PSA: Youngster with Marksmanship

By Keffisch, in X-Wing

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Don't do it, never seen a swarm die so fast - repeatedly.

And that was with liberal use of MS, i.e. mostly using it on TIEs that were out of arc, etc.

After 10 practice games, swapping and changing lists we gave up. :P

I tried him in two games with wampa. Got Wampas ability of thrice, only one time with marksmanship. I agree,until we get better action EPTs, Youngster is not worth it.

Seriously, how beautiful are all those starfighters maneuvering around in the background? That shot of the Rebel fleet taking evasive action as got to be one of the best.

Also, thanks for the PSA!

lol yeah that shot is awesome.

sigh, so many of the shots from the old movies were awesome.

PSAs that are actually useful: This one.

Daredevil and Expert Handling are about it, but Expert handling is really only useful on high pilot skill pilots, or on low pilot skill pilots if your opponent uses a lot of Long Range Scanners.

This should of been a psa on not using youngster at all because no decent cards with the action header currently exist.

This should of been a psa on not using youngster at all because no decent cards with the action header currently exist.

It indirectly is. ;)

Expert Handling, Expose, and Daredevil actually have effects that can impact the game.

Expose is controversial enough on its own, so I won't get into it here.

Daredevil has a huge risk on TIEs, but the repositioning can be game-winning

EH's TL breaking shuts down Fire Control Systems, Ordnance, and to a lesser extent, Twin Laser Turrets (who prefer TL as their offensive action).

Marksmanship's bonus crit is simply not good enough to lose the defensive nature of the focus (which is FREE).

Squad Leader is too difficult to build a list to chain, and passing actions from one ship to another tends not to be good.

​If you want to boost Wampa's critrate, give him a Targeting Computer.

Just fly Youngster with TIE/fo's equipped with Comm Relay.

Yes a Targeting computer on Wampa is good, or if you fly Howlrunner along anyway, that also helps!

Edited by ForceM

I had success with a howlrunner chaser nightbeast and expose youngster swarm. With expose, free focus, howl runner rerolls and range 1 for 4 dice chaser and night beast were doing most the damage.