So when I get my Rebel Aces I will have 4 b-wings so how do you think 4 Blue Squadron pilots with Advance Sensors Would fare?

it may fair rather well but if you can put a up grade card on that indreases your agility it would make it better

it may fair rather well but if you can put a up grade card on that indreases your agility it would make it better

That would be Stealth Device. Which is a terrible choice on a ship with a base agility value of 1 unless you did some serious work to make it worthwhile, and on the B-Wing that's not really feasible at the moment.

To answer your question OP, the B-Wing is a fine ship, but Advanced Sensors is more favourable on ships with higher pilot skill unless you happen to be using the action before barrel-rolling around a lot, or using it prior to red moves. It's tanky, but suffers from next to no pilot skill and a somewhat lackluster dial.

With Blues I think fire control systems would be a better choice.

I too will be getting my 4th B Wing with the arrival of Rebel Aces, I plan on running:

Blue Squadron Pilot

Blue Squadron Pilot

Blue Squadron Pilot

Blue Squadron Pilot

Bandit Squadron Pilot

Combined 36 HP and big guns should be fun.

Edit:

Or:

Blue Squadron Pilot + HLC

Blue Squadron Pilot + HLC

Blue Squadron Pilot + HLC

Bandit Squadron Pilot

Personally, I think this list would be fun (because seriously, who doesn't love the B-wing?), but I would feel safer dumping two of the BSPs and replacing them with either two A-wings or two X-wings. This gives you a variety of ships to field which forces your opponent to deal with two different types of fighters (slow knife-fighters and agile attackers). Having a homogenous squad allows your enemy to capitalize on your weaknesses more easily.

But as you're asking about using 4 B-wings, I'd say try them as see how you like them. Personally, I love taking a squad consisting entirely of Y-wings, and I don't do too badly with it despite some people complaining about that ship's low agility. You're basically taking four tanks into the battle, which can be loads of fun.

Personally, I think this list would be fun (because seriously, who doesn't love the B-wing?), but I would feel safer dumping two of the BSPs and replacing them with either two A-wings or two X-wings. This gives you a variety of ships to field which forces your opponent to deal with two different types of fighters (slow knife-fighters and agile attackers). Having a homogenous squad allows your enemy to capitalize on your weaknesses more easily.

But as you're asking about using 4 B-wings, I'd say try them as see how you like them. Personally, I love taking a squad consisting entirely of Y-wings, and I don't do too badly with it despite some people complaining about that ship's low agility. You're basically taking four tanks into the battle, which can be loads of fun.

DAT!

I've got a friend who has won a few store championships and a regional championship and placed 3rd or 4th in the Nordic Championship with 4 blues with 3x AS and 1x FCS, so I would deem a 4 B-wing list quite strong.

I actually feel like it wouldn't be that fun, but that's a personal opinion. ^^.

They're powerful ships, not quite underdogs. Yet, having 4 of them seems to be not that good from results that have been placed.

To answer your question OP, the B-Wing is a fine ship, but Advanced Sensors is more favourable on ships with higher pilot skill unless you happen to be using the action before barrel-rolling around a lot, or using it prior to red moves.

Why is Advanced Sensors better on higher PS pilots? It makes no difference what the PS is. B-Wings always take Advanced Sensors because with the amount of red maneuvers they run into they often need to take their action before moving.

With Blues I think fire control systems would be a better choice.

Couldn't disagree more - Advanced Sensors offers MUCH more utility than the FCS.

FCS gives you a free target lock AFTER you've taken a shot at a target - which means that you need to shoot the same target again the following turn to enjoy any benefit, which doesn't help you at all if that target's dead by the time your next shot comes around (or your B-Wing is).

Advanced Sensors allows to take an action either before or after you move. This makes the B-Wing a PHENOMENAL close quarters dogfighter.

You can take an action, then reveal a red maneuver (including the B'Wing's useful red K-Turn). You can use the B-Wing's barrel roll before OR after you move - giving you more positioning options against those pesky arc-dodgers, or allowing you to directly use asteroids as cover.

So yeah - you could say I'm a fan of Kith's Blue Squadron w/Advanced Sensors x 4 build. It's tough, it's got hitting power, it's agile and it's got some nasty tricks up it's sleeve. It could be a lot of fun to fly.

I really like the concept of 4x b-wing but I am not sure they are so great with the number of TIE swarms one might see these days. The main predator to the b-wing is the academy TIE.

TIE swarms? We're lacking TIE swarms. If we had a TIE swarm problem we wouldn't have a Falcon problem.

TIE swarms? We're lacking TIE swarms. If we had a TIE swarm problem we wouldn't have a Falcon problem.

If we had tie swarms we'd have an assault missile epidemic.

A nice variant might be 3 x Blue Squadron B-wing with Advanced Sensors. 1 Gold Squadron Y-wing with Ion Turret and R3-A2. A friend of mine runs it with great success.

I'm going to try running two Blues with Intel agents and two blues with advS and see if they make a good brawling team.

So when I get my Rebel Aces I will have 4 b-wings so how do you think 4 Blue Squadron pilots with Advance Sensors Would fare?

That would be okay, but why do a classic Biggs Walks the Dogs and replace a B with Biggs?

3 Blues with Adv. Sensors

1 Blue with FCS.

Are rock solid.

99pts

(Because, initiative.)

I've gone from initially hating b wings to loving them

I can see me running a three b wing list with reb aces but i think four might mean playing them a little too raw.

3 Blues with Adv. Sensors

1 Blue with FCS.

Are rock solid.

99pts

(Because, initiative.)

I can imagine this is probably solid vs falcon based lists, but I am curious, how does a successful game vs phantom + mini swarm or similar go for you?