The group I play with is running an epic game on Labor Day. There are six of us: three rebel, three Imperial. Each player gets to field 200 points, and your squad must contain at least one large or epic based ship. I am one of the rebels. I have next to no experience vs epic ships. I know that there will be at least one if not two Raiders being fielded. I thought about the following build:

Leebo w/ determination, HLC, Title, Rec Spec.

Lt. Bllount

11 Bandits

I have a lot of experience playing Z-95's and am very effective at flying them. I can't wait to see the look on their faces when I put them all on the table. My only question is this: are they going to be effective or completely pointless vs. a Raider?

The raider has 0 agility but is able to take an action to reinforce one of it's two sections. A reinforced section gets one evade against every attack against it. As long as the Z-95s are shooting the unreinforced section they should be able to get some decent dame through.

How effective the Raider is against your Z-95s will really depend on what it's load out is. The big thing your swarm needs to watch out for is getting hit by Huge ships moving. If a huge ship overlaps a small ship, the small ship is destroyed.

If you've got the points try to slip some Ion Pulse Missiles into your list. Ions tokens can really starve Huge ships of the energy that they need to fire secondary weapons, restore shields, fix criticals, and use some of their goodies. Every Ion token on a Huge ship reduces the energy it generates when it moves by one. Depending on the build of the raider anything more than 3 or 4 Ion tokens a turn is a waste.