So I brought Chiraneau w/ Expose/Isard/Reb Captive/Experimental Interface backed by Whisper w/ VI/FCS/ACD to my first tournament yesterday and he cleaned up, bat rep follows. tl/dr at the end.

1st round was a hard counter to my list rebel control, 3x B-wings with tactician and a Y-wing with stress-bot and an ion cannon. I flew rather poorly as well should have forced him to come through the asteroids and lost whisper to a bad play. It wasn't even close full loss 0-100

2nd round sounds like a bad match-up 6 Black Squadron pilots 5 with Predator and one with Draw their fire. Turned out to be Chippys shining moment and where I finally clued into how Chiraneau is played. Ramming Chippy straight down the throat of the swarm broke it up 5 dice at range 1 and a virtually guaranteed crit one-shotted two ties took another out of the game with a -1 att crit my opponent conceded after his fifth tie blew with chip still at 4 hits and whisper at 2(I really need to stay away from asteroids with whisper). Whisper was a non-entity this game, exposing off the free Isard evade meant I always got my action and I could keep ramming the ties. He had a loose formation, smart with the predator BSPs but it meant I could keep ramming his ships, stopping one shot a round for two rounds combined with Isard and the one shots it meant a full win. 100-0.

3rd round Corran with push/FCS, Bandit, Blue B-wing, and Biggs. This was closer Corran worried me, not as much a Etahn though. Just before he took out Chip with a double-tap Chip got a -1 ATT crit on Corran. Ended with a dance in the asteroids Corran vs Whisper Corran didn't have a chance. 100-60.

4th round Han PTL/Numb/Engine with 2 naked Blue Bs. First blue bought it rather quickly with help from a direct hit whisper split off to deal with the second as Chip and had traded blows not a good match-up for chip especially after taking the worst crit in the game, injured pilot, early on but luck was on my side when Chip survived a range 1 han blasting with only 2 health left and Han only rolls 2 hits Chips return fire puts han at 1 health, Whisper cleans up. 100-60.

5th round was a Chewie/Leebo both with Push and Rec Spec than ended up winning the whole thing. bad flying by me all around didn't get Chip and whisper into the action at the same time Chip took a bit of a pounding whisper missed a shot and got one-shotted by leebo in return then I flew Chip off the board in an attempt to break off. 0-100

Ended up eighth out of 18 so not bad for my first tourney. Expose Chiraneau was easily my MVP. Plays a lot like Oicuun, ram him into ships to deny them a shot and expose off the free Isard action. Going to take up one of my opponent's suggestions and bring a checklist next time, kept forgetting rebel captive/Isard/EI/all of Whisper's stuff.

Thanks for the report The HOBO - always interested to hear how Phantoms are doing in Wave 5. Well done on a good result for your first Tourney!

I'm not sure ramming and Exposing is the best way to go as the general plan but I can see it being effective when you are trying to deny shots from your opponent.

I've attached this link to a Video Batrep of the same squad that I flew back in December to give you a look at how I think the squad could be flow. I'm not self promoting here but I do think this will give you an insight of what the squad is capable of when the Admiral is able to pick a good line and Whisper can create the end game she wants.

I hope it is helpful, if not, no worries (also shout out to Sanctioned who made this video):