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https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2017/3/15/independent-operations/

Interesting to see the aggressor in there. Scurrg is no surprise as it's already in Armada and the wookie ship is in Rebels.

Seems to be quite the heavy fighter wave!

TIE Aggressor is an imperial ywing analogue. Not as tough, but agility 2, potentially agility 2 and a bit with lightweight frame, means the empiire can now do TLT spam like everyone else. The fact a TLT and lightweight frame card comes in the pack suggests they've though of this squad themselves.

Is it better than 4 ywings or hwks? Depends on the dial, but with barrel roll, and a sort of fake agility 3m I wouldnt write it off.

Unguided rockets are kind of cool. Im liking heavy swarms (strikers, khiraxz, etc) at the moment and this adds another option. Scimitars with lightweight frame and rockets have big weaknesses (action denial neuters their firepower to a similar level to blaster turrets and they have a lousy dial for operating in numbers, but five rocket boats is one hell of a lot of toughness to chew through, and five three dice attacks is enough to actually matter.

As a slight RAW-slow note: am I correct in reading that this ship could equip the IG-2000 title? I bloody hope that gets knicked on the head before this goes to print...

The wookie gunship..... at first I thought reinforce was just a gimmick, but then I notedthe 180 degree forward aux arc, like a hound. Unless the dial is awful, thats a damn-nasty wide arc, especially on a ship capable of packing a gunner/tactician pairing. It's bloody tough, too, especially reinforced.
The unique ept sounds like a one-use superior draw their fire. I'm more interested/worried about the "specialist" crew and the fact that the pack seems to contain two reinforce tokens: depending on the triggering condition, two reinforce tokens is into serious unhittability territory.

Havoc.....will actually make a pretty credible heavy fighter. If you took a lambda, put it on a small base, and gave it a talon roll and barrel roll, you've got something you don't want to meet down a dark alley - especially since you can pack four in a squad with long range scanners for a bit of action economy, and intel agents to make them quite nasty blockers.

Nym himself is potentially quite a thing, too - with the havoc title he can do everything the ghost can do except double-tap a turret (I accept that's a fairly big 'except') but being able to do so at PS10 (if he has an EPT) plus have barrel roll means an accuracy corrector/autoblaster turret havoc is a nasty concept to think about in a close-range dogfight, especially since he can bring bombs and mines to throw into the same mix (the rebel version will be far scarier for this, because, well....sabine. Plus you can still have 'genius' in a rebel list now).

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As a slight RAW-slow note: am I correct in reading that this ship could equip the IG-2000 title? I bloody hope that gets knicked on the head before this goes to print...


It's listed as Tie Agressor and since only exact name matches count it won't be able to. Nice thought though.

Overall I'm pretty neutral on the wave, at least as a new player. Maybe I'll get an Aggressor since I'm an Imperial fan.

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The Rulebook says:

If the ship's type includes the entirety of the restricted type, it can equip that upgrade


The TIE Aggressor includes the full text restriction for the IG-88 title (Aggressor only).

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