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Posted at May 20, 2016

Serissu, title, Heavy Laser Cannon, Push the Limit, Stealth Device (35)

10x Tansarii Point Veterans with title and Heavy Laser Cannon (26 each = 260)

EDIT: Alternatively, make it 7 Cartel Spacers and 4 Tansarii Point Veterans. This puts you at 300 with 12 Scyks. I think I like the higher PS to take on swarms, though.

By the way, Aggressors are large ships, not small ships, so I don't think they fit in this thread, unless the OP simply meant not-huge.

I meant only small-based ships.

Edited May 20, 2016 by OmegaLeader144

Posted at May 20, 2016

They do as far as upgrades and pilot abilities are concerned.
Because as far as upgrades and pilot abilities are concerned, a ship's name only needs to partially match.
As far as the actual rules are concerned, they are not the same ship. If they were, it would be legal for me to put standard TIE Fighter models on TIE/fo bases when I play TIE/fos. It isn't.

Actually, if the card is just TIE limited and not TIE fighter limited then it can apply to literally any TIE series ship. And your right. The two ship are not considered he same. I doesn't work like that with the T-70/T-65 X-wings so it doesn't work between the TIE fighter/fo

Apparently he doesn't work like that.

Edit: that was his original post.

Edited May 20, 2016 by OmegaLeader144

Posted at May 20, 2016

Full old school TIE 8-ship swarm, then a couple each of Defenders and Bombers/Punisher with cannons and ordnance. Maybe one ace like the Inquisitor or Fel for counter-ace tactics.

Posted at May 20, 2016

A whole lot of Kyz with mindlink, Palob with mindlink and TLT (for insurance), a few cheap Z-95 (for blockers) and Kaa'to with an assault missile, crackshot and guidance chip.

Kyz with mindlink are brutal in epic because of the PS 5, relatively low cost (24 points) and the huge amount of damage that they can do with Target lock and focus combined.

Serissu, title, Heavy Laser Cannon, Push the Limit, Stealth Device (35)

10x Tansarii Point Veterans with title and Heavy Laser Cannon (26 each = 260)

EDIT: Alternatively, make it 7 Cartel Spacers and 4 Tansarii Point Veterans. This puts you at 300 with 12 Scyks. I think I like the higher PS to take on swarms, though.

I've had Scyks and Mindlink on my mind, but Kihraxz Fighters with it also sounds awesome! I've really enjoyed flying them when I do. I'd think that they don't need to K-turn as much with the 1 sharp turn they have.

I like my Scyks, but I still think putting HLC on them is too much. I'd probably go with Manglers. Well, maybe Laetin w/ HLC for troll factor! TPV with Squad Leader...oooh....SL only works on those lower, but Bodyguard works with those above! There you go.

Oh, if I were doing Scum vs. an epic with a big ship? I'd love putting Ion Cannons on a bunch of those guys!

Is 300 pts too much? I wonder if 200 pts of all small ships would be better?

I had to throw in Xizor with this as he would just be too fun to have in a game like this. Serrissu, as well.

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"Heavy Scyk" Interceptor (Cannon) (2)

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Posted at May 20, 2016

Y wings loaded with TLT and T70's with R2 and IA.

Tanky Etahn build

Posted at May 20, 2016

Oh, if I were doing Scum vs. an epic with a big ship? I'd love putting Ion Cannons on a bunch of those guys!

The solution that I found for Scums vs an epic ship was simple:

Trandoshan Slaver, Greedo, Boba Fett, 4-Lom and title.

The first 3 upgrades push the Slaver to 32 points, the title adds an extra 6. It's costly, but it's still 12 hull/shield to chew through with 1 agility dice (which can matter). If ignored, the Slaver can really punish any huge ship by dealing crits and using Boba Fett. If not ignored, it soaks up a lot of the damage that would be otherwise done to your fleet and if it blows up, well you gain a free Z-95.

Posted at May 20, 2016

Just one time, I'd like to throw this on the table:

A-Wing: Prototype Pilot (17)
Chardaan Refit (-2)

A-Wing: · Jake Farrell (24)
Push The Limit (3)
Proton Rockets (3)
Guidance Chips (0)

......And watch my opponent's face melt when he realizes my firing arc coverage is.... the entire width of the play area.

Of course, it's bat-guano silly and I'm not insane enough to purchase enough Rebel Aces boxes to cover both the ships and the Chardaan Refit cards.

Posted at May 20, 2016

12 of the same type of ship is the maximum anyway (for small ships), but I have seen first hand what happens when a Tie Swarm meets another Tie Swarm (I think over 30 ships on the board). Exciting in theory, but in practice, let's say there were still plently of units left on the table when time ran out

Posted at May 20, 2016

Defenders defenders and more defenders.

Did I mention Defenders?

Posted at May 20, 2016

A dozen Thug TLT's. Unhinged Astromech.

Posted at May 21, 2016

A dozen Thug TLT's. Unhinged Astromech.

That setup is pure evil... do it.

Posted at May 21, 2016

Epic, you say...

With no Epic ships, you say...

So what makes it... Epic? Other than the fact that you have more than 100 points per side?

It should be an epic fight, just not... Epic IMO.

Still... should be fun, whatever you play!

Posted at May 21, 2016

Epic, you say...

With no Epic ships, you say...

So what makes it... Epic? Other than the fact that you have more than 100 points per side?

It should be an epic fight, just not... Epic IMO.

Still... should be fun, whatever you play!

It's more Epic Dogfight format. FFG is running a similar event at Gencon, though large is allowed. I'm hoping to play regular epic tomorrow with corvettes and transports and such... Really don't get to play enough of that.

Posted at May 21, 2016

Basically:
6x Dagger squadrons with Proton/plasmas and EM + guidance chips
1x Nera, same setup
1x Etahn, as tanky as possible
1x PS9 Poe with predator + focus regen bot.

Guidance chips gives crits instead of hits. Etahn gives crits. Proton gives crits.
Etahn for crits, nera for fun and Poe for picking out targets with lower PS.
PS4 is a must-have with swarms... Bring it on!

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