Was watching Solo again and thinking about when the falcon barrel rolls and knocks the tie into an asteroid. Think we'll ever see this attack in Xwing? It makes sense. A larger ship barrel rolls into a small ship and knocks them back and causes damage. I'm surprised this didn't make it into the Scum falcon.

29 minutes ago, Arc170Chris said:

Was watching Solo again and thinking about when the falcon barrel rolls and knocks the tie into an asteroid. Think we'll ever see this attack in Xwing? It makes sense. A larger ship barrel rolls into a small ship and knocks them back and causes damage. I'm surprised this didn't make it into the Scum falcon.

While thematically I believe it would be a wonderful addition, I also feel it would be game breaking. The ability to barrel roll and cause damage would effect game mechanics too much. First, it would prevent Range 1 attacks which should be rewarded (with the extra dice) and effectively cause NPE. Their are also other issues maneuvering, no attack dice attacks, among many others.

I don't know. You could still have front and back range 1 attacks, and maybe the barrel roll attack would be a red maneuver? It could have a dice attached to it. Many ways it could work with out breaking the game.

58 minutes ago, Arc170Chris said:

I don't know. You could still have front and back range 1 attacks, and maybe the barrel roll attack would be a red maneuver? It could have a dice attached to it. Many ways it could work with out breaking the game.

No. Stop.

lol, it would have a high chance of damaging the ship doing the barrel roll, so a risk of self damage would make it risky.

Moving an enemy ship out of the way of a barrel roll is very messy.

It seems pretty fun, though the actual logistics could get muddy. Plus, it kind of sucks that the very ship that did it won’t actually be able to do it, as all current Falcon versions have no BR.

Easy:

Talent - dirty trick

Han solo only

Action: Red barrel roll

If you fail this action due to overlap with an enemy ship, both you and that ship receice 1 crit and 1 tractor token.

8 points perhaps?

I think its better to just leave it as a movie thing

It wasn't really the barrel roll that killed that TIE, it was the rock it was smacked into... and trying to set up that kind of "attack" in game would be so situational, you'd maybe see it used a handful of times in the life span of the game.

20 hours ago, Cgriffith said:

While thematically I believe it would be a wonderful addition, I also feel it would be game breaking. The ability to barrel roll and cause damage would effect game mechanics too much. First, it would prevent Range 1 attacks which should be rewarded (with the extra dice) and effectively cause NPE. Their are also other issues maneuvering, no attack dice attacks, among many others.

I think it would work as long as the defending ship could roll defense dice and it did minimal damage. It would have to be like a crazy stressful move, assigning two stress tokens and perhaps it could do damage to the falcon as well. Kind of a desperation tactic.

this is a bad idea.