I'm honestly suprised no one has talked about this considering how many old school DOS/WIN 95 flight sim people are on this board.

List thus far:

Corvette with upgrades

5 z95s (some with shield upgrade, some with assault missiles and munitions failsafe)

2 gray squadron with ions

outer rim smuggler with shield upgrade

So far I am not using any rebel cards for upgrades (any special named rebel characters for example) I am currently sitting at 299 points. Honestly, I am excited to run this fleet for the fun of it. It reminds me a lot of the kind of fleets a rebel or imperial player would face off against in x-wing or tie fighter.

Basically this is the kinda fleet I would have as a merc group leader

I talked about a scenario with my mates regarding reliving those magic games. It would be easy and super fun to generate a fleet and (if one was enthused enough) a 'pirates deck' using existing models.

Glad to see you're going down that road.

I really like the idea of cobbling together a merc fleet as a homebrew (or maybe even FFG supported) third faction. The only problem is none of the ships have more than two attack.

Kath Scarlet's Firespray does.

That seems like a small number of ships given the Z-95s only cost 60 total. I suppose I don't know what your Corvette Looks like but I can't imagine it being more than 130. That would put you at 110 points for upgrades, an outer rim smuggler and 2 y-wings. Seems pricey.

Six hull upgraded Z-95s all with rockets, maybe?

Six hull upgraded Z-95s all with rockets, maybe?

I suppose. But that doesn't lead to much for effectiveness. With that many 2 attack ships he's gambling big. That said, take that pass a TL upgrade. For sure.

i had loaded up the corvette so that i think almost all of the slots were full. I used each team, I dont think I used the single crew slots, but I can't remember at the moment, definitely used all of the cannon slots. In X-wing alliance going up against a corvette was nasty. Its tuberlaser hurt, and you couldnt camp behind its big engine housing like you could in the original xwing or tie fighter. Honestly, I wouldnt be surprised if FFG releases the modified corvette as an empire only ship due to Admiral Zaarin using them quite a bit. We shall all see though.