With the recent leaks and all, Im getting really exited for this ship's release. Here is my vision on what it could look like. I'd love to hear what y'all think about it!

Droid Tri-Fighter

Faction: Separatist (Confederacy of Independent Systems)

Base Size: Small

Stat Line: Attack: 2, Agility: 3, Hull: 4, Shield: 0

Actions:

-Calculate

-Target Lock

-Evade

-Boost - Calculate (RED)

-Barrel Roll - Calculate (RED)

Missile, Modification, Sensor, (Talent)

Ship ability: Targeted Weapon Systems- While you preform a primary attack, if the defender is in your [bullseye arc], you may roll 1 additional attack dice if it is at range 2, and 2 additional attack dice if it is at range 3. At the start of the engagement phase, you may gain one calculate token if there is an enemy ship in your bullseye.

Dial:

Speed 1- Straight (White), Turn (Red)

Speed 2- Straight (Blue), Bank (White), Turn (White), S-Loop (Red)

Speed 3- Straight (Blue), Bank (White), Turn (Red), K-Turn (Red)

Speed 4- Straight (Blue)

Speed 5- Straight (White), K-Turn (Red)

Pilots: (Only DIS-328, DIS-719, and DIS-314 have talent slot)

-Trident Squadron Interceptor (I2): Generic limited three

-Plac-Arphocc Interceptor (I3): Generic limited two

-DIS-328 (I4): After you preform an attack that hits, gain one calculate token. If you destroyed a ship, gain an evade token as well. (all credit goes to @Cryptor for this pilot!)

-DIS-719 (I4): After you execute a red maneuver, you may execute a straight, or bank one speed maneuver. (possibility of Partially Executing maneuver)

-DIS-314 (I5): 1 Charge; During the System Phase you may spend one charge to treat your initiative as 7 for the rest of the round. You may gain one charge during the System Phase to treat your initiative as 0 for the rest of the round.

Included Cards:

New Cards (Separatist Only):

-Networked Calculations (Sensor - Droid Tri-Fighter Only): While you defend or preform an attack, you may spend one calculate token form a friendly ship at range 0-1 to change one focus to an evade or hit result (this in conjunction with the ability to gain calculate for bullseye arc, promotes the idea of tri-fighters being "squadron leaders" as is seen in lore and cannon)

-Advanced Droid Brain (Sensor - Droid Tri-Fighter Only): Once per turn you may spend a calculate token as though it were a focus token. A calculate token satisfies the focus requirement on all attacks. (this was designed to imitate the "superior droid brain" that the tri-fighter had. It was said to have near human levels of intelligence... It also adds more versatility to the included missile slot, while not being a baktoid prototype)

-Refined Gyrostabilizers (Modification - Droid Tri-Fighter Only): While you preform the barrel roll action, you may treat it as red to use the 1 turn template

Old Cards:

-Discord Missiles

-Stealth Device

-Energy-Shell Charges

-Outmaneuver

-Treacherous

-Marksmanship

I would buy three of these.

Maybe give it a bullseye attack of 3 as well to make the ship ability a little less wordy. Also it seems like Advanced Droid Brain should be charge based. Something like spend a charge to treat a calculate like a focus, and regain a charge by spending a calculate for its normal function. Just some thoughts, but otherwise looks good.

The dial looks extremely restrictive. Only 3 blue options and a lot of ways to gain stress with linked actions and the red maneuvers. I could see this ship getting caught a lot. Would be cool if you could add some Blue turns like the hyena and vulture have.

Thats a fair point, though I think the Droid Tri-Fighter plays an interesting role, in that it walks the line between an ace-y interceptor (with good banks) and a blocky droid (with bad banks). If you go to this site https://xwvassal.info/dialgen/dialgen and paste this into the "dial codestring" this is my new idea:

Droid Tri-Fighter.1TW,1FB,1YW,2LR,2TB,2BR,2FB,2NR,2YB,2PR,3TW,3BW,3FB,3NW,3YW,4FB,5FB,5KR

31 minutes ago, Gupa-nupa said:

Thats a fair point, though I think the Droid Tri-Fighter plays an interesting role, in that it walks the line between an ace-y interceptor (with good banks) and a blocky droid (with bad banks). If you go to this site https://xwvassal.info/dialgen/dialgen and paste this into the "dial codestring" this is my new idea:

Droid Tri-Fighter.1TW,1FB,1YW,2LR,2TB,2BR,2FB,2NR,2YB,2PR,3TW,3BW,3FB,3NW,3YW,4FB,5FB,5KR

That looks much better IMO. In saying all that, the Tri fighter does have a better AI compared to the other droid fighters. Would it be unreasonable to have a dial similar to an IG-2000?

About the ship capacity, i'm right with what asaverina have said. For maeuvers, i think this ship must be better than vultur droid, maybe with blue 3-turn,and a K-turn at speed 4. However, i really love pilots abylity you proposed, and the sensor upgrades. Maybe the networkes calculations shouldn't be limited to tri-fighter, i think.

3 hours ago, alwen said:

Maybe the networkes calculations shouldn't be limited to tri-fighter, i think.

I thought about that too. Maybe making it Separatist only, but then you get a situation where a Hyena can get two identical copies of Networked Calculations. After more consideration I think any upgrade that gives a Networked Calculations like ability needs to follow the pattern of upgrades that grant abilities similar to pilot abilities. That is to say giving the ability but with restrictions (i.e. Outmaneuver gives you Wedge's ability but only outside of the enemy's \/ arc, Zeb gives you Arvel and Oicun's ability but you can also get shot a R0, Daredevil and Kare Kun, Collision Detector and Dash, Marksman and Gavin, etc, etc.). In this case maybe restricting you only being able to use calculates from ships at R1 that have the enemy ship in their arc or that are in your bullseye.

This looks interesting! Good consideration and incorporation of the lore. And the generics being limited lends itself well to the idea that these were more rare, valuable components of the separatist navy without having to jack up the point cost.

DIS-314 seems like a fun pilot to play around with, good versatility.

For anyone curious, here was my take on the ship I did a little while ago:

http://imgur.com/a/hRpFu1H

It's got a couple upgrade cards too. Please enjoy

Recent leaks?

13 minutes ago, CaptainJaguarShark said:

Recent leaks?

Lion Rampart Imports has listed several unannounced ships on their website. The list is as follows:

• TIE/rb Expansion
• "Continental" wt Expansion (we assume wt stands for working title)
• V-Wing Expansion
• Tri-Fighter Expansion
• Phoenix Cell Squadron Pack
• Skystrike Acadademy Squadron Pack
• Fugutives and Collaborators Squadron Pack

Acadademy and Fugutives spelling errors don't lend a lot of credence but they posted the SWX codes and are a legit site. The Expansions are rumored to be Wave 8 while the squad pack being wave 9. If the 4 expansions are revealed in the Gencon stream, we can accept these leaks as genuine.

35 minutes ago, 5050Saint said:

Lion Rampart Imports has listed several unannounced ships on their website. The list is as follows:

• TIE/rb Expansion
• "Continental" wt Expansion (we assume wt stands for working title)
• V-Wing Expansion
• Tri-Fighter Expansion
• Phoenix Cell Squadron Pack
• Skystrike Acadademy Squadron Pack
• Fugutives and Collaborators Squadron Pack

Acadademy and Fugutives spelling errors don't lend a lot of credence but they posted the SWX codes and are a legit site. The Expansions are rumored to be Wave 8 while the squad pack being wave 9. If the 4 expansions are revealed in the Gencon stream, we can accept these leaks as genuine.

Thanks, those squadron packs look really interesting to me but excited about all of it, of course. Interesting that the spelling errors were actually on the seller site.