Kath Scarlett & Y-Wing Scum List

By Rsquared, in X-Wing Squad Lists

I've been keen to play my Firespray in more games, as I love the ship, and it's not often seen at my local club so it makes a change. I started off with Boba, and whilst I liked him, I have started using Kath more often.

I've had some success with this list against Palp aces and Bro bot lists so far, but I've not gone up against much else. Has anyone got any recommendations for tweaking?

100 points

Kath Scarlet 38, engine upgrade 4, Predator 3, Recon Specialist 3, Heavy Laser Cannon 7, inertial dampers 1, Seismic Charges 2. 58pts

2x

Syndicate Thug 18, BTL-A4 0, Unhinged Astromech 1, Autoblaster turret 2, 42pts

I love the combo of HLC, predator and RS, I seem to average 3-4 hits everytime at ranges upto 3. Using Kaths ability to increase by 1 attack die out the secondary, it means I'm rolling 4 dice out to range 3 over half the table, with a re-roll and focus.

I also want to check that I am right in saying that at range 1 from her auxiliary arc, I'm rolling 5 die?

I prefer the autoblaster turrets on the Y-Wings, their cheap cost and short range encourages people to ignore them and go for Kath, which generally allows me to manoeuvre them to take advantage of the BTL upgrade.

However, I rarely use Eng Up on Kath, and the bomb is situational, but could be useful so I could drop those for TLTs but I'd need to find an extra point from somewhere.

I'm not the most experienced player, I've only been playing just over 6 months, but I find this list suits my plays style so far. I welcome your feedback and opinion.

Edited by Rsquared

I had a great game against a Vader/ tie swarm yesterday. My favourite part was finally deploying my seismic charge to take out Vader and one tie while damaging another to boot!

However, I still haven't utilised engine upgrade or inertial dampners and am looking to reinvest those 5 points.

I thought Slave1 0, extra munitions 2, ion pulse missiles 3, guidance chips 0. I like the offensive nature of this, it seems like a bargain to get double bomb and missiles for 5 points and with guidance chips, predator and focus every turn, big ships will have plenty to worry about.

Or, I had considered stealth device 3 and glitterstim 2 for extra survivability.

I'm also toying with hotshot blaster 3 with slave1 0 and extra munitions 2 to have something to surprise those occasional arc dodgers that manage to get around my side.

I welcome any ideas or feedback.

I feel you are getting lucky or are flying against people that aren't very experienced. No Offence intended!!!! But, imho, I would expect those Y's to get smoked by flankers and arc dodgers. Anyone that jousts straight at that set-up is asking for it. I would expect the EU to be needed to maintain rear arc for the extra die. My advice would to drop to mangler cannon and lose dampers for one TLT without BTLA4 to help cover the blind spots.

Below is a list based on a Manitoba Regional battle reports I read on Docking Bay 406 (can't remember if we adjusted it much in actual use). I don't usually fly a lot of scum, but my roommate does and this is a build he flew against me with pretty good success.

Manitoba Regional (100)

Boba Fett (50) - Firespray-31

Veteran Instincts (1), Proton Bombs (5), 4-LOM (1), Glitterstim (2), Slave I (0), Extra Munitions (2)

Dengar (50) - JumpMaster 5000

Adaptability (0), Bossk (2), R5-P8 (3), Punishing One (12)

Having both at PS10 they can be pretty tough. It is a fly aggressive and straight at them sort of game plan, but fun.

Thanks for the reply, some of us are pretty inexperienced in my group, I've only played once against one of the better players, and not with this list, and it was over pretty quick.

As an example, the last guy I played forgot that not only can firesprays drop bombs, but also that I had a rear arc before positioning his ties in range 1 of my rear! Not exactly stellar, but im just as guilty as making bone mistakes. Some of us are,learning the hard way. ;)

Thanks for the tips, I don't have a jumpmaster, just the y-wings, but I will give your suggestions a go.