Lando's Falcon Preview

By eMeM, in X-Wing

1 hour ago, wurms said:

Not sure what roll this YT is going to play that the jumpmaster cant? Its just a more expensive 2 dice primary turret ship and we all know how that turned out in 1.0 *cough* Wild Space Fringer *cough*

Lando pilot is nice cause its not once per round, and involves any dice in any phase. So if there is a crew for scum like a C3PO crew, you can reroll that die. A crew card to repair facedown damage on roll of a hit or crit? Use his ability to reroll that die. And abilities/talents that allow rolling before activation, then you can clear the stress you gain with a blue maneuver and use his ability again. May not be a great ability from the get go, but down the line it can turn into one, especially if there is every a crew/gunner that plays off being stressed like Ezra.

Assuming it's the same as the ORS with the listed stats from Lando, it'd be only the second Scum ship with more than one crew slot, allowing you to carry Jabba. If it also has Illicit slots, then you can presumably carry Jabba and drop up to five Loose Cargo through your Rigged Cargo Chute, assuming you have the tokens for it.

With the Firespray and IG-2000 being changed to Medium-based ships, it's also now the only Scum Large ship with Boost.

A 2-die primary is also no longer terrible thanks to the nerfs to Evade and Reinforce.

4 minutes ago, PhantomFO said:

Assuming it's the same as the ORS with the listed stats from Lando, it'd be only the second Scum ship with more than one crew slot, allowing you to carry Jabba. If it also has Illicit slots, then you can presumably carry Jabba and drop up to five Loose Cargo through your Rigged Cargo Chute, assuming you have the tokens for it.

With the Firespray and IG-2000 being changed to Medium-based ships, it's also now the only Scum Large ship with Boost.

A 2-die primary is also no longer terrible thanks to the nerfs to Evade and Reinforce.

Also Double Arc with White rotate arc Action while Jumpmaster has single arc with red rotate action.

1 hour ago, SabineKey said:

So, probably L3 on both Falcon and pod. Han in the Falcon. Maybe Chewie for both.

I feel like a generic for the Falcon is safe, but probably not for the pod.

I dunno, the escape pod pilot on the quickbuild for Han sure looks like it could be a generic.

Lando pilot plus Dengar crew

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Getting two chances for that damage after defending since Lando ability is only "When rolling dice".

40 minutes ago, VanderLegion said:

I dunno, the escape pod pilot on the quickbuild for Han sure looks like it could be a generic.

Hmm, I see what you mean. Interesting. I wonder if Lando’s Falcon Title will give added benefit to having a docked pod.

1 minute ago, SabineKey said:

Hmm, I see what you mean. Interesting. I wonder if Lando’s Falcon Title will give added benefit to having a docked pod.

More hull points would make sense, wouldn't it?

Possibly. Something akin to damage sharing between the two ships while docked.

Depending on the Pod’s offensive capabilities, it might augment front arc shots or add a front arc (though likely only Bullseye, considering the Falcon’s preexisting duel mobile arcs).

Just imagining Dengar, Bossk, Boba, etc crew on the Falcon makes me queasy.

I was a little disappointed they didn't make the ORS a 2 red ship. And what's with the 4 on the 2400? Surely that wasn't stock weaponry?

2 minutes ago, mazz0 said:

I was a little disappointed they didn't make the ORS a 2 red ship. And what's with the 4 on the 2400? Surely that wasn't stock weaponry?

You know how it goes, gameplay >>>>>>> fluff

Besides, the guns on the yt2400 model for xwing miniatures are frakkin HUGE

8 minutes ago, ficklegreendice said:

You know how it goes, gameplay >>>>>>> fluff

Besides, the guns on the yt2400 model for xwing miniatures are frakkin HUGE

Gameplay wouldn't have suffered if it had been part of the MF title to increase the primary attack (or a generic title if you wanted people to be able to take several), all it would have done would be open up options. I remember the designers saying they wished they'd done it that way, years ago.