So i played on a 25 people tournament at a local store and i wanted to give a small battle report.
I flown the most fun list i played in the wave 9 (at least for me) which is manaroo aces but not with 2 protectorates
Manaroo
-atanni mindlink
-plasma torpedo
-extra munition
-guidance chips
-k4 security droid
-unhinged astromech
Fenn Rau
-atanni mindlink
-autothrusters
-concord dawn protector
Talonbane Cobra
-atanni mindlink
-vectored thrusters
I went for the mindlink torpedo version of the list and i have to say that list hits like a brick.
Manaroo with the 2 torps can really help you against the most resilient targets at times like defenders or big health ships. And often the torpedo is a deterrent in and on itself.
With K4 and mindlink the action economy is insane even when blocking you still can pass focus + TL (you get a focus with the aces that you will pass ansd get back with ML its is beyond insane for a blocker)
Fenn and Cobra just melts people (i destroyed miranda in one round of fire with the list) but it is even more unforgiving that palp aces. One mistake and you die instantly. Once i felt that engine would have been better than VT but thats it.
I placed 7th and went 3/2 with a loss on my part due to bad decisionmaking and some mistakes and the second i lost due to dice (one ship left at 1 hull i took a 6 hit shot with a crit on a crit that was a direct hit from marek)
I played against manaroo/fenn/palob. Poor palob did not really stand a chance and my opponent focused down manaroo. I ended up only loosing her despite the first round of colbat without tokens because i blocked my whole team due to placing manaroo on a rock (not flown a large base in a while) fenn and cobra melted palob and the other fenn in two turns (managed to block his fenn with manaroo for cobra to shoot)
Second game i loose to chiraneau (vador crew rebel captive ysane ysard) and vessery flown by a really good player. I blocked chiraneau with manaroo but tried to focus him down and that was stupid. Between rocks and the 2 ships i lost all my manoeuvrability and the stress was icing on the cake (not enough experience against stress with link). I killed chiraneau but manaroo against vessery x7 with 3 hp was not enough.
I lose against maarek stele x7 quickdraw push the limit baffle and tomax bren concussion crackshot like i said mostly due from dice. I put tolax and qjickdraw at 1 hull in the frst round of combat then trades tomax for cobra the next and lost fenn because green dice (3 hit without reroll nor focus from him and 3 blanks for me with focus with 3 hull thanks stats)
I then won against quad tlt unhinged (lost cobra first round then manny and fenn pretty much were range 1 every time and the torpedoes went nuts on the poor y-wings)
Last game was dash miranda. Stripped the shields of dash on first shot without torpedoes and lost some hull on cobra then i feinted following dash by getting at range 1 to avoid the HLC and turned on miranda that was flanking. Due to PS9 i could not slam away and died from 14 dice total in the face with full mods except cobra. After some merry go round i managed to force dash to block on one of my ships to murder him with a range one attack witj no mods rto defend.
All in all a pretty good day. Love the list, definitely competitive but really unforgiving in your placement.
Feedback is strongly appreciated !
I wanted to give some intel on a build that is becoming really popular.
(Final of the day was miranda autoblaster turret homing missile/jan ors tlt/jake farren proton torp against ketsu/torkhil/palob, don’t remember all the upgrades