2 Ship Falcon...with VCX100. Crazy?

By Vitalis, in X-Wing Squad Lists

Ok so VCX is on budged while mobile and hardhitting

Lothal Rebel

+Hera

+Ezra

+FCS

and that paired with good old fatHan

Han Solo

+EU

+Gunner

+Adaptability

+EU

+C3PO

+Title

100pts exacly.

Han flies as ususal, but VCX got so nasty tricks: it don't care about reds. That build can Kturn every turn to keep stuff in arc. And FCS+Ezra are usually 2 hits and a crit each shot. Opponent will usually focus on VCX as it hits too hard to ignore while beeing easy prey. That leaves fat-beast-mode in the end game.

What'ya think?

Edited by Vitalis

Typo..?. 2 engine upgrades on Han? what's the 2nd EU supposed to be?

But otherwise, I like it. May even try it out one of these days

Typo..?. 2 engine upgrades on Han? what's the 2nd EU supposed to be?

But otherwise, I like it. May even try it out one of these days

Yeap, simple typo.

I would lose adaptability and gunner on Han and use predator. Use the 2 pts somewhere else.

I would lose adaptability and gunner on Han and use predator. Use the 2 pts somewhere else.

Predator wont do any good vs omega leader, gunner will do. Thats one. I got Han's ability for crappy rolls, thats two. I move after soontir and shoot before Whisper, thats three ;)

I like it. I'll give it a try this game night.

Love the Lothal build. Quite powerful and relatively cheap. Post back when you test it!

Im gonna be trying a Dash & Kanan list tonight. See how that goes :P My thoughts are same as OP, opponent focuses on VCX, while Dash blasts away from range 3 with HLC. Have Kanan with Sensors and Recon Spec to keep him alive as long as possible, and also with ABT to keep people out of range 1 to also help his survivability.

So i tested it today vs 2 lists:

First vs: fat kaanan ghost, zeb in shuttle, miranda. Miranda was obliterated very early. Then ghosts were melting in the same pace, it came down to 10HP Han vs naked zeb...gg.

Second vs: 2xbwings with tractors+2xbwings with plasma,munitions,chips. That was harder, VCX was melting pretty fast, but bwings could not keep up with boosting han so i lost VCX while 2bees were gone and two remaining were 9hp in total. Han was on 3HP when i won, pretty close, but still win.

That list is beast. Just pure "i dont give a fug" in this VCX is hilarious its like flying freightrain. derbris? phi, kturn? phi, range 1, yes pls.

Edited by Vitalis

I was thinking of this YT-1300 & VCX-100 loosely based on an episode of Rebels:

IDIOTS GAMBIT

Lando & Hera together again


100 points


PILOTS

Lando Calrissian (51)
YT-1300 (44), Push the Limit (3), Hera Syndulla (1), Mercenary Copilot (2), Millennium Falcon (1)

Kanan Jarrus (49)
VCX-100 (38), Fire-Control System (2), Twin Laser Turret (6), "Chopper" (0), Ezra Bridger (3)

I was thinking of this YT-1300 & VCX-100 loosely based on an episode of Rebels:

IDIOTS GAMBIT

Lando & Hera together again

100 points

PILOTS

Lando Calrissian (51)

YT-1300 (44), Push the Limit (3), Hera Syndulla (1), Mercenary Copilot (2), Millennium Falcon (1)

Kanan Jarrus (49)

VCX-100 (38), Fire-Control System (2), Twin Laser Turret (6), "Chopper" (0), Ezra Bridger (3)

Hera and PTL dont come together in my book, cause you either forveit PTL by double stressing yourself or Hera by PTLing.

More i would swap Ezra and Hera (hera on VCX, ezra on YT) due to fact that you then can be mobile with ghost and have constant effect of ezra from PTL. But then again why not ditch Kanan for rebel if you plan to be stressed anyway? :)

btw, I so fuggin love this "stress builds" now. So cool!

So i tested it today vs 2 lists:

First vs: fat kaanan ghost, zeb in shuttle, miranda. Miranda was obliterated very early. Then ghosts were melting in the same pace, it came down to 10HP Han vs naked zeb...gg.

Second vs: 2xbwings with tractors+2xbwings with plasma,munitions,chips. That was harder, VCX was melting pretty fast, but bwings could not keep up with boosting han so i lost VCX while 2bees were gone and two remaining were 9hp in total. Han was on 3HP when i won, pretty close, but still win.

That list is beast. Just pure "i dont give a fug" in this VCX is hilarious its like flying freightrain. derbris? phi, kturn? phi, range 1, yes pls.

Very nice! I think I will be trying that Lothal build.

I tested my list out:

Kanan + ABT + Zeb + Recon + Tactical Jammer + Sensor Jammers

Dash + Predator + HLC + Title + Chopper

Played two games vs Dengar and three Zs with feedback.

First game: Dengar had Predator + R4 Astro + Gonk + other goodies. VCX was priority one, but could only do 1 dmg at a time with Kanan and recon spec, until I 5Kturned. After that it was a bump fest with the Zs. Meanwhile Dash was lighting up Dengar, then VCX finished him off. VCX had 5 hull left, Dash was full. We called time with 3 Zs still alive, two were wounded..

Second game: Dengar switched out Predator for PTL, and some other things for EU. This time Dengar hid behind the Zs. I marched VCX straight into there. He got stressed early from debris and never recovered (bump fest), so no focuses for Kanan, again. Dash was sitting back picking off the Zs. Dengar stayed out of Dashes range and fired on VCX. After the third Z bit the dust, VCX had 1 hull remaining, Dash full, Dengar full. We called time. I dont think I would have won if it went to the end. Dengar would have killed VCX, and Dash without EU and PTL is dead against Dengar with EU and PTL and that dial.

I didnt like Kanan. His ability sucks for a large ship, or I suck flying it I guess. Between bumps, reds, and debris, I just couldnt get focuses. I kept wanting Vitalis's Lothal build. Zeb came into effect a couple times which was nice, but man I really wanted Hera and FCS on this thing.

I've been thinking about this build:

Chewbacca (42)
Predator (3)
Jan Ors (2)
C-3PO (3)
Kanan Jarrus (38)
Fire-Control System (2)
Autoblaster Turret (2)
Extra Munitions (2)
Plasma Torpedoes (3)
"Chopper" (0)
Recon Specialist (3)
Guidance Chips (0)
Total: 100
Kanan can be a little rough to fly without an engine, but he's got anti-ace protection on his sides with autoblaster turret, a big gun in front, and torpedoes to fire out the rear arc, essentially giving him better coverage than a Firespray. He can also use Chopper on a turn where he needs to K-Turn but still wants access to his double focus.
Chewbacca is less action dependent but still very efficient. The real strength of this list is that both of these guys can tank up pretty hard if they need to. Kanan can Recon Specialist, then borrow Jan's ability from Chewbacca to get 1 focus, 1 evade, then spend the focus to reduce an incoming attack. If a ship fires at him with 3 red dice, after mods and abilities, they're not getting more than 1 result through. That's not bad in the late game when there aren't a ton of ships left to heap damage on you. A U-Boat that's out of torpedoes can't hurt Kanan at R2 or R3, and at R1 they at least have to take the return fire from your autoblaster turret.
Chewbacca has a tanky ability as well, and between 3P0, the ability to take an evade off of Jan, and back-up support from Kanan, he can hang in there for awhile also.
The list should fly pretty simply. Lay accurate beats on your primary target, and when one of your big beefers gets in trouble, tank up long enough for your other ship to try and bail you out and get some work done. Added benefit that the ships share PS5, and therefor can swap around their movement order at will. Also, 29HP isn't the worst amount ever.

I played this against brobots B and C tonight. Do you have any idea how satisfying it is to see a ship with 10 stress on it, do a 5-k turn and be millimeters from a brobot at range 1 with 5 angry, pissed off, ezra buffing, target locked dice waiting to kill?

BTW, this build nearly nullifies IG-88B. can't reroll a 1 damage shot with the gunner if I'm not rolling dice. And actually running C3PO against bots I found myself declaring one to get two. 3p0 actually works against the gunner too.

Edited by Daefish