When I first envisaged Strike at parmel, I had one goal in mind. To create a space map that focused purely on dogfighting and did so by emulating the -Wing Vs Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance multiplayer dogfight modes. There would be one differance though. Those games could support a limited number of players (and lagged badly!), whereas First Strike had the ability to emulate some of that gameplay on a much bigger scale.

To make it more interesting for the player, I decided to try and add in the majority of First Strikes fighter/bomber craft, thus enabling you to choose your favourite starfighter. The Y-wing is after all a fighter/bomber, not a pure bomber.

The ships I obviously left out were the TIE Bomber and the B-Wing, the reason being that both these craft are much too cumbersome for dogfighting. The Y-Wing on the other hand can hold it's own in a dogfight (believe it or not!), and to ensure that I used the two seater variant.

Personally, I do not consider the Y-Wing 'useless', especially once you get a good gunner on board, or fly as part of a group.

Parmel may seem a simple map. you start, fly to the enemy, destroy get killed repeat. There is more to it than that though, there are various strategies you can use. I'd think BI could work out a few of those strategies, I know of some that should be very simple for everyone to work out

As to changing missiles, do you mean adding the homing missiles to it? I was under the impression people wanted a reduction to missile spam, not an increase. By the way, would be good to get some feedback on what people think to those missile changes.

Trust me, the Y-Wing needs no changes, there are plenty of ways to score kills with it.

Bite my shiny metal Tie Fighter!