Talk:Black Eight Sq. Pilot/@comment-187.234.187.220-20170617071555/@comment-31354887-20170617074016

It is a hang over from when the earlier days of the game. Bulkier ships like the x-wing paid 2 points to increase their PS by 2 points while cheaper ships (generally with fewer upgrades) spent only 1 point to increase their PS by 2. Since the punisher has a clearly bulky upgrade bar it got the "x-wing scale" as oppose to the "tie fighter scale" (ironically)

Aces dominate the meta right now and swarms are but a distant memory but when it was viable to throw more ships at your enemy that meant you saw a lot more generics and the battle for initative was between a few PS 8, 9, and 10s, it was between a bunch of generic 2 and 4s. So the player who wanted to err on the side of having first shot spent 2 points to get the mid-PS generic as oppose to the low-PS one.