The latest Star Wars: Transmissions at Atomic Mass Games takes a look at the five additional pilots added to the Rebellion in the Hotshots and Aces II Reinforcement Pack for Star Wars: X-Wing.
One of the pilots, Keo Venzee, is Force sensitive, and brings a new twist to the Force mechanic: They have a single Force charge that doesn’t naturally regenerate. Instead, Venzee is an expert in sliding around the battlefield with their pilot ability. Keo must have no active Force charges to use their ability. If you managed to spend it on an earlier round, then you can perform a sideslip with any bank or turn, at the cost of making it more difficult, and recover your Force. As a result, Keo doesn’t like ending the turn with stress, since they will be performing a lot of white sideslips with 2 speed maneuvers. If Keo finds a way to spend their Force, they will be very annoying to pin down by an opponent. Keo wants to be in a squad that allows them to go off by themselves and slide around the field without other ships getting in their way.
Meanwhile, Corran Horn returns to the game in a T-65 X-wing. To best use Corran’s ability, you’ll want to target lock him with another friendly ship early in the game. Then, later, move that friendly lock from Corran to an opposing ship that Corran has locked and subsequently attacked. This will let you use lower initiative munition carriers to great effect, which has been difficult with low initiative torpedo carriers in the faction.
Another returning fan favorite is Tycho Celchu, who continues to operate under stressful situations. In this update, Tycho can still perform actions while he has 2 or fewer stress tokens. This means that, for example, he could do a Segnor’s Loop, gain a stress, focus, and then perform a red boost. He’ll have two stress at that point but is otherwise fine. Next turn, he can execute a white maneuver, and focus and boost again. At that point, he’ll have 3 stress and his ability turns off. But then do a blue maneuver and he’ll be back down to 2 stress. Note that this doesn’t let him execute red maneuvers while stressed, so don’t try to Segnor’s Loop twice in a row! Tycho loves to be in squads that bring debris clouds, as he’ll find them easier to fly over than other ships will.
Read more at the link below, and Hotshots and Aces II Reinforcement Pack (FFGSWZ97) is available now from all good stockists of Star Wars: X-Wing.
