At my local gaming pub, space is at a premium. We often wind up stacking cards or making piles of cards on small fold out tables next to the gaming table. It's super easy to miss a crit card in the mess.

At my local gaming pub, space is at a premium. We often wind up stacking cards or making piles of cards on small fold out tables next to the gaming table. It's super easy to miss a crit card in the mess.

I always do. In fact I started using tokens from both editions. First edition tokens for crits that can be repaired and 2e for the permanent ones. 

Always. Sometimes they even remind me of the crit effects!

Always. Sometimes they even remind me of the crit effects!

Always. Sometimes they even remind me of the crit effects!

I generally insist on them. I've lost ships before because people have forgotten (legitimately or not) Weapons Failure.
I've also forgotten crits and it feels bad realizing after a few rounds.
 

The same can be said for X-wing. Guns and engines change positions, yeah, but from a non-combat to combat, there is no benefit in closing the S-foils. Didn't stop FFG designers.

Thank you for saving us from having to use the official app.

Thank you for saving us from having to use the official app.

Here's my question. Why are cargo vessels and personnel shuttles the most heavily gunned ships in the game? 🤔 

The upgrades and ships have existed in roughly the same way since 1.0:  Collision Detector, Hyperwave Comm Scanner,  Dormitz's ability. So at the risk of taking a possible joke post seriously, I'd say no.
Far more likely that a B or C rank list is rising to A rank with the 2.0 changes nerfing previous A rank lists out of the competition.

Sure. I'm just skeptical that FFG is capable of engineering the tripsilon squad to boost sales. I think, like the Jumpmaster, it's a convergence of card abilities and FFG are probably reading these threads going "Aw, ****, here we go again."

That's a gunship, not a cargo plane.

The Ups is like the Lambda from ROTJ. It exists to move characters from scene A to scene B. I can understand giving it guns* to make it playable in a miniatures game, but 4 dice primary seems overkill to me. 
*While both models have guns, we never see them fire in the films, not the Lambda at least, I don't recall the Ups ever firing either.

Thank god for bleach and whiskey cocktails.

Thank god for bleach and whiskey cocktails.

Thank god for bleach and whiskey cocktails.

Sure. I'm just skeptical that FFG is capable of engineering the tripsilon squad to boost sales. I think, like the Jumpmaster, it's a convergence of card abilities and FFG are probably reading these threads going "Aw, ****, here we go again."

Thank you for saving us from having to use the official app.

Thank you for saving us from having to use the official app.

What, you've never seen all the semis on the highway with their sides bristling with miniguns and a 105mm turret on top?

Just in Australia.

Here's my question. Why are cargo vessels and personnel shuttles the most heavily gunned ships in the game? 🤔 

Sure. I'm just skeptical that FFG is capable of engineering the tripsilon squad to boost sales. I think, like the Jumpmaster, it's a convergence of card abilities and FFG are probably reading these threads going "Aw, ****, here we go again."