A-Wing w/ missiles or without

[Ning Leihrec]

Do the A-Wings in your games have missiles equipped or no? What are your reasons either way

[Whill]

[garhkal]

Most i've seen in game, did come with a pair of missile tubes, with 2 reloads each.
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[CRMcNeill]

[Grimace]

A-Wings do NOT have missiles on them in my games. They are Interceptors for Star Wars. Fast! Very Fast! In order to achieve that fast, they stripped things down substantially, reduced weight everywhere they could. No missiles and ordnance to carry, as that is extra weight. No space for Astromech, as that would be extra weight.

So no missiles on the A-Wing in my games. You want missiles and agility, go with an X-Wing.

[Dredwulf60]

[Scots Dragon]

Also, A-Wings are not pure interceptors. They're fast attack craft, but as seen in multiple sources they serve escort, reconnaissance, and space superiority purposes on occasions. They're already less armed and less powerful than an X-Wing to accommodate their speed, there isn't really any reason to remove the missile weapons entirely.

[CRMcNeill]

I can see Grimace's POV if one adheres to the WEG version of the SWU, in which missiles and torpedoes are just heavy rockets designed to inflict a lot of damage against larger targets. My version, however, equips the A-Wing with the SWU equivalent of Sidewinder Missiles, which make a lot more sense for the mission of Intercept / Superiority. Under my system, they can still load short-ranged heavy warhead rockets, but only concussion missile-sized weapons, not the larger proton torpedos.
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[garhkal]

[CRMcNeill]

[Mamatried]

My imput on this is what purpose missiles, if we are talking about something like proton torpedos, I would argue these are way too big.

And while we see light freighters and even some heavy fighters use these, they are to me mostly a captal ship weapon.

However I am also of the oppinion that to destroy a millenium falcon sized craft, a "sidewinder" tyoe and size missine is more than enough.

If we look to man portable missiles, we see that these are used with a degree of efficiancy against even the largest walker types, and I would argue that the scale of an AT AT is a lot more than that of a fighter and closer to a light freighter.

Why use a weapon that is larger than needed, Ican not see the need .


So to me A Wings, at can carry a small number of missiles meant to be used against other fighters and small scirmish ships, we can think something in the size of the "Guardian Class" light cruiser.

with that in mind I would think that if not the standard compliment the A wing has the capability and is designed to carry anti ship missiles to combat ships of at least the size of a "guardian class".

If we look to Earth, though a very different concept we do have aircraft that carry howitizers....105mm Howitzers on an airplane and it "common".

so to me I would like was stated in pervious posts, give the a wing a sidewinder size missile compliment, maybe 4-8 missiles and these would be designed to be used against a light freigheter size target

[garhkal]

[CRMcNeill]

[cheshire]

I'm just curious, is this all hypothetical, or do people generally have more A-Wings in their games than I do? I don't think I've ever had one make an appearance as anything more than window dressing.
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