We have a local escalation tournament at the end of the month. Never played before and having trouble finding strategy content online. Here is the list I brewed up and am thinking of trying. Any advice would be great:

Round 1: 60/60 pts

Han Solo (46): Millenium Falcon Title (1)

Tala Squadron Pilot (13)

Round 2: 83/90 pts

Han Solo (46): Millenium Falcon Title (1), Predator (3), C-3PO (3), Engine Upgrade (4)

Tala Squadron Pilot (13)

Tala Squadron Pilot (13)

Round 3: 119/120 pts

Han Solo (46): Millenium Falcon Title (1), Predator (3), C-3PO (3), Engine Upgrade (4)

Tala Squadron Pilot (13)

Tala Squadron Pilot (13)

My last escalation list consisted of 4x Obsidian Squadron Ties, Add Echo kitted out, Add Howlrunner with gear, Add Whisper kitted out.

In my experience you will see some really hard lists show up and some really thrown together at the last second lists. The tricky part is keeping your lists cohesive through the tournament. Typically you'll have at least one weaker build through your tiers. You do not.

I was playing around with a similar rebel list before my last escalation and I liked it. I think you'll have fun with this list, I'm not crazy about your assault missiles though. Do you have PTL that you can play there instead? That's really the Super Dash play and works well with Katarn. Plus a move, boost, barrel roll pretty much guarantees solid arc dodging.

I know this may be a little late but I am building escalation lists too now for a tournament next week and there isn't much discussion about them on here. Just wondering if you had yours yet and how well you faired. I have a similar list to yours as I try to jam a falcon in at the beginning and get some upgrades on him later. From my own struggles building escalation lists, I am finding that the toughest thing to do is to balance each point value tier enough where it function on its own and still save points if needed in the next round to then make that list work as well. I've noticed that swarms are probably going to be easier to pull off and will be the most efficient point use at each level.

Some advice on your list: I believe, unlike the last poster, that you do have a couple weaker spots in your list as you try to get dash in there as a second large ship. First, is at the 90 point level, where you are leaving 7 points open just to get him in on the next tier. Then when you do get him in for the 120 point level, his is naked and essentially will be useless for you and 36 points wasted on a ship that will be ignored until last as he only has 2 attack dice and no upgrades. I feel like escalation does not work well with builds like this with more than one ship costing more than 30 points. And since there will probably be a lot of swarmy lists, the falcon is going to need some protection.

I made a falcon-based list as well but I then made a more swarm type list with etahn for crits that I think I'm liking more but here it is with biggs and chewie with draw their fire to split damage up. Also I just go with a bandit to block and save points:

YT-1300: · Chewbacca (42)

Gunner (5)

Z-95 Headhunter: Bandit Squadron Pilot (12)

-- TOTAL ------- 59/60p. --

YT-1300: · Chewbacca (42)

Draw Their Fire (1)

Gunner (5)

Z-95 Headhunter: Bandit Squadron Pilot (12)

X-Wing: · Biggs Darklighter (25)

· R2-F2 (3)

-- TOTAL ------- 88/90p. --

YT-1300: · Chewbacca (42)

Draw Their Fire (1)

Gunner (5)

Z-95 Headhunter: Bandit Squadron Pilot (12)

X-Wing: · Biggs Darklighter (25)

· R2-F2 (3)

B-Wing: Blue Squadron Pilot (22)

Heavy Laser Cannon (7)

-- TOTAL ------- 117/120p. --

YT-1300: · Chewbacca (42)

Draw Their Fire (1)

Gunner (5)

Z-95 Headhunter: Bandit Squadron Pilot (12)

X-Wing: · Biggs Darklighter (25)

· R2-F2 (3)

B-Wing: Blue Squadron Pilot (22)

Heavy Laser Cannon (7)

HWK-290: · Jan Ors (25)

· Squad Leader (2)

Twin Laser Turret (6)

-- TOTAL ------- 150/150p. --

Probably could still use some tweaking but I feel like it can deal with a lot.

Let me know how you did if you ran your list because I'm curious about falcons in escalation.