Hi all. I broke down and picked up my first of the large ships last night. Now to familiarize myself with what I can do with the YT.

Han + Falcon + Gunner + Marksmanship

2x Green Squadron A with PTL

I know the usual HSF build uses Xs, but I was curious if anybody has tried to use A-wings instead. I know I'm trading offense for maneuverability, but I'd be interested to see if they make better flankers than the X-wings. Thanks.

I may suggest outmaneuver on green pilots? I think Outmaneuver may be good on them.

Every time I play A-Wings I end the game swearing to never use them again. They're as fragile is Ties but cost more. Kudos to you if you can make this work, but I've had the damnedest times with A-Wings.

Han and gunner especially with Marksmanship can get redundant pretty fast. You usually hit without the need for gunner because of Han's rerolls . Myself I much prefer not the variant with X-Wing but with 2 Blues with FCS + Chewie instead of Han. Tons of hull and shield and no crits for your Falcon, is IMO much better than Han rerolls especially with wave 4 coming... Watch Brath turning 3 or 4 hits into crits and say bye bye Falcon! :-(

I may suggest outmaneuver on green pilots? I think Outmaneuver may be good on them.

Outmaneuver is great on Greens, but generally you want only one, and have 2-3 other ships shooting before it to clear tokens for it to trigger.

I have seen a HSF With 2 golds with Ions as well, I think in terms of offense the X's really help, but the best Falcon list I've seen is: Chewie + DTF. Biggs and Garven. Not HSF but still a falcon list

Or as someone else posted in another thread: Han + Gunner + Marks, two blues one with FCS or not to go for Int.

A-wings without the Refit upgrade in the upcoming Rebel Aces pack are too costly.

A-wings WITH the Refit upgrade are an amazing value.

I may suggest outmaneuver on green pilots? I think Outmaneuver may be good on them.

Outmaneuver is great on Greens, but generally you want only one, and have 2-3 other ships shooting before it to clear tokens for it to trigger.

Outmaneuver is the 3pt psuedoWedge ability, I think you are thinking of Opportunist the 4pt upgrade to roll an extra die at the cost of a stress if the opponent has no tokens

Hi all. I broke down and picked up my first of the large ships last night. Now to familiarize myself with what I can do with the YT.

Han + Falcon + Gunner + Marksmanship

2x Green Squadron A with PTL

I know the usual HSF build uses Xs, but I was curious if anybody has tried to use A-wings instead. I know I'm trading offense for maneuverability, but I'd be interested to see if they make better flankers than the X-wings. Thanks.

A danger on that YT is that both the Falcon and Marksmanship are fighting for the ship's action. I'd say the second danger is that you are giving up a bit of firepower for that increased maneuverability.

In this list I'd say Marksmanship is worthless because you're going to be wanting to Evade every turn as Han+Gunner+Marksmanship IS a bigger threat than either, and possibly both, of the A-Wings. You still need Han to hit, and hit hard, every turn but Marksmanship may not cut it if you need to power the Falcon title instead.