No ept on the shuttle. Ever.

Defender has 1 more.

Decoy is combat phase, so still can't use squad leader to advance sensor someone else. Disappoint.

Decoy comes with the Z95. Tactician comes with the TIE Phantom. You can see them in the card fans from the news releases from ffg.

I agree that the Tactician would have been better as imp only. The art is very imp, and the rebels got a really good stress dealing exclusive card.

why not use rebel captive at that point though? Picking who you stress is often better than forcing your opponent to pick who gets stressed, enough to be worth the reduction in reliability.

Tactician needs to be in your firing arc to work. So not that great on a falcon. Could be a lot of fun on a Bounty Hunter if you weren't taking Gunner, Rebel Captive or Recon Specialist.Mean on a Gunner BH is more like it. You don't want to avoid that first attack at all...Stressing two enemy ships in a turn is just NASTY! Kath is going to be mean... Bounty Hunter has only 1 crew slot.

Decoy is nice on Jan Ors. I tired Swarm Tactics a few times and found that the range one was annoying to maintain and opted for Squad Leader to use her PS instead.

Shadow + advanced cloak + FCS x3

Wasn't there a different actor for Wedge in each movie anyway?

It's a title. Yup, its a title card, so you can still take a System. It may cost some points but I wouldn't expect more than 1, maybe zero. None of the titles that allow another upgrade cost points, only the ones that actually give you a gameplay bonus. If they make it cost 0, unless they make another title, the B-Wing has a crew slot at no cost and might as well have had it in the ship cards. That's dumb. They're doing the same thing on the A-wing. There may be a limiting factor like Pilot Skill (like on A-wing and Royal Guard), but they could have just printed those extra EPT icons on the A-wing cards. No difference, not efficient way to do it, but would surprise me if it costs more than 1 point or anything at all. But the A-wing title is clearly a boost to an underused, under-powered ship which is having it's role taken by a new ship. The B-wing is a very popular, widely used ship, which arguably has taken the role of another ship.

It's a title. Yup, its a title card, so you can still take a System. It may cost some points but I wouldn't expect more than 1, maybe zero. None of the titles that allow another upgrade cost points, only the ones that actually give you a gameplay bonus. If they make it cost 0, unless they make another title, the B-Wing has a crew slot at no cost and might as well have had it in the ship cards. That's dumb.

I hope it costs the sensor slot. I don't think it will be worth points, and it would be dumb/overpowered if it was free.

I say no. Not with Jake Farrell around. If you want a hyper mobile A-wing take Jake with PtL and whatever else you like (I like VI so he can make the most out of his mobility). I don't think Tycho can compete with Jake in cost/effectiveness. Daredevil is a lot better than barrel roll, the cost might be better for Jake, and he gets an extra action but Tycho is much more maneuverable.

Sure, but we are comparing an E-Wing with a Tie Fighter. There is already a 15 pts difference. I would gladly pay 17-18 pts for Winged Gundark if he had the same ability as Etahn. It would actually sinergies quite well with Howlrunner, both also being part of the Obsidian Squadron. But as he is, I prefer to use a BSP with a EPT or save 1-3 points and take a generic Tie Fighter than pay 15 pts for him.As I said, I don't think Etahn ability is OP or anything. I just feel bad for Gundark, that already has trouble seeing table time, now that there is another pilot with an ability that overshadow his. But if a TIE had Etahn's abilty, it would be broken. Howlrunner formation rerolls AND Gundark for autocrits?

Gundark is less than half the cost though . . .

Deadeye is best with homing missiles imo

I got that it made sense, like I said I thought it worked at first. I was just unsure if the text of the combat steps made sense with it.

Where does it say that? I couldn't find anything that clearly states the order.

Hobbie + Flechette Torpedo + R3-A2 At first glance, I thought this would double stress a target and leave Hobbie unstressed. But then I wondered whether spending the target lock for the torp came before officially declaring a target. The Flechette Torpedo says: Spend your target lock and discard this card to perform this attack . . . while the rules say that: COMBAT PHASE During this phase, each ship may perform one attack against one enemy ship that is inside its firing arc and within range. Starting with the ship with the highest pilot skill, players resolve the following combat steps in order: 1. Declare Target: The attacker chooses which enemy ship he wishes to attack. 2. roll attack Dice . . . If you have to spend the target lock to start the steps for performing an attack, that you mean you spend your target lock BEFORE Hobbie can use it to get rid of the stress from R3-A2. I'm not sure if that is the case or not.

Stealth has to be better than hull with the focus stacks, right?

Best hwk is a 26 point ps2 Crow pilot. Rebel Opprative 16 Blaster turret 4 Recon specialist 3 Moldy Crow title 3 With a Stack of focus tokens its surprisingly tanky, and unless it is focus fired upon early, its token stack will likely last through the game.

The point of squad leader isn't to give the focus for someone who already has a TL, it's to give a target lock to a ship that couldn't TL on its activation because the target wasn't in range until after it moved.

lol This game is nowhere near that expensive. It was a bit cheap of them to include a new set of x-wing pilots with the transport, but it's nowhere near as bad as you're making it out to be. It's 40 bucks for 4 new xwing pilots and 4 new droids, or 0 if you just print them out.