My 100-point MC Hammer "You Can't Touch This!" Stealth TIE Interceptor squad

By Stormtrooper721, in X-Wing

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Panic said:

yeah,
Duraham said:

If you want to win however, you should be sinking in the money…

Great! What happens when there is a limited edition unique prize upgrade card?
Lets say there are only 100 of them, and they sell for $200 on ebay?
Will you be singing the same tune then?

This is a minitures game and I'm not trying to cheapskate a squadron, I've got 15 wave 1 ships and I've already ordered wave 2…

Do you want this game to become Type1 MTG…
'Don't have $10K to buy a set of the power 9?.. No! then you can't play with the big boys…'

I don't want this to become is WalletHammer!
I wont ever be buying 6 firesprays just for the upgrade cards so i can put them on a 6 A-wing net list that flies itself?

Panic…

I don't forsee this happening. This is not a collecable game, as such, rarety of units and cards to play with shouldn't really be a problem. Wave 2 stuff isn't even tournament leagel yet since it is limited in suply.

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magadizer said:

TIE fighters did not have Stealth devices at Yavin or Endor. What kind of Galactic Civil War re-enactor are you anyways?

It is quite arguable actually that they did - just not quite the same Stealth that a TIE Phantom has, which is actually more like a cloaking device.

Consider the following exchange during the Battle of Yavin from A New Hope:

Yavin control: "Squad leaders, we've picked up a new group of signals. Enemy fighters coming your way."

Luke: "My scope's negative. I don't see anything."

Red Leader: Pick up your visual scanning. Here they come!"

Why are the Rebel pilots surprised that the Imperial fighters are not showing up on their scopes and why does Red Leader tell them to "Pick up your visual scanning"? Arguably, the TIEs had some sort of Stealth device that hid them from the Rebel fighter's smaller scopes and could only be detected by the much more powerful scopes from Yavin base.

These were Lord Vader's Black Squadron and he indeed might have had them upgraded with a type of Stealth device that would make them harder to detect. Like I said, we're not talking about the cloaking device of TIE Phantoms but a lesser Stealth device.

It is quite arguable. At least, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

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Maybe Luke didn't pick them up on his scanner because he was a farmboy whose previous flight experience in an X-wing fighter consisted of the ride up to the Death Star.

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And porkins was too busy stuffing his face

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magadizer said:

Maybe Luke didn't pick them up on his scanner because he was a farmboy whose previous flight experience in an X-wing fighter consisted of the ride up to the Death Star.

Then Red Leader should have said, "Learn to read your scope. It's not negative, you must not be reading it right," rather than, "Pick up your visual scanning."

The fact that Red Leader tells his pilots switch to relying on their eyes rather than their scanners infers that he might have been familiar with Imperial TIE fighters than don't show up on scanners, thus, again alluding to some sort of Stealth device.

Even cloaking is mentioned in The Empire Strikes Back. Captain Needa says, "No ship that small has a cloaking device." inferring that he is not only familiar with them but he knows the size of ship required to be fitted with a cloaking device. If such cloaking devices were available, then lesser Stealth devices were almost certainly even more common.