Star Wars: Squadrons/A-wing


 * A-wings go as fast as you can fly 'em. Their hull and shields are too light to take on capital ships, but Imperial starfighters won't stand a chance with you in this cockpit.
 * -Zerelda Sage

A-wings are interceptors equipped with highly damaging lasers. They hit are very fast, hit above their weight, and are very small and hard to pin down. The silhouette of the A-wing is very small in general, but is the largest from above or below.

The A-wing has several tools for pinning down starfighters both armoured and unarmoured. Against more heavily armoured targets, the A-wing can use cluster missiles and rockets to hit a single target multiple times, and no other Republic fighter has the DPS of the A-wing. Its default missiles have excellent tracking but light damage, excellent at pinning down TIE interceptors.

Against capital ships, the A-wing is out of its element, but can still assist the team. A-wings can do little against shielding, so they must instead use their manoeuvrability to skip past the shields and go for the hull of of the Arquitens and the Raider, or against the Star Destroyer's subsystems and gun turrets.