Another store tournament coming up soon, and I'm contemplating switching around my modular Cartel list a little bit, with the addition of either an ace or a large based ship. As I'll still be taking 3 Maruaders or Spacers, forty points is the limit for the new addition.

What I'm thinking of at the moment:

Guri - Virago, Wired, Advanced Sensors, Autothrusters (38)

Kath Scarlett - Lone Wolf (40)

Mandalorian Mercenary - Lone Wolf, Recon Specialist (40)

Moralo Eval - Tractor Beam, Gunner (40)

Trandoshan Slaver - Tractor Beam, Bossk, Gunner (37)

I'm currently favouring the Trandoshan Slaver, as it would allow me to upgrade a Mangler Scyk to a HLC. I've had fun times flying Kath, though, and the Mandalorian and Guri could both be a pain to deal with.

What's your favourite build for a 40 point Scum ship?

37 point Xisor fcs title VI auto thrusters, I go 37 because a 3 point PS bid lets xisor control Soontir pretty well. If you have Soontir taken care of already 2 glitter homer PS3 Zs are pretty hellacious. Talonbane is an interesting choice if he fits your squad at 36 with glitter crack homer. Builds without secondary weapons can't really hurt him at range 3 during missile turn with glitter up, and then he goes in to joust at PS 9 with 5 reds at R1. These options all work great... If the rest of your list gets on with them.

you can get 2 binary pilots with Hotshot and AHM with munitions failure

or x2 binary with Homing missiles and Feedback with muni failure

37 point Xisor fcs title VI auto thrusters, I go 37 because a 3 point PS bid lets xisor control Soontir pretty well...

The Xizor's build a pretty interesting idea, as he can always hide in the rest of the squad as well if necessary. 37 points also hits the sweet spot for upgrading to a HLC as well.

Since you're a very experienced player, my suggestion for Xizor is: push the limit, virago, advanced sensors & autothrusters. Its 40 points, so no room for HLC on a scyk, but its a much more interesting build to fly than the VI + FCS version. In the early part of the game, dial in a green, use advanced sensors + push the limit to take 2 actions, reveal dial to clear stress and repeat until either things have gotten really chaotic with ships all over the place, or Xizor stands alone. That's when the fun begins as you can really fly unpredictably thanks to advanced sensors, putting Xizor in unlikely places and leaving your opponent pointing in the wrong direction (ideally anyway).

Or, for a more straightforward 'ace', you can go with Guri: virago, predator, sensor jammer & autothrusters = 40. Its a tried-and-true build that compliments 3 khiraxz nicely.

My fav scum ship atm, only 29points

Drea Renthal

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