One trick pony list that did better than I thought!

By Sarcon, in X-Wing Squad Lists

I always thought that the Tactical Jammer was not that useful, until I read the unique ability of Biggs Darklighter.

The list is:

Han Solo + Draw Their Fire + C3PO + Luke Skywalker + Proton Rockets + Tactical Jammer

Biggs Darklighter + R2D2 + Shield Upgrade + Ion Torpedos

The basic idea is to hide Biggs behind Han, have him draw fire while also trying to stay at range 3 from the attacker. Han Solo also increases Biggs' survivability with his Draw Their Fire talent.

It's not too competetive, mostly a fun list. What do you guys think?

You should really focus on Biggs surviving more, R2-D2 won't help as much as R2-F2 + EI.

I played this for fun for 10 games or so.

Wild Space Fringer (30)
Heavy Laser Cannon (7)
Tactical Jammer (1)
Outrider (5)

Biggs Darklighter (25)
R2-F2 (3)
Experimental Interface (3)

Garven Dreis (26)

Total: 100

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Biggs in my version gets 2x focus, increased agility by 2. If you switch the HLC for Mangler, you can either give Garven Wingman (R2-D6 + Wingman), or bump WSF to Leeboo (because reasons), or put Jan Ors on WSF, which should give Biggs 4-5 dice with focus+evade, which is crazy.

ya im not sure why youd put proton rockets on Han

Lack of other useful cards in my current collection ;)

Lack of other useful cards in my current collection ;)

Personally, I'd go with ... anything else, really.

Like an initiative bid.

Yeah, Prockets are 3 points of waste. At least run the Millennium Falcon title. That would give you a two point initiative bid.

Compare:

Procket from Falcon: Attack value 3, Range 1, Requires you to have a Focus, costs 3 points.

Primary Weapon of Falcon: Attack value 4 @ R1, does not require Focus.

Pretty much anything, or even nothing, would be as good or better. At 3 points an Ion Pulse missile would be more desirable as it has range and control on its side.

Yeah, Proton Rockets are 100% waste on the Falcon. As pointed out above, when you can use them your primary weapon is completely better. Unless you get hit with multiple weapon malfunction crits, there's literally never going to be a reason you would use them.

Drop em' and put on the Falcon title. Or Ion Pulse Missiles, which can actually be of some use.