Hi Folks,

I'm gonna attend the local Version of the Imdaar Alpha Tournament in May and though there is still a lot time left, I'm toying around with potential squads.

As a diehard Imperial Player, I definitly want to field an Imperial squad, but I'm absolutly not keen on playing a Swarm. So the Task at hand, is the creation of a competitive, non swarm, imperial List with the potential to win the tourney.

As everybody around here is absolutly crazy about the possibility to win one of the Wave 4 ships, I'm pretty sure that imperial TIE Swarms, XXBB Lists and YT 1300 will dominate the meta completly with only a handfull "experimental" squads mixing the field.

So my idea was to create a list which should be strong especially against those types of builds.

Unfortunately there seem to be very little common weaknesses between YTs, Swarms, and B-Wing builds.

Normally I'm playing various Firespray-Interceptor combinations and generally had great success against any type of XXBB build as I was normally able to outmaneuver the low Pilot skill Bs. On the other hand those builds generally have a hard time against those pesky YTs and their easy-mode playstyle. My experience against swarms is very limited, I only played once against a swarm with the Baron's Focus list, and got lucky that my Opponent tried to hunt down the Baron and really had a hard time keeping pace with the Interceptor and staying in Formation at the same time.

So really any suggestions or hints would really be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

That seems a bit pretentious to claim to be the potential winner of a tournament that has not even begun yet.

4x Blue Squadron Pilots w/ Ion Cannon.

What? It addresses all the problems, right? You have enough Ion power to ionize big ships, and they'll do well against other B-wings. Against a swarm, just kick on the firepower to take out as many ships as quick as you can, or maybe ion a ship to mess up formation. Then at the end you could use ions to try to keep those fighters off your back.

Of course, I've never heard of anybody running this, so there must be some weakness I'm missing. Obviously other Ion lists will be your bane, especially ion cannon turrets.

@DoubleNot7: I never claimed to be the winner, I was just looking for advice on a potentially game winning squad....

@Parakitor: So the idea against big ships would be to ion them off board? Otherwise I think I will have a hard time getting enough damage Output out of 4 Ion cannons to destroy an YT over the course of a game...

@DoubleNot7: I never claimed to be the winner, I was just looking for advice on a potentially game winning squad....

@Parakitor: So the idea against big ships would be to ion them off board? Otherwise I think I will have a hard time getting enough damage Output out of 4 Ion cannons to destroy an YT over the course of a game...

4 dice each at range one against a YT's 1 agi should do that nicely, no?

I'm going to run Kath +4 Obsidians for mine, it did spectacularly in the store championships

Well you only need to ion the big ship with 2 at a time The other 2 can line up the range 1 shots you set up on the previous ion round. It also doesn't have to be off the board, ioning onto an asteroid works as well.

Also to note, many YTs will use Expert Handling. Once they take that stress, you could potentially ionized them AND keep them stressed and actionless.

Ok so I really have to test this one. Could really be a lot of fun, especially because I dont think, that anybody expects something like that.

How do 4 Bs stand up against a swarm? I guess that 1 agility is really gonna hurt?

@Rhinoviro: So what would your Kath loadout look like? 10 Points to spare...hm..Expert Handling, Gunner, Seismic Charge?