The real reason Vader likes his ship?
It had a Hyperdrive. (That's how he escaped the battle of Yavin.)
It's main strength cannot be expressed as an advantage in this game.
Hey if more than on battle is going on for one event you could make some rules for ships with Hyper Drives to jump from one table to another
Okay Mr. Sith Lord. Why in heck when you have the entire Imperial arsenal to choose from did you pick and Advanced TIE? Why not an Interceptor or something better? The force may be strong but it is no substitute for intelligence.
I never red the Shadows of the Empire novel but my friend told me Vader had a Interceptor parked inside his SSD. If he is wrong maybe he mistook it for the Advanced...?
Anyway he ditched the ETA-2 & 5 in favor for a better ship. Technically speaking you can say he was one of the head designers for the X1 making it more a part of his self than just a ship he moded. I also think he probably moded his X1 to the point it was better than other X1s.
Uhmm.. the Advanced came before the interceptor. The interceptor is actually the Advanced X4 if I remember correctly... So, there's that..
Advanced = X1
Avenger = X2
Interceptor = X3
Maybe Vader parked more than the Interceptor and Advanced in his hangar...
"Hmm... *Vader breathing* Maybeee... *breathe* I will fly... the... eenie meenie miney moe... aw ****, not the Advanced again!"
I could see that. Like he has a section devoted to his collection of ships.
Vader: Commander have the crews prep my ship.
Commander: Which ship shall we prep my Lord?
Vader: Black Sunshine
Commander: Black... Sunshine...?
Flight Crew: Sir he is talking about his heavily customised Star Wing with the anti-hypermatter mega-turbo fuel injectors, a vectory SD sublight engine, the launchers where placed with two hyperdyne 7.00 class drives, it has 5 cots of gloss black paint, gold trim, and purple hilghts and purple glow strips.
Commander: Errrh...
Vader: (lifts the Commander over to him with the Force) THIS IS BLACK SUNSHINE AND I WILL BE HEADING TO ZONE 5