You trigger PTL off of Isard's free evade action.

You can do that??!! :o

As long as you haven't used it before (since it has a once per round restriction) you can trigger PTL of anything that is classified as an action.

Oh man, oh man. It's like I was blind and you showed me the light!!! Thanks

Chirpy + Soontir? Fly a Decimator of your own with Gunner+Vader on it and watch Soontir Fall the second he ventures into reach of Vader.

The Empire is so evil. Yissssss, let the hate flow through you Skywalker.

Chirpy + Soontir? Fly a Decimator of your own with Gunner+Vader on it and watch Soontir Fall the second he ventures into reach of Vader.

Bring backup (better spend those leftover ~57 pts on something nasty), or the Admiral will "Rear" you.

It's interesting to look into a list that could make quick work of the Soontir / Chiraneau build... - You need something that is designed to hit Fel through everything he has, and something with a lot of guns to take on chiranaeu...

Academy X4

Oicun + Gunner, Vader, Intel Agent and Determination - might be one such list.

shoot and hit, and you do damage, then Vader - shoot and miss, and you do vader, and shoot again, and either hit, or vader again - likely putting Fel / whisper in a bad position. And you're definitely surviving the first engagement against a two ship list with that boat. Additionally, you can try and ram Fel quite quickly - and barrel roll ties to block him with the IA -

The opponent would be wise to keep fel back and out of range of the decimator - while 4 ties and the decimator is 5 guns blazing away at it - with ties trying to keep the Engine Chiranaeu from escaping. Start Analysing the weaknesses of the 4 academy and decimator counter and compare the number of counters it has...


Another counter may be in the form of feedback array, 5 binyare's with feedback, and torkhil with an Ion turret, feedback array and engine upgrade - has a good chance at just popping fel, maybe even before he can shoot. Fel will have to fight at a distance, and not be ioned by mux... Meanwhile, Chiranaeu will have to face 6 ships firing at him, before he gets to fire - Mux is target #1 , but those binayre pirates can form a force bubble of damage around Fel's approaches to Mux... it's a neat gamble - I like it better than 7 feedback arrays -

I killed off Chiraneau & Soontir every time I have faced them with my BBBBZ list.

Focus on the Decimator, and kill it fast - which is no big problem with 15 red dice - and then Soontir is alone to dance with several Bs....

I killed off Chiraneau & Soontir every time I have faced them with my BBBBZ list.

Focus on the Decimator, and kill it fast - which is no big problem with 15 red dice - and then Soontir is alone to dance with several Bs....

"Bs" is exactly what he'll think when chiraneau leaves him in the lurch

I agree with the above posters in that Chiraneau is not hard to kill. You can fly like an ace and make it more difficult but the defense is just not there and make one wrong move and you are eating lucky dice rolls like a shot gun blast to the face. I love my decimator but it always ends up being a meat shield because there is almost no way to mitigate bad crit rolls when your shields are done and it doesn't get near enough of those. I'd be much happier with the ship if it had like 30% less hull and that all went to shields instead. Now Fel is a champion but must be flown as the champion he is, think of him like a scalpel, you pick your tragets and position yourself to make specific strikes. Go in boldly and you will die in a fireball quicker than you can say oh ****!

I agree with the above posters in that Chiraneau is not hard to kill. You can fly like an ace and make it more difficult but the defense is just not there and make one wrong move and you are eating lucky dice rolls like a shot gun blast to the face. I love my decimator but it always ends up being a meat shield because there is almost no way to mitigate bad crit rolls when your shields are done and it doesn't get near enough of those. I'd be much happier with the ship if it had like 30% less hull and that all went to shields instead. Now Fel is a champion but must be flown as the champion he is, think of him like a scalpel, you pick your tragets and position yourself to make specific strikes. Go in boldly and you will die in a fireball quicker than you can say oh ****!

if you want to mitigate crits, you have to start chucking crew members out the airlock

trust me, it helps

...somehow

I have always felt that was a hilarious special. YOU fix that damage, no, then jetison this loser and we will pretend it never happened. haha

My biggest issue with it is if you design something to just take out this list you are mince meat to rest of the meta. So ya have to decide if you want to worry about RAC-FELL and have better match-up against Han/b's/meta or a list that should beat RAC-FELL every time but struggle against rest of the field.

Heck, I'm tempted to bust out a RAC-FELL hate list just because I feel it will have a dominating % usage.

Of course all IMO.

See ya in 2 weeks!!!

The build I use for Chirpy makes him an arc dodger:

http://xwing-builder.co.uk/view/227928/the-baron-and-the-rear-admiral

(Sometimes I sub out Dauntless/Merc with Gunner)

Triggering PtL on the Evade from Isard for a boost *guarantees* that you're getting that boost action last regardless of Pilot Skill (since it's in the Combat Phase).

This gives you the king of arc dodgers paired with a big base that's taking points from the same page. The pair of them focus on any Turrets first and past that they both become stupidly hard to pin down.

Can you explain this part? What's the action sequence here? In action phase you can choose TL. Focus or Boost, then PtL, finally you could use Isard but since you have Stress from PtL... What am I missing?

In your action phase you pick 1 action. PtL isn't limited to the action phase so in the Combat phase when Isard gives you the evade, you Push the Limit for a second action (boost)

My biggest issue with it is if you design something to just take out this list you are mince meat to rest of the meta. So ya have to decide if you want to worry about RAC-FELL and have better match-up against Han/b's/meta or a list that should beat RAC-FELL every time but struggle against rest of the field.

Heck, I'm tempted to bust out a RAC-FELL hate list just because I feel it will have a dominating % usage.

Of course all IMO.

See ya in 2 weeks!!!

Bring Ysanne with that D.

VT-49 DECIMATOR: Patrol Leader (40)

· Ysanne Isard (4)

· Darth Vader (3)

Gunner (5)

LAMBDA-CLASS SHUTTLE: Omicron Group Pilot (21)

Ion Cannon (3)

LAMBDA-CLASS SHUTTLE: Omicron Group Pilot (21)

Ion Cannon (3)

Turret for Fell and walk off RAC

The Engine Upgrade may prevent the walkoff, but RAC should go down to all that fire pretty quickly anyway.

I killed off Chiraneau & Soontir every time I have faced them with my BBBBZ list.

Focus on the Decimator, and kill it fast - which is no big problem with 15 red dice - and then Soontir is alone to dance with several Bs....

Edit: 14 red dice without range bonuses!

If you put predator on RAC his hit probabilities are:

0 1 2 3 4

Range 1 0.0960 4.0500 18.3320 35.3860 42.1360

Range 2 0.4150 9.0220 31.1730 59.3900

Range 3 6.2650 24.8010 37.4730 31.4610

I'm not the best with statistics so the numbers are from simulation and not exact. They also don't include crit effects.

To me he has sufficient damage without taking actions, therefore you can boost out of arc with minimal penalty. (The worst would be boosting so you have to take a range 3 shot.)

Also with gunner he has a very good chance of stripping tokens off anything without autothrusters.

I killed off Chiraneau & Soontir every time I have faced them with my BBBBZ list.

Focus on the Decimator, and kill it fast - which is no big problem with 15 red dice - and then Soontir is alone to dance with several Bs....

Edit: 14 red dice without range bonuses!

I'm thinking kenkirk might be a better idea than chir right now.

I agree with the above posters in that Chiraneau is not hard to kill. You can fly like an ace and make it more difficult but the defense is just not there and make one wrong move and you are eating lucky dice rolls like a shot gun blast to the face. I love my decimator but it always ends up being a meat shield because there is almost no way to mitigate bad crit rolls when your shields are done and it doesn't get near enough of those. I'd be much happier with the ship if it had like 30% less hull and that all went to shields instead. Now Fel is a champion but must be flown as the champion he is, think of him like a scalpel, you pick your tragets and position yourself to make specific strikes. Go in boldly and you will die in a fireball quicker than you can say oh ****!

if you want to mitigate crits, you have to start chucking crew members out the airlock

trust me, it helps

...somehow

Moff Jerjerrod takes "It's not my fault!" to a whole new level.

While Han and Lando just try to shift blame away, Jerjerrod shifts blame to some poor schlepp who's along for the ride, and figures out how to punish that person before Vader finds new ways to motivate him.

I'm thinking kenkirk might be a better idea than chir right now.

It's a little dance between Decimator users: Chirpy for the crit hit or Kenkirk for the defense(if you add Ysanne, more defense)

Psssst! Kenkirk with bombers is pretty fun

Oh man, oh man. It's like I was blind and you showed me the light!!! Thanks

The best one is To use Isard for Experimental interface, and aexpose with that. Granted Engine Upgrade is better on Chippy but it's **** fun to throw 5 dice at someone who thought you had no action!