X-Wing: Droidensternjäger
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Terrifying Technology
Preview the Vulture-class Droid Fighter Expansion Packfor X-Wing
Master, General Grievous’s ship is directly ahead. The one crawling with Vulture droids.”
–Anakin Skywalker, Star Wars: Revenge of the SithNo matter how skilled they are, starfighter pilots can only do so much from the cockpits of their individual ships. Seeking to overcome these limitations, the Separatist Alliance takes a novel approach to space combat. Rather than “traditional” organic pilots controlling only a single ship, they turn to groups of interlinked droid starfighters that share tactical data in real time and coordinate their movements to overwhelm their enemies.
At the heart of these attack groups is the Vulture-class droid fighter. While weak in isolation, a sufficient number of these fighters can quickly become too much for even the most experienced pilots to handle. Already capable of precise combat calculations, Vulture droids become even more deadly when they’re fed additional tactical data from supporting command ships. Soon, you’ll be able to make these droids the cornerstone of your own strategies with the Vulture-Class Droid Fighter Expansion Pack for X-Wing™!
Vulture-class Droid Fighter Expansion – 19,95 USD
The Vulture-class Droid Fighter is the backbone of the Separatist Navy and emblematic of its strategy: weak in isolation, but overwhelming in numbers. A sufficiently vast swarm of networked attackers form a cunning, sinister intelligence that can defeat even wise and powerful Jedi pilots.
The Vulture-class Droid Fighter Expansion Pack contains everything you need to begin building your own squadron of linked droid starfighters—most importantly, a beautifully pre-painted Vulture-class droid fighter miniature. Additionally, five ship cards give you the ability to outfit your droid fighter with distinct types of programming while five upgrade cards provide even more freedom to shape your squadron.
Within this expansion, you’ll find one Vulture-class droid fighter miniature, beautifully painted in the colors of the Trade Federation as well as five ship cards representing different programming styles for you to employ in battle. You can further shape your Vulture droid to fit your personal strategy with five upgrade cards.
Join us today as we explore everything included in the Vulture-class Droid Fighter Expansion Pack!
Programmed for Destruction
There is a clear distinction between two different classes of starfighters within Separatist Alliance squadrons. On the one hand, the faction’s leaders take to battle in powerful and heavily armored starfighters, such as the Belbullab-22 and Sith Infiltrator. On the other hand, you’ll find the weak droid starfighters that make up the vast majority of the Separatist forces. Expected to take the brunt of enemy fire, these droid fighters can play a number of roles in your squadron.
Cheaply produced on an unprecedented scale, Vulture-class droid fighters are most commonly encountered in large numbers, and the Vulture-class Droid Fighter Expansion Pack gives you two options for building your squadron around inexpensive fighters. With average initiative, a group of Separatist Drones can react to some enemy movements and make good use of the information relayed to them from the tactical droids carried on command ships.
Alternatively, a squadron of Trade Federation Drones may not be able to line up their shots, but they are free to position themselves where enemy ships may want to maneuver, taking away their shots and limiting their options.
No matter your choice of drone, choosing low-cost fighters will leave you with plenty of room to outfit your ships with upgrades. Any Vulture droid fighter equipped with Energy-Shell Charges instantly becomes more of a threat, of course, and while the ability to use an action to reload the charge is certainly useful, you can ensure you get the most out of these charges by adding a Munitions Failsafe.
Traditional missiles are certainly a useful tool for making your Vulture droids more deadly, but the Separatist Alliance is far from traditional. Rather than simply firing projectiles at enemies, you could also sow chaos among them by launching some Discord Missiles into the enemy’s flight path.
Once launched, these missiles deploy an aggressive buzz droid swarm, ready to latch onto an enemy ship and tear it apart from the outside.
The Delta-7 Aethersprite moves through the Buzz Droid Swarm, relocating the swarm to its rear guides. As long as they are at range 0, the Delta-7 will suffer one critical damage every time the buzz droids engage!
Any enemy ship unfortunate enough to overlap or move through a Buzz Droid Swarm must immediately relocate it by aligning the buzz droids to that ship’s front or rear guides.
While this doesn’t have an immediate effect, the buzz droid swarm will soon set to work, causing each enemy ship at range 0 to suffer a critical damage every time it engages. With an initiative of 0, however, the buzz droids are still vulnerable to an attack that could blast them off the ship before they get a chance to do any damage. Even still, they are dangerous enough to draw the enemy’s attention away from the rest of your ships, giving you plenty of opportunity to attack.
Even though they are manufactured according to precise specifications, Vulture droids are far from uniform. As we saw in our preview of the ships contained in the Servants of Strife Squadron Pack, the Vulture-class droid fighter can be programmed with specific protocols in mind and those in the Vulture-class Droid Fighter Expansion Pack are no exception. A step up from a Trade Federation Drone, DFS-311 can help your other ships that have a better chance of making a powerful attack.
At the start of the Engagement Phase, DFS-311 transfers its calculate token to the Precise Hunter!
Scouting ahead of the rest of the squadron, this droid fighter can both disrupt enemy movement and transfer one of its calculate tokens to another friendly ship at range 0–3. When used to block enemy ships, DFS-311 could help a Precise Hunter line up the shot it needs and give it the calculate it needs to modify the results.
No matter if you blitz your enemies with a large squadron of Vulture-class droid fighters or you pair them with another ship and a tactical relay, they are a versatile fighter key to the Separatist’s success in the intense battles of X-Wing!
Sowing Discord
The Separatist Alliance seeks to splinter the galaxy with chaos, tyranny, and fear, and the Vulture-class droid fighter is their main tool in accomplishing this goal. Deploy yours and topple the Republic!
The Vulture-class Droid Fighter Expansion Pack (SWZ31) is releasing alongside the rest of Wave III in the first quarter of 2019. Pre-order your copy at your local retailer or through our website today!
Quelle: Fantasyflight Games
Ich finde diese Droiden-Mechanik mit den unterschiedlichen Programmierungen einfach toll und anders. Während die Republik quasi nix anderes als „Mehr vom Bekannten“ ist, kommen die Seperatisten tatsächlich mit einem ganz eigenen Flair und Spielgefühl daher. Ich bin echt kein CloneWars oder Prequel Fan, aber auf die Droiden für X-Wing freue ich mich echt wahnsinnig, weil sie mal frischen Wind in das Spiel bringen.