Talk:Bomb Loadout/@comment-92.60.138.82-20150105102255/@comment-25332048-20150306151126

The descriptions of the shuttles state about 3 or 4 gun emplacements on both the front and the back, so it has all angles covered. It's hard to tell if any of them can swivel, but it's not like the Empire has many current ships that could reasonably sport a turret upgrade for this game. We're just running out of ships that appear in the original films and EU. They're having to dig deep for the Decimator and Raider.

I guess it's possible that Expert Handling as the reason for not giving them an Elite Talent slot... but then they had the MIllenium Falcon in the wave after that and it could take the upgrade, giving it a barrel roll that they eventually had to completely re-write the rules for when the Outrider came out. I guess there is a good chance they were short-sighted enough to think that they couldn't give it to Y-Wings without possibly making them broken, or that the pilots weren't 'good enough'... and in return just made them impractical for most players to field in serious play.

It seems like they tried to fix it by introducing R2-D6, but giving up your rare astromech slot in exchange for a common talent slot is hardly a fix. Then they introduce Scum Y-Wing pilots that have natural talents at lower pilot skills? It makes the Rebel Y-Wing decision just that more obvious as a poor design choice on their part, one they have yet to correct.