I'm just gonna play my favorite team. It will never win a tournament. It's relatively easy to play. Darth Vader & Friends (99)
Darth Vader (37) - TIE Advanced
Predator (3), TIE/x1 (0), Engine Upgrade (4), Advanced Targeting Computer (5)
Onyx Squadron Pilot (31) - TIE Defender
TIE/x7 (-2), Twin Ion Engine Mk. II (1)
Onyx Squadron Pilot (31) - TIE Defender
TIE/x7 (-2), Twin Ion Engine Mk. II (1)
Tough day at the mat?
I won a tournament with a very similar list to that one. I loved it becuase it was so straightforward and just... mean. Each ship in the list is a stone cold efficient killer.
no reason not to try new stuff
you just gotta be honest with yourself as to what "new stuff" entails
for example, janky ship combo #10511 isn't going to mean diddly if it can't modify the **** out of its dice or circumvent dice rolling altogether
List ain't bad. Missing Palp, though..
Kidding.
Flying new stuff is an excellent break from my "competitive" list. Make Vader/x7s the list you know backward and forward and take to small events. Let loose with some other stuff.
If you're already using Imperial Vets, give the other Defenders a try at least!
The beauty of X-Wing for me is that once I own a ship I can fly it in any configuration - none of that 40k garbage where once you've glued that equipment on a soldier they're stuck for good.
I'm just gonna play my favorite team. It will never win a tournament. It's relatively easy to play. Darth Vader & Friends (99)
Darth Vader (37) - TIE Advanced
Predator (3), TIE/x1 (0), Engine Upgrade (4), Advanced Targeting Computer (5)
Onyx Squadron Pilot (31) - TIE Defender
TIE/x7 (-2), Twin Ion Engine Mk. II (1)
Onyx Squadron Pilot (31) - TIE Defender
TIE/x7 (-2), Twin Ion Engine Mk. II (1)
It's not actually a bad list.
If you wanted to improve it slightly - I'd bump the Onyx pilots down to Deltas (PS3 vs PS1 doesn't get you much, and at PS1 you can at least be a blocker on top of everything else) and put prockets on Vader. PS9 + EU Vader does so love his prockets...
So... What's the point of this post? Cool list wookie. Sorry you can't read the new cards.
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The beauty of X-Wing for me is that once I own a ship I can fly it in any configuration - none of that 40k garbage where once you've glued that equipment on a soldier they're stuck for good.
I have had this exact thought myself! A friend of mine used small rare earth magnets to make his 40k army more adjustable, but that is a tremendous amount of time and effort to achieve just a semblance of fluidity.
Meanwhile, this game is customizable AF! I have a Boba Fett lunchbox with everything I need to play my favorite Imp AND Rebel lists(still looking for the right scum combo) and a handful of different options for each!
If you're already using Imperial Vets, give the other Defenders a try at least!
The beauty of X-Wing for me is that once I own a ship I can fly it in any configuration - none of that 40k garbage where once you've glued that equipment on a soldier they're stuck for good.
That's if you stick strictly to WYSWYG. Generally if a model was a commissar it was a commissar, the only equipment that matters were what was on the Lone Wolf army list sheet I brought. I only really used special and heavy weapons as WYSWIG.
However X-wing plays structure and play style is a lot differently. In 40K you are only supposed to have 1 Army and stick to that army. It is a lot like League of Legends where you stick to a single hero for the entire game. With X-wing you really are expected to collect from all three factions, so it is easier to switch factions in X-wing than it is in 40K, much like in Overwatch you are expected to change your hero. I know not the best comparison but you get the point.
I win every-time I play with my Wonderful STAR WARS Toys... Brah.
I've been debating just doing a dump on ebay, both for the majority of my X-Wing crap as well as my 40k minis.
Lost most of my interest in both franchises and quite frankly I'm more disgusted in looking at all the plastic just collecting dust.
I'm just gonna play my favorite team. It will never win a tournament. It's relatively easy to play.
The fact that it's your favourite and you find it easy to play may just win you a tournament.
People who keep tweaking and tweaking their squad chasing after the elusive 'perfect list' are missing a trick. You pick a squad you like, that you think might do okay, and you play the ass off it without changing it, then, if you feel the need, you fettle it a bit, and repeat.
I would put my money on someone who's played a squad without changing it much, if at all, for a year, and really, really has their eye in for the dial maneuvers that matter against someone with a named net list. No matter how cruddy the first list sounded, because if they know what they're doing they'll probably surprise you.
There is nothing inherently wrong with Vader and two Defenders. You have an answer to high PS aces with possibly the best one-on-one dogfighter going, and an answer to big ships with three heavy fighters, each of which is a bugger to kill with essentially 'free' evades, which are effectively regenerating shields. Could it be better? Maybe. But if you like it, and practice with it - and the Octahedrons Of Inevitable BetrayalTM decide to support you for once - I see no reason you couldn't win an event with it.
You gave me inspiration!
I want to try this now:
Its a good list actually. You have to fly Vader conseravtively, and push the Onyx in hard though. I wouldnt change anything.
Predator is the right choice here imo: you got some power with the onyxes and you need the extra firepower cuz you dont have palpatine to help defend you.
However X-wing plays structure and play style is a lot differently. In 40K you are only supposed to have 1 Army and stick to that army. It is a lot like League of Legends where you stick to a single hero for the entire game. With X-wing you really are expected to collect from all three factions, so it is easier to switch factions in X-wing than it is in 40K, much like in Overwatch you are expected to change your hero. I know not the best comparison but you get the point.
No I don't, that's a terrible comparison. X-Wing is much more LoL than OW. You take a set team into a match and you have it for that match. No in game changing allowed. I think you would be better off using a different comparison, or game. 40k is more like CiV, you pick your race and have it for a very, very long period of time, with minor changes per play through depending on win conditions.
So... What's the point of this post? Cool list wookie. Sorry you can't read the new cards.
Outmaneuvering Backdraft torn the crap out of hyperdash for me in an escalation tourny.
Didnt single handedly kill him but he did 90% of the damage lol