2 potional lists

By gambit1977, in X-Wing Squad Lists

These are what im looking at for my first turny

Han Solo — YT-1300 46

Push the Limit 3

Recon Specialist 3

Jan Ors 2

Millennium Falcon 1

Corran Horn — E-Wing 35

Push the Limit 3

Advanced Sensors 3

Engine Upgrade or R2-D2

Wes vi r3a2 hull

Horn r2d2 fcs

Bandit X2

100 points

Which of these look better

I would have to say the first one. The second one seems rather flawed. First, I understand the point of having Wes at PS10 is that he can shoot and stress a phantom, allowing the rest of your team to shoot at an uncloaked one. However, without a BR or Boost action, he's not often going to have a shot. If you can take it out at R3, then that should work, but once it's in the fight, Wes will be hard pressed to get a shot on it.

As such, I would drop VI and R3A2 from Wes. Once you do that, he's no longer a target, so you dont' need the hull either. At that point, you can add VI to Corran, and either shield or EU (I would recommend EU). Now you can still attack at PS10 at an uncloaked ship, but you can react to its movements to ensure you have a shot at it... and a R1 double tap, especially against a an uncloaked first shot, should be enough to handle the Phantom. But then Wes really isn't doing much with his ability. You could keep VI on him so you have another shot at PS10, or you could drop him down to Luke, and add LW onto Luke. Now he can change a focus into an evade, and reroll a blank... making it hard for damage to stick on him. If you could find 3 points for R5P9, that would be a good droid to put on him, but I don't know if it's worth taking the two bandits down to a Rookie or a Green w/ PTL.

As for the first list, if I understand correctly, the goal would be to PTL to take a F+F+E (via Recon), and then have Jan turn it into F+E+E. I like the concept, but I feel like there are several ways to do that even better. For example, you could switch Recon and PTL for Lando and EI for the same points. Now you can take the Evade action, use EI to activate Lando, roll two evade dice, and if you want, if you get two focii, you can convert the second to an Evade. Or you can drop Jan and save 2 more points and a crew slot... If you put FCS instead of AdvS (which is better imo, I'd rather pay 3 points for FCS than 2 points for AdvS on Corran), then you open up a 3rd point for C3PO. You now have a very predictable YT-1300, but you're avoiding 3 damage/turn on average. I think you'll find though that stressing yourself will actually end up making the YT-1300 too easy to block and mitigate all of it's defenses. You could also consider replacing Recon Spec with Kyle if you didn't want to do as many changes to your list. Now you'd still get 2 focus + 1 evade (and then change one to a second evade via Jan), but Kyle happens upon destress, so if you're never blocked, there'll be no difference, but if you are, at least you get something.