So I really wanted to try the shuttle. I got loads of ideas from this forum for using cheap shuttles, but I wanted to try a support ship. Here's what I used...and my thoughts:
Jendon (26) with Ion Canon, Gunner, Wpns Engineer, and ST-321 upgrade. (40 total)
Jonus with MunFailsafe, Assault M, Cluster M, and Swarm Tactics. (34)
Scimitar Bomber. Same load out as Jonus (26)
So the shuttle can make 2 target locks on any ships on the board from the engineer and ST upgrades. Jendon allows me to give one of my bombers one of his locks. I do this turns 1 and 2 so all 3 ships now have a loc and they are crawling up the board. On turn 3 they can hopefully make their assault missile attacks. Shuttle uses it's IC. Jonus allows reroll with secondary wpns.
I played it twice. The first game it ate a Corran Horn list with 3 Headhunters.
Second game I faced a Firespray, Jonus, Howlrunner list. I tried flying more aggressive and wound up colliding a lot and got picked apart. The list worked well going slow.
Some thoughts...