Is it just me or do low PS B-Wings stink?

By gundamv, in X-Wing

XXBB with adv. sensors (PS 4) on the B-Wings taking a championship. Similar list to yours. You may want to watch this for pointers, advanced sensors were really utilizing the asteroids to help bust up the imperial formations.

Thanks for the video. I'll watch it when I have some time. Are there any other videos available that show championship-level games being played? I did a Youtube search recently but was unable to find any.

Check out FFG's twitch channel; they just posted matched from this weekend's Worlds Championships. They're not labeled too well but you can find many high-level matches if you dig around a bit. The videos are coverage of all of the games played at worlds, not just X-wing. Just skip around in the videos a bit until you see some x-wing.

I've flown Golden Daggers (2 x Daggers with AS, 2 x Golds with ICT) in several tournaments and placed very well (including winning Assault at Imdaar Alpha). games included against TIE swarms and some double falcon lists (no fat Hans or phantoms at that stage)

Flown well, AS B-wings are as hard hitting as it gets, coupled with the board control of ion turret golds there's no obvious targets to focus on and loads of redundancy. Always getting your actions and the flexibility of avoiding asteroids and 2 K turns is priceless.

I did fly blues once or twice, adding R2 units and flechettes to the golds but with predator flying around at the moment, it kills low PS, low agility ships.

Even in the current meta, I feel Golden Daggers would perform reasonably well.

It's all in how you use them. I think that all the manuverability you has with adv sensors and EU was probably wasted on ships with a PS that low. I'd probably do other things with those points. A tie swarm can murder some low PS bwings, that would be a challenging matchup, but blues have their place. If you are facing a swarm, I would try to slow roll in so you are not enveloped in the cloud. If you face a swarm regularly, consider an awing with an assault missle.

I'm tempted to try something like this using blow PS B-Wings:

2 x Blue Squad w/Advanced Sensors and Ion Cannons

Gold Squad w/Ion Cannon Turret

Arvel w/Chardaan Refit

I think it might be fun to fly but am not sure how it would do. Get a target ionized and have Arvel block it to keep it immobile and actionless. Get Blues in behind hammering away while the Gold keeps the target ionized or keeps another target occupied.

Arvel seems awesome on paper but be is always cut or replaced in my lists...and trust me I want to run him

Low PS B-Wings stink because of the unwashed rebels piloting them.