How do you fly the E-wing?

By Wraithdt, in X-Wing

I've been testing out this list lately. It's a lot of fun. Definitely challenging to use against swarms and some large ship builds (Chewbacca, basically), but tears other "elite" builds apart and decimates Phantoms if you can get them in arc even once.

E-wings are cool.

Corran + FCS + Marksmanship

Biggs + EPT droid +VI

Luke + r2D2 + Draw Their Fire

Flys like 3 ship rebels, hits like 4 ship rebels if done right.

I like this. What would you swap Biggs' EPT droid and VI for if you don't have the EPT droid?

Maybe an R7 on Corran for more protection after Biggs goes down?

I ran this list yesterday just to see what the E-wing was really capable of, and I am most certainly not disappointed.

Corran Horn - PtL, APT, FCS, R2 Astromech, Stealth Device

Etahn A'baht - PtL, APT, Sensor Jammer, R2 Astromech, Stealth Device

It felt awfully weird fielding just two small ships, but they managed very well. What I was up against was a defender with HLC, Echo and a royal guard pilot. Etahn took some damage early, but managed to strip the shields off Echo. The next turn Corran stepped in and APTd the interceptor into space dust and double tapped Echo who had parked right in front of him after a critical mistake by my opponent. The next round the defender only got a range 3 attack on corran which he evaded and I prepared for the final turn. Etahn turned in next to the defender on which he had a target lock, barrel rolled out of arc and focused, and Corran moved in at range 1 right in front of him. And that was it.

I also tried flying Etahn with R2 and PtL together with 3 Rookies. Faced off with Biggs, Wedge and Dutch. And they were picked off in just that order. Did not lose a single ship.