I agree you probably dont want more than 1 afterburners in a list. But as i mentioned it would be nice to have 2 copies so that when friends come over and use my material, both sides have access to it. And yes i could just print or proxy. But ffg has seemed to have at least 2 copies of everything between the core and conversions. Just not afterburners which is a bummer since its quite a powerful card.

I have heard people complaining that there are too few sources of afterburners (much like 1.0 autothrusters). And I agree. Its really annoying that ill only have 1 copy after buying a core and all the conversion kits. As I usually supply all gaming material when friends come over. But where else can you get afterburners? The fang pack. Which can not use them...Whats up with that? That being said, still pumped for 2.0. FFG have made a lot of great decisions.

Good to hear! Im excited for more generic play. Interested in 6 tie fighters and sloane whisper, 6 named tie, z&a homing missles swarm, Interceptor swarm

Which I6 seems the best right now for their points? Rebels: Wedge Antilles (52) - I love Wedge I think he is a great value. He is going to be my Vader/Fenn hunter. Im going to run him with afterburners, predator, proton torps and a bid. Fenn Rau (52) I hate this ship. I6 coordinate plus Fenns ability just seems like NPE all around Han Solo (92) -Its really hard for me to figure out if big turrets are any good anymore. I need to get some table time with them. It really gonna depend how often you are rotating your arc instead of other actions. Empire: Darth Vader (70) -The guy is boss. He is going to be everywhere. For some reason i dont see myself flying him too much. I wish supernatural reflexes didnt exhist. Kind of feels like easy mode a kin to Luke Gunner. Ace of Legend: Soontir Fel (52) - Loooove this pilot. Slap on the predator and zooooom around. Fantastic for the end game. If he pops before then oh well hes pretty cheap Scum: Dengar (64) -Unsure. See han comment above. Han Solo (54) -Unsure. See han comment above. Also this guy has some serious potential. Only 2 native reds but can get to 6 when the stars align with range 1 bonus, trickshot, title, pilot ability. Fenn Rau (68) -Ive seen and heard lots of concern about Fens five dice in second edition. The concern is justified but i think id rather run up against Fenn than vader. With no afterburners, no supernatural, no force charges I feel like he will be not too hard to take down especially if u can catch him in range 2 or 3 with a proton torp. Anyways for thos of you who have some 2.0 table time how are these guys performing? How are the large base turrets doing?

Nice, we are on the same page. Its a tough choice between whisper and echo. I would want echo in the early game for being squirelly. But i think whisper is better in the late game due to her ability and initiative5.

200 Points: Whisper(52) + Sloane (10) 6x Academy tie fighters (23) Will this list be decent? Obviously your opponent wants to kill Whisper first so they dont suffer 2 stress. But you can just run with whisper which should be fairly easy with the decloak and I5. Or you can stay cloaked and evade and hope your greens hold up. You can also engage early with whisper as long as its 1v1 and then decide to run once she gets injured. I really like sloane because it discourages your opponent from using linked actions and red maneuvers. It really creates a win/win situation for you. Also range 3 is pretty big so it shouldnt be too hard to stay close enough to the swarm. The reason i think im gonna try this list over the other tie swarm thats all the buzz (Iden, Howlrunner + 4-5 more ties) is that I love that they are all I1. It seems daunting to try and fly a swarm in formation that is a mix of I5, I4 & I1.

Abusing PS10 Large ship boost at a regionals while the meta was stuck on PS9

Put Sloane on whisper. Bring 6 tie fighter escorts. When the dust and stress settles, let whisper clean up.

Arvel with intimidation (39) Wedge with R4, Predator, Afterburners (64) 3x Tala with selfless, Homing Missles (93) (196) 4 point bid for wedge

Ooo ya never thought of red vets. If your specifically trying to counter marauders thats the ticket.

I like it. At that price point it might not be OP

It was a spot on gif

Ooof. WORST CARD EVER. At least it is not in the game at launch.

Its tough to balance the force

Nice but what would u name them?

4 blue squadron escorts, 3 with proton torpedoes, 1 with an ion torpedo for 197 points. Could this deal with 5 marauders considering they move last and drop 4 dice with crits?

On Mauls crew card it says you can equip "dark side" upgrades. What do we think these will be? Im thinking they must be in the force slot and must be imperial/FO only (also scum scum when Maul is present). Im excited to see what evil effects FFG is going to cook up. Also excited to see how they can make vader even more potent. Looking through wikipedia there are a lot of cool dark side abilities that could have interesting gameplay implications like force lightning, force choke, thought bombs(users can animate an object to destroy force sensative users nearby), & force phantoms. So my stab at a dark side upgrade will be Force Phantom. At the start of setup, when placing the ship with Force Phatom on the map, place 2 ships instead of 1. Secretly denote which ship is the actual ship and which one is the phantom (Im not sure how to do this at the moment). When the phantom ship is hit by an attack, bumps or is bumped by another ship, or hits an obstacle it is removed from the board. When this ship does damage on an attack, cancel all dice results and no damage is done. This would create some crazy mind games where your opponent is trying to figure out which ship is the phantom and which is the real one. On offence you could be really hoping for a blank out or hoping that they use their evade token so your phantom is not revealed quite yet. Anyways what are your guys ideas for dark side upgrades.

Sold! Thats the one!

I cant wait to lay some sick blocks when 2.0 drops and starve my oponents of actions. I've been pondering who my go to blockers will be. Will it be the beast I1 Sunny Bounder? Will it be the classic I1 tie fighter? Not likely. I can't get away from I3 Arvel Crynyd. At a mere 39 points with intimidation, he can dial in a 5 straight, take a targetlock action and link to a boost. Hopefully landing him right where Soontir plans to go. He is then able to shoot soontir with a modded range 1 shot while soontir only gets 2 green dice and can not shoot back. Thats just good fun. But why stop at 1 blocker? How about 2? So who else in the rebel squad is an efficient blocker? How about I3 sabine in the tie fighter for 28 points. She can do a pre maneuver boost->5 straight->barrell roll with no stress! Good luck seeing that block coming Dash Rendar! Is 2 blockers too many? What if your opponent brings all low initiative ships? Well now your blockers become arch dodgers! Also one of the coolest new features of Arvel is that he can now boost into other ships. So he is happy to face low Initiative or high initiative ships. The only thing that worries me is supernatural reflexes vador who is pretty much unblockable. Which is why ill also bring a bid and 60 point afterburner I6 Wedge to deal with the dark lord. Rebel Blockade (In Progress): Sabine(28) Arvel(36), intimidation(3) Wedge(52), afterburners(8) Thats 127 points leaving 73 to add another ship and put an upgrade or two on wedge and keep a 2-4 point bid for opposing I6s. So what would you add? Or do you disagree with everything in this list? Personally i feel like all three of these pilots are priced very competetively and will be if nothing else, very fun to fly.

I feel bad for ya. Heres to hoping they throw some extra generic cardboard in with the EPIC conversion kits. Cheers

I love having swarms of ships with all the same PS. It is very handy being able to choose which ship goes first and it is just easier on the brain especially when playing Epic. With a limited collection (I dont own 8 Zs, ties, or sycks) it is hard to swarm because I have to use swarms of A wings/ Z's, tie fighters/tie advanced, Sycks/Z's. I love how 2.0 makes this easier. For example: IMPERIAL: In 1.0 i had to bump the tie fighters and the tie advanced up to ps 4 which was way too expensive. In 2.0 we just bump up the acadamies to Obsidians for 1 point and boom our mixed swarm is all at I2. (Granted without accuracy corrector low PS Tie advanced are not worth using at the moment) SCUM: In 1.0 you couldnt fly Zs and Sycks at the same PS due to their odds and evens PSs . In 2.0 youre free to fly both at I1 Rebel: In 1.0 you couldnt fly Z's and A's at the same PS due to odd and even PS's . In 2.0 youre free to fly both at I1 Now lets look at a fun list I quickly made: Four Friends I4Ever (200): I4 Dutch (59) - Veteran Turret Gunner, ICT, Hull Upgrade I4 Ten Numb (60) - HLC, FCS, Hull Upgrade I4 Jake (43) - Homing Missles I4 Lt. Blount (38) - Homing Missles, Hull Upgrade Now if FFG would just release an EPT to bump Howlrunner and Iden to a lower Initiative to match their tie buddies...

Drea looks fun. It might be hard to keep her arc on targets. Either way i dont want 5 turret Ys to be good. I was just curious. I was surprised we could fit 5

Also i feel like a 3 bank followed by their new barrel could surprise people with a block.

Gray Squadron Bomber with Ion Cannon Turret is 38 points x 5 is 190 points. 10 points left for 3 seismic charges or 2 proton bombs. Is this any good? Its got 40 health. Lots of board contol with ions and bombs. Can let loose 4 dice attacks at range 1. The hardest part will be keeping your turret on target but with 5 of them if flown well it could be good i think.