Since tractor beam card was announced everyone is thinking about builds with TIE Defenders (of course, because of the new title) and several other options against rebel lists, which makes a lot of sense since you can drop agility to 0 on Bs, Ys, Han, etc. I find tractor beam to be really funny and it also can be annoying to your opponent, and upset my opponent is something I enjoy and try to do a lot, so I've been thinking about trying some ideas for building rebel lists using tractor beam (and other upcoming upgrades):
YT-2400: · Dash Rendar (36)
Push The Limit (3)
Heavy Laser Cannon (7)
Engine Upgrade (4)
· Kanan Jarrus (3)
· Outrider (5)
B-Wing: · Keyan Farlander (29)
Push The Limit (3)
Tractor Beam (1)
Advanced Sensors (3)
B-Wing/E2 (1)
· Hera Syndulla (1)
This is a rebuild of an old squadron I used to fly a lot and which actually took me to win a tournament once, the idea here is very simple, Keyan fires with tractor beam and repositions a ship to the range of Dash HLC, ideally on an asteroid and with -1 agility. This is probably not a very competitive idea and of course I will have a lot of trouble against higher PS, but I'm planning to do it just for fun.
4X B-Wing: Blue Squadron Pilot (22)
Tractor Beam (1)
Fire-Control System (2)
This is of course built only for annoying and upsetting people, you can move a ship from range 3 to 1 and then shot twice with the other two Bs, or destroying a TIE swarm formation. Also probably not very competitive but I'd love to see the face of someone getting a ship out of the table after 3 or 4 barrel rolls.
I wouldn't take any of these to a tournament but I'm definitely testing them very soon, do you guys have any other ideas on decent builds??