30 minutes ago, nexttwelveexits said:

communism was just a red herring

The math is sound. I'm curious if I'm supposed to be Mr. Body or Ms Scarlet in your gif.

I guess I agree with you OP, if only because their attempt to eliminate that "one good upgrade in a category that every ship uses" has made it to where there are several categories that have no interesting upgrades at all. Yay, I can add another hull... or another shield! So at least with Afterburners I'd have something fun in the mod category to equip on a medium-based ship right now instead of waiting however long it takes to get these ships re-released with better upgrades.

I would love to be able to bomb -> 3 bank -> boost -> SLAM -> Reload with my injured K-Wing. I should not be allowed to do that.

6 hours ago, ficklegreendice said:

Punishers and bombers and strikers

They get to pal around with fifth bro if they so choose, so it's not just skilled bombadier and the wealth of good scum Gunners

Fifth bro redline is actually pretty mean

But he's a lot of points on a pretty fragile chassis. I just can't bring myself to equip Fifth Bro on anyone because of his cost.

46 minutes ago, Tvboy said:

I would love to be able to bomb -> 3 bank -> boost -> SLAM -> Reload with my injured K-Wing. I should not be allowed to do that.

You couldn't do that even if the kwings could take afterburners, as you cannot reload after a SLAM without ASLAM.

I still don't think it would be game breaking. Maybe down the road there will be a way to give Norra or Heff Tobber a boost on that initial engagement, but it just seems like a missed opportunity to not let medium bases have afterburners. Heck I would even take it on a medium base ship if it only had one charge!

Brobots would be broken