Been brought up elsewhere but worth pointing out how sick the advanced homing missiles are with Maarek Stele. Decent chance to one shot an E-wing or Phantom (if no hull upgrade). 3-dice attack, needs target lock but you get to use said target lock. If you hit, draw three damage cards and give your opponent the worst crit of the three. Pretty nasty.

on a tie Adv (now) you're almost guarenteed to have a TL so if you know you'll land in R2 of your TL target you take a focus, and boom you have TL and Focus (possibly predator or LW) almost assuring 2-3 hits (before defense dice)

Is Marek's crit-farming ability worth thinking about Crack Shot on him? With AHM and ATC (one or the other, I know), being able to push a key Crit (or two!) through can be a gamebreaker early on.

Is Marek's crit-farming ability worth thinking about Crack Shot on him? With AHM and ATC (one or the other, I know), being able to push a key Crit (or two!) through can be a gamebreaker early on.

ATC doesnt work on secondaries.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. Beyond that, maybe just letting your high PS Ace shoot at a lower PS to play defensively with a focus for D in the case the shot was unavoidable. With Cobra, you could actually hang back a little to pass on the PS (Decoy range 1-2) and try and trigger the double range bonus.

Good call on the x1 title and the advanced. This is worth exploring further with decoy, specifically Steele.

Is Marek's crit-farming ability worth thinking about Crack Shot on him? With AHM and ATC (one or the other, I know), being able to push a key Crit (or two!) through can be a gamebreaker early on.

ATC doesnt work on secondaries.

That's why I specified one or the other. AHM is one use, so ATC is still worth bringing for a point.

I posted this in the squad list forum:

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/185352-six-dice-with-tl-focus-fairly-easily/

and technically you can roll 7 attack dice with APTs, Doni's ability and Jan Ors buff. Of course that's a bit harder to pull off.