I am trying to formulate "house rules" for team epic games w/ my friends. One thing we find is that we all like epic and the epic ships but are hesitant to sacrifice our small and large base ships for the upgrades. I last did a team epic in the pre-raider era and I flew the Corvette well kitted out. Aside from that I flew a yt1300 and 1 or 2 a wings. Without 200pts of ships like my 3 friends, I felt out of the fight at times.

Now, the mere presence of the Raider may fix some of that. However, in order to see these ships in their fat glory, I thought what if each player on the team fields 150 (175? 200?)pts of regular ships and, on top of that, the have another bank of points to spend on huge ships and their upgrades (135? 150?). This would be within the FFG rules of epic points as well, so the rebels could spend their points on a corvette & transport if they like.

My goal is to see the full fury of the epic ships amidst dogfighting chaos, which is how I want epic games to be. Would love feedback on this. Thanks.

I have done something like that before and it seemed to work ok. It does result in the turbolaser hardpoint being more valuable because you are guaranteed a good target for it until the opposing epic ship is destroyed.