Ground Commander's Guide - T-47 Airspeeder.Ground Commander's Guide - Darth Vader: Dark Lord.Some Thoughts on Legion Unit Effectiveness.Once you use it, you'll need to take a Recover action to get it back, which means you won't be able to fire it each turn at an enemy vehicle if you're suppressed. But you want all the chances you can get to proc the Ion 1 - which will lock down the vehicle, taking away one of its two actions! Suppresion for vehicles! One word of warning - in addition to the cost in terms of points, the MPL-57 weapon is also an Exhaust. Normally, your blasters will be less useful against an Armored enemy - you'd need to roll a 1/8 chance critical result to even do a single point of damage. If the Z-6 was about splitting your shots, the MPL-57 is about focusing fire on a vehicle. You also get Impact 1 and Ion 1 as keywords.
But for those points, you get 2 Red attack dice from Range 1-3. MPL-57 Ion Trooper - 32 points - This is a bit more pricey for a 'Heavy Weapons' upgrade - you're paying more than half the price again for an expanded squad (with the Rebel Trooper upgrade - 50 points) to bring this guy along.
