Talk:TIE Silencer Expansion Pack/@comment-32612507-20170910064032/@comment-454133-20170911183556

Kumagoro: I don't think you're paying attention to what I was saying... Unless you've actually flown both ships with a variety of setups and seen first-hand how that plays out on the table, umm... ok. I think it's more complicated than that, but cool, you've done a one-on-one assessment and declared the protectorate to be superior, at least on paper.

And that's my point. Despite how it looked on paper before release, you don't see the Protectorate destroying the meta (that's mindlink and jumpmasters' job). In fact it's delicate and takes a lot of skill to fly properly, so it's not the faceroll-victory ship people expect. Contrast that with how powerful the protectorate seems in theory. It shows up from time to time, particularly in Parattanni and related mindlink fleets, but it's not the core threat that Lancers, TIE Defenders, U-Boats, Manaroo, Dengar, and now Nym & friends have been.

So my point is, how things look before you've played ships can differ wildly from how they look once you've played them.

So wait to play the ship before you declare doom & gloom, underpowered or overpowered. We've yet to actually see.