Is the X-wing is good again? Come see just how badass the new T-70 is in games of, yup you guessed it, X-Wing Miniatures!
Via Fantasy Flight Games
The Resistance T-70 X-wing
The Force Awakens Core Set for X-Wing brings the Resistance’s T-70 X-wing to life as a highly versatile starfighter with three attack, two agility, three hull, and three shields. This gives it both significant punch and staying power, both of which the Resistance’s pilots can enhance by taking advantage of the X-wing’s tech and Astromech droid upgrade slots.
The T-70 X-wings can equip upgrades for a torpedoes, an Astromech droid, and tech.
- Tech upgrades like the Weapons Guidance system utilize newly developed technologies to help pilots maximize their efficiency in combat.
- Astromech droids like R5-X3 or BB-8 can help pilots push their ships to the absolute limit, helping them find a flight path through extremely tight spaces or better react to enemy fighters.
Finally, the T-70 model benefits from modernized thrusters that increase its maneuverability in both space and atmospheric flight. In X-Wing, this increased maneuverability is translated in two ways – through the addition of the boost action and through the fact that the ship’s maneuver dial features two, difficult speed “3” Tallon Roll maneuvers.
Tallon Roll
An extremely difficult maneuver to perform, the Tallon Roll is nonetheless and excellent option for X-wing pilots hoping to keep enemy ships close and in the line of fire.
A Tallon Roll begins like a hard turn, but as your ship continues its turn, it doesn’t fly away, but rolls to face the enemy. When your X-wing executes a Tallon Roll, you don’t fit its rear guides to the end of the template. Instead, it rotates so that the side of its base rests flush against the end of the template and it faces the opposite direction it faced at the beginning of its maneuver.
At the end of its Tallon Roll, your X-wing can slide slightly forward or backward along the end of the template as you desire, so long as the end of the template doesn’t extend beyond the front or back edges of the ship’s base.
A Resistance X-wing pilot executes a Tallon Roll, catching the First Order TIE pilot off-guard.
Poe Dameron
Naturally, once you have a starfighter, you need someone to pilot it, and The Force Awakens Core Set offers Resistance players the chance to field one of the Star Warsgalaxy’s top aces, Poe Dameron .
Because ships execute their maneuvers from lowest pilot skill value to highest pilot skill value and then attack from highest pilot skill value to lowest, Poe Dameron’s high pilot skill value of “8” ensures he’ll be able to react to most enemy ships, maneuvering after them and firing before them.
Of course, there are times that Poe Dameron may need to perform a Tallon Roll or Koiogran turn, leaving him unable to perform the focus action. In those situations, the elite pilot talent, Wired , offers him a second chance at securing the dice results he might have otherwise guaranteed himself. It’s never better to trust your luck than to know you can make your luck, but a Wired Poe Dameron at least gets the best of both worlds.
Equipped with Wired, Weapons Guidance, and the unique Astromech droid BB-8, Poe Dameron’s T-70 X-wing is an extremely powerful and versatile fighter.
Fight for the Resistance
Available in The Force Awakens Core Set, Poe Dameron and the T-70 X-wing give the Resistance a real fighting chance against the First Order.
Of course, for every T-70 X-wing in The Force Awakens Core Set, there are two TIE/fo fighters. Will the X-wing’s strength and Poe Dameron’s skill be enough to overcome the combined firepower of these incoming TIE/fo fighters? Only time will tell.
There’s no doubt the new T-70 is the bee’s knees, trick is to pair it well and let it go to work. My first go to would be 2x B-wings or the new Twin Laser Y-Wings for sure. They X-wing needed a boost (literally) and got it!
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