like it to have (red - and hence white) speed 1 turns as well, but we'll see.

1 hour ago, Magnus Grendel said:

next line:

"A white" is level with "stressed" and there is no fifth line of text. That means there is more text on the fourth line of advanced ailerons, but much less overall than on adaptive ailerons.

Too me it just looks like they moved the [bank right 1] up one line, such that all maneuvers are on the same line, that moves "a white" more to the left aligning it below "stressed" as on the "Advanced Ailerons" card and also lets "maneuver" centered such that it does not show up on the new card.

But you may be on to something here, interestingly, on "Advanced Ailerons" the text "stressed" is not aligned quite under "reveal" as on "Adaptive Ailerons" so this could mean that the word " MUST " is replaced with "may", which does indeed make for Advanced Ailerons.

The more I look at this the more excited I am for this wave :D

Thanks @Sciencius , this has been the question for the ages in this game; when will the Empire get a crew carrying ship that has great maneuverability? To date they all pretty much suck, TIE canoe being the best of these but she pops so easy. I hope this card makes this thing fly very well, the guys need it. The most technologically advanced faction is stuck in the SW stone age in this area. I guess all we have is hope....

My guess is it turns that red turn white if you arent stressed and gives the Aileron not-a-boost-boost-maneuver. This one might not be free if thats the case.
Also the potential clause for "may" would be awesome. If it does say may, i highly doubt this is free. Probably 1pt, but not free

Edited by Vineheart01
2 hours ago, Magnus Grendel said:

If you wanted to do this, I think you'd probably need to move the word maneuver to line 4, and the only way you can do this is by removing 'or' and 2 out of the 3 maneuvers - which is why my personal suspicion is that it only allows the straight.

If you look closely you can see that the first arrow is left bank, so I'd say it's probably the opposite. It'll let you do the banks but not the straight. And as was already mentioned, the bold 'MUST' in the line before it was likely changed to an unbolded 'may'. So Adv Ailerons appears to be a pseudo Duchess ability where the straight Aileron is never allowed.

1 hour ago, Sciencius said:

But you may be on to something here, interestingly, on "Advanced Ailerons" the text "stressed" is not aligned quite under "reveal" as on "Adaptive Ailerons" so this could mean that the word " MUST " is replaced with "may", which does indeed make for Advanced Ailerons.

Indeed. Well spotted! It's not as big a change in the amount of wording between lines 4 and 5, but there's a letter difference - which could be explained by a one letter drop (must to may) and a one-letter-equivalent compression by the word no longer being bolded.

1 hour ago, Sciencius said:

Too me it just looks like they moved the [bank right 1] up one line, such that all maneuvers are on the same line, that moves "a white" more to the left aligning it below "stressed" as on the "Advanced Ailerons" card and also lets "maneuver" centered such that it does not show up on the new card.

I'm not convinced maneuver wouldn't show in that case - there's no indication of a 5th line of text at all - but potentially.

Adaptive Ailerons

immediately before you

reveal your dial, if you are not

stressed, you must execute

a white [L 1], [L 1] or

[L 1] maneuver

Advanced Ailerons Option #1

immediately before you

reveal your dial, if you are not

stressed, you may execute

a white [L 1] or [L 1]

maneuver

Advanced Ailerons Option #2

immediately before you

reveal your dial, if you are not

stressed, you may execute

a white [L 1] or [L 1] maneuver

Advanced Ailerons Option #3

immediately before you

reveal your dial, if you are not

stressed, you may execute

a white [L 1] maneuver

Hmm..

Will have to play around on a custom card creator - this is all a bit vague because I can't replicate the size of the specific font, or the [maneuver] dingbats. But none of them look exactly right.

On option 1, I'm unconvinced you wouldn't see at least the leading edge of 'maneuver'

On option 2, line 4 seems too long, and on option 3 it seems too short.

31 minutes ago, defkhan1 said:

If you look closely you can see that the first arrow is left bank, so I'd say it's probably the opposite. It'll let you do the banks but not the straight. And as was already mentioned, the bold 'MUST' in the line before it was likely changed to an unbolded 'may'. So Adv Ailerons appears to be a pseudo Duchess ability where the straight Aileron is never allowed.

That was my first assumption, but I'd rather say, rather than 'I disagree' that 'I'm not certain enough' . It's definitely not a bank right (obviously) and it's definitely not a hard turn (no French striker-esque reapers) but I still can't dismiss it being a straight out of hand.

Making it optional but 'bank only' would be weird but potentially powerful (which I guess is potentially right for 'advanced'.