So, fun question, has anyone legitimately killed the Decimator in the Imperial Entanglement mission? Not run it off the board. Legitimately taken it to 0 hull?
Because I'm starting to think that it's truly just not intended to be killable. 16-22 total hit points, two shots with a 360 degree turret and a free target lock. At PS6 and higher, it's sporting Mara Jade, and will have two Elite pilots entering the board on the same turn. I've flown that mission 3 times and it's always been a case of "stay away from the Decimator".
I'm playing with one group that hasn't lost a mission yet. They decided (against my advice, lol) to try to kill the Decimator. I even flew distraction with my Autothruster PTL A-Wing to suck up the Target Lock and Focus tokens and the first shot. Everyone had proton/plasma torpedoes loaded.
It didn't end well. The Elite Bomber and Phantom did some of the work, but I don't think it would have ended well even if they had been positioned less fortuitously or had been less deadly ships (like an Advanced or a Lambda shuttle or something).
The Decimator did fly off the board, but my group doesn't allow AI ships to leave the board and be destroyed unless it was by player action (ion tokens, for example). That last screenshot was just Turn 10, so no reason to reposition it.
I would guess you can hit this mission in a sweet spot (PS 5 or less) and maybe pull that kill off. Winning the mission is fairly easy. Killing the Decimator is nearly impossible. I guess you could "game the system" and drop cluster mines and/or conner nets in its path before it gets on the board, but that's basically just "cheating" since its movement and deployment is scripted.
Has anybody managed to do it?