I tried something VERY similar and I liked it. I love the synergy between Poe+R5-P9 and Kyle.

I would not personally bother with Comm Relay and Jan Ors: Comm Relay might come handy 1 or 2 turn and on Kyle, you should really go with Recon Specialist (With a Twin Laser Turret and giving one token away each turn, you will need to farm those Focus Token).

So, if you replace Jan for a Recon Specialist and get rid of the Comm Relay, it should leave you with 3 points. I would upgrade both Bandit to Tala (useful against the TLT Y-Wings or BBBBZ) and maybe keep the other for initiative... unless there is a 2 point EPT you would prefer on Kyle. Speaking of which, I would go for Determination instead of Veteran Instinct to maybe soak an eventual crit.

And now that's basically the team I played....

I tried something VERY similar and I liked it. I love the synergy between Poe+R5-P9 and Kyle.

I would not personally bother with Comm Relay and Jan Ors: Comm Relay might come handy 1 or 2 turn and on Kyle, you should really go with Recon Specialist (With a Twin Laser Turret and giving one token away each turn, you will need to farm those Focus Token).

So, if you replace Jan for a Recon Specialist and get rid of the Comm Relay, it should leave you with 3 points. I would upgrade both Bandit to Tala (useful against the TLT Y-Wings or BBBBZ) and maybe keep the other for initiative... unless there is a 2 point EPT you would prefer on Kyle. Speaking of which, I would go for Determination instead of Veteran Instinct to maybe soak an eventual crit.

And now that's basically the team I played....

Thanks for the ideas. The reason I went with VI over other EPTs is my plan was to have Kyle force my opponent to spend their focus on defense for my primary target before Poe attacks, and unless they are PS9 or higher to deprive them of the focus action on offense.

I tried something VERY similar and I liked it. I love the synergy between Poe+R5-P9 and Kyle.

I would not personally bother with Comm Relay and Jan Ors: Comm Relay might come handy 1 or 2 turn and on Kyle, you should really go with Recon Specialist (With a Twin Laser Turret and giving one token away each turn, you will need to farm those Focus Token).

So, if you replace Jan for a Recon Specialist and get rid of the Comm Relay, it should leave you with 3 points. I would upgrade both Bandit to Tala (useful against the TLT Y-Wings or BBBBZ) and maybe keep the other for initiative... unless there is a 2 point EPT you would prefer on Kyle. Speaking of which, I would go for Determination instead of Veteran Instinct to maybe soak an eventual crit.

And now that's basically the team I played....

Thanks for the ideas. The reason I went with VI over other EPTs is my plan was to have Kyle force my opponent to spend their focus on defense for my primary target before Poe attacks, and unless they are PS9 or higher to deprive them of the focus action on offense.

A valid reason, but my personal experience is that TLT is not the greatest weapon to force your opponent to spend tokens. Since no matter the final result (hit by 1 or 3) it will always do 1 damage. There will be moments where you rolled 3 hits and your opponent one evade and one focus, or 2 focus, or any other result that means that he'll take the damage no matter what. So he'll keep his token for later or offense. I found that TLT is best when firing at a token less ship or to finish up a target. So in that sense, it is better if Poe shoot first with his semi-focus(unless you feel like spending your token)+TL, ''force'' the opponent to spend his focus or evade token and then Kyle add 1-2 damages, followed by both Z to finish up the target.

Meanwhile, with 4H1S, the HWK can go down pretty fast (Black Hawk Down!), especially with the new damage deck and all those weapons and pilot abilities garanting a crit everywhere. Determination might just save your life to live another day... or do nothing... but the satisfaction (and your opponent deception) of taking a crit with Determination and revealing a Pilot crit, easily worth 1 point.