That cheapness is another benefit of the Y wing. There's nothing more satisfying than watching someone have to decide if they really want to spend the Raider's Brace to reduce the Hit+Crit down to the more manageable one damage that MAY keep them alive. The more turns you have them hitting ships, though, the more turns you have them rolling black dice. The ideal case is that you're somehow hitting ships with your Y wings on turns 2 through 6, but that's not always an actual thing that happens. Every turn (except 1) that they're not hitting enemy ships is a turn they're not getting more value for you that they could be. As we covered before, the primary role of your bombers is to hit enemy ships. Y-wings, if pressed, CAN DO IT, but you should hopefully be bringing other squadrons along to take care of that. TIE Bombers really CAN'T/shouldn't be attacking opposing squadrons. That third attack is coming in, and it's gonna hurt that scatter ace (assuming you roll well, of course). You can overwhelm any squadron with enough dice you can't scatter 3 atttacks, no matter what. It then rolls Black bomber dice against ships, which, I'd take that trade in a heartbeat). It gets 2 blue dice, which (albeit with Flight Controllers or Ruthless Strategists) can be enough to mulch your way through a lot of enemy squadrons, especially with a Toryn Farr reroll (with Flight Controllers and Toryn, you can effectively create a TIE fighter for 2 more points per squadron. The Y wing has one more hit point, which means it survives longer. That's all the benefits it gets, compared to a Y wing, in my (COMPLETELY UNBIASED) view. The Bomber has one more speed, and is one point cheaper. Two blue dice isnt much to write home about, but let's compare them to a TIE Bomber. They're Mario 2 (Doki Doki Panic) Luigi! With extra high jumps and a weirder looking sprite for your guy (this metaphor has gotten away from me, haha). But these aren't just regular Luigi to the X-wing's Mario, the second player controller you give your little brother. The best Clone Wars tech 10 points can buy!Ī lot of people look at the Y wing as Baby's First Squadron, and people just use them as a stepping stone to 'better' ( B-Wing) squadrons. The cheapest original squadron on the Rebel side, it had a relatively easy approach. To pair with our initial X-wing and TIE posts, I thought I'd throw out the Y Wing post.

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