So I finally went to my first x wing tournament and got the crap kicked out of me by my defense dice. My list I thought was good....... Guess not.

Whisper w/ VI, advanced cloak, navigator, fire control system. 42points

Fire spray bounty Hunter with gunner and ion cannon 41 points

Tie fighter Backstabber 16 points

99 points total

The first game went south fast. The first round of shooting my fire spray didn't evade a single shot from 4 tie fighters. Next round, fire spray died. The last tie fighter to shoot took a shot at Backstabber at range 3 and threw a rock. THATS FIVE EVADE DICE! He rolled a crit and rerolled thanks to howlrunner a hit. I rolled 2 focus 3 blanks, then drew direct hit. So by the end of the second round of shooting I lost a fire spray and a tiefighter. All from 4 tie fighters. Phantom put up a slight fight but eventually died from the guys boba fett. That's how all 4 games basically went for me.

My third game the phantom died first. In the first turn, I was cloaked and corn horn shot at range three. He had VI so he moved after I did. First shot he rolled 3 hits and I rolled 5 blanks. I thought, sweet I'm ganna live! Nope he took another shot. Rolled one hit and I rolled.... Well the phantom died... I hate my green dice. The rest of the game the only ship to roll more then 1 evade at one time was my tie fighter. And yes I did focus as a lot of my actions. I got 2 wins and 2 losses just due to flying, evade dice still didn't like me tho. So good bye green dice, hello decimators.

My new list.

Rear admiral Chiraneau with rebel captive and determination.

He is my gun. Just fly around shooting and target locking.

Captian Oicunn with Mara Jade, intelligence agent, seismic charges and anti-pursuit Lazers.

I call him, drunk driver. All he does is just ram people and try to get in the way.

Both are 50 points

So what do you think? Are there decimator builds that have worked really well for you?

Take off anti pursuit and the bomb for isard. I think either one but my current guess is oicunn. Also you will find that Intel agent is literally useless.

I agree take off the intell agent and charges and but isard on or if your felling really vengeful put darth vader on it. as for the rear admiral take determination off and put on predator

I have to disagree on predator. It's good, great really, but decimators are crit magnets. This is one build I like:

VT-49 DECIMATOR: Patrol Leader (40)

· Darth Vader (3)

VT-49 DECIMATOR: · Rear Admiral Chiraneau (46)

Determination (1)

Engine Upgrade (4)

· Ysanne Isard (4)

· Moff Jerjerrod (2)

It isn't perfect, but I have reasons to fear crits...

the reason I love predator on this list is most people who play swarmy type list of 4 or more ships use skill level 2 pilots in them example guy that won at Baltimore 4 b's and a z-95 all pilot skill 2 , so you are rerolling two dice each time you fire. just focus every turn and predator works very well .