Board Thread:Homebrew/@comment-454133-20180124201701/@comment-31354887-20180125092524

I've seen Jyn used arguably more than most of the U-wing's other included crew. (often paired with Rey on either the Ghost or a Wookie gunship so that they can bank some of that extra focus Jyn gives and Jyn gets a wider area to pull focus tokens from).

Baze is... a cheaper gunner, I guess it's fitting? I don't see gunners in use as much as I use too, in Baze's case I think he just came too late to the party though at least he offers a bargin price for what he does.

Bistan is another case of why FFG should freaking wait until the movies are out before they release stuff or Disney should share more info with FFG when they're making new movie ships. His ability is 'eh'. I guess Ten Numb might like him if for some reason he didn't want to use the mangler.

The U-wing itself... really needed 2 agility by default, and the title in attack mode should have given it 3 agility. Brobots prove that 3 agility large ships can exist without being broken, and given the fact that there are several small base ships with more Health than the U-wing flying around, both before and after it came out, it really needs that extra green to survive.

With a dial that's only marginally better than the Lambda (which FFG was clearly trying to make the U-wing just 'rebel lambda') it desperately needed something to shoot besides it's primary arc and the thing is FFG already had a good option for that, they could've given it a Mobile firing arc, perhaps with the restriction that it could only be rotated between port and starboard sides (to represent the door gunners). Yeah this is suppose to be in space but I'm sure the rebels could rig up the U-wing so they doors could be closed while the gunner operates from inside.

The dual sided title is really cool in my opinion, but in practicality it's essentially never flipped. Flipping it to landing mode is basically telegraphing to your opponent that you plan to turn it around next round, and additionally unless it's already far away from the fight, giving up 1 of it's 2 scant agiilty is suicide. I feel like it might've been better used if you could flip it before revealing your maneuver.

Cassian is a decent pilot for what he brings to the table, I feel like it could've been a higher PS but I understand the U-wing is a support ship, it doesn't need to be outflying aces. He pairs well with inspiring recruit but I mostly see him used for his elite slot than anything else. Bhodi's pilot ability and crew are both pretty nifty but fall short of being useful enough to sacrifice a crew slot too in the current 2 ship heavy meta where it gains little use (it would also help if the U-wing had more of a reason to worry about getting TLs besides the single torp it can carry, at this point I don't even see why they would bother putting a single torp or missile slot on any ship with extra munitions and reloading being around). Heff is... okay, in theory he pairs well with Anti-pursuit lasers or Ion projectors but it's a one trick pony.

Also the fact that they left out K-2SO (who is arguably as much of a main character as Jyn or Cassian) and put in Bistan who has about 2 and a half seconds of screen time is clearly a injustice, as is relegating Chirrut to being the art for an EPT.