Looking for survivability as well as well as fire power. what would be a good balance.
What is the Best 4 ship Imperial Build?
I've tried three Alpha + Autothrusters with a naked Patrol Leader, and it's a bit limited but not bad. Two Autoceptors, Colzet with AC, and Vader with ATC also make a decent combination.
Waiting for my Raider to test:
Whisper FCS, VI, Rebel Captive, ACD
Tempest AC x 2
Dark Curse x 1
Problem: No initiative bid.
Vader, Predator, EU, ATC
Tempest AC x 3
Problem: Concentrated fire on Vader
Edited by Jehovah Netto
Ran this for fun the other day to test out Extra Munitions (proxied the tokens with ion tokens on the cards). It was pretty fun and I liked the extra uses of both the missiles and bombs. Soontir did his thing and Backstabber was more useful than he normally is to me. While probably not the best it was fun and put out some good firepower throughout the rounds. Just melted a Firespray with Cluster Missiles, Backstabber and Seismics.
If your good at Manoeuvring.... I run 4 Royal Guard Tie Interceptors with PTL with a lot of success. (Dont expect to have all your ships at the end of the game though....)
If not... Then you could go with 4 Saber Squadrons with PTL and Autothrusters. (You give up 2 pilot skill for more survivability).
Previous Tournament I went with Soontir Fel with PTL and Autothrusters, Patrol Leader with Vader crew and 2 Academies. it went 3-1
It's quite dependent on your skill, I'm sure there are people who could beat me with four Scimitars.
But you can't go far wrong with four PtL Royal Guard Pilots or four Storm Squadron with ATC and TIE mk II.
Im thinking I will run this list this list this weekend:
__________________100 Points________________
Omicron Group Pilot (21)
Soontir Fel (35)
TIE Interceptor (27), Royal Guard TIE (0), Push the Limit (3), Autothrusters (2), Stealth Device (3)
Tempest Squadron Pilot (22) x 2
TIE Advanced (21), TIE/x1 (0), Twin Ion Engine Mk. II (1), Sensor Jammer (4)
I placed 17th in a regional with...
Vessery
HLC
VI
omicron group pilot
Vader
Adv Sen
Dark curse
Targeting computer
Academy tie
Bit tricky to get your flying down with the defender and the shuttle but if you're comfortable with these ships then this list hits like a ton of bricks, has reasonable dodgy capabilities, good durability and two fantastic blockers. It's also awesome fun to fly and there's no feeling greater than pounding someone's meta list with a defender and a shuttle after they give you a smug little 'oh you're so going down' smile at the hand shake 
Vader with boost and PTL and 3 tempest squadron pilots. Vader gets ATC, while the others get accuracy corrector..
Edited by SwedgePretty much the list above but predator on Vader. Want the reroll since you can't spend target locks.
Which is why you put Lone Wolf on Vader. Making him more survivable and more potent on offence.
AC/DC perhaps?
Yeah don't put PtL on Vader. He already gets 2 actions, give him something more useful: predator, lone wolf, outmaneuver, maybe even lightning reflexes if you're getting wave 7 soon.
3x Sigma + Stygium + Intel Agent
Backstabber
Throws one heck of an alpha strike, then pretty survivable if you plan your cloaking/decloaking properly with Intel Agents, alternating so your safer Sigma(s) are decloaked and shooting.
Yeah don't put PtL on Vader. He already gets 2 actions, give him something more useful: predator, lone wolf, outmaneuver, maybe even lightning reflexes if you're getting wave 7 soon.
recently ran super vader and the ability to make a Focus and evade every turn once you have a TL is nice however I ran him with predator and found I didn't need or use it much. however I didn't have boost and that would have helped me several times!! PTL is just insurance to help me get out of bad situations..
Been lurking a lot lately and based on all the TLT/Autothrusters/Bombs talk I really want to try:
Tempest Squadron Pilot — 21
— TIE/Ad X1 title
— Accuracy Corrector
X3
Bounty Hunter — 33
— Recon Specialist — 3
—> 99 points
Lots of Evades and Barrel Rolls with the Tempests, and they can block for the BH to provide the heavy hits against High-AGI targets. Fly the Tempests in a block on one side of the board and have the Bounty Hunter either in the middle or the opposite side depending on your opponent (further away for arc dodgers, closer for YTs/Y-Wings etc etc).
The one point of initiative bid is really just for beating out other PS2 pilots so you can block generics, but might get swapped for the XX S-Thread Tracers on the Firespray once Wave VIII comes out.
I've had good success with this:
VT-49 DECIMATOR: · Captain Oicunn (42)
Determination (1)
· Rebel Captive (3)
· Ysanne Isard (4)
Gunner (5)
· Dauntless (2)
TIE FIGHTER: Academy Pilot (12)
TIE FIGHTER: Academy Pilot (12)
TIE BOMBER: Scimitar Squadron Pilot (16)
Proximity Mines (3)
Here's one. Tell me what you think.
Major Rhymer (26)
PTL (3)
APT (6)
MF (1)
Academy Pilot (12)
Academy Pilot (12)
Rexler Brath (37)
Lone Wolf (2)
total = 99
Edited by devotedknightIt's boring but Tempest x4 all with AC and Cluster Missiles.
I am thinking 4 raiders would be pretty potent.... 
I've had a lot of fun with:
Jonus + Squad Leader
Scimitar Bomber + whatever x2
RGP + Auto + Stealth + Title + PTL
Upgrade however you want. Now with EU it can be even more fun.
Here's one. Tell me what you think.
Major Rhymer (26)
PTL (3)
APT (6)
MF (1)
Academy Pilot (12)
Academy Pilot (12)
Rexler Brath (37)
Lone Wolf (2)
total = 99
Switch Munitions Failsafe on Rhymer for the new MKII title, which will really help with the PTL. If you have a TL and Focus with APL, you're not going to miss.
I have a few to toss at you:
4x Tempests, with any combination of AC+Cluster and ATC+Prockets
4x Interceptors, any combination of Royal Guard+PTL and Sabre+Opportunist
4x Shuttle + Engine Upgrades
Jonus, with 3x Scimitar+(2x Cluster+Extra Munitions)
Baron's focus. Still good.
Fell
BH+ recon
Backstabber
Nightbeast
Few points left.