Considering a list consisting of a Scum Firespray and 4 Z-95 Headhunters. Given those five ships, what thoughts do you have on best mix of pilots and upgrades?

These are the ones I'm fiddling with right now:

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Kath's Banana Pirates

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100 points

Kath Scarlet (52)

Firespray-31 (38), Heavy Laser Cannon (7), K4 Security Droid (3), Engine Upgrade (4)

Binayre Pirate (12) x 4

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Kath's Black Sun Army

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99 points

Kath Scarlet (48)

Firespray-31 (38), K4 Security Droid (3), Veteran Instincts (1), Inertial Dampeners (1), Engine Upgrade (4)

Black Sun Soldier (13) x 4

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Mandalorian Army

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100 points

Mandalorian Mercenary (48)

Firespray-31 (35), Seismic Charges (2), Recon Specialist (3), Inertial Dampeners (1), Predator (3), Engine Upgrade (4)

Black Sun Soldier (13) x 4

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Fruit Salad

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A Pineapple with a Mango, and four Bananas

100 points

Kath Scarlet (52)

Firespray-31 (38), K4 Security Droid (3), “Mangler” Cannon (4), Seismic Charges (2), Inertial Dampeners (1), Engine Upgrade (4)

Binayre Pirate (12) x 4

Fruit Salad wins the award for best name; but in general all of your lists will have trouble against high-PS arc-dodgers. The only exception is maybe Kath's Black Sun Army but that's under the assumption that you win the initiative bid.

Giving Kath an anti-dodger role usually paints a big target on her head, and she'll go down really fast without some form of damage mitigation.

I'd recommend trying the following build which gives your Bananas the anti-dodger role, allows you to ignore initiative bids, and makes Kath more durable.

Kath Scarlet [Predator/RecSpec or PTL/K4]

Binayre Pirate [Feedback Array]

Binayre Pirate [Feedback Array]

Binayre Pirate [Feedback Array]

Binayre Pirate [Feedback Array]

Great squad names!!!

I like all your lists, the Scum Firesprays are the most fun imo. especially Kath, however, Emon is a blast too, I've played this list several times.

Emon + Andrasta + 2 x prox + 1 x proton + K4 + eng

3 x Blacksun all w/bug zappers

99 pts

or even put the Andrasta title on Kath for some extra fun

cheers