Fantasy Flight Games bring us a preview of the Protectorate Starfighter Expansion Pack for Star Wars: X-Wing’ Miniatures Game From the website: Fenn Rau’s starfighter has no shields. It has just four hull. Clearly, it was meant to dodge firing arcs’not to fly straight at enemy fighters’right? Certainly, that would be the standard thinking, but Fenn Rau has his own take on the matter. And who can argue with him? Not us.
The ninth wave of starship expansions for X-Wing’ is all about experimenting with firing arcs. The ARC-170 and Special Forces TIE fighter both feature auxiliary firing arcs that lead to interesting tactical decisions, and the Shadow Caster introduces a new mobile firing arc, which can rotate and face in different directions from round to round. Still, while all these ships encourage new ways to fly because they incorporate different firing arcs, it can be argued that the final Wave IX ship, the Protectorate Starfighter, is the one that does the most to encourage us to rethink our firing arcs’
