Talk:Y-Wing Expansion Pack/@comment-81.204.197.73-20150302210653/@comment-25332048-20150302213334

Well, those are certainly some creative ideas. Y-Wings are definitely one of the ships that have suffered without a greater variety of unique pilots to choose from, and no Elite Talents. Some of these titles MIGHT make the ship a bit broken, but I am definitely hoping Fantasy Flight starts introducing more options for older ships to mix things up, either as new titles (Rouge Squadron?!?) or new pilots, and I love exploring these ideas.

Basically we need all ships to be useful; with the new Bomb Loadout title, Rebels now have access to bombs through Y-Wings, so that's a reason to use them. And with the new BTL-A4 Y-wing title, the Y-Wing has a focussed firepower option at the cost of it's turret, but it is still a slow ship that needs an R2 Astromech and maybe an Engine Upgrade to actually get faster ships (ie. almost all other ships) in it's potentially deadly firing arc.

So the Y-Wing can now serve as a bomber, and with the BTL-A4 it has the toughness and firepower to be a jouster. What we need is a torpedo platform option: maybe if they introduce a Turret upgrade that swaps the turret for more torpedo slots, and reduces the cost of every torpedo equipped by 1 or 2 points so it's actually affordable to load up the Y-Wing. The TIE Bomber could use that as well. It was designed to be essentially just that, but who ever actually sees a TIE bomber actually manage to survive long enough to unload more than a single torpedo, and who is going to invest 40 points in to a single TIE Bomber, or even a Y-Wing? A BTL/Engine Upgrade/R2 Astromech/Blaster Turret Y-Wing would cost at minimum 27 points, but if you go the torpedo route it can get even more expensive than that without even including an astromech or modification.