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Get SLAM’d With the New K-Wing Bomber

By Rob Baer | July 2nd, 2015 | Categories: Star Wars, X-Wing 2.0

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The bombers are coming, get ready to stir up the space curves with the new SLAM technology.

Here’s another quick for the new K-Wing coming soon to a galaxy/table-top near you! If you haven’t seen the new K-Wing ship yet you can check it out here.

Let’s take a look at the new SLAM ability:

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The SLAM or SubLight Acceleration Motor Action basically allows you to forfeit your attack to preform another maneuver at the same speed you were already going. What does this mean? Well if you were going 2 bank and you noticed you were in the firing arc of another ship, you could choose to do the SLAM action to get another FULL 2 speed maneuver instead of firing. Kind of like this picture:

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Oh sure AdamHarry, but we’ve seen that done with Boosting and then Push the Limit + Barrel Rolling. What’s the big deal?” Well this is why you might want to read that FFG article because this pretty much blew my mind:

“…because your SLAM counts as a full maneuver, it allows you to drop your Proton Bombs in the middle of your activation, right before you execute your SLAM.”

That’s right – you can pretty much do what bombers have always needed to do: Move, BOMB and MOVE!

This also flips one of the core mechanics on it’s head. Suddenly a Pilot Rank 2 who gets to move first can drop bombs after getting in to the position it wants AND get away. This whole move-bomb-move mechanic is going to shake things up quite a bit and I’m excited to see what else you can pull off. And that’s just with Proximity Mines, Seismic Charges, and Proton Bombs – I haven’t even fully digested the nasty you can pull off with the NEW bomb types.

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This does 1 damage, 2 Ion tokens, and denies Actions by the unfortunate victim.

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These deal 2 stress to every ship within range 1

 

I’m suddenly very excited about the whole K-Wing thing. If I’m being completely honest, I was apathetic at first. There were a few other ships I wanted to see on the table before the K-Wing but now… I want to build a bomber list! And if you’ve kept up with X-Wing at all you know that’s not something you hear a lot. And while I’m at it here are the pilot cards, too:

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Esege’s ability is pretty amazing combined with the Advanced SLAM modification. And Miranda combined with R2D2 is going to cause table flipping across the land.

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There are a ton of things to write about – but FFG covered a lot of that in their article. I HIGHLY recommend you peruse it at your leisure!

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K-Wing Expansion Pack $19.95

 

Is the age of the Bombers coming? K-Wings suddenly got a lot more interesting and the Imperials are going to be getting a similar treatment when their TIE Punisher coming soon…

 

Is the Dawn of the bombers coming? We haven’t seen that since the first Kessel Run and the triple Y-wing builds… 

About the Author: Rob Baer

Virginia Restless, Miniature Painter & Cat Dad. I blame LEGOs. There was something about those little-colored blocks that started it all... Twitter @catdaddymbg