Question: Exploring curious uses for Angled Deflectors

By Wazat, in X-Wing

59 minutes ago, Cloaker said:

There's one ship I'd ever consider putting Angled Deflectors on, and that's just because of the way the ship skirts the scaled agility pricing. U-Wings.

The chassis goes from 8 health to 7, so no threshold change, and the pilots have some utility with action economy (Heff Tobber, K-2SO) or modifying results (Magva, Saw, Cassian, Bodhi, Benthic.)

You're paying only 3 for it at AG2 and it still has 2 shields left. There's something cheeky about that when you close your pivot wings with the right planning.

I like this. The U-Wing is able to dabble in both 1- and 2-agility while only paying 3 points, with some nice support pilot & crew abilities that don't spend their action. Even still, I'm not sure angled deflectors is quite worthy of the ship... I'd have to see some specific builds.