Tear My List Apart: Lando's Banditos

By Qapla187, in X-Wing

For your view pleasure (or displeasure) I present the following. Came up with it after AOIA where I ran Lando and Chewie and went home with a Z-95.

Lando

PTL

Han Solo

Nien Numb

MF Title

Bandit Squadron Pilot x4

99 points

It ran quite well for me tonight taking on Wedge, Kyle and Garven without a single draw off my damage deck required. So here ya go, tear into it like a pack of rabid wombats!

Might be susceptible to Bomber Swarm. If I might hazard a guess.

Bounty Hunter Swarm would probably give you a hard time.

But you can pretty much just fly in circles. Engine upgrades might be good for that.

Edited by Vulf

I"m not sure Han is what you need here?

I'm thinking you will have Lando take an Evade and a TL (to fuel Han on offense) each turn, stressing him out, going for a green maneuver to have Lando toss an action around?

First order of business: block the YT. No matter where he goes, get up in his face and stay there. Focus fire him down with the rest.

Drop Han, give yourself some more freedom in choice of action by creating room for a focus. Change him for 3PO to tank up more. With Rebel Aces, change Han for Kyle. That way you'll still get the evade, the target lock and, because you cleared a stress, a focus.

Lando generally will take a TL and I'll use push when need be. I'm not entirely sold on Lando over Chewie here but it's what I tried first. With his big range 1 bubble you don't have to keep a tight formation and I have no problem not moving him green if it gets me a better position. Also don't forget if you focus on Lando you still have the 4 Bandits who can and will get in your way and cause havoc.

I thought about swapping 3PO in, but Outmaneuver negates him unless it's range 3. Considering it's gonna be a new fad for a bit and YTs don't really care about where other ships are as far as arc. Now if they didn't have that retarded rule for turret primaries then I'd say he's almost worth it over Han.

And this is where I almost want to swap in Chewie with both Han and Goldenrod, then it's a problem of what Elite to give him? Push, VI, heck I could even see Predator being HANdy (although perhaps overkill and potentially a waste).

And now I'm off to look and see just how I can work Kyle into this...

You've got a good point concerning 3PO and Outmaneuver, but that is when you can take the evade, while otherwise you can rely on 3PO for the same effect, thus freeing up an action?

Let Chewie have expert handling perhaps?

The only real reason to take Lando is if you want to hand out free actions, and honestly your banditos will probably be way forward blocking and out or range. When they are in range, what are you gaining giving them an action? A free target lock on Strength 2 gun? Not worth it. Even for the higher PS, its not high enough to make a difference where it counts, the PS8-10 alpha gang.

What you are giving up is uncritableness, which is very big.

My advice, either slot in Han, or go with Chewie.