Help with List for First Tournament

By santange11, in X-Wing Squad Lists

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Hi all, I am playing in my first tournament this weekend and need to see if the list I am planning on bringing is a good or if I should start over. It goes as Follows


2x Dagger Squadron w/ Fire Control Systems

Biggs w/ R2-F2

Airen Cracken w/ Veteran Instincts


The plan is to hit hard with the B-Wings and have the Z-95 constantly passing an action to Biggs for a focus. Please let me know if this is any good. My biggest concern with this list is if the Fire Control Systems are worth it for the B-Wings or is there a better way to spends these points.

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I like your list, my only question would be what sort of squads do you think you will be flying against? If you think you’re going to be flying against a lot of lists with 4 or more ships then the Airen + R2-F2 setup works, that is to say R2-F2 starts paying for his points when Biggs is getting shot at 4+ times per round.

If you’re more likely to be flying against smaller ship counts then I would suggest swapping Airen for Roark and a few other tweaks:

Blue Squadron Pilot + FCS

Blue Squadron Pilot + FCS

Biggs

Roark + ICT + Jan Ors Crew

1 point left over for initiative, the only upgrade that you can further squeeze in the list is a 1 point Astro on Biggs if you really want.

This way you have a good chance of getting shots on non-cloaked phantoms if you come up against any, Jan crew allows Biggs to take evade tokens instead of focus and you get an ICT in the mix for crowd control.

Also FCS is very good for action economy.

Of course if you haven’t flown the HWK before it's probably not the best to take but it's an option.

Otherwise just stick with your initial list, it's solid and if you know how to fly it well your 90% of the way there anyway.