PILOTS 100 points

Guri [Attanni Mindlink, Autothrusters] (33)

Fenn Rau [Attanni Mindlink, Concord Dawn Protector, Autothrusters] (32)

Contracted Scout [Proton Torpedoes, Extra Munitions, K4 Security Droid, Attanni Mindlink, Guidance Chips] (35)

played it yesterday. packs more punch than you should think and is super fun and versatile. Throw guri and Fenn into the knife fight and try to get some protons off from the distance, great action economy and if you have to take a community stress or get one from your opponent the ships all have decent greens to shed it or can even just get focus tokens on top of stress tokens. it works very well.

beat a chewie list two times and lost narrowly after two hours to new poe and rey.

Nice work!

I'm hearing rumblings that mindlink will be a thing at worlds, and then just saw your post. Argh! Looks solid.

Sincerely,

Devoted Imperial Player

I'm hearing rumblings that mindlink will be a thing at worlds, and then just saw your post. Argh! Looks solid.

Sincerely,

Devoted Imperial Player

Mindlink is here in a big way. The list above seems solid, and there are a few different options with palob and manaroo anchoring the list. Palob's ability almost always means both he and manaroo have at minimum a focus token every round regardless of stress or bumps.

I definitely think it will be a thing at worlds.

Me and a friend have been play testing mindlink squads for a few weeks now. I'm currently 7-0 with Fenn and Teroch (both with AM, title and AT) alongside Manaroo (AM, K4, GC, UA, FA and a proton torp) and he's currently 9-1 with almost the same squad (a plasma torp instead of proton) and his only loss was a final salvo.

I'm hearing rumblings that mindlink will be a thing at worlds, and then just saw your post. Argh! Looks solid.

Sincerely,

Devoted Imperial Player

Mindlink is here in a big way. The list above seems solid, and there are a few different options with palob and manaroo anchoring the list. Palob's ability almost always means both he and manaroo have at minimum a focus token every round regardless of stress or bumps.

Dont forget Guri as the anchor, if she gets within range one of an enemy...gets focus from ability and bam! A mindlinked Guri with illicit cloacking and autothrusters is an unpleasant enemy on the board.

Another fun list:

Kaa'To Leeachos — Z-95 Headhunter 15

Attanni Mindlink 1

Black Market Slicer Tools 1

Guri — StarViper 30

Attanni Mindlink 1

Autothrusters 2

Palob Godalhi — HWK-290 20

Attanni Mindlink 1

Twin Laser Turret 6

Vectored Thrusters 2

Tansarii Point Veteran — M3-A Interceptor 17

Attanni Mindlink 1

Tractor Beam 1

"Heavy Scyk" Interceptor (Cannon) 2

100pt, just for laughs.

(FYI they are all PS5 so enjoy)

I think its hilarious that its taken the community 10 months to figure out that Mindlink is good! I've been singing its praises since it was spoiled back in January...

I think there will be two main types of mindlink lists at worlds: Same PS 3-4 ship builds and 'feeder' builds

PS5 will probably be the most common same PS level because of all of the generics, TPVs, Gand Findsmen, and Concord Dawn Aces, yes please. I think these are harder to use.

Feeder builds relying on Manaroo or Palob are also really solid because they can be built cheaply and will almost always proc. Guri is okay, but usually clocks in 5-10 points more, so she needs to contribute more to the attack than Palob or Roo. The job here is usually to buff another ship, like Rau, Talonbane, or Xizor so they are more action efficient.

Do you guys think one style is inherently better?

At first i was wondering why Guri but then i remembered....Attani procs off assign, not the action. Her pilot ability now goes to all ships and not just her... Ewwwww....

How does this deal with the predicted resurgence in stress control?

I think its hilarious that its taken the community 10 months to figure out that Mindlink is good! I've been singing its praises since it was spoiled back in January...

How does this deal with the predicted resurgence in stress control?

I think there will be two main types of mindlink lists at worlds: Same PS 3-4 ship builds and 'feeder' builds

PS5 will probably be the most common same PS level because of all of the generics, TPVs, Gand Findsmen, and Concord Dawn Aces, yes please. I think these are harder to use.

Feeder builds relying on Manaroo or Palob are also really solid because they can be built cheaply and will almost always proc. Guri is okay, but usually clocks in 5-10 points more, so she needs to contribute more to the attack than Palob or Roo. The job here is usually to buff another ship, like Rau, Talonbane, or Xizor so they are more action efficient.

Do you guys think one style is inherently better?

Palob should still be strong.

Guri is also very strong. Personally, I think the feeder builds will be more likely, as people are more used to that play style. yknow, palp shuttle, one support type of thing. dengaroo for instance. ugh.

I think its a lot of control of target priority. though honestly, I think that style is getting weaker as we all know how to deal with it.

I think its hilarious that its taken the community 10 months to figure out that Mindlink is good! I've been singing its praises since it was spoiled back in January...

You and me both brother. I have been tinkering with it since it came out and everyone told me how bad it was. The other week I won a 14 player tournament with a mindlink list 6-0 for the day. They don't think mindlink is so bad anymore.

I think its hilarious that its taken the community 10 months to figure out that Mindlink is good! I've been singing its praises since it was spoiled back in January...

You and me both brother. I have been tinkering with it since it came out and everyone told me how bad it was. The other week I won a 14 player tournament with a mindlink list 6-0 for the day. They don't think mindlink is so bad anymore.

lol sounds like me with bombers. Everyone was baffled with my duo-bomber + ryad list. 6-0 at an 18player tourny. Now i see bombers quite a bit rofl

How does this deal with the predicted resurgence in stress control?

You can only recieve a max of one stress token from Mindlink triggering. So a stresshog can double stress one ship and single stress the others. During tue next turn only one ship needs to clear stress and take a focus action to give ALL ships a focus. This way even stressed ships get an action. So i would say it is neither strong nor weak against stress control but can manage it as well (if not better) than most lists.

Its more based on if you mess up. It becomes like a huge number of hoops to leap through. Thankfully nowadays if you do a red move while stressed, you just do a 2 straight instead.

How does this deal with the predicted resurgence in stress control?

You can only recieve a max of one stress token from Mindlink triggering. So a stresshog can double stress one ship and single stress the others. During tue next turn only one ship needs to clear stress and take a focus action to give ALL ships a focus. This way even stressed ships get an action. So i would say it is neither strong nor weak against stress control but can manage it as well (if not better) than most lists.

But that the advantage of these proposed lists - you dont even need to clear the stress! Palob, Guri (Leeachos) all triggers at start of the combat phase REGARDLESS of you are stressed or not, and BAM! all you ship have a focus. As you get to decide the trigger order, you also get to decide who of these gets two focus ;-D

In fact the RIGHT mindlink list is practically immune to stress alone.

The nemesis of mind-lists are the combination of stress dealing and Black Market Slicer Tools, but you just have to hammer the BMST carriers of these down fast (if you can).

I think its hilarious that its taken the community 10 months to figure out that Mindlink is good! I've been singing its praises since it was spoiled back in January...

It's not about 10 months. It's about 9th wave. Tools we've got lately perfectly synergize with the Attanni Mindlink.

Before wave 9 we had overpriced Guri, weak Khiraxz Fighters, 1 agility Kavil etc. Now we have decent Fang Fighters, powerful Lancer craft, fixed Scyk M3A. Almost every new Attanni list consist Fenn Rau. It's only 32 pts and such usability!

So now it's time for Attanni to blossom and monstrosities like Parattanni can rule the tables

Asajj Ventress + Latts Razzi, Attanni Mindlink

Fenn Rau + Title, Autothrusters, Attanni Mindlink

Manaroo + Attanni Mindlink.

Check the beauty of it and you'll never leave home without Attanni

I think its hilarious that its taken the community 10 months to figure out that Mindlink is good! I've been singing its praises since it was spoiled back in January...

It's not about 10 months. It's about 9th wave. Tools we've got lately perfectly synergize with the Attanni Mindlink.

Before wave 9 we had overpriced Guri, weak Khiraxz Fighters, 1 agility Kavil etc. Now we have decent Fang Fighters, powerful Lancer craft, fixed Scyk M3A. Almost every new Attanni list consist Fenn Rau. It's only 32 pts and such usability!

So now it's time for Attanni to blossom and monstrosities like Parattanni can rule the tables

Asajj Ventress + Latts Razzi, Attanni Mindlink

Fenn Rau + Title, Autothrusters, Attanni Mindlink

Manaroo + Attanni Mindlink.

Check the beauty of it and you'll never leave home without Attanni

Like it! How does the parts synergies?

The nemesis of mind-lists are the combination of stress dealing and Black Market Slicer Tools, but you just have to hammer the BMST carriers of these down fast (if you can).

Asaaj + Latts crew is also pretty nasty. Being able to add a free evade when defending against your whole list makes it a tough ship to focus down if your opponent is rolling average greens.

And personally, I like feeder lists. Being able to generate focus for the squad without actions is amazing for Mindlink (like with Palob/Guri) and Manaroo is a tremendous support ship.

Mindlink lists are like crack, you'll never stop playing them once you get started.

Edit: ninja'd

The main disadvantage of attanni lists is Asajj with Latts crew. That free evade for every single shot is just evil.

Here is another badboy which is going to frustrate your opponent:

Palob Godalhi — HWK-290 20

Attanni Mindlink 1

Twin Laser Turret 6

"Gonk" 2 Ship

Manaroo — JumpMaster 5000 27

Attanni Mindlink 1

K4 Security Droid 3

R5-P8 3

Black Market Slicer Tools 1

Guri — StarViper 30

Attanni Mindlink 1

Collision Detector 0

Cloaking Device 2

Autothrusters 2

Virago 1

Is anyone running this Kavil build in a mindlink list? I need more data about how it performs.

Kavil / Attanni Mindlink / Unhinged Astromech / TLT / vectored thrusters (34 points)

I think its hilarious that its taken the community 10 months to figure out that Mindlink is good! I've been singing its praises since it was spoiled back in January...

It's not about 10 months. It's about 9th wave. Tools we've got lately perfectly synergize with the Attanni Mindlink.

Before wave 9 we had overpriced Guri, weak Khiraxz Fighters, 1 agility Kavil etc. Now we have decent Fang Fighters, powerful Lancer craft, fixed Scyk M3A. Almost every new Attanni list consist Fenn Rau. It's only 32 pts and such usability!

So now it's time for Attanni to blossom and monstrosities like Parattanni can rule the tables

Asajj Ventress + Latts Razzi, Attanni Mindlink

Fenn Rau + Title, Autothrusters, Attanni Mindlink

Manaroo + Attanni Mindlink.

Check the beauty of it and you'll never leave home without Attanni

Like it! How does the parts synergies?

Asajj is a Tank. Moves second, takes Evade action and ends with 2 Focuses, Evade and Stress-to-evade mechanism form Latts Razzi. Bloody hard nut to crack.

Fenn Rau is a Cavalry. He dodges arcs, does flanking maneuvers and often it's enough for him to fire twice with his glorious 5 dice attack to win the game.

This is really nuts.

I'm hearing rumblings that mindlink will be a thing at worlds, and then just saw your post. Argh! Looks solid.

Sincerely,

Devoted Imperial Player

Mindlink is here in a big way. The list above seems solid, and there are a few different options with palob and manaroo anchoring the list. Palob's ability almost always means both he and manaroo have at minimum a focus token every round regardless of stress or bumps.

I originally wanted palob as my third ship instead of the scout. tlt and some stuff.. maybe even the title. cloaking device for longevity perhaps. maybe rec spec or one of the bounty hunters.

I have played him A LOT. love him with outlaw tech. makes him a totally different ship. but for this list I came to the conclusion that he just doesn't fit. he is to frail and his dam output is to low. and his ability sort of conflicts with guris when it comes to providing the mindlink focus. also, opponent can potentially ruin your turn by not taking focus. I will test him sooner or later, though, he might fit after all but as of now the scout has proved super synergetic. opponent can't really ignore it and if the focus on the scout your two stars can shine.

but yeah, Palob. He's a gem.