Rate my lists

By 4fox100, in X-Wing Squad Lists

Compiled here are some of my current favorite lists plus some of my thoughts on them. I have flown with or against them with varying degrees of success. And as the title suggests i would like your honest opinions on them. So rate away guys.

List #1

Zuckuss

VI

Adv Sensors

Dengar

Title / Tractor Beam

Contracted Scout

Deadeye

EM

Proton Torpedoes

Boba Fett

R4 Agro

Chimps

Palob Godalhi

TLT

Cloaking Device

99 points

This is currently my all time favorite list. Gives your opponents a hard choice of who to go for first. Plaob always pulls his weight. Plus stealing a focus to rain down a fully modded torp or zuckuss shot is glorious.

List #2

Guardian Sq Pilot X2

EM

Homing Missiles

Autoblaster Turret

LRS

Wes Janson

Adaptability

BB-8

IA

99 points

This one can be tricky to fly. The idea is to use the wonderfull rule of 11 to get into Range 2-3, strip a focus with Wes, and release fire and brimstone on a ship of your choice. Afterwards you can SLAM away to refresh your TL or get in close for an Autoblaster shot.

List #3

Omicron Group Pilot

Palpatine

Baffle

Tractor Beam

Omega Leader

Juke

Com Relay

Zeta Leader

Predator

Com Relay

Backstabber

99 points

This is a list I created and had a friend try out against me. Performed very well. Backstabber is a sleeping menace (will never ignore him again)

List #4

4-LOM

VI

FCS

Zuckuss

Title / Tractor Beam

Torkil Mux

ICT

Tactician

3X Binayre Pirates

Feedback Array

100 points

Probably the weakest of the above lists. Nevertheless the control this puppy can dish out is amazing. Initially wanted to have a TLT on Torkil but i think ICT meshes more with his Range 1-2 ability. 4-LOM packs a wallop by the way.

So there you have it. My current favorite lists all up for your critique. As always thanks for any imput.

Edited by 4fox100

Take this with a grain of salt, because I personally believe Palob is THE anti-meta currently, but I think you would do better with Mux in your first list. You have Palob basically cloaking and decloaking to fly close and steal tokens, which is good and all, but nerfing an enemy who now fires AFTER the scout along with Zuckuss raining down some hot lead, means you could really mess up some aces' days. Especially Whisper. ACD? We prefer you decloaked for this attack, thank you. Haha. Protorps to decloaked Whisper=sad Whisper. In general though, many aces like the move last fire first that their high PS gives them. Mux effectively neutralizes the second part of that and I think is a better fit overall for your first team. Plus frees an extra point. I'm also not sure why Advanced Sensors is on Zuckuss. Generally a good upgrade, but it's 3 points, and the only time I see it being worthwhile is if you know you are going to bump, or you're doing a red maneuver. Again, great flexibility, but I wonder if the points might not fit better elsewhere. If you drop it to FCS, you have enough to fit a hull upgrade on. 1 more HP is never a bad thing.

On list 2, I don't like BB-8. Nothing against the balls, I just don't think 2 points is a good cost to barrel roll only if I choose a green maneuver. I'd go R2 Astromech instead. Then you can give him VI. I personally prefer the long game from K-Wings, so I'd drop EM and drop them to Wardens to throw TLTs on. But that's a personal preference talking there.

List 3: Tractor and Baffle together don't make sense on the shuttle. Drop one of them (probably the tractor). Wired is a cheap EPT that works surprisingly well on Zeta Leader, I would recommend that change. Then with the three points you just gained, throw Stealth Device on OL, as he uses it beautifully.

List 4: I think this list is the most solid as is. Unless you wanted to really change up Torkil, there isn't much to say on this one.

These are just my opinions, of course. And I like crazy and funky lists, because seeing the same list at every tournament with one or two cards swapped out gets boring after a while. I'd like to fly against any one of these lists and see how you fly them. Do you play on Vassal at all?

Edited by Raven19528

Thanks for the imput man. Really appreciated. I will have to try using mux instead of palob like you suggested. Definitely worth a go. You also said you wrre curious about my choice of advanced sensors. Since i use zuckuss as a pseudo ace hunter i wanted a little bit of flexibility with the barrel roll before movement. That and evading before k turning has saved my bacon several times. Also i do play vassal on occasion. Not recently because the computer i played on crashed and i haven't reinstalled it. If you do get a chance to fly any of the lists let me know how they do.