Can anyone explain to me why FFG made R5-TK? Did I miss an article to which they explained the benefit of the ability?

Anthony

It's 0 points, so idk what you were expecting

Guess you just gonna have to wait for scum Quickdraw or any ability that triggers when damaged (ala wulfwarro), which case you'll put it on a TLT and use only its primary for friendly fire to minimize the damage

For now, I guess you can load up a bunch of suicide deadman's Zs and fling assault missiles/poons at em

Bonus points if you're crazy enough to load r5-tk on trajectory simulator bombs + harpoon nym for extra "**** my own ships" nonsense

Will probably make Palp aces cry

Targeting a friendly ship with Scrambler Missiles would work, too.

• Triggering an 'after you perform an attack that hits/misses' trigger
  • Operations Specialist
  • Ion Torpedoes
  • Scrambler Missiles
  • Assault Missiles
  • Harpoon Missiles
  • Laetin A'Shera
  • Saturation Salvo
• Triggering an 'after a ship is destroyed' trigger on a friendly ship
  • Harpooned! condition
  • Dead Man's Switch
  • HotR Chewbacca
  • Scavenger Crane
• Generating a token on a friendly ship that can then transfer it to an enemy ship
  • Ion token and ion dischargers
  • Stress token and 4-LOM
• To kill a target your opponent is lining up on before they can fire, denying them the shot and hence any "after you perform an attack" trigger
  • Whisper
  • Advanced Cloaking Device
  • IG-88A
• To trigger an 'after you are attacked/hit/damaged' trigger on a friendly ship
  • Wulfwarro
  • Dengar (missing with the revenge shot, then firing again with gunner?)

R5-TK would allow you to target a friendly with a tractor beam, too.

problem with T-beam:

note: the opposing player chooses how to move small ship hit by the token, not the one who fired the t-beam necessarily

this came up when good Sir Plutt was released and seemed like an awesome bit of self-bump utility, but alas

1 hour ago, ficklegreendice said:

problem with T-beam:

note: the opposing player chooses how to move small ship hit by the token, not the one who fired the t-beam necessarily

this came up when good Sir Plutt was released and seemed like an awesome bit of self-bump utility, but alas

Well, I didn't day it was GOOD just that you could do i!, lol!

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