Drawing from a concept explored in the Halo Fleet Battles game, combined with the new stands for flotillas, it occurred to me that you could in theory, with existing components, create a new ship type; Formations.

So a formation would have the flotilla stand(a new stands would be required for some small ships that use a keyway slot) and two different models on it. Like a Nebulon and CR-90 for instance. Or a Gozanti and a Decimator. And then get some specific game effect for having the ships together.

I would love to see that. Opens up a whole world of possibility for designs without really mucking anything up, and using content players would already have or easily get. Would be perfect is they want to do more expansions without models like Corellian Conflict.

I greatly enjoy flying my ships in formations in larger games: aesthetically that is much of the appeal. Getting overlapping fields of fire, mutually supported movements, doing this intricate dance of death on the razor's edge of doom and still managing to come out on top... I love it!

This could be intriguing, and a great way to introduce new content without diluting the ship pool.

Flotillias sort of fit that category.

Now if there were a Escorted Flotilla sort of like a Transport with 2 X-wings on it like the one IFF podcast described that could be interesting. Of course the question would be what would the stats and data be. I'm guessing the Squadron anti fighter value for the ship anti fighter value and the squadrons anti ship value on the side arcs but that is the best.

However I would still classify it as a flotilla to keep matters simple. After all it functions pretty much in the same way just as a ship instead of a squadron. Also it gives a flotilla more punch. BUt I don't know if I would have it keep its fleet support upgrade slot.

Also I wish there were more mixed squadrons like the one Vader flew in the Death Star Trench. I don't think a simple TIE advanced squadron would do justice.

Even just for house rule reasons you could do some really simple things. I think really small incremental modifications to the existing ship cards would be the way to go. Like "Escorted CR-90" could be a '90 and a X-wing, and gains a Formation card that Says "Escorted: exhaust this card when performing an anti squadron attack to add three blue dice to your pool. 5pts."

Or you could have it change something about the ship card. Like a new ship card called "Escorted CR-90" that had a anti squad value of blue+black, and was a bit more expensive.

Another could be if you had added a extra upgrade icon on to a ship card. Like if you had a Raider and Gozanti together, the ship card would be something like "Fighter Support Group" which is basically a Raider card and starts but has a fleet support icon.