I am going to side with it being Snoke. The Emperor and Thrawn probably brutally put down whatever race Snoke is and that's why he decides to take over after Palps is gone. It would be great if Thrawn ended up still being alive and working for Snoke by TFA.

I don't really include ATC as a standard system because it can only go on one ship. It is a fix card so it better be good as well. AS is underrated for a select few pilots but for the large majority of ships FCS is just to good to turn down for the points. I have always found Sensor Jammer to be a bit over costed but I'm sure it could be good in the right matchups.

FCS is only a problem in that it is WAY better than any other system upgrade and still cheaper than most.

As many copy's of Attanni Mindlink as you have would be the best place to start. With that many ship/obstacles on the mat actions will be precious so being able to spread one focus to your whole squad will be huge.

6 hawks! One Syck could probably solo all of them lol

Will killing unique pilots give more points than killing a generic? I think some kind of bounty system would be cool. Get +X points for killing named pilots that have survived a set number of battles.

I would rather see bonuses for less maneuverable ships so they hit harder when you do manage to line up that shot. That's why I added the "add a focus result" bit to the title

No problem. I also thought it might be to cheap at first then I started thinking about TLT. If the cost of a Gold plus this is 24 or over then it would almost never be used. I think 4 points is probably the sweet spot now because that keeps them cheaper than a TLT Y but you can't spam more than 4. The torps are really something I would like to see Y-wings use but their lack of maneuverability makes paying for in arc weapons a waste unless you build a list around an alpha strike.

In a squad of lower PS pilots it can be used as a great deterrent. Any ship that shoots at Hotcop ship will be defending with mostly naked greens and we all know how well that works out. It's a solid upgrade in most squads but really shines with gunner as most others have pointed out.

It is a predetermined set. Read it again. It is an ion turret and two proton torps. I have never seen a Y-wing played with the standard loud out so it would have to be a pretty big discount to make it viable. Otherwise why not just take the more efficient TLT?

Since there has been a drought of news lately I was thinking about what the almost inevitable Rebel Veterans pack could do for the old Y-Wing. So here is my thought for a title. Standard Alliance Loadout. 3 or 4 points. Y-wing only. Rebel only You must equip the "Ion Cannon Turret" and 2 "Proton Torpedoes" upgrades without paying the squad cost. When attacking with a secondary weapon against a ship inside your firing arc you may add one focus result to your roll. You get 11 points of secondary weapons for 3 or 4 points and they hit a little harder in arc. You can still choose what pilot/droid/mod you want so it doesn't take away all customization options. Y- wings would get a scary alpha strike but only one can get an EPT so they wouldn't become U-boats. Bundle the title with a few new pilots and Rebel Y's get new life as something other than a TLT caddy.

I mostly agree with you on this as well. The only thing I would add is if the points reduction had not happened then the Aces would still see some use after adjusting their tactics and lists. As it is now they switched to defenders because they are not as vulnerable to said tricks and are roughly the same point cost. I personally would much rather play with and against the Ace ships than Defenders. The Aces take considerable skill to use effectively while Defenders are more forgiving. I don't believe Defenders are simple to fly well but they are definitely easier than one mistake and die Aces.

I agree that in comparison to the A-wings Refit the -2 seems fair but I don't like that it takes defenders low enough that they push out other imperial ships. Why spend 35 points on an interceptor ace when you can get Ryad or Vessery for the same cost and they live twice as long.

The reason it's much harder to play Rebels these days is because they have not kept up in the power creep race. The last three Rebel expansions have offered very little that have pushed the faction forward. Rebels still rely on the crutch of Biggs and Regen but everyone and their brother knows how to beat that. The U-Wing was especially disappointing because all the new unique crew are marginal to terrible at best. Rey is about the only new useful pilot and she is just WAY to expensive when loaded out. FFG needs to abort Operation Buff Scum so they can bring the other factions up to the new power level.

He was referring to the fact that unique crew would not rotate so Zuckuss would never leave. I can see how it would be confusing because he mentioned Manaroo in the same sentence.

This is spot on. Rebels(and Imps to a lesser degree) got left behind in the last 2+ waves. Power creep I can understand but unbalanced power creep for one faction has been bugging me for a while. It is plainly obvious that FFG wanted to buff Scum into a legitimate 3rd faction but went a little overboard. The scary thing is that with the 12 month design cycle it may not even be over yet. The C-ROC and whatever is in the pipeline after that will probably make it even worse.

Thank you! I am not a big fan of Reddit. To much stuff to sift through to find anything useful.

I watched your worlds stream and loved what you guys were able to pull together there. It baffles me that they wouldn't give you wifi access when you were promoting their biggest event of the year for free! Things like this are one of the reasons I love this game so much. The X-wing community is awesome and full of excellent people from around the globe.

Yavin had a stream? We really need a page that collects all of the streams pinned to the top.

I recently looked up the same information but seeing in the graph really helps. Thanks for that.

How are there streams for 80% of random regionals but not streams of any system open so far???? FFG needs to insure whoever they give these big events to will be streaming them. I can't believe that is not a requirement already.

How funny would it be if parattanni wins every single system open?

I got the StarKiller base mat that came out at the same time as Hoth and it apparently didn't get stretched properly when it was glued. On one side there are bubbles from one end to the other. I have tried to flatten it out but the bubbles always come back.

I think your list would be a great start but would also have to deal with a few other things. Sabine crew would need to be added at +1 or hit with a range restriction. As you said in your later posts Mindlink is a tough one. As soon as the preview came out I told my local playgroup that it would be a monster. I personally dislike it because it is limited to only Scum. It gives the entire faction such a huge leg up over the others that I think the ban is warranted.

Yes. Basically like a permanent crack shot if certain conditions are met.