Can someone explain to me why in 2.0 Rogue squadron is in E-Wings? I do understand that they flew E-Wings at some points. But they are the definitive iconic poster squadron for the T-65 X-Wing.

Marketing purposes? lol

Tycho Celchu served as Rogue Leader in a squadron composed of E-wings, B-wings, and A-wings. With Tycho piloting a B-Wing.

Later in 11 ABY, the Rogues were yet again a squadron exclusively composed of X-wings.

Battle of Phaeda. Handbook 2: Crimson Empire.

On ‎5‎/‎22‎/‎2018 at 6:19 PM, shaunmerritt said:

Marketing purposes? lol

Probably not, with neither the E-wing nor the Rogues being much of a thing in the newer version of canon.

With the Resistance stuff moved out to its own faction, the E-wing is going to be the Rebel's answer to the TIE defender - a 3/3 ship with all the actions going and a superior version of Long Range Scanners. - hence, on the table, there is a real feeling of 'oh bloody ****, it's Rogue Squadron!'

They did fly them in Dark Empire and a couple of other books. Remember that the named Rogues (Wedge, technically Luke, Tycho, etc) will still be in the ships they were in in 1.0 (probably). This is only for the 'generic' Rogue, and Mon Cala is one of the relatively few times in the comics you see the Rogues go in en masse to a major battle rather than half a dozen, tops, doing some sort of special ops type task.

It pretty much boils down to Legends, and thus the original incarnation of Rogue Squadron, not being a thing anymore. Its only canon appearance is as Rogue Group on Hoth, and it's never established elsewhere as a squad. Wedge is right back to Red Leader at Endor and in new canon, post RotJ he forms a squadron with an entirely different name. The Rogue(and for that matter, Wraith) squadron of the old X-wing books is gone.

Rogue Squadron, and Corran Horn, remain in E-wings in this game pretty much just because the E-wing also doesn't exist in new canon, and the options when going to 2.0 were drop the Legends ships, or keep them and their pilots. You'll note, on canon ships they seem to be replacing Legends pilots where possible. For instance there's a different TIE Advanced pilot with Juno Eclipse's ability now. This isn't entirely consistent, as sticking with the Advanced we still have Merek Steele, but I wouldn't be surprised to see this trend continue.

Because Rogue Squadron Nintendo 64 that's why. The E-Wing was the ultimate fighter for the group when you finally unlocked it. Pretty sure they were the only guys that flew them regularily.

9 hours ago, GILLIES291 said:

Because Rogue Squadron Nintendo 64 that's why. The E-Wing was the ultimate fighter for the group when you finally unlocked it. Pretty sure they were the only guys that flew them regularily.

and presumably the 5th fleet squadrons (which are mostly unnamed)

On 6/8/2018 at 3:03 AM, GILLIES291 said:

Because Rogue Squadron Nintendo 64 that's why. The E-Wing was the ultimate fighter for the group when you finally unlocked it. Pretty sure they were the only guys that flew them regularily.

There was no E-wing in Rogue Squadron. You got to fly the V-wing air speeder in the mission against the World Devastators on Mon Calamari, and could unlock the Falcon, TIE Interceptor, T-16, and a 1969 Buick, but you never got E-wings. Unless they showed up in Rogue Squadron 3, which I never played, they don't turn up anywhere else in the series either. Rogue Squadron only flew E-wings in one of the comics.

51 minutes ago, Otacon said:

There was no E-wing in Rogue Squadron. You got to fly the V-wing air speeder in the mission against the World Devastators on Mon Calamari, and could unlock the Falcon, TIE Interceptor, T-16, and a 1969 Buick, but you never got E-wings. Unless they showed up in Rogue Squadron 3, which I never played, they don't turn up anywhere else in the series either. Rogue Squadron only flew E-wings in one of the comics.

Nope not in any Rogue Squadron game ttbomk