So I've been playing around with the Punisher for the last couple weeks with marginal success, but what I took away from that experience was the strength of a mini Tie Swarm. With that in mind I swapped out a loaded up Deathrain with a minimal Oicunn, and came up with something like this.

(8) Howlrunner -18

(6) Epsilon Leader -19

(6) Dark Curse -16

(4) Captain Oicunn -42

Gunner -5

It looks basic, but each pilot has a decent ability,the Deci is durable and the Ties are agile. Had success with it against quad TLT by continually bumping and using Oicunn's big maneuvers to stay in close. What do you guys think?

Use backstabber instead of Dark Curse---everyone's going to be shooting at either oicunn or howl or epsilon leader, so might as well get the benefit of the extra red die for most of the game. Alternatively,, drop him down to academy for engine on Oicunn,

One of the top players at the Aussie Nationals that just went down (under) was playing four Academies and Oicunn with Vader, Gunner, and Expert Handling, of all things. Just throwing that out there 'cause I always end up asking myself, especially with TIEs, if another ship isn't maybe just better than the aces. Just my perspective!

One of the top players at the Aussie Nationals that just went down (under) was playing four Academies and Oicunn with Vader, Gunner, and Expert Handling, of all things. Just throwing that out there 'cause I always end up asking myself, especially with TIEs, if another ship isn't maybe just better than the aces. Just my perspective!

Is there a video of the match?

One of the top players at the Aussie Nationals that just went down (under) was playing four Academies and Oicunn with Vader, Gunner, and Expert Handling, of all things. Just throwing that out there 'cause I always end up asking myself, especially with TIEs, if another ship isn't maybe just better than the aces. Just my perspective!

found it:

One of the top players at the Aussie Nationals that just went down (under) was playing four Academies and Oicunn with Vader, Gunner, and Expert Handling, of all things. Just throwing that out there 'cause I always end up asking myself, especially with TIEs, if another ship isn't maybe just better than the aces. Just my perspective!

found it:

Oh nice, hadn't seen this yet! Just saw the lists and results. Good find! Wasn't sure how he was actually using Expert handling so will definitely need to take a look at this after work.

I thought about dropping them to 4 academies but I like having the ties' abilities and being able to shoot first in scenarios like this video. I'm going to see how it works out in a couple games tomorrow and report back.