Gozanti Class Cruiser (59)

-Mara Jade

-Rear Admiral Chiraneau

-Engine Booster

-Dual Laser Turret

-Automated Protocols

Soontir Fel (37)

-Push The Limit

-Title

-Hull Upgrade

-Shield Upgrade

Saber Squadron Pilot (24x5)

-Push The Limit

Howlrunner (18)

-Adaptabillity

Obsidian Squadron Pilot (13x5)

299/300

I know Soontir Fel is not an efficient use of points in epic, but I want to bring him anyway. As for the rest I like the Gozanti as a stress battering ram, and tie fighters just work in epic. Think I have enough fighters?

9/10 needs more TIE Fighter

9/10 needs more TIE Fighter

Drop soontir fel and one saber for 5 academy pilots? Lol

Gozanti Class Cruiser (59)

-Mara Jade

-Rear Admiral Chiraneau

-Engine Booster

-Dual Laser Turret

-Automated Protocols

So "ramming speed", then?

Used something similar myself. With Engine Booster and Chiraneau, you're disconcertingly fast, and still have a reinforce action.

You're not as good a battering ram as the rebel equivalent (purely because a GR-75 is cheaper and the Bright Hope title is amazing), but still **** good.

I'm honestly not sure if you'll get enough mileage out of the Dual Laser Turret. It's bleeding energy for a 3-dice attack and you're probably not going to have much to spare.

I know Soontir Fel is not an efficient use of points in epic, but I want to bring him anyway.

Then go with it.

If I wanted to nit-pick, I'd question the Saber Squadron pilots.

The problem is this: classic TIE interceptor doctrine is to zoom in, avoiding arcs of fire as much as possible, then focus/evade. But an evade token is a waste unless you're actually being shot at. Soontir, yes. He's going to draw the same hate he always does. But the sabers....might not get shot at, in which case you're wasting your free action, and by extension the points spent to get it.

something like opportunist might actually work well; letting you lay down massed firepower once people have spent tokens.

I'd probably consider dropping the obsidians to crack shot black squadrons if you can. firstly they can then shoot before opportunist interceptors (and clear tokens) and secondly you really, really want crack shot to reliably breach reinforce token assisted defences.

It looks good. Hope it goes well!

The reason I'm bringing ptl on the interceptors is to always have focus, even when I want to boost or barrel roll. Evade tokens don't do so much in epic (unless its on a juke/comm fo). Having the option to turtle up is still nice though. I like the Idea of opportunist getting some amount of use, and to find the points I could probably drop the turret. Then I would need to find 10 points somewhere for crack-blacks, which probably means dropping fel to a saber.

Boost/Focus is nice - that's fair enough, I guess.

For the TIE fighters, I was suggesting sacrificing a single ship to upgrade the rest - that'd also leave you 3 points to put a hull upgrade on Howlrunner.

you might also want to consider "downgrading" her to Youngster with Rage.

Easily a worse choice in normal games, but in epic you've got a longer "chain" for the TIE fighters (or you can upgrade one other to Epsilon Leader if you don't mind throwing in First Order stuff).

The reason Youngster has an advantage over Howlrunner in big games is that Rage is an action - whilst Howlrunner is a "when you're attacking" bonus. Normally the latter is better, but when you've got the entire cast of Rogue Squadron boresighting on your squad, the odds of Howlrunner still being alive when PS4's turn to shoot rolls around is slim to none. With Youngster, the bonus to your attack rolls is "locked in" at the perform action step.

I Like the ideas presented, here's the list with changes:

Gozanti (58)

-Mara Jade

-Rear Admiral Chiraneau

-Engine Booster

-Automated Protocols

-Cluster Bombs

Saber Squadron Pilot (25x6)

-Opportunist

Youngster (16)

-Rage

Black Squadron Pilot (15x5)

-Crackshot

299/300

A little skittish about all the self stressing, but that's just my prejudices from standard play. Looking forward to giving this a shot.

Edit: I added cluster bombs to the Gozanti because an explosive battering ram sounds hilarious (and I don't have anything else to spend the points on).