I didn't put this in a fleet build thread, because I thought it was down right hilarious....through my divorce I spent alot of time in a dark room painting swarms of ties...hell I paint ties at my desk at work on long hold calls...and now I've switched to V-wings.

I'm curious guys....how many ties can you came into a fleet and actually make it work?

Oh I also trapped a stink bug in a paper cup and put a brick ontop of it....he will die a slow death. #TarkinDoctrine #usethebluecan

Pappa Tarkin's flying circus of ties
Author: GottMituns205

Faction: Galactic Empire
Points: 398/400

Commander: Grand Moff Tarkin

Assault Objective: Most Wanted
Defense Objective: Contested Outpost
Navigation Objective: Superior Positions

[ flagship ] Victory I-Class Star Destroyer (73 points)
- Grand Moff Tarkin ( 38 points)
- Flight Controllers ( 6 points)
- Expanded Hangar Bay ( 5 points)
= 122 total ship cost

Victory I-Class Star Destroyer (73 points)
- Flight Controllers ( 6 points)
- Expanded Hangar Bay ( 5 points)
= 84 total ship cost

Gozanti-class Cruisers (23 points)
- Expanded Hangar Bay ( 5 points)
= 28 total ship cost

1 "Howlrunner" ( 16 points)
1 "Mauler" Mithel ( 15 points)
7 TIE Fighter Squadrons ( 56 points)
4 TIE Interceptor Squadrons ( 44 points)
1 TIE Advanced Squadron ( 12 points)
1 Darth Vader ( 21 points)

Drop a regular TIE and make some room for Valen Rudor, and I think you'd end up with a pretty burly squadron. The problem is that as soon as a double-dice AS battery looks at those TIEs funny they're going to melt.

What are the advanced for?

Drop a regular TIE and make some room for Valen Rudor, and I think you'd end up with a pretty burly squadron. The problem is that as soon as a double-dice AS battery looks at those TIEs funny they're going to melt.

Alternatively....drop the aces...and add more ties....and some gonzo's to push em....and drop tarkin for motti....and look at the utter terror on the foes face.

"I don't think Jan can brace all of those ties...."

What are the advanced for?

TBH they were there to jump in the way and absorb some shots...then the rest of the swarm would follow up and swallow them whole.

#IHAVENOLIFE

What are the advanced for?

TBH they were there to jump in the way and absorb some shots...then the rest of the swarm would follow up and swallow them whole.

So/... What you were saying, is that you don't actually TIE Swarm, and you care about your Pilots.

Hack.

Give it up, man. If you're gonna TIE Swarm, TIE Swarm...

Fine, lets go with 16 squadrons....2 vics and 3 gonzos....

expanded hanger bays for all.

Problem is, you'll kill squads, but you won't kill ships...

You are also well over your 134 point squadron allowance.

Not unless this is a 500 point Corellian Conflict matchup. In that instance you can have up to twenty tie fighter squadrons

You are also well over your 134 point squadron allowance.

Crap....

Well....16 Tie Fighters it is

Or ten TIEs and six bombers. Even the normal TIEs will do 5 dmg on average.

Best is one isd, 2 gozis and a mess of ties. Even if you can't control them all they die pretty fast, so just send in the backups

Many ties. Much howling. Long game.

TIE swarms are fun, but if you go without some bombers you gonna have a bad time against squadronless builds. Not necessarily because your TIEs wont do some okay damage over the course of the game, but because 3 HP thingies are not really meant to bulk up in close range to anything that even remotely looks like a Flak.

Fine, lets go with 16 squadrons....2 vics and 3 gonzos....

expanded hanger bays for all.

I'm waiting for the people to say you're going to slow the game down and will never make it past round 3 due to all the fighters... #shotsfired #goplayXWing

I'd like to see that fleet in action.

Completely non-competitive against anything other than big bomber lists, but may be fun nonetheless.

Bomber Hate
Faction: Galactic Empire

Points: 396/400

Commander: Admiral Motti

Assault Objective: Advanced Gunnery
Defense Objective: Contested Outpost
Navigation Objective: Minefields

[ flagship ] Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer (120 points)
- Admiral Motti ( 24 points)
- Relentless ( 3 points)
- Wulff Yularen ( 7 points)
- Flight Controllers ( 6 points)
- Expanded Hangar Bay ( 5 points)
- Electronic Countermeasures ( 7 points)
- X17 Turbolasers ( 6 points)
- Overload Pulse ( 8 points)
= 186 total ship cost

Gozanti-class Assault Carriers (28 points)
- Expanded Hangar Bay ( 5 points)
- Comms Net ( 2 points)
= 35 total ship cost

Raider-I Class Corvette (44 points)
- Impetuous ( 4 points)
- Agent Kallus ( 3 points)
- Ordnance Experts ( 4 points)
= 55 total ship cost

1 "Howlrunner" ( 16 points)
1 Valen Rudor ( 13 points)
1 "Mauler" Mithel ( 15 points)
1 Ciena Ree ( 17 points)
1 Soontir Fel ( 18 points)
1 Saber Squadron ( 12 points)
1 Black Squadron ( 9 points)
1 Dengar ( 20 points)

Fine, lets go with 16 squadrons....2 vics and 3 gonzos....

expanded hanger bays for all.

I'm waiting for the people to say you're going to slow the game down and will never make it past round 3 due to all the fighters... #shotsfired #goplayXWing

I'd like to see that fleet in action.

His ties will all be dead by the end of turn 2, so nothing to fear

You should put Dengar in this fleet because there is so much synergy.

Got a list

Glad2

Intel officer

Oe

Apt

Engine techs

Demolisher

Gozanti cruiser

Tarkin

Expanded hanger

Gozanti cruiser x3

Expanded hangar bay

Tie advanced x4

Tie Interceptors x4

Tie bombers x4

And 374 out of 400

TIE fighters can easily swarm a capital ship and bring it much grief. It has to be timed so that the fighters are between friend and enemy so your opponent has to choose between shooting at capital ships or shooting at 8 point TIE squadrons. Gunnery teams helps him also but if he has to shoot at two ships, he's likely not to go for TIEs. Bottom line: don't push them out on their own.

50% of the time a Tie doing a Bombing run does damage 100% of the time.

At 400:

12 TIE Fighter

Howlrunner

Major Rhymer

When I first test this, Im going to use and ISD and 3 Goz

I once built a fleet of 133 points of T/B, and the other2/3 of my fleet was Ozzel, Gozanti with Flight Commanders and EHB - EDIT: and BCC, of course.

No idea how well it would play, but it would be fun.