The Flying Fortress - Kanan, Garven, Biggs

By Skeether, in X-Wing Squad Lists

I must say that I am a sucker for mid-ranged PS pilots.

VCX-100: · Kanan Jarrus (38)

Tactical Jammer (1)

Recon Specialist (3)

· Jan Ors (2)

X-Wing: · Garven Dreis (26)

· R2-D6 (1)

Integrated Astromech (0)

Predator (3)

X-Wing: · Biggs Darklighter (25)

· R4-D6 (1)

Integrated Astromech (0)

-- TOTAL ------- 100/100p. --

Kanan leads the charge, with Biggs always behind him to make any shot on him obstructed. When Biggs focuses, he grabs an evade from Jan instead. Then when Garven shoots, he spends his focus regardless of result and passes it to Biggs to bolster his defense or if all enemies have shot already, to give him one for his shot. Once Biggs goes down, Garven can then pass his focus to Kanan who can then use it for his ability or for his shot, again depending on the situation.

I think this list is pretty punchy but would probably suffer to arc dodgers, as it wants to fly together in a block. So in certain cases I might have to keep Garven a bit further back to protect from flank attacks while Biggs delivers the 4 dice machine Ghost to a less maneuverable target. I have some options to tweak this and one of them would be to drop predator on Garven and give Kanan EI so he can TL and focus for some really strong shots.

Any other ideas?

You could drop Predator in order to buy a Dorsal turret to give you a bit of flanking protection.

I don't think EI would help on this build since it only works on upgrade cards with an action. You cannot use it like PTL to take 2 actions from your action bar.

Oh right, for some reason I was thinking of Rec Spec as a card action but it just doubles the tokens off a focus action.

Now if you are feeling lucky you can take Lando and EI as his gambling is an action. In fact you can take Rec Spec and Focus for 2 tokens then use EI to enable Lando for up to 2 more Evade/Focus tokens.

You would have to drop some points for that Combo though. Maybe drop Predator on Garven and ditch Jan Ors to make some room. That should give you the points you need.

My first thought was to drop Predator to Crack Shot, to fit Fire-Control System or Autoblaster Turret on Kanan.

My first thought was to drop Predator to Crack Shot, to fit Fire-Control System or Autoblaster Turret on Kanan.

Yeah, this seems like a good call, although predator is a pretty good idea on Garven...