Zuckuss, Manaroo, N'Dru Suhlak

By arkey, in X-Wing Squad Lists

Enjoying this build in casual play but would like some thoughts of how it would fair in competative.

Zuckuss (28)

Lone Wolf (2)

"Gonk" (2)

Advanced Sensors (3)

Hot Shot Blaster (3)

Engine Upgrade (4)

Mist Hunter (0)

Tractor Beam (1)

Total: (43)

Manaroo (27)

Attanni Mindlink (1)

K4 Security Droid (3)

Unhinged Astromech (1)

Total: (32)

N'Dru Suhlak (17)

Attanni Mindlink (1)

Cluster Missiles (4)

Guidance Chip (0)

Cloaking Device (2)

Total: (24)

List: 99 pts

Zuckuss being your ace, you approach slow Gonking once or twice for the late game. He's no arc dodger but access to barrel roll and boost fix a lot of his dial problems and Manaroo supplies him with both TL and focus each round to open up his action economy. N'Dru target locks and gets focus from Mindlink so he acts like a mini-ace mostly there to unleash the cluster missiles payload on something fat that needs to die. Afterward he's still fairly formidable but I tend to use him as a blocker/bait and cloak for 4 agility die defensive round.

This list flies pretty spread apart from one another so it feels very unique. I know competitively it may struggle against Palp, Omega, Vader list or Soontir Fel lists and there's the threat of stress bots stressing two ships into oblivion at once with Mindlink but all in all I feel it would hold up respectably.

Having said that I have zero competitive experience so I look forward to your feedback!

N'dru is not a good choice for mindlink. If you put Mindlink on Zuckuss as well, its a bit better, but the fact that you have only 2 mindlinks means its going to become dead weight fairly early in the game, since N'dru NEVER survives long (unless your opponent is not very good). Mindlink is ideal when you have at least 3 of them. The only time I'd consider running only 2 mindlink ships is if they are very durable and hard to kill and I feel very confident of keeping them both alive for most of the game. Unfortunately there's not much in Scum currently that fits that particular bill...

Swap mindlink for Rage or CS on N'dru. Would swap for a cheaper 4Lom and put a few extra points in JM5K.

4Lom: Wired, FCS, EI, Gonk and maybe title & feedback array.