Hello, all. This is my first post here! As you might have surmised from my call sign, I'm not exactly the best of players, but I am super enjoying this game, which has really taken off at the University I go to. Oh, and I crash into everything: asteroid, ships, you name it, I've hit it.

Anyways, I am looking for some advice on my Imperial Squad set up. Generally, my play style is best when I have a few, fairly tanky\robust ships (so basically, Rebel, and especially Y-Wings). However, I enjoy being able to fly both Rebel and Imperial, and I often play Imperial as I am one of two people who generally dose so in my friend group\gaming club.

I am looking to build a squad around a Tie Defender, and Tie Bomber, which is heavy on ordnance as I often have trouble inflicting damage, and like to do as much damage as I can every time I attack.

I have found that running the bomber with munitions failsafe and flechette torpedoes is a really good combo, but I have also found that the Defender rarely gets to fire it's Ion pulse missile before being offed, and that the Mauler Mithrel with Marksmanship I usually run seems to always be the first one to die.

I can proxy so TIE/FOs as my friends have the dials for them now. I was thinking maybe subbing the FO in for poor Mithral, with the hope it's extra shield and new moves might just keep it alive for longer. Other than that, I have run out of ideas, which I why I came to you guys. Thoughts?