2 Reds 2 Golds - solid wave 1 list win

By Castellan Alaric, in X-Wing Battle Reports

So I played a game on vassal last night and wanted to get back to the roots of why I started playing. X-wings. I brought:

2 Red sq - flechette torps & r2 mech

2 Gold sq - ion cannon turret & r2 mech

So my damage was from the X's and control from the Y's. I faced a Jonas bro's list -

Jonas - flechettes

4 Scimitar Sq - flechette torps & failsafe

Seemed to take an hour to get into combat, but I was trying to draw him into the rocks laid corner-to-corner across the middle of the map. I somewhat succeeded in this, but I was the one who took damage on the rocks, with bad flying. I managed to ion Jonas 3 straight turns and lead him onto a rock, but he didn't take damage landing on it or leaving...At the end of the game when we called it I had the Gold's left on 4 hull and full up. He had Jonas on 2 hp, and 2 scimitars on 4&5 hp respectively. It would have been me flying donuts around rocks ioning bombers for another hour if we wanted to finish.

I like the list, but it lacked punch once the X's were gone. I'm going to try a different list I haven't tried yet tomorrow when I got to my FLGS to play some games.

2 Daggers - ion cannons, E2, tactician

2 Proto's - proton rockets

Hopefully I fly well and my proto's show up to rocket people once my B's start ion/stressing ships. That will be a nice alpha strike. I like the ion cannon on the B as well cuz if I'm at range 3 I still get a 3 dice attack. One nice advantage over the Y-wing (even though the Y has a turret...)

Anywho, I hope you enjoyed the read! Let me know critiques on my list please. It was more for fun, but if you have a way to "amp it up a bit" please feel free to let me know!

Hi

I am also a fan of all things vintage and have also been playing with a number of YYXX lists recently (what's more vintage than X's and Y's..?) The most successful list i've tried is;

Gold Squadron w/ Ion canon turret

Gold Squadron w/ Ion canon turret

Wedge w/ swarm tactics

Tarn Mison

Big problem (as you said) is firepower. Have considered B-wings but i'm not sold on the idea, they just don't feel right...:-( I've also considered dropping the X's down to rookies and giving the Y's some proton torpedoes which i'll give a test run when i get chance (i don't get to play half as much as i'd like:-/ **** life getting in the way...)

Jonus brothers is with Defenders.

To be fair, you played against a wave3-ish build. I am also planning of going back to my roots, but I'll be taking the named X-wings and their fancy "new" astromechs. Things like Porkins VI + R3A2 Hull, or Tarn R7, Wedge R7-T1, Luke Lone Wolf + R2-D2, Hobbie R3A2, Biggs Experimental Interface, there are a plethora of combinations that didn't exist before and may turn out to be exciting.

I gotcha, I just saw jonas and a bunch of bomber buddies so I figured they were the jonas bros lol X's are a tad tricky cuz I hate they don't have barrel roll or boost actions - stupid A-wings spoil me so! X-wing with THAT dial...imagine the possibilities lol oh wait, interceptors when autothrusters drops anyone? lol