4 minutes ago, ficklegreendice said:

aces still need slaying

they aren't invincible, but they aren't exactly helpless unless you're lining up a majority of your shots. Ketsal lets you nail anyone, no matter how squirrely or token stacked they are. If Defenders ever become a thing (or, more reasonably, phantoms )

I've also just punked basically any ship you can think of thanks to Kestal. This includes full health howlrunner who rolled two blanks, two focus while packing a focus and Elusive. dead. Luke skywalker trying to be cute with his ability. dead . Whisper packing double evade (because she can do that now) and focus. dead.

Evades change results now, so Kestal got a super buff there

Now Rhymer is fine, but he's definitely no Kestal. Rhymer, like all bombers, has issues being flexible that a turret-bearing Aggressor just doesn't suffer from. Also, he has to deal with defensive tokens which are a major headache.

In fact, I'd say rhymer is the opposite of Kestal. You dive him Advanced proton torpedoes, and he SAVAGES lower initiative opponents that he gets to lock. I like having both in the same squad

I've put Kestal into a few lists, but have so far only fielded her once. I'll have to give her some more table time. Shame about Double Edge though, any interesting builds for him fail either because of his low initiative or his ability being a "bonus attack". Not as useless as Karsabi, but still fairly useless.