Seriously, does the Hype train even have brakes? With wave 4 on the edge of release, Fantasy Flight throws out Wave 5! Weirdly enough though, its only 2 ships. Just a taste of things to come or we finally hitting that wall of what the original Star Wars can offer? Guess time will tell, till then though, lets take a look at these new ships, the YT-2400 and the VT-49 Decimator.
Starting off with the YT-2400, hey! I recognize this ship from the Nintendo 64 game Shadows of the Empire. Never played it sadly, but it was something I wanted to try.
Speaking of dirty, lets look at some of the upgrades, starting with the pilot, Dash Rendar. Again, never played the game, nor have a read anything with him in it but a quick stop over to Wookiepedia tells me he’s done a bunch in the Star Wars universe, so I’m sure fans of him will be happy to know hes got a very strong ability. Ignoring the effects of obstacles? Yes please!
Few upgrades include the title of the ‘Outrunner’ for those who want to full Rendar experience. Being able to use your cannon upgrade with a full 360 arc at the cost of losing your primary attack?
With some good maneuvering and running away you can easily use the Heavy Laser Cannon to pelt away at the enemy. Sounds fun, till I take into account the cost. But hey, ghankey stuff is never cheap is it *cough* Han shot first *cough*.
Also we see a co-pilot for Lando Calrissian. An interesting upgrade for sure as well. Using your action to gamble for a big pay out or nothing at all.
Moving over to the Dark Side we see the VT-49. Not a clue what this is from, but holy cow does it look awesome. Stat wise isn’t anything to sneeze at either. 3 attacks, a whopping 12 hull and 4 shields. Unfortunately no agility, so up close this thing will take a beating.
Upgrade wise we see Mara Jade, a person in the extended universe I actually know stuff about! Gasp, I know. Hand to the Emperor as well as a sudo sith, she grants a ridiculously powerful ability that can cripple your enemy, extremely quickly.
Forcing your enemy to gain stress tokens at the end of combat if they’re at range one? Jeeze. Just, wow. I really am speechless at that to be honest, that’s just dirty. And it doesn’t state a limit, just every enemy ship at range 1 who doesn’t have a stress token gains one. Put her on the Decimator and you can force the enemy into a very bad spot, getting them either stuck in a loop or never gaining an action again. I like it.
Moving on to something less “different” we have the Fleet Officer. Straight forward and handy, giving two friendly ships focus at the cost of a stress. Not to bad, and helpful for those wishing to run some Bombers. Epic play can be nasty with a few of these ladies around and a couple bombers.
All in all another fun looking round of X-wing ships on the way. Curious if this is it for this wave or will there be some smaller ships making an appearance. We’ll see in due time I guess.
