Finally - The Raider and the NEW TIE Advanced (A topic we CAN talk about!)

By Stone37, in X-Wing

To be fair, it was his first time flying an epic ship, and I was doing my best to circle round the front of his ship, keeping my distance.

My build was: (Edit - sorry, dunno why it's formatting this way. Doesn't usually!)

Prototype Pilot

17
PS 1 2 3 (4) 2 2
Proton Rockets
3
1 2
Attack (Focus): Discard this card to perform this attack.

You may roll additional attack dice equal to your agility value, to a maximum of 3 additional dice.
Stealth Device
3
Increase your agility value by 1. If you are hit by an attack, discard this card.
Ship Total: 23
Prototype Pilot
17
PS 1 2 3 (4) 2 2
Proton Rockets
3
1 2
Attack (Focus): Discard this card to perform this attack.

You may roll additional attack dice equal to your agility value, to a maximum of 3 additional dice.
Stealth Device
3
Increase your agility value by 1. If you are hit by an attack, discard this card.
Ship Total: 23
Prototype Pilot
17
PS 1 2 3 (4) 2 2
Proton Rockets
3
1 2
Attack (Focus): Discard this card to perform this attack.

You may roll additional attack dice equal to your agility value, to a maximum of 3 additional dice.
Stealth Device
3
Increase your agility value by 1. If you are hit by an attack, discard this card.
Ship Total: 23
Prototype Pilot
17
PS 1 2 3 (4) 2 2
Proton Rockets
3
1 2
Attack (Focus): Discard this card to perform this attack.

You may roll additional attack dice equal to your agility value, to a maximum of 3 additional dice.
Stealth Device
3
Increase your agility value by 1. If you are hit by an attack, discard this card.
Ship Total: 23
Blue Squadron Pilot
22
PS 2 3 1 3 5
Advanced Sensors
3
Immediately before you reveal your maneuver, you may perform 1 free action.

If you use this ability, you must skip your "Perform Action" step during this round.
Ship Total: 25
Blue Squadron Pilot
22
PS 2 3 1 3 5
Advanced Sensors
3
Immediately before you reveal your maneuver, you may perform 1 free action.

If you use this ability, you must skip your "Perform Action" step during this round.
Ship Total: 25
Blue Squadron Pilot
22
PS 2 3 1 3 5
Advanced Sensors
3
Immediately before you reveal your maneuver, you may perform 1 free action.

If you use this ability, you must skip your "Perform Action" step during this round.
Ship Total: 25
CR90 Corvette (Fore)
50
PS 4 4 0 8 5
When attacking with your primary weapon, you may spend 1 energy to roll 1 additional attack die.
Han Solo
2
Rebel only.

When attacking, if you have a target lock on the defender, you may spend that target lock to change all of your results to results.
Single Turbolasers
8
3-5 4
Attack (Energy): Spend 2 energy from this card to perform this attack. The defender doubles his agility value against this attack. You may change 1 of your results to a result.
Quad Laser Cannons
6
1-2 3
Attack (Energy): Spend 1 energy from this card to perform this attack. If this attack does not hit, you may immediately spend 1 energy from this card to perform this attack again.
Sensor Team
4
When acquiring a target lock, you may lock onto an enemy ship at Range 1-5 instead of 1-3.
Tibanna Gas Supplies
4
Energy: You may discard this card to gain 3 energy.
Jaina's Light
2
CR90 fore section only.

When defending, once per attack, if you are dealt a faceup Damage card, you may discard it and draw another faceup Damage card.
Ship Total: 76
CR90 Corvette (Aft)
40
PS 4 5 0 8 3
Shield Technician
1
Huge ship only.

When you perform a recover action, instead of spending all of your energy, you can choose any amount of energy to spend.
Single Turbolasers
8
3-5 4
Attack (Energy): Spend 2 energy from this card to perform this attack. The defender doubles his agility value against this attack. You may change 1 of your results to a result.
Engineering Team
4
During the Activation phase, when you reveal a maneuver, gain 1 additional energy during the "Gain Energy" step.
Tibanna Gas Supplies
4
Energy: You may discard this card to gain 3 energy.
Ship Total: 57
Edited by Eggs

The raider / CR90 match-up has been quite a bit of fun. As for those who have four tie adv and enjoy running advanced targeting computer - GR75, Bright Hope, Toryn Farr, and Combat Retrofit has been even more fun.

The raider / CR90 match-up has been quite a bit of fun. As for those who have four tie adv and enjoy running advanced targeting computer - GR75, Bright Hope, Toryn Farr, and Combat Retrofit has been even more fun.

I'm running a Raider vs Tantive match tonight. My Raider has bulked up to 170 of my 300 points. Thinking I might need to pair it down a bit...

This is actually my favorite list right now.


"Howlrunner" (18)

Veteran Instincts (1)

Stealth Device (3)


"Echo" (30)

Decoy (2)

Advanced Sensors (3)

Recon Specialist (3)

Advanced Cloaking Device (4)


Darth Vader (29)

Veteran Instincts (1)

Advanced Targeting Computer (1)

Engine Upgrade (4)

TIE/x1 (0)


Total: 99



This is actually my favorite list right now.
"Howlrunner" (18)
Veteran Instincts (1)
Stealth Device (3)
"Echo" (30)
Decoy (2)
Advanced Sensors (3)
Recon Specialist (3)
Advanced Cloaking Device (4)
Darth Vader (29)
Veteran Instincts (1)
Advanced Targeting Computer (1)
Engine Upgrade (4)
TIE/x1 (0)
Total: 99

Is Howlrunner keeping up with Vader or Echo in this list? If not, have you though about replacing Howlrunner with Dark Curse+Stealth Device. It's almost impossible to kill that little jackwagon!

This is actually my favorite list right now.
"Howlrunner" (18)
Veteran Instincts (1)
Stealth Device (3)
"Echo" (30)
Decoy (2)
Advanced Sensors (3)
Recon Specialist (3)
Advanced Cloaking Device (4)
Darth Vader (29)
Veteran Instincts (1)
Advanced Targeting Computer (1)
Engine Upgrade (4)
TIE/x1 (0)
Total: 99

Is Howlrunner keeping up with Vader or Echo in this list? If not, have you though about replacing Howlrunner with Dark Curse+Stealth Device. It's almost impossible to kill that little jackwagon!

Howlrunner is essentially a 22-point-backup PS doll for Decoy on Echo. Especially useful when there's Rebel Captive in play - swap with Howlrunner instead so that Vader takes the stress and not Echo. If I happen to get the reroll from Howlrunner it's just gravy.

I've been flying palpy in a shuttle alongside Jax & Fel. Its been great. Normally when I fly triple interceptors, I make a bone-head move and lose one early, so replacing Turr with the shuttle has been working out good, since the shuttle typically sticks around longer compared to how quickly I would usually lose an interceptor. The die modification is really great too. It might not seem much, but since you pick when to use it, its often helping out on a clutch roll...

Friendly FYI: That epic list with the CR-90 is illegal. Tibanna Gas supplies is 'limited' (one per ship). I believe all of the cargo cards are limited.

I haven't had a chance to fly my raider yet, but soon. We're still working out scheduling for our really big epic battle of the corvettes...

I think any raider build needs backup shield generator (or similar damage mitigation) or else it will lose the fore section too quickly. Since it needs to fly at the enemy (more or less) its front is going to be taking fire most of the time. I'm also going with the ion cannon batteries - face up crits and losing energy is rough for an epic ship, and the possibility of ioning small ships so the raider can run them over seems amusing (might need some defenders w/ion cannon to make that happen though)

Good catch! I used Yet Another to build the list, and didn't even notice...
Fortunately, I only used one copy of it in game, so I can still claim the victory. :)

and the possibility of ioning small ships so the raider can run them over seems amusing (might need some defenders w/ion cannon to make that happen though)

I've actually thought about setting up an entire 300 point list with just that in mind. lol

See I find it better to run a raid with about 150 points.

Mara Jade is always great. range 1 of the Raider works for its ENTIRE base.

Tibana gas supply is nice. While energy is not a real issue with the raider and an engineering team, it is still nice to have just in case.

Edited by Burninnapalm

I don't play epic and I can't afford to spend all that money just for the advanced so I don't get to use the new gear and pilots.

*sigh* this.

I don't want the Raider, but I want my Advanced to not suck...