7 hours ago, Blail Blerg said:

Your maths are no numbers I’ve ever heard of nor commonly heard. youve also totally forgotten the lack of the ability actually even going off due to arc limitations, which makes it even more suspect.
frankly you need a source.

also time will tell but I suspect this is not nearly anywhere as good as this tale makes it out to be. In due time we shall see who is right.

And you're forgetting that the LAAT's ship ability only prevents it from rerolling attacks from its turret. It is perfectly free to use it's ability on itself to reroll attack dice from missiles. This makes it the best vehicle for the new Multi-Missile Pod, particularly in conjunction with Synchronized Consoles.

Out of all the upcoming releases we have previews for I only care about the LAAT. Only getting one, partly due to the point cost, but mostly just because it feels weird to me to toss out more than one support ship in a list. Plus these don't really seem to have anything that screams "SPAM ME" so there's that.

They do feel over costed by maybe 3 or so points right now, but I've been wrong about that sorta stuff before. Really I'll just have to see how it feels on the table once the opportunity presents itself. Even at it's current cost though, I think these things will be able to make a splash for the Republic. That ship ability alone seems pretty huge.

I think what has been left out is the rerolls on the LAAT are charge based so unlike Sinker you can not benefit more than two ships a turn.

2 hours ago, Frimmel said:

I think what has been left out is the rerolls on the LAAT are charge based so unlike Sinker you can not benefit more than two ships a turn.

True, and then subsequent rounds you can only proc those rerolls once per round. Unless you take time to fully recover. Might not be a problem most times.

12 hours ago, PhantomFO said:

And you're forgetting that the LAAT's ship ability only prevents it from rerolling attacks from its turret. It is perfectly free to use it's ability on itself to reroll attack dice from missiles. This makes it the best vehicle for the new Multi-Missile Pod, particularly in conjunction with Synchronized Consoles.

I still don't feel like there's any reason to use MMPs when less-expensive Clusters exist (or even better, Concussions, which actually get to range 3). Especially when the MMP's biggest asset, the 180 arc, still requires a Lock for your 2-die shot.

1 hour ago, Matanui3 said:

I still don't feel like there's any reason to use MMPs when less-expensive Clusters exist (or even better, Concussions, which actually get to range 3). Especially when the MMP's biggest asset, the 180 arc, still requires a Lock for your 2-die shot.

Maybe MMPs would be better at 6 pts.?

Current plans are:

2 LAAT

2 Xi

2 TIE/RB

1 Heralds

I do not have Seps yet. Sort of put it off due to likely wanting 8 Vultures.

Currently did 1x HMP, 1x Laat and 1x Xi shuttle.

Most Likely will ad another HMP later on.

Next Month want to do 2x TIE/RB and month after 1x Firespray, 2x Tru Fighter, 2x V-wing and 2x Eta2

7 hours ago, Matanui3 said:

I still don't feel like there's any reason to use MMPs when less-expensive Clusters exist (or even better, Concussions, which actually get to range 3). Especially when the MMP's biggest asset, the 180 arc, still requires a Lock for your 2-die shot.

Cluster looks pretty nifty on LAAT. Two attacks, and you've got two charges of your ability, so you can get rerolls on both attacks. Low mods on Clusters has been a large part of their weakness, and LAAT don't have that problem.

6 hours ago, pakirby said:

Maybe MMPs would be better at 6 pts.?

More accurately priced, to be sure. Good enough to be better than Clusters? Eh, hard to say.

Not to mention literally nobody has talked about LAATs legit terrible dial. Doesn't even have a blue bank. There's no world in which I pay over fifty points minimum for a 2d attack ship with that dial. Maybe for warthog just because his pilot ability but that's it.

I've got 2x HMP and 1 each of LAATi and Xi in the post.

I also got my pre-order in for the next two "waves" at my FLGS

1 resistance box, and one each of the ETA/Nimbus/Tri-Fighter/Jango wave (that will probably end up with more Nimbus and Tri-Fighters)

On 9/24/2020 at 8:52 AM, Spinland said:

I share your lack of interest in this faction. I really only want the Synced Laser Cannon card, times two, to decorate my B-Wings. I might just wait for some of the cards to show up in the a la carte aftermarket rather than buy two ships I'd probably never use.

Bah. Don't have a FLGS any longer (another victim of the shutdown; it was on a shoestring before and now it's gone) but found an online vendor with some HMPs still available to preorder. Nabbed two. I'll slide out the SLC cards and store the rest against some future day when I might decide to get some more Seps faction stuff. Ya never know. 😎 🍺