Talk:Targeting Synchronizer/@comment-29461750-20161024201900/@comment-454133-20161024210319

Why not? The T-70 or TIE/fo will be a cheaper lock donor than Upsilon (and rebels can't even fly Upsilon). TIEs are quite evasive while T-70s are durable and harmful. Either could work as a support ship, particularly for pilots who are good at acquiring or passively using locks. Some missiles/torps/abilities don't even require spending the lock, just having one, so a single relatively cheap ship grabbing a lock could support the whole fleet firing Homing Missiles at a single target, for example.

Examples: "Omega Leader", any T-70 with Targeting Astromech or R7-T1, possibly R5-K6 (debatable whether this works since someone else spends your lock; I suspect not because the wording almost certainly refers to you spending the lock), possibly something on the upcoming Quad Jumper.

Epsilon Squadron Pilot costs just 18 with this. Sadly T-70s cost quite a bit more...

"Red Ace" is nice and defensible against focus-firing, but with Targeting Synchronizer, Autothrusters, and Targeting Astromech, it's 36 points, a third of your fleet before even adding a torp. That said, it's a durable support and an effective attacker that goes well with a Z-95 swarm. Add two Z-95s with Advanced Homing Missiles and two with Homing Missiles, and that's 100 points.