Character idea: Rebel Pilot

What they could do in future is have interchangeable crew for ships, so you could assign the Rebel Pilot to the Y-Wing or one of the X-Wings with some bonuses for whether the ship is crewed by specific characters or crewless.

IIRC several of the Crewless ships already have a "growth" mechanic built into them.

If you read the kits some of them have a thing where they get XYZ bonus based on the #/power of the rest of the fleet.

So, in theory, if you take some crewed ship from G8 to G11 to R9 then the Crewless ships in that fleet will be growing by some portion of the crewed ships growth.

I actually think this is an interesting idea, the answer to what would seem as a nerf to the Y-wing is a lot simpler than it looks in my opinion. The Y-wing doesn’t need to be nerfed at all and keeps the stats it already has and still functions as a crew less tank without the pilot. Instead adding a rebel pilot provides a significant buff to the Y-Wing, with a new ability/unique, extra stats and losing the tag of crew less tank and becoming a full tank instead. 

This would help with one of the major issues the Profundity has, which is how vulnerable it has become with the P1 ruining stealth all together. If the Y-Wing could be “upgraded” from a crew less tank to a full tank with extra stats and an ability it would provide a boost the Profundity desperately needs.  Since it would become a Tank  whose taunt an Exec fleet could not completely ignore.

I was talking hypothetically about IF they added the Rebel Pilot. But I want to chime in here to say that I actually agree with Schwartzring that that's what crewless ships are for. 

I will add, though, that I'm not excited for them to add any more crewless ships until they come out with a way to strengthen them over time as fleets get stronger. That way you can make them peers with r3 crewed ships, then allow you to bump them up to be stronger and keep pace with the ships you have to invest in. 

I don't know exactly how this would work, but maybe give all crewless ships a stat bonus equal to X * (Fleet Commander's relic tier - 9), then provide some new mat that allows you to reduce the relic penalty by 1, to a maximum of 6 (since we're starting out making the ships = r3 piloted ships). 

If your fleet commander ever goes to r10, assuming they ever introduce r10, then you get one free power boost for taking your commander up that high even if you don't invest any special mats. But until then, you get no bonus without investing these new mats and having your Fleet Commander pretty highly relic'd. 

Oh, random thought for the 14th ship.

The captured Lambda Shuttle from RotJedi,  Endor mission Crew could be JKL, Drogan, &/or Rex.

We have a few for rebels as it is.

Hoth Rebel Scout
Hoth Rebel Soldier
Scarif Rebel Pathfinder
Captain Drogan  (If he's made up then he's generic, just my opinion, this really should have been one of the officers above)

Like I said above, if it's Named Pilots then that is cool, but for "Generics" that is what the Crewless function is for, IMO.


IMO the biggest things Rebels need right now is more Ships & a Profundity rework.
  (They gotta fix the TM issue & the Falcon/RavenClaw synergy)

A-Wing Crewless   (Profundity)
B-Wing Crewless   (HomeOne)
X-Wing Farmboy   (HomeOne)

I really would love to see those 3 added to the current 10 for 13 with room for 1 more in the future.

I want to see all of those characters too. I think a few generic characters are good to have as support units like we already have with the B1 and the Scout Trooper.

I honestly don't want "Rebel Pilot" in the game.

IMO the only "Generic" things I like seeing for the most part are the vast unnamed Storm/Clone Troopers.

I'd love a Rebel A-Wing for Profundity & a Rebel B-Wing for HomeOne but they can both be Crewless IMO.

Rebel Hero's need names, we have plenty still in canon.
We have a huge officer corps that is untouched.

Antoc Merrick
Bren Derlin
Carlist Rieekan
Davits Draven
Jan Dodanna 
Walex Blissex

To name a few....

Hard to say. I know another X-wing would be seen as boring, but I think it's gotta be a ship flown by an orange-suit in the movies. If the A-wing pilots wore orange suits, I'd give him one of those, but I'd have to check the movie footage. 

If you use a Y-wing, I'd make it a new version, non-tank, that's primarily a missile ship. Give it a special with true damage and a way to do extra damage to tanks. 

I wouldn't use a B-wing. That's a crew of two, and you might as well do something different with them. 

Okay then, instead of the Y-Wing, which ship do you think the Rebel Pilot would be suited for?