Talk:Scurrg H-6 Bomber Expansion Pack/@comment-125.239.192.221-20170712042819/@comment-454133-20170712052257

I'm very cautious about loading any one ship with too many points, since losing that ship can happen quickly under focus fire or bad luck, and then all those points go away. Some fat builds do very well, e.g. Poe, Norra, Rey, etc. Fat Munitions can be a challenging investment though -- you can only spend so many munitions per round, maximum (typically 1 missile/torp per round, and only ever one bomb per round).

If you can't use all your munitions before death, those are points wasted. I've seen a lot of fat munitions platforms die with most of their payload intact, which is devastating for their owner. So don't load up your k-wing with too many bombs/missiles/torps; those points can go toward another ship that acts as a blocker, support, or extra damage source. A single cheap blocker, used well, can really swing a game. A K-Wing doesn't particularly need torps or missiles either; that TLT is a great weapon, and Bomblet Generator is quite good for the K-Wing's mobility options.

However, Minefield Mapper does make things interesting for fat bombers... Nym could load up on mines and Extra Munitions and drop half of them on the battlefield at the start of the game, then lay the rest quickly to further glut the table with hazards (saving a bomb or maybe two to try to drop on foes directly, or drop in their paths). MM makes fat bombers much more viable and dangerous.

My other suggestion is to give Miranda Sabine Wren (Crew) (if you have her), to make your bombs hit significantly harder and really leave your opponent scared of clipping them with an ace, or really any ship. Sabine adds 1 damage to a bomb popping once per round, to any target you like in radius 1, regardless of which of your ships laid that bomb. For example, after minefield mapping, two ships could fly past a bomb, one barely clips it and dies, and then you deal a damage to the remaining one; or the first survives with 1 HP and you finish it with Sabine. Minefield Mapper + Sabine is evil.

I suspect bombs are going to be a big force this wave, not merely a gimmick, and possibly even the meta villain that makes people skittish about flying aces. People already avoid flying TIE Interceptors thanks to cluster mine prevelence. We'll have to see.