Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-206.57.227.121-20171129131107/@comment-454133-20180102013408

Yes, and for that very reason, I don't think it's overly useful to categorize the ships on the wiki right now. FFG itself provides no such categories, and ships can jump from role to role based on their pilot and upgrades. It's not precise enough to be all that useful to someone visiting the wiki, IMO. (this gets worse if the role names are not what x-wing players expect, btw; also "jousters" are not at all what you describe as "assault"... so even there we have some confusion)

If you try to refine the roles and then list them for each ship, you'll see what I mean. It's a very big task, the end results may not be very complete or accurate (and they are often very heavily based on opinion and playstyle), and a new upgrade next wave could throw the existing role assignments into chaos. It would be a table we'd constantly have to update, and it might not be a page people use very often anyway.

That said, if you want to start here in this thread by listing the ships and the roles you'd assign them (e.g. take the first 5 ships listed on Compare Ship Base Stats and list them here in your reply), that would be a good start. And if it feels solid enough, I might be convinced to help. But otherwise I just think it's too soft to devote the time. Just my opinion.

Start your list here, get it good and solid, and when you finish it we can transfer the info to a new article like Ship Categories.