Not sure if it's been heavily discussed. But the imp's squads are kinda fail at the moment, with 300 points. You are very limited with only 100 points. But when wave 2 comes, imps can afford those meaty ships AND have a sizeable squadron. Not to mention that the efficiency of the TIE/Bs really starts to shine when you hit a much larger number.
As a rebel squad player, Im actually quite scared. Imps already have a really impressive squad v squad game. Howlrunner, Darthy, and all those swarmers is really scary when there is a dangerous bomber squad behind it.
Check my post right above yours, I just got home from playing with that setup and WRECKED my opponent 9/1. We usually are more like 6/4 or 7/3 in his favor. Not saying your comment has no merit, but there ARE some good combos for us Imperials at the moment, you just have to exploit your enemy.
Against my wall of death, he turned his Mark II hard to starboard, just as I brought both of my VSD's hard to port and lined up a devastating two rounds of near point blank attacks from multiple hulls to his starboard decks. I got off about three shots with my front arcs and two with my sides. 11 Black dice, 11 Red dice with Rhymer and the posse slugging 1's and 2's at his shields, which brought them down to next to nothing.
Ah sorry. It was morning and I was a bit tired. I meant to elaborate a bit more on that but did not.
I have had a bad rap with Rhymers on 300 points tbh. But it might have to do with my lack of experience with Imps.