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Stress Machine: Star Wars X-Wing Build

By Barclay Montgomery | March 15th, 2018 | Categories: Star Wars Tactics, X-Wing 2.0

Kath Scarlett is leading the charge against the Rebels in this stress-inducing build for Star Wars X-Wing. Don’t sweat it! Full speed ahead!

Kath Scarlet is here to give your enemies a lethal dose of stress on the battlefield of Star Wars X-Wing. Her Firespray is equipped to the maximum with stress-inducing upgrades, and her ability makes it that much worse. When Kath is attacking, the defender receives 1 stress token if he cancels at least 1 crit result. Do or do not cancel that crit, it’s your funeral!

Kath will be coming in hot with A Score to Settle. This Eilte upgrade will assign your target with A Debt to Pay, which will make it so that you may change 1 of your Focus results into a crit. That crit, if canceled can trigger Kath’s ability to hand out free stress. How about that for being stressful! 

Let’s keep this stress ball rolling with Flechette Cannon. This cannon works much like Ion Cannon but hands out stress instead. If this attack hits, the defender suffers 1 damage and if the defender is not stressed it also receives 1 stress token. Then cancel all dice results. We are not sure if this card works with Kath’s ability, but it could result in another stress token being dealt since if you roll a critical it is technically “canceled” with the Flechette Cannon, but that probably wouldn’t happen that often. Either way, it could be really bad news for Kath’s target! 

To make it stressful for your opponent to even attack Kath, bring along a Rebel Captive. Once per round, the first ship that declares you as the target of an attack receives 1 stress token. Your opponent won’t be able to repel stress of this magnitude!

The icing on this stress cake will be Thermal Detonators. When you reveal your maneuver dial, you may drop a Thermal Detonator token. Once the Thermal Detonator token goes off, it deals 1 damage and a stress token to any ship caught in its range 1 blast radius. You will be dealing out stress in every Phase of X-Wing with Kath Scarlet!

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About the Author: Barclay Montgomery

I'm a weird guy wargamer and hobby enthusiast. I'm like the Thing, I can take many forms. I could be a bounty hunter looking for Rebel prey, a commander of an Imperial fleet, or the Hive Mind of the Great Devourer of Worlds.