Strain Guard List - Feedback Welcomed

By RoyalRich, in Imperial Assault Skirmish

Hi guys,

Played a couple of games with trandoshans since under duress came out and really liking the feel of them.

So far I've tried :

Under duress

Bossk

rTrandos x4

Under duress

Devious scheme

Bossk

eTrandos w. Head hunter

rTrandos x2

rHired guns

They've been good but I'm hoping to post the list on and make it something I'm confident in taking to regionals, we've 25 players signed up so far so I think competition will be stiff!

Any feedback on this would be gratefully received:

Strain Guard | 40 points

Deployment Cards

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▪ Under Duress

▪ Bossk

Elite Wing Guard

Trandoshan Hunter

Trandoshan Hunter

Trandoshan Hunter

Command Cards

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Bodyguard

Dirty Trick

Element of Surprise

Fleet Footed

Parting Blow

Parting Blow

Reinforcements

To the Limit

Urgency

Squad Swarm

Negation

Opportunistic

Tough Luck

Disorient

Grisly Contest

The idea is that one wing guard sits with each group of trandos and the list plays really aggressively moving into your opponent's face, the wing guard are there for maximum strain. With 2 trandos at front each time with a wing guard behind they'll be taking strain every time they shoot as well as the strain given by the trandoshans.

What improvements would you make and what lists would this struggle against?

The one I'm not sure on atm is whether to drop reinforcements for comm disruption to basically give a second negation albeit at 2 cost.

Thanks for reading!

I played two games with the following and liked it, both on the Cantina Map:

Bossk

2x eWing

1x Headhunter-rTrando

Gideon

C3PO

Temp Alliance

If you wanted something a little closer to the above I would be very tempted to try:

Under Duress

Bossk

1x eWing

1x Headhunter-rTrando

1x rTrando

Gideon

C3PO

Temp Alliance

I use the trooper cards as a crutch sometimes, so I would be hesitant to move to down to only one eWing, but if you do move down Keep the Peace will trigger more often. Between the Trandos, the Wing Guard stress, and the Bossk gernade I'm not sure you need Under Duress to empty their command deck.

Splashing in the rebels may be too much support, but without some kind of movement booster I worry about how slow the list is. That may really hurt on Reprogrammed or Fallout.

I think for 6 pts in a Merc list; Gideon/C3PO/Temp Alliance is fully worth it. So you have to make a list work for 34 pts. I think you could try...

Bossk

Boba Fett + Explosive Armaments

eNexu x2

You could get rid of an eNexu and Exp Arm for a rTrandoshan Hunter, but not sure on the output diff. You get one more figure tho...

~D

I'll be running the following once my bespin stuff arrives

Bossk

2x Trando

eWing

Under Duress

That leaves 7 points free.
That can either be some rebel allies (gideon or davith) or an elite nexu or some more trandos