Thought about how to utilize the costly TIE Defenders and make their white K-turns useful:

Delta Squadron Pilot+Ion Cannon (33)

Delta Squadron Pilot+Ion Cannon (33)

Soontir Fel+PTL+Stealth Device (33)

Total: 99pts

Basically, Ion the opponent to death while you use Soontir as the Falcon Punch. He can BR and Boost all around the Ionized ships. The Defenders shouldn't have to hard turn much...if at all.

The downsides, OF COURSE, are the low pilot skill Deltas. I feel like they are bombers in a sense, waiting to unleash their ordinance.

Either way, so far this list is doing well on Vassal (mainly because people aren't used to Defenders).

My two cents.

Thought about how to utilize the costly TIE Defenders and make their white K-turns useful:

Delta Squadron Pilot+Ion Cannon (33)

Delta Squadron Pilot+Ion Cannon (33)

Soontir Fel+PTL+Stealth Device (33)

Total: 99pts

Basically, Ion the opponent to death while you use Soontir as the Falcon Punch. He can BR and Boost all around the Ionized ships. The Defenders shouldn't have to hard turn much...if at all.

The downsides, OF COURSE, are the low pilot skill Deltas. I feel like they are bombers in a sense, waiting to unleash their ordinance.

Either way, so far this list is doing well on Vassal (mainly because people aren't used to Defenders).

My two cents.

Interestingly enough, my limited experience with Defenders on Vassal so far is that the low PS doesn't hurt them in terms of firing order (especially with ion cannons, firing last is not bad as it gives everyone a chance to use up focus tokens). But trying to get off the K-turn when higher PS ships are about a 4 move ahead of you...perhaps I need to practice more, but it seems to happen way more often than I'd like...