RitR: Pilot Defection

[eliteone 643]

Just want to be clear I'm reading this card correctly -

 

1st player chooses three non-unique squads up to 40 points worth, and 2nd player adds them. If I have initiative against the Rebels and this Objective was picked, I could add a YT-2400 and two Z-95s to my opponents fleet. 

I don't see anything where it says the squadrons must all be of the same type, or that you can't pick an irregular squadron. 

[Lemmiwinks86 934]

1 hour ago, eliteone said:

Just want to be clear I'm reading this card correctly -

 

1st player chooses three non-unique squads up to 40 points worth, and 2nd player adds them. If I have initiative against the Rebels and this Objective was picked, I could add a YT-2400 and two Z-95s to my opponents fleet. 

I don't see anything where it says the squadrons must all be of the same type, or that you can't pick an irregular squadron. 

[mhd 285]

Yup, I ended up playing this twice yesterday. One was a tie defender, versus 2 tie bombers the second was a z95, yt2400, yt-1300.

Both defectors died, and it's pretty obvious who they are.

[eliteone 643]

On 10/14/2019 at 8:53 PM, mhd said:

Yup, I ended up playing this twice yesterday. One was a tie defender, versus 2 tie bombers the second was a z95, yt2400, yt-1300.

Both defectors died, and it's pretty obvious who they are.

One good way to do it would be to choose three cheaper squads, kills 2 of them (and lock up or kill other squads)  then the next round declare the defector. 

[SirToastsalot 41]

In  our campaign the guy chose 3 y wings.  Since they have heavy and he was second player, the only squads left at the end were the y wings so he was able to constantly run away.

 

[Bertie Wooster 1,857]

57 minutes ago, SirToastsalot said:

In  our campaign the guy chose 3 y wings.  Since they have heavy and he was second player, the only squads left at the end were the y wings so he was able to constantly run away.

 

I'm confused. 

1. Second player chose the squadron type? 

2. Heavy is a keyword that you don't want. It doesn't let your engaged squadrons run away, but it does let your opponent run away from your squads. 

[SirToastsalot 41]

No you're right, he was first player.  But when all 3 squadrons have heavy and theyre the only squadrons left first player could just run away fairly easily and make sure his squadron never got shot.

[Bertie Wooster 1,857]

7 hours ago, SirToastsalot said:

No you're right, he was first player.  But when all 3 squadrons have heavy and theyre the only squadrons left first player could just run away fairly easily and make sure his squadron never got shot.

That makes a lot more sense. Sounds like a legit first player strategy.