Astromech as the squad's Utility carrier

What it needs

A quarter of the squad's firepower. Charges refresh each battle so the equipment is genuinely repeatable, but the Operator holding it will not kill anything, and a squad already short on damage cannot afford the slot.

Read next

• Utilities
• Astromechs
• Action Points

Sources

• STAR WARS Zero Company — Always Bring A Droid!

  Quest Daily · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 29 August 2026

  Supports: "While other classes only have one utility slot to begin with, Astromechs have all three available". Named Utilities carried by a droid: smoke bombs, which create cover for allies; the "droid popper", "thermal detonators" and "concussion grenade" grenades; and Medpacs for frontline fighters. On the droid's own progression: "The perks both add an extra use of utility items that have a limited use, so one impact bomb now becomes three!" — of Extended Storage and Storage Optimization together. Bylined Shaun Fullard, 28 August 2026

• Time To Unlock More Utility Slots In Star Wars Zero Company

  TheGamer · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 29 August 2026

  Supports: Three Utility slots exist per Operator and players start with one; the second comes from building "the Additional Utility Slot in the Den" at Level 5, and the third from the Underworld Intel Operation's Utility Slot option, which is mutually exclusive with the Weapon Mod Slot. "the Medic and Astromech Specializations can carry two charges for Utility items, while the rest can only hold one." Utilities are grouped into three families: "Explosives are items such as Thermal Detonators, Firebombs, and Concussion Grenades"; "Support items are largely used to heal or provide tactical advantages in combat…Medpacs act as a quick way to recover from damage" and "a Repulsor Unit gives your team more movement distance for a turn"; "weapons are more situational tools, such as the shotgun-style Scattergun or the Ion Blaster, which is fantastic against Droids". Uses: "if I equip an Operator with an Impact Grenade, they can only use this item once in a battle". And one reward item: "These rewards often contain Utilities such as the Wildfire Modulator, which will apply four stacks of Burning whenever you successfully hit an enemy." No AP cost is given for any item. Bylined Collin MacGregor, published 2026-08-27

• Ultimate Star Wars Zero Company Astromech Build and Class Guide

  Hack the Minotaur · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 8 September 2026

  Supports: Bylined Hack The Minotaur, "Latest Update: August 31, 2026", with an on-page change log reading "v1.4 – August 31, 2026 – Updated utility items" and "v1.2 – August 27, 2026 – Actively updating build, focus progression, and cross-training". **The Analytics table — the astromech's second Specialization, published here for the first time anywhere this database has found.** "The Astromech's Secondary Specialization called Analytics cannot be changed", and "Secondary Specializations cannot go about [sic] Tier 5 for Focus Tree upgrades". Predictive Analytics (Ultimate) "All allies gain Defense for the rest of the turn. Nothing beats these odds", five tiers +2/+3/+4/+5/+6 Defense. Deep Target Scan (Standard) "Conducts an intensive analysis on an enemy. Scans and Spots the target and removes all Evasion. Costs 1 AP", five tiers of Effective Range 14.0m, 16.0m, 18.0m, 20.0m, 24.0m. Self Preservation (Passive) "When the Astromech is hit by an Overwatch or Retaliation attack it gains 1 AP", Cannot Upgrade. Telemetry (Passive) "Increases Chance-To-Hit by +5% for all Operators on the team", Cannot Upgrade. Perfect Integration (Passive) "When the Astromech is attacked, its data increases a random teammate's Defense by +1 for the rest of combat", Cannot Upgrade. **No Advantage cost is printed for Predictive Analytics.** The primary Astromech table reproduces `retail-htm-focus-trees` and is not re-entered from here, with one exception that matters: this page explains the two storage passives as ranks of one four-tier line rather than as two rows — "Tier 1 adds one extra use to all Utility Items the Astromech is carrying. Tier 2 adds 1 meter of movement. Tier 3 adds 2 Defense. Tier 4 adds another extra use to all Utility Items, stacking with the tier 1 bonus for a total of two additional uses per item." The Storage Optimization card itself reads "This effect stacks with Extended Range", the same proofreading error as on the Focus Tree index. On capacity: "Unlike operators, your Astromech has three slots for utilities and cannot increase the number to four." On Medpacs, in the recommended-Utility table: "Heals 30% of ally Health. Not on Droids." On squad legality: "EA confirmed that all three remaining squad slots can be filled with Astromechs on non-story missions, since only Hawks is required." On chassis: the R2, R3 and R4 series and the BR-1, "a new droid design created specifically for Zero Company by Bit Reactor". **Checked for and absent**: any ability called Self Repair, and any Focus Point cost for any node.

• Astromechs: How to Play the Strongest Character in Star Wars Zero Company

  Mobalytics · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 8 September 2026

  Supports: Bylined Mobalytics, "Updated on Sep 7, 2026". Read in a browser; the page returns 403 to an automated fetch, the same retrieval note that travels with `retail-mobalytics-zones`. On capacity, verbatim: "Astromechs get three utility slots and three uses per item, for nine total charges a mission instead of the usual one or two." On the self-heal: "Send the Astromech into the open and it can heal a large portion of its own health every turn, with a minimum of 50% of its max health, up to 100% if you spend all your AP on it", and "the Mech can't heal itself with Medpacs, but they're weaker than its self-heal anyway". On multiple droids: "Running two or more Astromechs stacks everything above. Two Astromechs feeding Action Points into a single fast, mobile Operator like Cly can let that Operator chain attacks well beyond what a normal turn allows, generating enough Advantage from each hit to keep the loop going. As a Gunslinger, she can then stack up immense Onslaught damage, or set up a huge Electro Web team nuke." On the Ultimate: "for 10-6 Advantage (depending on upgrades), it grants extra Action Points to the entire squad, INCLUDING ITSELF, once per fight", producing "somewhere between five and eight extra actions across that turn". On the Talent: "once its ability tree is fully upgraded, the once-per-turn limit on that sharing disappears". Build advice names a Focus Point price no other source prints: "Built-In Comlink 2 (3 is ideal, but 13 Focus Points is a lot)". **One naming error, recorded rather than followed**: "If you unlock the Self Preservation passive you permanently boost a random ally's defense by +1 whenever you're attacked." That effect is Perfect Integration on the ability card `retail-htm-astromech` reproduces, and Self Preservation there grants the droid 1 AP after an Overwatch or Retaliation hit. The card is taken as correct and this sentence as a mix-up.

• Star Wars Zero Company: How the Astromech Class Works

  allthings.how · Tier 3 — Retail review · accessed 8 September 2026

  Supports: Bylined Kabir Anand, updated 2 September 2026. On the self-heal, verbatim: Self Repair "Consumes all remaining AP to restore 50% of the droid's maximum health." **This is the source that contradicts Mobalytics** on whether spending more AP heals more; both readings are recorded and the disagreement sits on the record. On capacity: an astromech has "all three unlocked" Utility slots, and with both storage passives "one Impact Bomb becomes three throws" — the third independent statement of the three-uses figure, after `retail-questdaily-astromech` and `retail-mobalytics-astromech`. On the class: astromechs are "locked to a single specialization called Astromech". **Checked for and absent**: any mention of Analytics, and any interaction between two astromechs.

• Star Wars Zero Company: A New Hope for Turn-Based Tactics

  Xbox Wire · Tier 3 — Hands-on preview · accessed 19 August 2026

  Supports: Difficulty — the writer played on Hard, "third highest out of four difficulties", and "the cutely named Beskar mode is this game's equivalent for XCOM's Ironman, with no reloading previous saves". That line was the basis of this site's difficulty record from 2026-08-19 and was missing from this locator until 2026-08-27; a cited claim whose location is not recorded is a claim nobody can re-check. Combat and squad sections — Advantage accumulating when a squad member successfully deals damage, and capping at 10; respeccing Hawks from Scoundrel into Gunslinger to exploit a Weapon Mod that applied an accumulating Burn status on every attack; unique-specialisation recruits being unable to respec the same way; an astromech with no basic attack, carrying three different Utility items with two uses each; a Concussion Grenade knocking enemies clean out of the combat space. 15-hour preview build.