Hey guys,

I've been using 3 X-wings for the last 3 games and won them all, yay for me!

I've been using Wedge with EU, Ptl, R2(as I seem to have a much better grasp of Wedge than I do Corran), Wes with VI and Garven. The rest of the points have changed as I've tried to make things better.

Now I know that at some point this list if gonna get blown out of the sky(space?) but so far I've gone against Firesprays, Phantoms, other X's and Z's and been fine so I'm willing to stick with it.

I'm very happy with how Wedge is set up, he stays. I'm happy with Wes too, he's there to strip tokens so Wedge can take his shot so he stays.

Now the question.

The problem is Garven, yes he gives me another focus but he's not pulling his weight. I'm not sure if it's me(probably) but it just doesn't seem to be working.

If you were putting a third X-wing in which would you use??

If you are not worried about PS on the third ship, try Tarn Mison and R7 astro. He is a late game hero and the low PS kinda helps him out, especially if you can save that target lock for the return fire. Leaves an extra point for an R2 on Wes as well.

What you've go so far that you don't want to change is:

Wes + VI (30 points)

Wedge + PtL + EU + R2 (37 points)

So this leaves you with 33 points. Some considerations:

Luke + R2D2 + DtF (33) Here's you hard to kill ship that could also pull of crits from your other two ships to regernate them.

Porkins + PtL + R5D8 (32) Another PtL fighter who's ability can prevent stress. If you take a damage card it has the chance to discard it.

Hobbie + R3A2 (27) Going to make an attack against a TLed opponent? Just give him some stress before losing it by spending your TL. Still have 6 points for other things.

You could make Garvin more interesting by giving Wes R5P9 so that he can be passed the token and use in to recharge shields. Of course this still leaves 4 points to spend.

A question is "what are you usually doing with PtL on Wedge?" Even with EU giving him three action choices it seems to me like Predator could be a more efficient bet to use as a Stress free TL to your other action. This also gives you more choices for astromech as you no longer need the enhances stress relief of R2.

I used to use Tarn R7 as my third guy but he's tough compared to Wes and wedge that there is absolutely no reason not to shoot them down first, and quickly. Therefor biggs took his place for the same amount of points.

I thought about mentioning Biggs at 25 points but wouldn't want to load him up with another 8 points of upgrades although there are some who would do that. I mean you could go with Biggs + R2D2 + Shield Upgrade and it could be effective but it could also be a relative waste of points when he gets gunned down quickly. Biggs does offer the most protection to the two big aces but beyond that he is just another X-Wing.

In some ways my Luke suggestion is an alternative to Biggs. Luke is a harder target that Biggs but DtF lets him pick the attacks to absorb.