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So Dakka, do you have a favorite Character who FFG stubornly refuses to give a ship? *Cough*Mara Jade*Cough*. Got an idea for an upgrade to make an old ship like new again? This is the thread for sharing those ideas.

I'll go first. Although the Ghost/Phantom box looks like it will be adding it, I've really wanted to see some pilots get to fly different ships.

Tycho Celchu (X-wing)- 29 points
PS 8, EPT
When attacking or defending, if this figure has one or more stress tokens, roll an additional die.

So, we keep Tychos theme of working well under stress, and give him a twist on it that works with the less action-heavy X-wing.





So what's your idea, Dakka?

I always thought that FFG should have made all of the ships a baseline PS 1 or 2, then develop upgrade cards that can bring them up in PS or add the named pilot.
Academy pilot to Obsidian is a 1 point upgrade. AP to Howlrunner is 6 points...though for the same 6 points you could now put Howrunner in a TIE Interceptor bringing it up to 24 points.

KellyJ wrote:
I always thought that FFG should have made all of the ships a baseline PS 1 or 2, then develop upgrade cards that can bring them up in PS or add the named pilot.
Academy pilot to Obsidian is a 1 point upgrade. AP to Howlrunner is 6 points...though for the same 6 points you could now put Howrunner in a TIE Interceptor bringing it up to 24 points.

I think FFG did it the way they did to keep pilots in line with the ships that it's "Fluffy" for them to fly. Compare STAW, where things get silly.

 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:

KellyJ wrote:
I always thought that FFG should have made all of the ships a baseline PS 1 or 2, then develop upgrade cards that can bring them up in PS or add the named pilot.
Academy pilot to Obsidian is a 1 point upgrade. AP to Howlrunner is 6 points...though for the same 6 points you could now put Howrunner in a TIE Interceptor bringing it up to 24 points.

I think FFG did it the way they did to keep pilots in line with the ships that it's "Fluffy" for them to fly. Compare STAW, where things get silly.

Yep.

Now I know that with some ships, they had to put pilots in them that aren't necessarily "correct" because they needed pilots people might recognize. However, I don't care what ship Luke flew in some gakky EU book, the kid flies an X-wing in the only thing that matters.