Here is a list I plan to test soon, collected from various concepts I have seen thus far. Interested in any glaring holes. Is there enough punch/balance to the list?
A-wing Tycho with Chardaan Refit, A-wing test pilot, PtL and out maneuver (26)
A-wing Green squad pilot with Chardaan Refit and PtL OR Outmaneuver (19)
B-wing X2 Blue Squad. with Advanced Sensors.
Thanks for your feedback.
go with FCS on the B's to free up 2 more points
In my opinion, this won't be competitive. One of the major holes I see is against PS9 arc dodging pilots. You've spent a good amount of points of Tycho, but he falls short against them. A few changing I would consider:
1) I've become a much larger fan of FCS than of AdvS these days. It works great on large based ships, which are rather common these days. They're cheaper as well. I've also found people seem to overuse AdvS to barrel roll and then complain their B wings don't do any damage (without any shot modifiers).
2) To counter the PS9 threat, I would consider dropping outmaneuver in favor of VI. This puts Tycho at PS10, and drops his threat a bit due to the lack of outmaneuver. If we can find a 5th point though, we can add Prockets, which once again makes him deadly.
3) To get a single point, I would consider dropping PTL on the Green to Lone Wolf. More often than not, he is going to be your last survivor, and LW coupled with Focus makes him rather difficult to hit. Now, with 5 points, you can add prockets to Tycho.
3b) Or you can drop the Green down to a Prototype, which gives you a total of 9 points to play with. 5 of them are directly to Tycho for Prockets. Then the remaining 4 can be used to upgrade the Bs. I would suggest either an ion cannon or a tactician on one of them, though you could also go with Jan or even Lando if you're the gambling type and have FUN with that B wing.
Good stuff. Thanks for the thought process. I'm not opposed to going with three B's and one A if that has a competitive advantage.
Something like this?
Tycho Celchu — A-Wing 26
VI
Proton Rockets 3
Prototype Pilot — A-Wing 17
Blue Squadron Pilot — B-Wing 22
Fire-Control System 2
Ion Cannon 3
Blue Squadron Pilot — B-Wing 22
Fire-Control
Edited by Proav8rfor tycho I like to run him heavy, this makes him impossible to catch in an arc and allows him to deal way more damage. but If Tycho is only in your list for a high PS A-Wing consider running a different pilot like jake or even gemmer with VI to free up points
Tycho: 33pts
test pilot
refit
PTL
Dare Devil
experimental interface
it's pricey but makes him scary, han, wedge, soonter will be the big threats for him.
gemmer: 26pts
VI
prockets
gemmer will be at ps 7 and makes him the same cost as a naked Tycho, this frees up 4 points. turn those 4 points to make the blues into daggers to reduce the damage from predetor. also take the prototype pilot and change it to a green squadron pilot with refit as it will be the same cost as a naked proto but PS 3
best ABBA list with tycho:
Tycho: 33pts
test pilot
refit
EI
PTL
DD
GSP: 17pts
refit
x2 Blue squadron 25pts (50pts for both)
ion cannon
best list with Gemmer vice Tycho
Gemmer: 25pts
test pilot
refit
PTL
auto thrusters
GSP: 23pts
test pilot
refit
auto thrusters
PTL
VI
blue sqaud: 25pts
ion cannon
dagger squad: 27pts
ion cannon
you get some decent mid range pilots with this plus having 4 dice with an auto thruster against a turret attack makes gemmer super annoying to track down.
I hope this helps with some ideas for an ABBA list
I like Uncanny Penguin's options. Here's another:
Jake (VI, PTL, Autothrusters, Chardaan, Test Pilot)
Green (PTL, Chardaan)
Dagger (FCS) x2
100 points
So I know this thread is crazy old, but that's what happens when you search before you post. Was toying with an ABBA list tonight and hopefully all the posters on this thread are still active for feedback.