Poe, Jake and Kyle

By J Viz, in X-Wing Squad Lists

Any thoughts on this? Looks ok to me and I think could cause some problems for people:

Jake Farrell (24)

PTL (3)

Test Pilot (0)

Chardaan Refit (-2)

Autothrusters (2)

Outmanoeuvre (3)

Poe Dameron (31)

PTL (3)

BB-8 (2)

Autothrusters (2)

Kyle Katarn (21)

Ion Cannon Turret (5)

Recon Specialist (3)

Moldy Crow (3)

Basic idea is that Poe does his usual BB-8 + PTL tricks to get 3 actions for no stress on a green manoeuvre. Kyle can load up on focus to use on attack and defence (to make him a bit of a pain) and Ion turret will give an element of control too. Hope is that move with Jake and possible target lock. Then at start of combat phase passed a focus from Kyle to barrel roll or boost, triggering PTL which means can do whichever movement action did not do before.

Hopefully should mean can get out of arcs and hopefully in close so can make full use of outmanoeuvre.

I think it has pretty good balance. I don't have either of the regen astros. Would be tempted to use R5-P9 with Poe if I had him available.

I have run multiple variants of Poe, Jake, and Kyle for quite a few games over the past few weeks. I think it is an extremely fun casual list, but has some issues, particularly that Kyle dies to a stiff breeze. I ran regen Poe, so I had damage output issues compared to your version. The way you have built your squad without VI on Poe or Jake, and Jake without Prockets, you are going to have an extremely tough time with any PS9 aces. With a non-regen three ship, you need something to keep the Palpmobile squad honest, IMO. I know initially Kyle will help with that, but once he is dead, Jake starts having a harder time arc-dodging other aces.

Discussion of my experiences are here: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/190793-poe-jake-and/

Similar build but with jan and tycho I am thinking about running. I like the idea of wired on Jan with tlt, Giving you a chance to reroll those eyes and keep the focus for defense. Also Nien on her so she can kite fairly well with green 4 forwards.

100 points

Tycho Celchu (30)

A-Wing (26), A-Wing Test Pilot (0), Chardaan Refit (-2), Push the Limit (3), Autothrusters (2), Wired (1)

Poe Dameron (37)
T-70 X-Wing (31), R5-P9 (3), Veteran Instincts (1), Autothrusters (2)

Jan Ors (33)
HWK-290 (25), Wired (1), Twin Laser Turret (6), Nien Nunb (1)

Maximus, I hadn't thought of that but wired on Jan could be good as she will most likely always be stressed. I've always preferred Jake to Tycho though as I like to have the option of a sneaky k-turn and that's not really an option when Tycho is running with a stack of stress tokens

Gornall, I hadn't really thought of that but luckily in my area palpmobiles are actually pretty rare. I think i've only ever faced one and it was teamed up with vader w/advanced targeting. It was not pretty.

May have to do some fine tuning, maybe R2-D2 on Poe to let him last a little longer and in hindsight 32 points may be a slightly heavy investment in Kyle