Good morning my friends.

Today is a wonderful day! A glorious, tremendous, spectacular day. I awoke this morning in own bed, my amazing wife beside me, my gorgeous weeks old daughter next to her, the sun was shining, the birds were singing .. but most importantly .. I'd won my first pick up game the night before.

I flew:

Ello Asty + R2 Astro + VI + Int Astro (32)

Keyan Farlander + FCS + PTL + B-Wing/E2 + Kyle Katarn (38)

Arvyl Crynyd + Chardraan Refit + A-Wing Test Pilot + Shield Upgrade + PTL (28)

This comes to a total of 98 points. Arvyl was my 'little blocker that could' and he and Keyan worked as a team to do boom boom stuff.

I enjoyed the synergy between Keyan and Kyle and just love Ello with R2.

Any advice on this list would be welcome. Thanks in advance!

I would recommend swapping Kyle crew for Jan Ors crew. The reason is that Keyan's pilot ability is basically an offensive focus, meaning you would only use the focus for defense. However, Jan's evade token is much stronger than a focus token for a one-agi ship. And you're still packing FCS.

In addition to Jan, I think advanced sensors is solid on Keyan. He gets TL frequently as is. Here's how it works:

a) Green move: don't use advanced sensors (unless you are going to bump or go over debris). Just reveal dial, push the limit for 2 actions and end with a stress.

b) White move: advance sensors optional (for bumping, arc-dodging, surprise moves, going over obstacles). Push the limit for 2 actions and end with a stress.

c) Red move: advanced sensors always for an action and your stress.

Thanks to advanced sensors, you should almost always have a TL + 'focus' (from stress) and you can barrel roll whenever you need to.

Ello Asty doesn't really need veteran instincts. Also, I'm not sure that R2 astro offers a lot of benefit, unless you are in a stress heavy meta, but then, you should be able to get Ello out of arcs with long moves (3 banks/turns or 4 straight + boost). The white tallon rolls means you should be setting those up rather than the k-turn whenever possible.

I like Ello with lone wolf (or predator if you prefer) + R2-D2 + autothrusters. Really hard to kill and dishes out solid damage, even on turns when you boost (which I do a lot).

But congrats on your win!