Talk:Expertise/@comment-82.217.119.246-20180428004412/@comment-82.217.119.246-20180430213555

Ah yes, good point, those other ways of getting stress do get a lot more annoying with Expertise.

I've been flying Countess Ryad a couple of times now, with TIE/D, Tractor Beam, Twin Ion Engine Mk. II  and, so far, Outmaneuver. The idea was to use her ease at maneuvering to, well, outmaneuver other ships. Then attack with Tractor Beam first, already against an agility-reduced defender, and then ideally a primary weapon attack where the defender has two less green dice.

It worked fairly well, but I noticed two things: I only recall having done a red maneuver with Ryad once, and I have been pretty much exclusively doing Focus actions. With Expertise, I would have only been able to reduce the defender's agility by 1 at most, but I would pretty much always have had two offensive focuses to "spend". I would probably still be taking a focus for defense most of the time, but an option would be a target lock that could immediately be spent with an already twice "focusable" attack. Powerful.