Greetings Pilots!
Yesterday we officially started Spoiler Season for our Alpha Edition boosters. Among others, we revealed another legendary spaceship, The Colombus.
Today we are going to follow up with a reveal for all Escorts you can find in the Alpha Edition Boosters. The Escorts sold in our shop have evolved as well, so we will also take a closer look at their new, even better version.
If you haven't already read it, we recently released an article detailing all you need to know about Escorts so if you are still wondering what the hyperdrive an Escort can do for you, you might want to check that post first.
The Starsystem Garrison is the most basic form of support you can get. It basically consists of some obsolete fighters the Federation stationed in the sector to scare off the occasional pirate. It is in no way fit to go head to head with an alien fleet but still, it is better than having no support at all.
Calling in the Starsystem Garrison alone will probably just see them blown to pieces in mere seconds. Your best course of action will be to call them when a larger Federation fleet is around or when you call in your other Escorts.
The Starsystem Garrison still offers an 6% increase in Intercept chance and with larger ships covering them they might be able to survive for some minutes. With their common rarity they will be readily available to anybody looking for some basic support during Evacuation. Note that they do have the Upgradable trait, so if you burn some additional copies you might be able to make them a little more reliable.
The Longsword Squadron is the next logical step from the Starsystem Garrison, when looking for an Escort. They sport better fighters, are more numerous, and have more capable pilots. While the Starsystem Garrisons pilots spend most days drinking Happy Soda in the stations pub the Longsword Squadron has actually been in real combat missions and even had some pilots come back from them alive.
The Longsword Squadron never fought the aliens either, so while they are going to be more useful together with bigger ships they would still fall quickly if you call them in alone. They are upgradable as well but at rare you will have a harder time to get them to their maximum level. If you manage to do though, you will end up with a capable squadron that just might be able to buy you the time needed to get out of Evacuation alive.
The Cruiser Task Force is made up of four Paladin class armored cruisers and they could just be your fighter squadrons best friend. While they won't provide any more intercept chance than what your fighters can do, the cruisers are a lot beefier than the Escorts we have seen before. They are upgradable as well, so with some more cards burned they can be turned into a good first line of defense that could potentially both protect you and your squishier Escorts for quite a while.
Combining the different breeds of Escort ships will be key to success in Evacuation. Only bringing the Cruiser Task force would not do much for your Intercept chance, bringing only fighters would end with them being destroyed within mere seconds. If you use the cruisers for cover and send additional fighters to deal with the alien ships you might actually be able to at least stall the battle for a while, giving you more time to finish your operations on the station.
Finally, the Sabre Regiment is made up of elite pilots operating state of the art Sabre Interceptors. They are the Federations most trusted peace keepers and are permanently seeing action across the sector. That is why you will not be able to call them in all at once. When you activate the Sabre Regiment you will receive six Sabre Interceptors to aid you immediately. The rest of the regiment will scramble to come to your assistance as well, but this is going to take them some time. Once the alarm is active, another three ships will join the action every three minutes.
These are the best fighters that can be found in Alpha Edition Booster packs and they can really make a difference in any Evacuation. When you first call them to your help they won't be any stronger than the Longsword Squadron. They really shine during prolonged encounters though. Having additional ships warp in every few minutes can potentially help to at least stabilize the conflict for a longer time. More than ever it will be very important to provide them with additional cover from bigger ships though. If there are no other ships around to aid them, the new arrivals will be destroyed before they even powered down their hyperdrive.
You now have seen all Escorts coming from the Alpha Edition Boosters. Up next, we will have a quick look at the revised Escorts coming from the shop.
The base stats for both cards remain unchanged but they both received a new trait. Battle Formation and Fighter Leader both provide a synergy bonus to all your other capital ships and fighters respectively. Both the Ionguard and the Vega Elite Squadron are the best of the best in their category so all other ships perform better when they are around. Mixing any of the Booster Escorts with these cards will buy you a lot of time and help to make your Evacuation a success. There will be a limit to how many Escorts you can bring. You won't be able to just throw all the ships in the sector at the aliens, so you will need to plan ahead and pick the ships best suited for what you are looking to do.
Expect to see this aspect of the game grow over time with more and different options added later on! Still looking for more information on Escorts? You can visit our Wiki as well.
That's all from us for today, but we still have a lot more to share with you this week. Here is a little sneak peek for you:
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This is a huge update guys, every time you introduce these new cards we can see the depth of the game's strategies and understand better the great amount of possibilities it has.
I like the modifications in the Vega and Ionguard escorts. They look like much more interesting options now, as they can make all the escorts much more effective winning time for you.
Now we should see the results of all this because testing the cards upgraded will be very valuable to judge the game balance.
Congrats for your awesome work.
I’m definitely going to have a great time with those escorts.
Looking good!
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