AAAE Revisited

By Shirako, in X-Wing Squad Lists

3x Prototype Pilot: Refit, Autothrusters

Corran Horn: Expose, Shield Upgrade, FCS, R2D2

So I flew this for awhile during wave 6 and really enjoyed it. It had great blocking power from the 3 Protos to set up great turns for Corran to unload a monster double tap. You'll notice that Corran is much less mobile than his modern iterations - lacking PTL, Adv. Sens, and EU. This variation of him is something of a super jouster as opposed to an arc dodging madman. The game plan was essentially to tag a target one turn with the FCS, then block the next and drop 2 sets of 4 TL'd dice onto the target. You could argue that Marksmanship + FCS is a more potent combo as it is less lethal to yourself and the mathwingers say F+TL is better than TL+1 Die and I would be inclined to agree with you. However that didn't change the fact that there was something about potentially dropping 10 TLd Dice on a tokenless opponent that made the inefficiencies of Expose worth it.

With the meta changing so much I'm going to be bringing the list back out again with the same core of 3 Refit AT Protos, however I want to try a different anchor in the list. Now I'm not sure if the best choice is a modified/updated Corran, or one of the new choices like Poe or Miranda. Neither have the same potential as Corran to completely nuke a target in one turn, and are significantly less survivable since they don't have 3 AGI like the E-Wing but I'm open to all options.

So fellow theorycrafters - what would you add to 3 Protos with AT?