So, there is a friend who played a few games of X-wing two years ago and got sucked into other games. He kept collecting ships, but just didn't play. So, now I have suckered him back into playing. The number of games he has played might be counted on one hand. He doesn't know a lot of the Phantom and all the other stuff. I made a list for him that was Luke w/ R2-D2 and a bunch of Rookies. He's happy with it. I've been trying to play some Wave 1 and 2 lists against him to keep things simple. I've been having a lot of fun with it, too.

I was just reading a few threads and came up with this list:

Omnicron w/ Fleet Officer, Adv Sensor, and Anti Pursuit Lasers

Night Beast

2 x Black Squadron w/ Calculation

Black Squadron

Academy Pilot

The Shuttle dishes out the free Focus and might get in people's way. Do the move and the Adv Sensors first and remove the stress w/ a green move. Let the Tie Fighters swarm around the enemy and get free Focus tokens.

I like it. I'll have to borrow this list to play with some of my less experienced friends. I find disposable fighters good to play against newish players because of the satisfaction when they blow up.

Your third BSP though, maybe drop him down to AP since theres no ept. Not like 2 free points gets you much though.

Swap that BSP and Academy for 2 Obsidians..

Looks like a fun list

i really dont like fleet officer on the shuttle. it gets completely out of position super fast. Cant do stops to move slowly.

I mean, if you really want to play that group of ships, you could always do the funzies:

Kagi HLC Adv Sen 37

Black DTF 15

4 x AP 48

100

I could get rid of anti pursuit lasers and knock the Black down to give EU to the Shuttle. I kind of like the idea of it just bumping into people and giving out Focus, though.

I agree that it's satisfying for new players to blast Tie Fighters, though.