So I'm in the enviable position of having two tournaments that I can attend in one month. Shiny! I'm sorely tempted to use this opportunity to take out a list that my wizened imperial heart would never normally countenance: Rebel Scum X-Wings.

My reasons are many - I like a challenge, and playing an all-x list at a tournament surely has to qualify; for the first time in ages, the X-wings are now viable ships; Hipster points, hipster points everywhere!; it's a great spur to painting up Poe and another T-70, and; both the T-65 & the T-70 have some really interesting pilots, as far as I'm concerned.

So I thought I'd get some help from the pros, and ask for both list tweaks and general tactics for flying the little beauties.

Here's my list so far; it's a tank list, and has some built-in Soontir tactics:

“Red Ace” (38) T-70 X-Wing (29), R2-D2 (4), Comm Relay (3), Autothrusters (2)

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

Tarn Mison (25) X-Wing (23), R7 Astromech (2), Integrated Astromech (0)

- The idea is to have two ships I'd be happy going into an endgame with, and to have all three be capable of taking a good old-fashioned beating. I've seen this red ace being touted a few times, and I love the look of a ship that can take two hits a round without even blinking.

Your ideas, criticisms, viability assessments and tips are more than welcome....

Sorry, should have credited the artist - DaRoz on Deviant Art (http://daroz.deviantart.com/)

That is identical to a list I've been looking at. Not flown it yet because I promised myself I'd stop playing Rebels and use my other SPACESHIPS! May have to give it a go at our league tomorrow to see if it has legs. Sorry the replies not much help; but at least you know it's something others have looked at too

For a 3X list, that looks solid. Poe is the most desirable target to go after first, but he can regen, so people might shoot Tarn instead...making target priority difficult is always a good thing!

Good to hear!

I think they can just about hang with a thug life list, which would be a big problem for a lot of x-lists. Two out of three boosting ships, with all above ps2, certainly helps in this matchup, as does all that mitigation.

Corran/Dash, while seen less these days, would be a big old pain though.

Soontir I'm not too worried about, oddly enough: unless I lose both T-70's before the inevitable grand finale, then either one has the means to survive him, and both are worth a shade more in points, meaning a (rather unglorious) win is on the cards

Swarm could get hairy, but with the advent of crackties, that kind of applies to a lot of lists now.

Two autothrusters might help a tiny bit against traditional fat turrets, but I'm guessing they'd be the hardest match up.