Jim must be slipping if his idea is as straightforward as getting airborne and firing at the troopers. It seems though, that we both thought that the stormtroopers' blaster fire wouldn't be able to damage the X-wing, so I can't fault Jim there. Handheld weapons usually aren't at the scale needed to damage vehicles unless they're of the Heavy or BFG variety. Last time I remember ground to air fire like this was Padmé trying to shoot down Count Dookû's ship way back in The Silence of the Clones. Dookû was in the middle of actually flying away though, I think, so he did have that going for himself. Poe and BB don't seem to have gone anywhere yet and their port engine just took a hit. Biggest target indeed.

On the plus side of having the ship get damaged like this, maybe we'll get to see some in-flight repairs by Corey. I had to go back and check, but Artoo never actually did any repairs on the X-wing in Episode IV during the Peace Moon fight. Admittedly, Luke never got shot in the dogfighting, and Pete was busy attempting to convince Corey to try and take over the station by locking Vader out while controlling the clones, but still. That would mean being able to repair from the droid seat would be unique to BB-8 which would be pretty cool and fit the newer ship design. Maybe he could even stick his head out from the underside of the ship when fixing things; a ball shape body would need to be "free-floating" underneath the head and held on by magnets or forcefields and just spinning the head instead of the ball would easily be doable.

That might just be asking for a decapitation though if the GM has a sudden need to throw complications into the mix, so perhaps that's not a good idea. It'd be quite awkward to see your body leave you behind.