Scum Control (w/ a side of 4-LOM)

By 4fox100, in X-Wing Squad Lists

So I'm a huge fan of control, love ion and stress builds (as long as i'm not flying against them lol). Now i was on the good ol' squad builder and came up with this one

4-LOM

Wired

FCS

Zuckuss

Title/Tractor Beam

Torkil Mux

ICT

Tactician

3X Binayre Pirates

Feedback Array

Total: 100pts

Mux can give an ion/stress combo, BugZappers are always lovely, and 4-LOM can further lock down a ship with the extra stress. Plus he can use the big green tractor to pull ships into range for the BugZappers or into range to use his ability. I think it would be fun to try but i would like your guys' thoughts on it.

I think you have some good synergy in this list, so it should be able to work. However, I'm not a fan of seeing FCS AND wired on the same ship...

Personally, I'd rather see advanced sensors on 4-LOM. It offers a lot more than FCS imho. Of course, finding a way to free up a point for it is tricky, so perhaps its better to drop wired in favour of crack shot.

One thing I think will be a struggle though is getting value out of tactician on a PS3 HWK. While you might get it to work once in a while, I just don't see it being stellar (despite the ion/stress combo potential). Try it and see how it goes, but it might need to be replaced for something more reliable....

Thanks for the imput boss. The reason i went for FCS is because 4-LOM will be getting multiple stress a turn (from zuckuss) and i wanted to have a way to boost my attack without actions. I agree that wired is a violation of the department of redundancy guidelines so i will probably swap that out for something else.

Again thanks a bunch for the advise :)

The other issue (for me) with that LOM build is that you will find yourself without actions and thus unable to dump the stress. Maybe I'm overstating that idk but I was running an Ibtisam + hera build for a very short time and I hated it. That LOM build will play identically much of the time. One move no actions/repositioning with inherent rerolls.. great for a cheap generic but not so much or a pricey ship IMO.

Anyway why not go a little more into the control side of things. Double up the ICT tactician hwk's, cut back on the zappers and give LOM a tactician too. Much harder to avoid triple cannons handing out stress. Change the starfighter to adv sensors and consider PtL so you can choose to double actions stress free when its beneficial. One of those hwks could then become mr. bonearm for further lolz.