Rebel 4 ace.

By DariusAPB, in X-Wing Squad Lists

As always, feedback requested. This is a modified list, with thanks to CBMarkham and blade_mercurial .

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Sunrider Flight #5
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100 points

Pilots
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Roark Garnet (27)
HWK-290 (19), Twin Laser Turret (6), Jan Ors (2)

Gold Squadron Pilot (26)
Y-Wing (18), BTL-A4 Y-Wing (0), R3-A2 (2), Twin Laser Turret (6)

Biggs Darklighter (26)
X-Wing (25), R2 Astromech (1), Integrated Astromech (0)

Lieutenant Blount (21)
Z-95 Headhunter (17), Ion Pulse Missiles (3), Deadeye (1)

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Edited by DariusAPB

Not sure what Wingman is for on Blount. It's fine, but my guess is that you'd be better served with Deadeye, so that he can fire the Ion Pulse missiles anywhere, regardless of whether or not he landed the target lock.

Also, do you mean to have Integrated Astromech hooked up to Biggs? I'm guessing you do.

You know that one point you saved by swapping Wingman to Deadeye? Use it to convert Nien Nunb to Tactician, which has the potential to double stress with the TLT. Not crazy likely, but it could happen. That, or Jans Ors, to give Biggs the ability to Evade every turn. Nien Numb isn't crazy necessary.

Looks alright. I think swarms might give you a hard time, but they are less common these days...

I agree with CB, Jan would be nice on Roark, and integrated astro is a great addition that costs nothing...

Yeah, I did mean to add int, I had thought i'd saved it on there, will modify.

I like your idea of deadeye, not sure if it's better/worse than wingman. Wingman is for shedding stress on the stresshog(it counts as an ace, dammit!) So that it can easily Kturn and stress again.

I have modified the list for deadeye and Jan, that does seem like it'd give more of an edge. (and added Int astro). Will update above post.

Edited by DariusAPB

The more I think about it, the more work I think Jans will probably do.

The targeting priority for your opponent is going to be Biggs then Stresshog, most likely. Each of those ships benefits more from the Evade than from the Focus token.

Blount's one tricky is pretty spiffy, but considering that he's the third ship on the hit list, way after Biggs (mandatory) and Stresshog, are you sure you want to invest those points into a one trick wonder? It's a fun trick, but an Ion Hawk can do an impression of that trick over, and over, and over, in a 360 degree arc. Even a non-astromech X-Wing has that precious 3rd attack die. Just not sure if one Ion blast is preferable to something with more lasting power, but I guess your list needs to have a plan for Soontir.

Edit: Mistaken about Jans being beneficial to Stresshog. Hopefully your Stresshog is loaded up with Stress tokens before Biggs dies, making it incapable of taking the focus action anyway. Jans Ors is still solid, but this is something to take note of. My bad.

Edited by CBMarkham

My list KNOWS it will face Soontir. My chief opponent can't not field interceptors, he also loves SDs. Blount can strip them. With soontir he'll strip the SD, ionize, AND damage him (a hit = one damage). Can't ask for more than that, well apart from the stresshog stressing.

I will admit though, that I have seriously considered the ion hawk.

Edited by DariusAPB

Looks pretty solid. The only suggestion I would make is to put R4-D6 on Biggs instead of the R2. Anything that can mitigate hits on Biggs is good.