Tuesday, November 12, 2019

SSD and VSD articles updated, all Imperial ship articles completely finished (...for now)

Above: picture of my very own SSD (and my legs, and Ian Cross's hands) from the tournament on Saturday. Credit to Mike Bohlmann for the camera work. Yep, the very same Mike Bohlmann who took second at Gencon with two Peltas and told us all about it!
 
I finally finished up the Imperial ship article updates, so they should be current up until wave 8 hits in a few weeks, then probably some minor tweaks here and there. The SSD article in particular surprised me with how much I updated an article I wrote fairly recently, but I've been getting even more games in with it and my opinions had changed a bit.
  • SSD article update:
    • Added hyperlinks for Piett and Commander Palpatine references.
    • Added rules note to Ravager that with a con fire dial and token you spend them together but resolve them one at a time so you can add a single die, see how it goes, then add the second die.
    • Expanded a bit on the defensive officer options for the SSD.
    • Replaced SSD card scans with higher-quality images (thanks, Ryan Kingston's Armada Fleet Builder)
    • Revised and went into greater detail on turbolaser options (both variants, especially Assault SSD combo options).
    • Revised and went into greater detail on second ion cannon option for Assault SSD.
    • Added a little bit more depth to the Assault double offensive retrofits upgrade section.
  • VSD article update: 
    • Streamlined intro and put VSD issues right out front, because we'll have to talk about them to come to any kind of workable solution.
    • Shortened and updated longer paragraphs under Basic Usage Recommendations.
    • Standardized the format to be similar to the other later ship articles, so removed some segments from earlier to add them back in under the "upgrades" header for the two different variants.
    • Upgrade sections added to both variants and filled up/updated. Lots of action going on there.
    • Builds also updated fairly substantially for both variants.
The VSD article is still pretty long - it felt like everything I cut got replaced with an equal amount of stuff I added. The VSD-I is surprisingly customizable and there's a lot of discussion to be done about how easy it is to screw things up with VSDs. I don't feel like they're amazing ships but they can have their place and Harrow certainly helped.

Up next is Imperial commander article updates, so stay posted.

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