This really is just sorta sadistic. If your opponent's got starfighters and you have a limited number of command available for squadrons, these two take the cake for efficiency.

Basically, Soontir's ability makes any engaged enemy that fires at someone other than him take 1 immediate damage. The TIE Advanced has the escort ability, forcing enemy ships to fire at the TIE Advanced instead of any other friendly ships the enemy is engaged with. For 30 points combined, these two magnify each other's capabilities very well. The Advanced can tank a good few hits before going down(especially if you're willing to toss in an extra 9 points to take Vader and his two Brace defensive tokens).

I fielded these two and Howlrunner tonight in a friendly 3v3 game. The trio smashed through six enemy squadrons, with the Advanced and Howlrunner both alive at the end of the game (Soontir, sadly, got placed out of protective range of the Advanced by a ship overlap, and got pounced on by some X-Wings :<).

I'm planning on running these two together alongside a pair of Raiders once those come out. I'll have Tarkin dropping free squadron command tokens for my Raiders each turn, which will let this group really ROFL-stomp around enemy fighters.

A bit tired right now, sorry if there are any shortcomings in my post. xP

Here is a video is made a bit back

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuush. >.>

Fel and an advanced is a good combo, but not unassailable. The solution is not necessarily easy to do but simple in concept, you hit Fel or the advanced in a fashion that you are only engaged with one and not the other.

To limit this the Fel player wants to engage first, and ideally have Chiraneu to shift around as necessary.. Might as well bring mauler for ultimate shenanigans.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuush. >.>

Sorry. But this is one of those things that gets "discovered" about 10,000 times. Pretty much when the stuff came out, we all looked at it and found it. I'm not saying this to detract from your excitement or insight. You found it on your own which is awesome. But it's a bit like magic the gathering where the designers put into the game all these things to discover, and then a million people all look at it at once. Of course many will make the same discoveries fairly simultaneously.

This is one of those things for Armada.

I know I'm fairly new to the game though. Allow me my excitement!

Funny thing about Escort is that it's incredibly easy to circumvent unless, paradoxically, you use the defensive ability in an aggressive manner

because you pre-measuring, the opponent can smack the advance without soonts being in range. If you jump on them though, you've got them pinned down and unable to ignore either Escort or Soonts

I know I'm fairly new to the game though. Allow me my excitement!

Of course! I was attempting to both inform and keep excitement but missed. Welcome to the game! And please keep sharing!