Talk:Emperor Palpatine/@comment-26068736-20151124204252/@comment-73.11.36.66-20151127055901

Another advantage that a Palpatine shuttle has over, say, a Doomshuttle...and I've flown both before and they can both be effective builds...is that the Doomshuttle can be tricky to leverage properly since you have to be able to attack someone to trigger Vader's ability and the shuttle, as previously established, is a slow, lumbering space-truck that's easy to dodge around. A skilled player can dance around the shuttle's firing arc and make it difficult to get any use out of it before it gets killed (or, if they're smarter about it, ignored in favor of the other, more dangerous ships escorting it).

Meanwhile, Palpatine's ability just works. Doesn't matter if the shuttle has a shot lined up or is parked on the middle of an asteroid. It goes off every single round from the start of the game until the game ends or the shuttle dies.