Why did they print the specific name of the single seat variant on all cards?

The BTL-A4 is a one-seater, notably flown by Dutch Vander and Gold Squadron.

The BTL-S3 (like the Clones Wars era BTL-B before it) was a two seater, notably flown by Horton Salm and Gray Squadron. The best pilot/gunner pair might be Wes Jason and Hobbie Klivian.

The S3 variant was Legends, of course, but now is Canon again, thanks to multiple recent Disney-era mentions: The Weapon of a Jedi Luke Skywalker book and the Poe Dameron comics (starting with issue 17).

I assume in 2.0 you can have a gunner (or other crew member?) added to the "BTL-A4", which makes no sense. Seems like a typo-level error.

Ideally we'd have two sets of Rebel Y-wing pilots cards: BTL-A4 for the Gold Squadron guys and BTL-S3 for the Gray Squadron guys.

It seems like the second time FFG has screwed up with the Y-wing.

On the plus side, the new model looks great!

The art is inconsistent, too.

Horton Salm's card is clearly a Gray Squadron Y-wing flying inside Death Star II. No turret is shown for his poor gunner, Kin Kian to operate.

Get it together, FFG.

Eh, I understand the desire to differentiate, but practically speaking, we do the differentiation ourselves by deciding whether or not to equip a gunner and/or turret. I'm sure they toyed with the idea of making a config to change the slots out, but it makes sense that they decided not to, given that they want to have as much app control of the slots as possible, and this would remove it from them.

Really, I'm glad they did make it the BTL-A4 (noticeably different in handling and stats than the BTL-B), but I feel like doing different pilot cards or configs for the S3 would have been overkill, because they were really just different refits of the same old chassis (which we do by changing upgrades). Though I like the idea fluff-wise.

Related note: Apparently the Falcon is a modified YT-1300f. Yet they left the f out, presumably because it's a distinction that doesn't really need to be made.

Nerd!

I support the OP!

19 hours ago, evanger said:

Why did they print the specific name of the single seat variant on all cards?

For the same reason the "X-Wing" is now a "T-65 X-Wing", the B-Wing is the "A/SF-01 B-Wing" and the A-Wing is now the "RZ-1 A-Wing".

Obviously.