Description
The Interdictor cruiser was designed a major part of the Empire’s response to the elusive Rebel threat. Its gravity-well projectors are capable of wrenching enemy ships out from hyperspace, and its deployment along one of the galaxy’s hyperspace lanes can spell doom for unsuspecting Rebel captains.
The Interdictor Expansion Pack introduces the Interdictor miniature as a medium-base Imperial ship, as well as two ship cards, and fourteen upgrades, including the new Experimental Retrofit upgrades, gravity well projectors and grav shift reroutes.
Within this expansion, you’ll find the following upgrade cards:
- Admiral Konstantine
- Admiral Titus
- Commandant Aresko
- Flight Commander
- Fighter Coordination Team
- Engineering Team
- Quad Laser Turrets
- Leading Shots
- MS-1 Ion Cannons
- G7-X Grav Well Projector
- G-8 Experimental Projector
- Grav Shift Reroute
- Targeting Scrambler
- Interdictor
Andrew MacLean-Finney (verified owner) –
Once the red-headed stepchild of the Imperial Navy, the Interdictor has been rescued by a series of upgrade cards and new missions that have elevated it to the competitive realm.
The Unit
Slow, expensive, under-gunned, not especially tough.
It isn’t hard to see then that you’re paying a premium for two funny little upgrade icons (and yes, you are always taking the Suppression Refit) that allow you to take the Experimental Retrofits. These 4 upgrades will give you access to unparalleled abilities to mess with deployment, movement, missions and shooting, and getting full use out of them will take practice & careful consideration.
Once, this would have been all there was to say on the unit, however later waves brought the Disposable Capacitors and Heavy Ion Emplacements cards, which provide cost effective ways to beef up the unit’s range & firepower., you still need a plan for it but it is certainly now viable.
It should also be noted that the Interdictor has special rules in campaign play for Correlian Conflict and Rebellion In the Rim.
Upgrades
In addition to all the unique upgrades for the experimental refit there are a few curious additions – Fighter Control Teams and Flight Commander – which have essentially no use with the ship itself, but can be very useful for a Squadrons focused fleet. They are hard to get elsewhere. The Commander , Admiral Konstantine is complete trash and can be immediately banished to the back of your binder, never to see the light of day again.
The Model
Another clean & appealing sculpt that captures the look familiar from so many games & shows. It does benefit from a re-paint on the grav-well generator blisters to pick them out with some colour and give the model more visual flare.
Conclusion
While you may find this to be one of your later purchases of Galactic Empire expansions, it is definitely still a worthy purchase and will let you play fleets that are significantly unlike anything else available in the game.