I get the feeling that someone who ought to know what this ship is actually called didn't do enough research.

TIE punisher was always its less used name, having originally been called the TIE/it interdictor.

Why do they have to keep changing it? It's never even been called the TIE/ca before (as far as I know)!

On the plus side, this has been one of my favoured TIE fighters since I learnt about it during a star wars lore binge about 8 years (!!) ago, and I really like that it seems to be a lot better in 2.0.

I guess they consulted the Mouse, and this is what they got back

Well I mean, it was either TIE/Pu or this.

19 minutes ago, Captain Lackwit said:

Well I mean, it was either TIE/Pu or this.

I think TIE/Pu fits better. I mean the ship is(in 1.0) a steaming pile of it.

Yeah, no idea. They came up with the TIE/IT model name for the RPG line, pretty sure, so no idea why they changed it now. Maybe claiming the /CA and /IT are not necessarily the same model? Maybe later (Stay On Target was published in 2014) Lucasfilm licensing decided they didn't want any possible confusion with their very canonical Interdictors in Rebels (nevermind I think a couple of books already used the "interdiction" concept)?

Isn't the TIE Bomber codenamed TIE/sa? Perhaps "sa" stands for something, and the TIE Punisher being just an iteration of the same line, got the "ca" codename.
Very much like the K-wing being BTL-S8 (The Y-wing is the BTL-S3), or the Resistance Bomber being B/SF-17 (the B-wing being A/SF-01)

1 minute ago, Azrapse said:

Perhaps "sa" stands for something

"Surface Assault"

Maybe 'capital assault'?

A punisher has four ordnance pods to a bomber's one.

That means it has (nominally) four times the ordnance capacity, but since only two of the pods are at the bottom, only double the bomb capacity - meaning that (deathrain's ability aside) it is far more a 'torpedo & missile carrier' than it is a 'bomb truck'.

In spanish the name is Castigador, so TIE/ca fits perfectly ?

FFG used it in an RPG splatbook as the TIE/IT interdictor. When it was released in X-Wing it was renamed to the TIE punisher.

Only makes sense that they'd change the designation given it refers to the name it doesn't have any more.

6 hours ago, Orcdruid said:

I think TIE/Pu fits better. I mean the ship is(in 1.0) a steaming pile of it.

Prepare for Deathrains double modded advanced proton torps in 2.0... Well probably don't because that sounds way too expensive, but still. It is freaking cool!

The naming of this particular ship has been all over the place, anyway, right? Wasn't it originally just the Advanced TIE Bomber in that RTS game? Then later it was also called Punisher and Interdictor. Hopefully this is the last iteration of it naming that we see and it settles from here.

Well, obviously this ship was manufactured in Canada. It just took several years of bureaucracy to fix the name, which was originally a typo. We had to file in a report, discuss it in a committe, vote, complain about it and then do it again because someone recalled a critical piece of information at the last moment, etc.

So yeah, we're terribly sorry about the delay!

I think it may stand for TIE/caca.

Does this mean... that we're going to get punishers in the new canon... ?

I am SO ready for this.

1 hour ago, TheHumanHydra said:

I think it may stand for TIE/caca.

Well, I see your point (and had a real good laugh ? ), but at least the TIE/ca is a decent ordnance platform... That new designation could have been TIE/castrato, twin ion engines screeching 6 octaves higher than a regular TIE/ln.

Now, where are my pills?

12 hours ago, Arachneo said:

In spanish the name is Castigador, so TIE/ca fits perfectly ?

Man, I wish it was Castigator in English, too.

I like Capital Assault

Or maybe they're meant to symbolize really bloated omens of death (crows)

"Caw caw, mother ******!"

And I do hope the bloated crow is good in 2.0, but I can't be certain until point costs and bomb launching is know. Deathrain has the ability and action bar he needs to be badass, but being too stuck with that 2-die primary will cut that potential short.

19 hours ago, Orcdruid said:

I think TIE/Pu fits better. I mean the ship is(in 1.0) a steaming pile of it.

Take your like and go...

Are you sure it isn't a TIE/po?

IT = information technology.

Silicon Valley is in California.

California = CA.

Therefore, TIE/it = TIE/ca.

Good thoughts + background.

I do actually like that the new TIE/ca designation is more consistent with the bomber - I just always preferred the "TIE interdictor" name and liked the subtle reference to that in it's /it. (I don't know, it just sounds more... Interdict-ey?)

Let's hope we can fly some of them soooooon.

No idea.

But @Commander Kaine is probably right.

Honestly, StarWars lore has been chalk full of inconsistencies since the books starts coming out from different authors under the old lucasfilm and the whole "everything is Canon" policy.

'Ol George just couldn't keep up with every detail of every book.

Now that Disney has it's paws in it, hopefully we'll see the end of all the confusion.

36 minutes ago, Bucknife said:

No idea.

But @Commander Kaine is probably right.

Honestly, StarWars lore has been chalk full of inconsistencies since the books starts coming out from different authors under the old lucasfilm and the whole "everything is Canon" policy.

'Ol George just couldn't keep up with every detail of every book.

Now that Disney has it's paws in it, hopefully we'll see the end of all the confusion.

May I direct you to the Resistance Bomber and its different names/variations that showed up here, in the visual guide and other such release material for it? Or the fact that the film novels are supposedly canon but now TFA can't really be since Rey meets Poe in it though come TLJ she meets him again for the first time.

19 hours ago, Animewarsdude said:

Or the fact that the film novels are supposedly canon but now TFA can't really be since Rey meets Poe in it though come TLJ she meets him again for the first time.

Do they really meet? They're in the same scene towards the end of the movie (during the map reveal), but there's no interaction between them. Yeah, it's a bit awkward, but remember this happens right after blowing the Death St Starkiller Base to pieces and loosing Han Solo and Rey leaves with Chewbacca shortly thereafter, all happening within hours or a day maybe... Lazy? Sure. Could be justified? I just tried. Seems like bad planning/scripting.

Now, we shall continue praising that magnificent display of Imperial might that is the TIE/ca(staña).