Stay On Target With the Next Expansions for X-Wing
July 30, 2014 by dracs
Fantasy Flight Games recently unveiled the next two large base ships which will be joining the battle for the galaxy in X-Wing, including the new Rebel Alliance Yt-2400 Freighter.
This freighter relies on its heavy shielding and turret weapons to blast its way past enemy ships, making it a useful large ship for the Rebel fleet.
However, as with all the expansions this has a bit more to it than just a new ship. Among the new goodies is a ship upgrade card designed by X-Wing world champion Paul Heaver: Stay On Target.
This card is pretty useful as it allows you to adapt your movements to deal with unexpected turns in play. For example, if you had planned your next movement to follow an enemy ship, only for them to go off in a completely unexpected direction, Stay On Target would allow you to adapt to the situation and change your movement to suit the situation.
As you can see, such an upgrade would be very useful for your Rebel fighters, allowing a level of adaptability that will come in very useful for those intense dogfights.
This isn't the only new goody we have to look forward to, and Fantasy Flight have stated that they will be taking a closer look at these in the run up to the new releases.
Do you play X-Wing? Is Stay On Target going to be a useful addition to your games?
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I played my first game of X-Wing today and loved it!
Whilst I don’t have much experience with the game yet, 2 points for that ability sounds extremely cheap! I suppose making it a red manoeuvre does reduce its value a little, but such a powerful change to one of the key aspects of the game, the unpredictability of hidden movement, is massive.
That is a pretty clever seeming card.
I see that being beastly on B-wings with advanced sensors (the upgrade that lets you take your action before you move)
Though it’s too bad Porkins can’t take it.
Because Porkins was KIA on the surface of the Death Star? 🙂
Already pre-ordered. A long time ago… 🙂
.. In a FLGS far away..
Does anyone know if this one will come with a ‘basic rebel freighter’ option as did the YT-1300? If so looking forward to painting this one up in non-standard colours 🙂
Every ship has at least one non-unique pilot. FFG wouldn’t do anything that would discourage you from purchasing as many of these as you please.
Yeah. Dash Rendar is the pilot in question for the YT-2400, he and the ship are from a video game, which was pretty good.