Advanced X-Wing and Tie Defender
The Advanced X-Wing and the Tie Defender are quite common all-around ships.
A fit that you can make after finishing Ace of Aces, if you use the duty tokens you are awarded on items to reverse engineer is the following:
Reactor: Level 7 reverse engineered with minimum 30k power generation and maximum 14k mass.
Engine: Crafted Nova engine from Ord Mantel schematics with 122 speed.
Armour: Level 5 – 7 reverse engineered depending on free mass and luck on finding low mass to reverse engineer. Armours is where you fill in whatever mass you have left, when everything else is fitted.
Capacitor: Crafted Mark IV from the space item collection. Make sure your shipwright cancap recharge rate.
Shield: Level 8 reverse engineered with maximum 25k mass. Must be based on the reward shield you get when levelling pilot, to ensure high front/back protection.
Droid Interface: Crafted Mark II.
Booster: Depending on how much mass you have left, go for a Crafted Mark I, II or III from the space item collection.
Weapons: You can mix and match with crafted Experimental Borstels and reverse engineered level 8 based on the Borstel or Incom Tricanon, awarded from levelling rebel and neutral pilot and dropping as loot in convoys and Patriots of Dathomir missions. Make sure the crafted guns are 7 energy per shot. The crafted weapons will have low capacitor drain, and low damage. The reverse engineered guns have almost double energy drain, but higher damage. So depending on how you mix and match, you can modify capacitor liftetime and damage.
Countermeasure: Chaff Launcher
Overloads: Reactor Overload 4, Engine Overload 4, Capacitor Overload 4 and Weapon Overload L4,
Uses:
- Tier 7 duty missions
- Idiots Array tier 8 Bounty Missions (Will struggle, but possible)
- Level 1-4 convoys
- PvE spacebattles
Upgrades
The ships have several possible upgrades that can make it stronger:
- If the Nova Engine is replaced with a level 10 reverse engineered, the total energy drain will drastically fall. This makes you able to run the entire ship on either a level 5 or 6 reactor. This gives you space for a level 10 reverse engineered shield. At the same time the turn rate of the ship will drastically raise. This will increase the ability to run bounty missions and open up for level 5 convoys.
- An Image Rec II launcher is a good idea, if you want to take the ship in the PvP direction. This ensures that you have a way to threaten and hit interceptors before they take you down.
- If you want extra damage instead of shield, you can also go for a Crafted Mark V capacitor from the space item collection. If your local shipwright caps recharge and spend the rest on masse, you can reach 71 recharge and around 38k mass.