Seems to me they've fallen off the radar. Feel like they're the forgotten ship around here...

We are seeing them a lot here at Fortaleza, Brazil. I myself use them to move Palpatine around with the already traditional Palpatine Two Aces Format.

No they are my kryptonite taking them makes me lose every time.

Yeah there is someone flying a lot with shuttles, his name is Emperor Palatine.

PalpAces is super popular right now, and uses a lambda, so yes, people are flying them.

I imagine Doomshuttle (Vader crew) will also remain popular because of all the aces flying around these days.

Yes.

I almost bought a second one, but I thought I would wait to see if the First Order Command Shuttle comes out in Wave 8 or 9.

yeah, err. like everyone is flying shuttles with palp.

Not up to date what people are using in tournaments... Sorry, just a par time player

I'm a fan of Gunboat Buddy for Vessery. Or Joe Swanson build (combination of stressing, ioning, and APLs… "BRING IT OOOON!")

I love em even with out palpiepoo. 21 points for 10 hits and 3 red dice is a good deal, add Advanced sensors and engine and its a great ship to fly!

I'll take my chances with 3 buzzsaws anyday.

Palp mobile

Doom shuttle

Buzz saw + EU

Loads of options and all tasty. Fly ye wonderful hipposhuttlebus. Fly!

2 Buzzsaws + Ace has worked well for me.

Have not flown four of them since FFG nerfed Tactician.

Love flying the buzzsaws with Engine upgrade.

Sometimes I take Yorr for some crazy maneuvers with Interceptors.

yeah, err. like everyone is flying shuttles with palp.

Not me buddy.

4 spacecow mini swarm!! try it some time!! just make sure you stagger/fly them so they can cover each others rears!! Its also really fun to watch the person's facial expressions when they see 4 space cows on the board!

An example of the Palpmobile list.

Omicron Group Pilot (21)

Emperor Palpatine (8)

Darth Vader (29)

Lone Wolf (2)

Advanced Targeting Computer (1)

Engine Upgrade (4)

TIE/x1 (0)

Soontir Fel (27)

Push the Limit (3)

Autothrusters (2)

Stealth Device (3)

Royal Guard TIE (0)

Total: 100

View in Yet Another Squad Builder

So this is a very powerful build. The Shuttle generally stays back and lets the Aces do the fighting. This puts the opponent in a dilemma as it can be incredibly difficult to kill a Soontir or a Vader if the Emperor can just change a die to an evade per turn on top of the defenses they already have. Alternatively he can just make them crit once per turn on a blank, which strains the opponents green dice a lot. For example if Vader has a TL he will add a crit, possibly focus or reroll with Lone Wolf and can turn a miss into a crit with Emperor. Pretty nasty.

Going after the aces means letting Palpy do his thing all game long.

Going after Palpy means that Soontir and Vader are hanging on your Tailpipe, ruining your day.

You often see Vader with VI in order to have the advantage over other PS 9 guys. Plus you now have a 1 point bid.

Another variation is not taking EU on Vader and instead giving the Shuttle Sensor Jammer.

I used to fly

Yorr, naked

Whisper, Gunnerstuff

Soontir, the ususal -SD

a. lot. now this tlts I don't manage to scrap the points together to kit them out as I like it. but I'm adapting - sadly, that costs the lambda most times.

the palp+aces build is quite popular.. hence, I never tried it in action :-D

would be nice if the future holds some more ways/reasons to still fly the cow. it's a beautiful ship

4 spacecow mini swarm!! try it some time!! just make sure you stagger/fly them so they can cover each others rears!! Its also really fun to watch the person's facial expressions when they see 4 space cows on the board!

Fortress?

4 spacecow mini swarm!! try it some time!! just make sure you stagger/fly them so they can cover each others rears!! Its also really fun to watch the person's facial expressions when they see 4 space cows on the board!

Fortress?

more of a moving pinwheel..

I'm actually looking forward to getting Agent Kallus on a shuttle:

4 spacecow mini swarm!! try it some time!! just make sure you stagger/fly them so they can cover each others rears!! Its also really fun to watch the person's facial expressions when they see 4 space cows on the board!

I gotta try 4 cows. I flew a 3 ship mini-herd a few weeks back with Soontir Fel wrangling them, just like Dom Cairo's list from way back when. It did great, but I sorta kinda boxed Fel in on my first game and got him blown up real good. Didn't lose a single ship the rest of the day though.

Used the decimator then two ties with the shuttle instead of four ties. Only works when the opponent chases the shuttle. It's like giving the decimator ten extra hull. The two ties pick one. Of the chasers off then run interference after the shuttle dies. At that point the decimator can usually finish off the last couple ships. But not a tlt. List.