it's all Chopper's fault! Okay, so Chopper's ability says to spend a charge from a non-recurring source to regain a shield. So, let's throw that PTSD droid on a generic Y-wing with Seismic Charges with 2 charges. Those charges don't normally recharge by themselves, but Y-Wings now have the reload action! So what happens? Y-wing takes a couple hits and veers away to use Chopper's ability. One charge gets eaten. Next round, the player keeps speeding away (such as it is for a Y-wing) and reloads, gaining a stress and weapon disable tokens. Next turn, those clear and Chopper gobbles up a charge for a shield.

Now, granted this whole thing is super situational and relies on the opponent being SUPER passive and leaving the Y-wing alone to do this AND there's the added catch that the Y-wing could only do this two rounds in a row before needing to reload, then having to deal with the stress and weapons disabled.

So, while no where near as powedful/annoying as it was in 1.0, it does still exist.

It doesn't take any discovering. It just takes GONK.

Hey @Kehl_Aecea , I have someone I want to introduce you to:

Gah! Stupid Gonk...

In my defense... its like 3;30 AM... I'm sleep deprived and... I forgot all about the box with legs =_=

I don't think it anything close to viable as your choice is pretty much Regen 1 shield and don't shoot (reload gets you a disarm token) or shoot! Could be fun in a friendly game though.

1 hour ago, Kehl_Aecea said:

it's all Chopper's fault! Okay, so Chopper's ability says to spend a charge from a non-recurring source to regain a shield. So, let's throw that PTSD droid on a generic Y-wing with Seismic Charges with 2 charges. Those charges don't normally recharge by themselves, but Y-Wings now have the reload action! So what happens? Y-wing takes a couple hits and veers away to use Chopper's ability. One charge gets eaten. Next round, the player keeps speeding away (such as it is for a Y-wing) and reloads, gaining a stress and weapon disable tokens. Next turn, those clear and Chopper gobbles up a charge for a shield.

Now, granted this whole thing is super situational and relies on the opponent being SUPER passive and leaving the Y-wing alone to do this AND there's the added catch that the Y-wing could only do this two rounds in a row before needing to reload, then having to deal with the stress and weapons disabled.

So, while no where near as powedful/annoying as it was in 1.0, it does still exist.

1 hour ago, Kehl_Aecea said:

Gah! Stupid Gonk...

In my defense... its like 3;30 AM... I'm sleep deprived and... I forgot all about the box with legs =_=

No need to feel bad, you have discovered a SECOND way to get infinite regen! Who will find the third?!? (Soon we will be able to field an entire squad of regen ships ;D)

Miranda Doni is still infinite.

And R2 crew.

Porkins Taloning around with Elusive and Chopper is another option, if it is any good is another matter

Infinite regen was never removed. It's been clear since the very first previews that it would exist.

Infinite regen with minimal penalties was removed, successfully. Chopper and GONK cost actions. Miranda can only get up to one shield. Everything else (I think) is finite AND still costs a bunch.

It may technically be infinite but it has the same problem Gonk has now - it takes too long to work. In reality you'll most likely get 1 or 2 shields back but, because you're a Y-Wing, you'll be getting shot at during those turns and the net effect will still be a loss of shields.

2 hours ago, eMeM said:

Porkins Taloning around with Elusive and Chopper is another option, if it is any good is another matter

Or Ibitsam!

Just take R2D2 crew with fat Han and use his pilot ability to re-roll the die for flipping a damage card up.

6 hours ago, Sciencius said:

No need to feel bad, you have discovered a SECOND way to get infinite regen! Who will find the third?!? (Soon we will be able to field an entire squad of regen ships ;D)

GONK isn't limited anymore. You could field a squad of them if you wanted to spend the 10pts a droid. Viability would be questionable though.

33 minutes ago, Hiemfire said:

GONK isn't limited anymore. You could field a squad of them if you wanted to spend the 10pts a droid. Viability would be questionable though.

10pts and 2 actions to get a single shield is pretty meh, so viability is more of a question than anything else.

5 hours ago, MasterShake2 said:

10pts and 2 actions to get a single shield is pretty meh, so viability is more of a question than anything else.

I wonder if a hit and run phantom could make him work?

im also going to try him with Lando.

Regen is overrated.