Balance in the Force Article

By SpiderMana, in X-Wing

Article is up!

And straight from the mouth of FFG...

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the TIE Phantom has had its crew icon swapped for a gunner icon to break up certain very strong ship/crew combinations (here’s looking at you, "Whisper" and Darth Vader).

πŸ˜‚ I'm so pleased they stooped to call that out specifically.

yeah, all the other threads are talking about it.

EDIT Oh wait, this is just the points change announcement.

For a second I thought this was going to be the English version of the Polish Republic article everyone's been talking about...

Move along. Move along.

Edited by GuacCousteau

Wait till you find out Republic ships got spoiled today :D

9 minutes ago, SpiderMana said:

Article is up!

And straight from the mouth of FFG...

πŸ˜‚ I'm so pleased they stooped to call that out specifically.

Well there goes my plan for a 4x Phantom + Sloane list. Eh, it's for the best.

9 minutes ago, MegaSilver said:

yeah, all the other threads are talking about it.

I'm aware. I was engaging in that main discussion. The article was new, though, where otherwise I'd only seen the PDFs discussed.

Nothing new within the article, per se, but if anyone wanted to read FFG's reasoning (which is, surprisingly, largely "hey this is what actual players have been asking for.")

Huh, the article says that Advanced Sensors is scaled to initiative now which is definitely not the case.

9 minutes ago, Pa Weasley said:

Huh, the article says that Advanced Sensors is scaled to initiative now which is definitely not the case.

I noticed that. Adv. Sens is 10 flat, which does price it out of some lists. A friend of mine is annoyed (to say the least) with what it did to his favorite Guri build, and what was done with the tugs and the escape craft.

Edit: now that I think of it, his list that he's been mopping the floor with me with might have just gotten priced out of use.

Edited by Hiemfire

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39 minutes ago, Hiemfire said:

Edit: now that I think of it, his list that he's been mopping the floor with me with might have just gotten priced out of use.

There's probably a good reason for that.

Just now, Tvboy said:

There's probably a good reason for that.

Kavil, Guri, Unkar and a Jakku. Tugs went up a bit more than I like. But it's still useable.

54 minutes ago, Pa Weasley said:

Huh, the article says that Advanced Sensors is scaled to initiative now which is definitely not the case.

It scales. Just plug the initiative value into the equation:

Points = Initiative * 0 + 10

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TIE/sa Bombers and TIE/ca Punishers have now been reined in after a truly explosive debut.

I love the humor in that statement. πŸ˜„