6 TIE Swarm List Idea

By Felswrath69, in X-Wing

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Howlrunner 18

PTL 3

SD (or Hull) 3

Black Squadron Pilot 14. X5

Draw Their Fire 1

Black squad guys pull crits and spread them around to keep everyone (especially howl) alive as long as possible. Has anyone ever run anything like this?

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I ran 2 DTF bsp and they did fairly well. That was quite some time ago though.

What about

Howl

BSP w/ DTF x2

Alpha x2

Academy x1

Increases your overall damage and changes the threat to the alphas who can do quite a bit of damage. You still have DTF but now you have good blockers with a boost action

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Interesting, I'll try that. I have never flown a swarm before.

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I built this list awhile back, never got to play it yet though.. also I'm 3 elusiveness short which doesn't help.

5x Black Squadron + Elusiveness : 80pts

1x Howlrunner + Elusiveness : 20pts

could even drop a black for SD's. PTL and SD might work out really well just on 5 black squadrons too. I could see them really being a pain to kill off with focus + evade + 4 agility each round..

Edited by oddeye
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I built this list awhile back, never got to play it yet though.. also I'm 3 elusiveness short which doesn't help.

5x Black Squadron + Elusiveness : 80pts

1x Howlrunner + Elusiveness : 20pts

could even drop a black for SD's. PTL and SD might work out really well just on 5 black squadrons too. I could see them really being a pain to kill off with focus + evade + 4 agility each round..

Spamming Elusiveness or PtL on TIE's is problematic because you don't have much movement options to clear the stress. You're basically making your opponent's job of getting you in their firing arc easier and making it that much harder for your ships to do the same...

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My favorite TIE swarm to run is the six named TIES list:

Winged Gundark

Night Beast

Dark Curse

Backstabber

Mauler Mithel

Howlrunner

+Stealth Device

Some of the lesser used TIES have surprisingly useful abilities. Most of them fly in a swarm. As usual, place lower skilled pilots in the front and towards the inside of the turn, and deploy Backstabber separately so he can be a distraction.