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Played in flight 1 at Nationals today. Ran dual Falcons with Predator, went 5-2 and qualified for Saturday! The Decimator, Outrider, and Rebel Aces look fantastic!
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Leo Showers posted:Gladiator-class Star Destroyers are cool, but not as cool as the VSD. The plain old scum ships don't really interest me at all, I don't really know how they'll be different from Rebel ships we already have. They're very different. Scum has a really unique and cool feeling as a faction.
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Aug 15, 2014 23:50
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Carteret posted:
The Falcon player is one of the three that beat me all weekend. His build is SUPER tanky. I ran Chewie with Predator and Falcon title, and Lando with Predator, Gunner, and Nien Nunb. Took 12th out of 170+ 
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Aug 17, 2014 05:22
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X-Wing National Finals!
2 motherfucking Falcons vs Whisper, Captain Yorr(!) & Soontir Fel
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alg posted:Imperial player plays at my store. He's a great guy and a great player. He plays a LOT. Yep, he won! Whisper, Yorr, and Soontir! The Falcon list has no way to ensure hits on Soontir and Whisper really. No gunners! 4 of us from MN made the trip and went 7th, 8th, 12th, and 15th, so that was pretty cool. Incredible competition in pretty much every game. And and awesome blend of metas!
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Aug 17, 2014 06:55
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Nebalebadingdong posted:Finally get to play this game again. Because as long as she's stressed she can't take stress to boost an attack...
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Aug 23, 2014 16:42
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Jonas Albrecht posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrxO1t9wY10 That's James, he's one of the Armada designers. He worked on X-Wing until after Wave 4 as well.
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Aug 24, 2014 21:53
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I ran a new list tonight, went 3-1 (losing game 1 by 2 points to a 7 TIE swarm flown by one of the X-wing game devs) at the FFG Game Center. Took 3rd out of 26. It's a pretty unusual list, but took on both Phantoms and Falcons very well. Cracken w/ Cluster missiles, squad leader, munitions failsafe (failsafe is optional, could just make a 99pt initiative bid) Blount with Deadeye and Ion Pulse missiles Tala with Cluster missiles 2x Tala with Homing missiles. Can swap in 2x Assaults if you think you'll see a lot of swarms. Thinking of running it at another local tournament Saturday. Has anyone else tried anything similar?
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Sep 5, 2014 07:13
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Leo Showers posted:Cracken and Blount are absolutely top-tier pilots, I am still surprised they don't get as much play time as I expected. Cracken is essentially the Darth Vader for Rebels and Blount is a great way to ionise, rear end missile or remove stealth devices, all for cheap. Highlight of the day was using the auto-hit Ion Pulse to dispose of an unharmed Han Solo by flying it off the board. Also using it to lock down Echo for a 3 missile all-you-can-eat buffet.
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Sep 5, 2014 07:56
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Strobe posted:Trying out a new list this week. Going with three Xs and some pretty elite pilots. I have a hard time seeing how Expose will be better than Opportunist in this situation. Both will leave you with a stress, but Opportunist won't lower Wedge's agility.
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Sep 16, 2014 06:21
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Is anyone else participating in the Team Covenant VASSAL tournament that just started?
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Sep 17, 2014 04:14
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KO Derf posted:I am not, but I went through everyone's lists last night, and it looks to be a drat fun tourney. Yeah, in three different local events. Had a winning record in them all but it definitely struggles against anything with two super maneuverable threats, or a really well flown Phantom. Only lost to Soontir/Whisper/yorr twice, Soontir/Carnor/turr, and another Soontir/Whisper list. I can nuke one Phantom or interceptor, but if they still have a strong closer left it gets ugly. It's death to Falcons/Firespray/shuttle/Decimator though. And a lot of fun to fly!
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Sep 18, 2014 19:05
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Played my first round matchup for the Team Covenant Open today, and somebody was streaming it with commentary. My ZZZZZ list with ALL THE MISSILES, vs Kath, a Bounty Hunter, an an Alpha. Check it out if you like, I'm the Matt player. http://www.twitch.tv/blairbunke/b/571146451
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Sep 23, 2014 05:40
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Well, I have a new favorite squad! Keyan and Corran, just 2 ships. I played a game with a prototype of this list earlier in the week and it was great, so I brought it to our Sector Championship this weekend. Each local store is holding a Sector, the sector # being the last 3 digits of the zip code. Then just before world's we'll hold a Quadrant Championship at the FFG Game Center. All the Sector champs get a bye in the first round. This one had 14 players, we've had as many as 30 I think so far. Each event has a unique participation prize from Applied Perspective as well (awesome acrylics a local guy does, http://www.appliedperspective.com/acrylic/product-category/x-wing/) Keyan Farlander w/ Push the Limit, Engine Upgrade, Advanced Sensors, Advanced Proton Torpedos and Heavy Laser Cannon Corran Horn with Veteran Instincts, Flechette Torpedos, Fire Control System, Engine Upgrade, and R2-D2. Went 3-0 in swiss, won both top 4 and final table games. Only list Keyan in 3 games, never lost Corran. Final table I lost Keyan to a PS9 Kath and PS9 Whispers attacks, that landed a blinded pilot crit (3rd one he took today), then Dark Curse finished him off, without him firing a shot... Horn proceeded to wreak bloody vengeance on the entire enemy squad, regenerating his shields as needed, before it finally came down to Dark Curse vs. him. Only a matter of time until Curse failed a roll then, with me regening and evading every turn. It's a REALLY fun list to fly, although I only fired the Flechettes once, and the APT never. It was there for Falcon insurance, but I didn't end up facing the 3 Falcon lists. The Flechette is to stress a Phantom before it can fire and recloak, then let Keyand and Corran's doubletap take it out. Only used it the last game. The other Phantom I played I forced onto a rock where the HLC had it's number.
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Sep 29, 2014 00:40
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Chill la Chill posted:Did you play against any swarms or Baron, whisper /echo, and lambda? If so how did they do? I might try this on Tuesday but I'm worried about quadruple b-wings and phantoms as that is the latest flavor of the month in this store. Played two Phantom lists. One was Whisper, one wsa Echo. Echo had 2 PTL Sabres and an Obsidian along, Whisper had VI Kath and Dark Curse. Also played Wedge/Luke/Biggs, a really creative Hobbie/Garven/Biggs/Blount list and Etan/Biggs/Tala/Tala. Nobody around here is running 4B since they're easy lunch for well flown Phantoms. If you expect to see a lot of Soontir/high PS interceptors and the like, I'd put VI on Keyan too, and go for the initiative bid to make them move first, than use AdvSensors and Engine/barrel roll to arc dodge them. I plan to test a build like that as well as swapping in a Bandit or Tala for the HLC and APT.
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Sep 29, 2014 04:39
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susan posted:Went 1-2 at a tournament this weekend, and had a blast doing it, but I do now have some... weirder questions about X-Wing Miniatures tournaments. Specifically, how scoring and pairings and winners are selected. See, in our 8-person tournament, we had one player who went 3-0... but he was not awarded 1st place, because he had destroyed fewer points than two other players. The undefeated player actually didn't get any awards, which feels... wrong somehow. The pairing system was similarly confusing, as I was paired up against much better players than I probably should have been, simply because I had been blowing up a lot of ships in my game while getting blown up a bit faster in return. That is not normal at all. Normally you get 5pts for a full win, 3 for a modified win, and 0 for a loss. The 3-0 player, assuming he had all full wins would have 15pts, and any 2-1s 10. So he'd get first with 15, and among the various 10s, rank would be determined by Margin of Victory, which is explained in the tournament rules here: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/x-wing/support/faq/X-Wing-Tournament-Rules.pdf All the rules are there, if they aren't going by that I have no clue what they are doing, and it sounds like they don't either.
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Sep 29, 2014 06:32
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PJOmega posted:The 3-0 could have had all modified wins, so 9 pts versus a 2-1 with full wins at 10pts. True, that's a pretty edge case though, especially with the margin for a full win being only 12pts now.
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Yeah, the next iteration I'll try drops the APT and HLC to put in a Tala. The Flechette stays since that fired at a Phantom at PS10 means no cloaky for them, and Keyan and Corran's doubletap can swat it. I generally make a pretty tight cloud of asteroids, since I'm pretty good at flying through them and with all the movement options they'll restrict me less than my opponent. I Then ran Corran down the board edge as fast as possible, while Keyan was a little inside him. If they are angling to get to Keyan before Corran can flank, I'll barrel roll and boost away from them to stretch it out a little and drag them into Corran. Keyan is ALWAYS the first target, but Corran is such a good closer that's ok. Favorite moves on Keyan are the boost then K-turn, and the barrel roll, boost, then hard 2. So much fun to fly! Edit: I also plan to fly Keyan with VI at some point, and rely on red maneuvers to get the stress. That'll make him even more dangerous to Phantoms/Interceptors/Wedge.
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Sep 29, 2014 17:38
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zVxTeflon posted:Im in it and I got paired with a guy I play regularly irl in the first round. How'd you do in the first two rounds? I played game two (Team Covenant VASSAL tournament) tonight, the opponent had a Echo/Vessery/Doom shuttle list and a Leebo w/HLC turret and 2 greens list. Brought the ZZZZZ swarm again since I knew the Decimator wouldn't be able to chase down the Outrider. He took Echo straight in at me and ate Crackens clusters and the ion pulse first round of shooting. Next round I blocked the ioned Echo and had 3 range 1 shots to finish him. Came down to Blount and two Talas (one with homing left, one with clusters) vs Vessery. I whittled him down, losing the homing Tala with his missile unfired, and then he K-turned onto a rock, at range one of both my ships. Game over man! Z ZUPREMACY! On to round three!
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Sep 30, 2014 04:39
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KO Derf posted:I noticed you were on the pair-down table. Did you beat up some poor 1-1 fool? That's not very nice. I'm the lowest-ranked 2-0 since I only had 2 Zs left each game so far. I'm up against Dallas Parker though, the current World Champ runner-up! I haven't played him before but watched a couple of his games at Nationals. He's got a Decimator/Phantom and a TIE Swarm, so I'm thinking it may be time to break out my Stressimator w/ Black squadron predators. We'll see! In other news, here's the various promos that I was mentioning in my previous post, the giveaways for our Sector Championship series. The range 1 and 2 ruler set I won at a different event. 
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Oct 2, 2014 20:39
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zVxTeflon posted:Prob tokens to show that youve used the once per round ability for those characters respective crew cards. Yep! They're also working on a no attack token for Blinded Pilot and Corran Horn.
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Well I just lost my 3rd round in the Team Covenant Open. Played Dallas Parker, who took 2nd at Worlds last year. He was running Kenkirk and Whisper, I took the Zs again. I over committed in the first round and he set up perfect to arc dodge with Whisper whether I went straight or turned in. Killed Blount in one shot on the first round and it went downhill from there! The squad I want to play with for some fun games is the Serious Sevens. Keyan Farrel Porkins All with PTL. Engine on the X and B, Chardaan on Jake. Advanced Sensors for Keyan and R5-D8 for Porkins. Should be fun as hell!
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Oct 7, 2014 05:58
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Is anyone else going to be at Worlds this week? I'm in Flight 1 tomorrow.
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I had a rough day yesterday, 2-4. Ran Fel with PTL, Mauler with VI, and three Blacks with Predator. I haven't really been able to settle on a squad I'm happy with in wave 4-4.5. The theme of the day for me was hot attack dice, cold evades, which is not ideal when running TIEs. Lost to Mr. Froggies of TC/VASSAL fame round one. He was running 3 Blues with Tacticians and a Y with ion and R3-A2. Had no idea how to go up against all that stress! Came down to Fel vs. an almost dead B and the unhurt Y, and the B got a lucky direct hit through. 2nd round played a female player running 2x Bounty Hunters and a Delta with ion. I killed a Bounty first round of shooting before it even fired, and it was all cleanup from there. First win. 3rd played the UK national champ, running a 7 TIE swarm. He flew it drat well, and it eventually came down to Fel and a Black vs injured Howl, injured Dark Curse, and a black before he took me out. 4th played one of the WI guys running 3 blues with Advanced Sensors and 2 Bandits. So much HP to chew through. 5th was up against Triple Bounty hunters by a guy out of Omaha. He flew them well, and I don't feel like I made any big mistakes but there were a lot of double evade rolls by those bounty hunters! 6th faced a guy from Ohio with a neat squad. Blue with HLC, Jake Farrell with VI and PTL and Chardaan, and Keyan with Advanced Sensors, VI, and HLC. I traded most of my TIEs for the Blue and some damage on the other two, then Fel hunted down Jake and Keyan. I gave him initiative so I could arc dodge, and it made all the difference. Even though I fell flat it was still a good day, and the Vader promo cards we got already netted me a couple hundred bucks, so that goes a long way to soothing the pain! I've got to work today but I'll be playing in the consolation event Saturday. Running something else...
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Nov 7, 2014 20:53
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I've got one of the HCD starfield mats and like it. I love Applied's tokens and templates, but not a big fan of their vinyl mats.
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Nov 19, 2014 10:11
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TsarZiedonis posted:So I'm going to my first tournament on Saturday, and I'm wondering if the rebel list I've been using against my friends would work in a competitive environment: It's not bad, although I'd probably drop R2-D2 off Biggs and upgrade the Tala to a Prototype with Chardaan refit and put an R2 unit on Garven or something. I like to avoid spending any extra points on Biggs since he's going to be the first to die anyways. That 4 points is often going to give you 1 or zero shields back, since usually Biggs is dead first or second turn of firing. The list in general is going to suffer against strong arc dodgers, Soontir, Echo/Whisper, PTL/Engine Keyan Farlander, etc. It's not a bad list though.
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Dec 5, 2014 08:13
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Vader is a monster with the title and ATC. The new pilots are great as well, Alozen, the one they've spoiled gets a free target lock if he can get to range 1.
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Dec 19, 2014 18:04
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Poopy Palpy posted:Assuming, of course, he can use them since they say "TIE Advanced only" and his pilot card says his ship is a "TIE Advanced x1". I mean, yeah, of course he can, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a clarification in an FAQ. He can use them. I played the designer running it on Vader just before World's, so it'll either be FAQ'd or just "duh". Soontir with autothrusters, and Vader. Fat Han never had a chance.
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Dec 19, 2014 19:19
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Tekopo posted:My dumb build is 3 PS2 with Heavy Scyk and HLC and Serissu with Heavy Scyk and HLC Yep that puts out the hurt.
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Dec 29, 2014 18:55
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Popete posted:So does the advent of Armada coming out soon mean X-Wing will likely not have any larger ships? Are my dreams of having a huge battle with a Star Destroyer a pipe dream? That was never going to happen. They just announced the first Imperial huge ship too, so it doesn't appear they're ignoring them for armada. Bigger than the raider/cr-90 will never happen though.
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Dec 29, 2014 19:05
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Gammatron 64 posted:I think A-Wings are rad but my rebel aces set won't arrive till the end of January. Welp, that's what I get for going for the cheapest seller on Amazon sometimes. It's not even the physical scale that's the problem with something like a an ISD in X-Wing. It's the scale of the firepower involved too! Armada has a much more abstract approach to scale, so an ISD or even bigger stuff is definitely more likely.
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Dec 29, 2014 21:56
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krushgroove posted:When was the 3rd faction announced? I haven't been paying much attention to X-Wing since my gaming group has been doing exclusively 40K, even though we have 5 X-Wing starter sets among the 5 of us. This could be something that will get us to pick up playing again. Announced at GenCon.
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Dec 29, 2014 22:48
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jassi007 posted:Anyone ever see an event were only generic pilots are allowed? My store is running one. Sort of threw a wrench into my thinking. Still 100 points. 4X Royal Guard Pilots with PTL. Game over man. Game over. Highest generic PS, plus PTL arc dodging with interceptors. Why bring anything else?
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Obama 2012 posted:You're confusing me--I'm saying I thought you COULDN'T use the droid with PTL. Or did you mean to say 'use the droid for your action, then use PTL for something in your action bar'? I know THAT would be legal, I'm just trying to nail down the rules technicality. I'm preparing for my first tournament and things get can get thorny, what with all these 'actions', 'free actions', 'actions listed in your action bar', etc. Yeah, he got it reversed. Droid THEN PTL to do an action bar action. EDIT: That's what I get for not going to the next page...
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Carteret posted:Haha I heard him talking about all that poo poo he bought, and how hard it was for him to get them. I just kept thinking "whaaaaaaaaale" It's guys like that that pay for my X-Wing collection.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Alright, I have a core set, a yt2400, two z95s. What do I do now? Leebo with Determination, Outrider title, and HLC, 2 Bandits and Luke. Or drop Luke to a Rookie and turn a Bandit to Lt. Blount with Ion Pulse missiles or something similar.
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Jan 14, 2015 04:35
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Commissar Canuck posted:I'm a fool and decided my first tournament will be the store championship at FFG's Game Center, I want to avoid using big ships if possible and am kicking around a list like this. Any suggestions from the more seasoned players? If you're in the Twin Cities you should check out Twin Cities X-Wing on Facebook. We've got a listing up of all upcoming events. There was a warm-up tournament at FFG on the 17th, and I'll be there Saturday as well. There's a pretty big (and good) local community!
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Jan 27, 2015 22:04
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Phrosphor posted:I experienced my first "Corellian Spitroast" last night. What were you running? I WISH someone would try this in a real game. Fly into one of them so it has no shot, and roast the other one. Or plenty of lists can kill a Falcon in 2 turns of solid shooting, you should be able to do that before you have to break off. Boring game for sure, but against most lists it shouldn't be a huge threat.
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Phrosphor posted:This list wrecked me at our local tournament and really turned me off the game. Do you run the B's with heavy laser cannons? I'm sure he doesn't since 4 naked blues is 88pts and a Bandit makes 100.
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Feb 12, 2015 10:33
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Chill la Chill posted:Middle of nowhere Minnesota. I'm considering going there this year but it's such a pain and pretty expensive. Though if it's the same as last year, at least the promo card will subsidize your hotel. It's all of 10mins from Minneapolis and St. Paul downtowns, so it's not really the middle of nowhere And yes, the promo card is always worth a good chunk, and you get two. I sold my Vaders this year for ~$120 each, which funded all of Wave 5 and 6, plus the Raider. That's one of the perks from living 5 minutes from FFG. That and playing with the developers regularly.
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Icon Of Sin posted:If I put Expert Handling on a Royal Guard TIE Interceptor, does that mean that it can do a free barrel roll (per the upgrade card) then do a boost afterward? It's cool as long as I don't try to do the same action twice in one turn, right? The free action of EH still takes your regular action to activate. That's why the card says, Action: XXXXXXX. You do the EH ACTION, which as part of it lets you do a free barrel roll. If you put Push the Limit on it you can roll and then push the limit to boost, and end up with a stress. EH on an interceptor wouldn't be very useful since they can roll already.
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