Now that some of us have had a chance to try out this gorgeous ship... what kits are people liking?

Myself, I've tried Talonbane Cobra with Lightning Reflexes & Glitterstim which was decent. Turned around on a Soontir for a R1 shot with focus, but not sure if it was worth double stress (and I didn't deal any dmg )

I've also seen some TCs with VI, EU, Glitterstim which seems a tad expensive but eliminates the PS bid. BSA Pred seems like a pretty cheap anti-swarm option.

I've had pretty good success with Black Sun Ace and Predator. 26 pts, not too crazy.

Marauder Marauder Marauder Marauder Marauder

doesn't get great MoV, but they haven't lost a fight yet.

Marauder Marauder Marauder Marauder Marauder

doesn't get great MoV, but they haven't lost a fight yet.

I have not yet played with the ship directly, but on paper 5 of them on the board seems pretty tough. Stats are similar enough to an x-wing. Just a lot of fire power you bring to the table and decent durability.

Marauder Marauder Marauder Marauder Marauder

doesn't get great MoV, but they haven't lost a fight yet.

Does MoV stand for "Money over Victory"?

Jokes aside, that's a really solid build.

The Kihraxz is a solid, dependable ship.

Cartel Marauder x 5 as skoltothalamos pointed out about has some serious damage output and a solid amount of shield and hull to chew through.

Or if you wanted to give yourself some protection from Predator and a PS advantage you could go

Black Sun Ace (Crackshot, Inertial Dampners) x 4

I only had the opportunity to play this squad once, but I really liked it:

Latts Razzi

-Weapons Engineer

-Ion Projector

Marauder x2

-Glitterstim

Marauder

100 points

Latts dishes out the target locks and the Marauders benefit from -1 agility to enemies

Get a Marauder into range one and TL, Latts spends a TL for -1 agility, and the Marauder is rolling 4 red dice with TL and Glitterstim. Scary.

It's FAVORITE.

Who let the Imperial in?

Cobra with glitterstim and crack shot. Every scum list I've made lately has ended up with a gap that he fits in perfectly. And he usually decides games.

Cobra with glitterstim and crack shot. Every scum list I've made lately has ended up with a gap that he fits in perfectly. And he usually decides games.

31 points is a gap?? I'd like to have more gaps like you have :-)

I find just predator and Glitterstim to be just fine. Crackshot is nice too if you have some point ts spare.

I played with the following recently:

Talonbane Cobra (Lightning Reflexes, Glitterstim)

Graz the Hunter

Black Sun Ace (Crack Shot)

Cartel Marauder

100 points

So, one of each type. Played a single game with this build so far, but it was lots of fun. I managed to destroy a Miranda (TLT, Recon Spec, Adv SLAM, Seismic) + Dash (PTL, Kyle, HLC, Outrider, Engine) build. I lost the Ace, the Cartel was down to 1 hull and both Talonbane and Graz were down to 2 hulls.

The Kihraxz build I'm eager to try is...

Black Sun Ace (Predator, Glitterstim, Shield Upgrade) x2

Talonbane Cobra (Lone Wolf, Glitterstim, Engine Upgrade)

100 points

My favorite Carrot-Fighter build:

Black Sun Ace + Crackshot + Adv. Homing Missiles (27 points)

This is a scary, cheap ship than can fire after the tokens have been stripped (even from Large ships (Falcon/Firespray)), -or- it'll force them to save their tokens. Staying in Range 2 is easy if you only need to do it once. And the Crackshot could be saved for late-game kill-shots.

Talonbane or Ace with EU and PTL; expensive, but lots of fun.

I wanna try at some point:

3x Cartel Marauder

2x Cartel Spacer + title + Mangler

Great crits coming the opponent's way if you are smart about shooting priority.

I wanna try at some point:

3x Cartel Marauder

2x Cartel Spacer + title + Mangler

Great crits coming the opponent's way if you are smart about shooting priority.

It's a great little list. You've just got to be careful with your Scyks.

it's a 37 point build... but it's all offense!

Cobra+EU+Predator+Glitterstim

I want COOOOOOBBRRRAAAAAAAA! (sorry, my GI Joe days got the better of me there) to roll 5 red as often as possible. EU helps in get up close and personal, Predator gives him the re-rolls, and Glitrrestim makes sure that all his rolls count at that moment that they really need to.

I'm gonna give the BSA with Pred a few runs.

It's cheap enough to keep your ship count high and brings some Pred for swarms and TLT spam.

4 x Binayre Pirate

2 x BSA [predator]

The Kihraxz is a solid, dependable ship.

Cartel Marauder x 5 as skoltothalamos pointed out about has some serious damage output and a solid amount of shield and hull to chew through.

Or if you wanted to give yourself some protection from Predator and a PS advantage you could go

Black Sun Ace (Crackshot, Inertial Dampners) x 4

Yeah this is the SCUM X-Wing and it needs to be in a swarm'ish role.

The solid workhorse ship we needed.

Two Marauders, with some of that lovely glitter in their veins, and a cluster missile to make it count...

Flying alongside two of the biggest masochists in the outer rim

=================== The Spice Must Flow ===================

Cartel Marauder (26) x 2 Kihraxz (20), Cluster Missiles (4), Glitterstim (2)

Syndicate Thug (25) Y-Wing (18), Extra Munitions (2), Bomb Loadout (0), “Genius” (0), Proton Bombs (5)

Spice Runner (23) HWK-290 (16), Twin Laser Turret (6), Greedo (1)

Haven't had an opportunity to try it out yet since it was late to my FLGS, but the list I'm looking to try mainly for fun is

Cobra

- PtL

- EU

- Stim

Boba

- VI

- Recon

- EU

- Stim

Binary

- Dead Man's Switch

Even though talonbane is a bit of a glass cannon for jousting....I can't help myself! Try this build for all you jousters out there, it may not be the best but its fun!

Talonbane: PTL, Stim, EU

Total: (37) pts

Guri: Bodyguard, Hull Upgrd

Total: (35) pts

2 Binayre pirates: both with feedback array

Total: 28 pts

Grand total: 100 pts

Syndicate Thug (25) Y-Wing (18), Extra Munitions (2), Bomb Loadout (0), “Genius” (0), Proton Bombs (5)

I ran this bomber loadout with 3x TLT Ys at NOVA and it really didn't pull its weight - wish I had a 4th TLT Y tbh.

anyone have a Cobra build to share? I've got some silly ones, but nothing competitive.

Feel like he really needs EU and Glitter, but then a question of what else... VI would help against a lot of things, but you'd be suffering from very little action economy. =/

Also he kinda dies to 2ndary weapons like dash.

And the 4hull, man you get crits pretty often.

Talon, with Kavil and a pack of Y's with TLT's and some little extras... might be great.