FFG made many awesome point changes but by far my favorite one is 6 point afterburners.

Alot about this card basically sums up the reason I play & enjoy X-Wing.

Thanks FFG.

I think this also captures the feeling.

It's a change that I think I'll find more exciting as time goes on and I get back into building more lists. They were an option I had considered often, but usually ended up just passing on because they were a little too expensive for what I was doing.

23 minutes ago, Boom Owl said:

FFG made many awesome point changes but by far my favorite one is 6 point afterburners.

Alot about this card basically sums up the reason I play & enjoy X-Wing.

Thanks FFG.

Definitely eyeballing it now.

What's the source of the gif?

Now if only Hyperspace Scum had been invited to the party... it comes in our expansion, even!

I'm liking the look of Afterburners Talonbane or Guri Extended now, though.

I just had a cute-but-dumb ship idea.

Quinn Jast (Composure, Afterburners, Proton Rockets) 48.

Fail the Afterburners boost for a Focus token, then get your normal action. It'd also "work" with Advanced Proton Torpedoes. Quinn does have the nifty ability to restore charges to his Afterburners, too. There's no way it'd be an actual "good idea," so as I said, cute-but-dumb.

Wedge with afterburners is scary. Before it was just a single point more got you proton torps. But now afterburners are half the cost of torps. Wedge boosting into range 1 is nasty. Have Leia crew in the squad as well and he can tallon or kturn and do it again with mods.

7 minutes ago, wurms said:

Wedge with afterburners is scary. Before it was just a single point more got you proton torps. But now afterburners are half the cost of torps. Wedge boosting into range 1 is nasty. Have Leia crew in the squad as well and he can tallon or kturn and do it again with mods.

Cheap Leia crew (and the massive price increase on HWKs) might be what the ARC-170 needed to really find it's place in Rebels.

1 hour ago, Octarine-08 said:

Definitely eyeballing it now.

What's the source of the gif?

seconded, need to know

48 minutes ago, theBitterFig said:

I just had a cute-but-dumb ship idea.

Quinn Jast (Composure, Afterburners, Proton Rockets) 48.

Fail the Afterburners boost for a Focus token, then get your normal action. It'd also "work" with Advanced Proton Torpedoes. Quinn does have the nifty ability to restore charges to his Afterburners, too. There's no way it'd be an actual "good idea," so as I said, cute-but-dumb.

I need to try this now... Every time I try to escape the Scyk...

1 hour ago, Boom Owl said:

Thanks FFG.

what is that from?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I was running Poe w/Afterburners, BB8, Black One on Sunday at PHX. My god is that fun! I'm sticking with it. stupidly brain damaging to play... but so much fun!!!!

35 minutes ago, Innese said:

I need to try this now... Every time I try to escape the Scyk...

Oh, I got another one. Sunny Bounder with Heavy Laser Cannon and Afterburners for 40 points. She can try for the cool match thing with her 2-dice attack, or else she'll be chucking 4 dice at folks. Only, I don't remember from old Sunny whether it's better to lock (to try to reroll into 2 hits) or to focus (since double-focus can happen).

46 minutes ago, nikk whyte said:

seconded, need to know

Thirded. My Google-Fu is failing me.

1 hour ago, Octarine-08 said:

Definitely eyeballing it now.

What's the source of the gif?

49 minutes ago, nikk whyte said:

seconded, need to know

22 minutes ago, Wiredin said:

what is that from?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

3 minutes ago, PhantomFO said:

Thirded. My Google-Fu is failing me.

My Google-Fu turned up the name Skychaser.

1 hour ago, theBitterFig said:

I just had a cute-but-dumb ship idea.

Quinn Jast (Composure, Afterburners, Proton Rockets) 48.

Fail the Afterburners boost for a Focus token, then get your normal action. It'd also "work" with Advanced Proton Torpedoes. Quinn does have the nifty ability to restore charges to his Afterburners, too. There's no way it'd be an actual "good idea," so as I said, cute-but-dumb.

58 minutes ago, Innese said:

I need to try this now... Every time I try to escape the Scyk...

The Quickbuild for Quinn is Crack Shot + Advanced Proton Torpedoes + Afterburners . Actually sounds kinda fun and is 47 points in Extended

26 minutes ago, Innese said:

My Google-Fu turned up the name Skychaser.

Correct

43 minutes ago, Innese said:

My Google-Fu turned up the name Skychaser.

Excellent. And now some more Google-Fu indicates the name has changed to "Jet Lancer," as Sky Chaser was already taken. They're apparently looking for beta testers on Steam.

Looks a lot like Luftrausers, which is an awesome game, definitely giving Jet Lancer a go, and also, holy ****, how did I not even think to throw Afterburners on Wedge after the point reduction?! This thread has made my day in more ways than one.

>Have 3 of those

>Cannot use on the ship it comes with

😭

27 minutes ago, Vector Strike said:

>Have 3 of those

>Cannot use on the ship it comes with

😭

Can sneak it on Mining Guild Ties if you're of the inclination.

3 minutes ago, Hiemfire said:

Can sneak it on Mining Guild Ties if you're of the inclination.

Or the Escape Craft, I guess.

Basically... Yes.

3 minutes ago, viedit said:

Basically... Yes.

May I recommend a K-Wing. It's faster than afterburners on a TIE:

You know what else is scary? Afterburners on an Expert Handling Y-Wing.

You can boom and zoom PRETTY HARD with Afterburner Y-Wings.