I suppose his effect is cool, but how often does it trigger? I’ve been finding that it is difficult to get shots at all with an ARC since dodgers like to...”dodge” them

(trolled - this post was originally a question about synced console that i answered in this post, but since the post was edited i deleted my reply)

I find that he is a marvellous upgrade. Having spent points on an effect which triggers on a miss, all my attacks from that ship hit...

one word...yes!

Given the question landed in the Rules Reference subforum - yes, he is useful as in not being useless, due to his ability having a valid effect that can be used.

Next.

20 hours ago, pakirby said:

I’ve been finding that it is difficult to get shots at all with an ARC since dodgers like to...”dodge” them

Well, that's a more fundamental issue.

He's not bad. The key elements to bear in mind are:

• That he works out of the ARC-170's tail guns as well as forward guns - since they're only a 2-dice primary, they're far more likely to be evaded, and hence hand out strife.
• You will ideally require a different attacker with a lower initiative to take a (now easier) shot at the strained target. Which means two people getting shots on the same target at once
• He is nice and cheap (only 3 points!) so there is some argument to just letting your opponent treat it as a stress token and encourage them to do a blue move to burn it off. That's no small benefit with a relatively unwieldy medium ship

20 hours ago, pakirby said:

I suppose his effect is cool, but how often does it trigger? I’ve been finding that it is difficult to get shots at all with an ARC since dodgers like to...”dodge” them

He's a little like Heroic.

Once you equip it, you blank out less often.

Dodging one ARC is relatively simple. Two, or even three, flying together makes it a lot harder.

On 4/1/2019 at 1:07 PM, meffo said:

(trolled - this post was orinally a question about synced console that i answered in this post, but since the post was edited i deleted my reply)

True the post was originally about synced console, and I changed it after I reread the card.