Talk:Alliance Overhaul/@comment-26411770-20160911155545/@comment-70.185.166.72-20161027031114

Points-wise, the ARC (and /sf, which is in the same boat) is in line with a lot of ships that are packing three dice attacks; it'd actually be very bad at two. The Punishing One, though, is in a points bracket where two dice is fine, due to the turret attack. Compare it to the K-Wing for example, and then look at how expensive a ship like the Falcon or Decimator is. That's in no small part that third attack die on a turret that they're paying for, and it's pretty close to the cost of a Punishing One title.

Put another way, the ARC was underbalanced with the title in mind, and thus it was made zero points to always be included. It doesn't just have a three-dice attack primary because then that would also affect the rear arc, which it was felt (fairly) would be broken. Instead we get the title to push the primary arc up to three dice and let the aux arc still be relevant.