Y-Wing News

[Gry Sarth]

The official site just posted a concept drawing of an "early Republic version of the classic Y-Wing" that will appear in the new Clone Wars cartoon:



That's very cool, but it raises a few issues.

Right of the bat it renders the brand new "Starships of the Galaxy" book outdated. If the Republic employed Y-Wings during the Clone Wars, then this statement from the book is contradicted: "...the Y-wing was designed to be used in the Clone Wars, but wasn't in production until after that conflict ended." Hehe, they could have given the guys at Wizards a heads up...

Then there's the important question, is this a different ship from the Y-Wing we know and love or is it the same thing, only with some cosmetic differences? My opinion is that this look simply replaces what the Incredible Cross Sections book presented as the "original, stock, unmodified, out-of-the-box, you don't see those anymore" Y-Wing. Meaning an Y-Wing with lots of added coverings and plates:



Whether this is the case, or if this is some "proto Y-Wing", would it require modified stats?

What is YOUR opinion?
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[Ankhanu]

I really do hate the propensity for retcon that the owners of the Star Wars franchise have... "Hey! We have something that's awesome and people love that has a relatively stable continuity... let's destroy it!!"

Um, I think the only thing I might do to change the stats for this thing would be to slow it down a space and maybe reduce the maneuverability a bit for the added weight of all the extra panelling and maintain some reason as to why they would be stripped down in the future. Maybe increase the cost as well to reflect the extra materials.

That said, it does look kinda neat... but more as a Y-wing revision than a Y-Wing precursor.
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[vong]

hmm, it does look neat, but it does look more like a "prototype drawing" then something that would have actually made it out into production.

im willing to chalk it up to "it was ready to go to production, but the war ended and the project scrapped"

It would be interesting to get a hold of one in the later years, for the fun of messing with the imps minds

"What the H*** is that" "umm it appears to be a crappy y-wing" "hold fire, hes worse off being alive"
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[Xenon]

I'd say it's a craft from which Koensayr developed the later Y-wing. It makes sense, seeing that basically: ARC + Z-95 -> X-wing and V-wing + Actis Interceptor -> TIE Fighter.

Therefore, the book isn't automatically outdated, unless this one is called a Y-wing. According to the notes, I'd say it will be called Delta-wing or something like that. It could even be much more different in the end, since this is only concept art.

[Gry Sarth]

Well, so far it seem to be called a Y-Wing, maybe Delta version or something...
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[vong]

Well it is WOTC's way of doing things. Look at D&D Every new book adds something more and more powerful.

So now they do that with star wars

Its a good business model, so all the players have to keep buying more and more crap
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[hisham]

I like it. This looks like actually something not just produced by Koensayr, but a BTL-series fighter.

It doesn't have to be more AWESOME than the current crop of BTL fighters in the OT, but it is the same type of fighter.

It has the same overall shape of the spacecraft, with fairings and extra equipment installed. The fairings could be coverings for extra equipment like missile launchers, ECM, extra fuel tanks or enhanced sensors.

The fairings aren't primary structure, so the Y-wings can be flown with the fairings removed as seen in the movies, if the special equipment aren't installed. As long as the primary structure of the spaceframe is intact (which I would guess is the basic internal Y shape of the fighter) the craft is airworthy

In fact, both versions can exist simultaneously. The one in the cross sections book can be the one with extra equipment removed and fairings are used to cover the bare minimum shape of the fighter, as opposed to the movie where the fairings are off. The rebels are working on a budget, after all.

For a real world analog, check out these two pictures of the Eurocopter Super Puma:

http://www.canit.se/~griffon/aviation/img/ljungbyhed96/hkp10_puma.jpg

http://www.swiss-airshow.ch/Helicopter/Super_Puma/Images/Super%20Puma-9s.jpg

The first image has extra coverings on the helicopter's floatation equipment at the nose and on the sponsons at either side because its role over the sea. You can argue the Y-wing pictured above is an extreme case of needing fairings to cover its specialized equipment.
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[schnarre]

I'd call this a prototype as opposed to the production model. If anything it appears "Crude" compared to the Y-Wing we're familiar with: less speed & maneuverability are certainly good options here.
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[ifurin]

it looks like it should be the y-wing with extra armor.

[Ray]

Looks like a heavy BTL-Series with a full ball turret rather than just the swivel turret. Heavier power generator as well, or a larger bomb bay.

Easily could be a production varient. Like a Mosquito Fighter-Bomber with an extra Ball Turret.

Or, as suggested earlier, just more fairings included for more armour that were removed by Rebel Techs.

[Hawk Warboy]

Or, this could be a individual advanced prototype, perhaps one- (or a few-) of-a-kind, like Vader's EpIV TIE...

Just because something's pretty, don't necessarily mean anything about it's performance, as well (in relation to the power question). Although, to be sure, Wizards is a massive power-inflation backer.
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[Ankhanu]

Keep in mind this has nothing to do with Wizards; it's a Lucas Film thing regarding the upcoming cartoon.
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[Hawk Warboy]

Agreed, I just felt like a cheap slam on Wizards.
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