Jan and 2 red vets. The PtL red vet can focus and target lock, predator vet does focus action and gets the TL from Jan's squad leader. Jan picks her favorite red vet to give +1 die to (whichever is closest to range 1 of whomever you want to burn down.)

first round or 2 slow roll up to bank focus tokens to help your TLTs cause damage or defend.

Thoughts?

HWK Red Vets (100)

Jan Ors (39) - HWK-290

Squad Leader (2), Twin Laser Turret (6), Recon Specialist (3), Moldy Crow (3)

Red Squadron Veteran (31) - T-70 X-Wing

Predator (3), R7 Astromech (2), Integrated Astromech (0)

Red Squadron Veteran (30) - T-70 X-Wing

Push The Limit (3), R2 Astromech (1), Integrated Astromech (0)

Other shenanigans could be: Jan with squad leader gives PTL red vet free action: he takes TL then does PTL off that free action does a focus action and picks up stress. On Red vet's activation, reveals green maneuver (easier with R2) sheds stress and takes boost action to get in range 1. Then Jan takes a stress to give the now closer PTL red vet the +1 die, for a potential 5 dies with focus and TL. Boom!

I like it except for Jan! Don't take that the wrong way but I would take off the title and Recon Specialist and add Tactician and Engine Upgrade. Same points and youcan fly the Hawk if you need too. I get the recspec but it seems like a lot of points when you want to be spending your actions on your T-70's when you can. The combo only goes so far when you're rolling potentially 3 sets of dice for modification and you want to use Squad Leader.

I really do like the list though. The shenanigans you can pull are quite impressive!

Other shenanigans could be: Jan with squad leader gives PTL red vet free action: he takes TL then does PTL off that free action does a focus action and picks up stress. On Red vet's activation, reveals green maneuver (easier with R2) sheds stress and takes boost action to get in range 1. Then Jan takes a stress to give the now closer PTL red vet the +1 die, for a potential 5 dies with focus and TL. Boom!

No, because Red Vet activates first. He will already have performed his move and action, so he won't be able to clear stress until the following turn.

Also, I think you are trying too hard to get extra actions on your already efficient red vets. Its Jan that's going to be target #1 and will need her actions to keep her alive. So squad leader doesn't really make sense here. I find Red Vets are pretty independent and capable on their own and you don't need a lot of shenanigans to get good value out of them. You just have to be careful to avoid focus fire----they can die relatively quick so I find formation flying not great for them (spreading them out makes it harder for your opponent to get all his ships in range of any one of them, thanks to their boost)

Ha! I guess I was getting carried away with my quest for shenanigans.

Though Squad leader could help with a TL that PTL red vet could use when he gets to shoot.

I love the idea of TL with focus shooting with 5 dice.

Ha! I guess I was getting carried away with my quest for shenanigans.

Though Squad leader could help with a TL that PTL red vet could use when he gets to shoot.

I love the idea of TL with focus shooting with 5 dice.

But you can do that already without squad leader is my point...

PTL red vet takes focus action, then PTL boosts to get in range 1. How does he get TL without Jan (or Hobie?)

Or predator Red vet? He takes focus action, then gets a TL or a boost from Jan to get in range 1 (or in arc, or out of arc if neccessary.)

PTL red vet takes focus action, then PTL boosts to get in range 1. How does he get TL without Jan (or Hobie?)

Or predator Red vet? He takes focus action, then gets a TL or a boost from Jan to get in range 1 (or in arc, or out of arc if neccessary.)

Predator Vet doesn't need TL because he has predator (unless you roll really bad...). But you can also pick a move that gets you into range 1 without boost

Its situational of course----sometimes you very well would like that bonus action, but most of the time you really shouldn't need it

But more important than range 1 is getting shots without being shot back, regardless of what range (although R1 would be ideal of course)

What EPT would you suggest for Jan?

I flew against my friend tonight and the list did ok but squad leader was too hard to use on her because the T-70s were usually outside of 1-2 of her. My friend flew 2 interceptors and whisper. Jan was definitely MVP, her TLT burned down whisper pretty fast.
The interceptors kept the T-70s busy. Jan spent most of the game running away so she was only close enough to use her pilot ability once. But that was the end shot and 5 attack dice are glorious.

Of the two red veterans, PTL was far superior. I think I am going to try this with either 2 PTL red vets and Jan or 1 red vet Jan and Dutch Vander.

First time using TLT and I was glad to not be on receiving end for a change. I think 2 TLT will be that much more dangerous but it's almost unfair.

Recon spec and Moldy crow was good but in the end I skipped doing focus actions because she had so many I ran out of focus tokens. It was nice having a big pile of focus tokens to use when I fired TLT or throwing evade dice.