Just working out what im gonna be taking to regionals and im down to basically a choice of 1 list for each faction and in considering the Imperial the main question i have is if Stress is a mechanic thats worth bothering with these days?

I see alot of ships that dont seem to care or have ways of mitigating stress so have things like Tactician or Rebel Captive (ie the Imperial Stress causers) had their day? For the record im considering Rhymer with Snapshot, Tactician and Captive in a TIE shuttle alongside 2 X-7's.

Thoughts?

Hard to say. You'll find match ups where they could care less (Dengaroo, Party Bus) but there are builds it could really mess with (anything relying on PTL, Mindlink)

Stress control in general still has a place. Soontir and his ilk are still boogeymen. However, I think you're spending too much on a ship that's entirely dead weight in the Dengaroo matchup- the Rebel Counterparts to your build, the stresshog and Brayeln, are both much stronger offensively.

Stress control in general still has a place. Soontir and his ilk are still boogeymen. However, I think you're spending too much on a ship that's entirely dead weight in the Dengaroo matchup- the Rebel Counterparts to your build, the stresshog and Brayeln, are both much stronger offensively.

Thats kinda what i was thinking but i like taking unusual lists, or even non competitive and seeing if something works.

My other Choices are "Stay on Target T-70's with an A-Wing Blocker" or "3 Heavy Sycks with Mangler/Outmaneuver and Laetin with a Tractor Beam"

The Rebel list i worry ill be all about the evading and stunt flying than i will be about doing any significant damage but that last one is actually pretty effective at stripping down Big Ships with low Agility like Manaroo, it just suffers against Aces.

Stress, in large amounts, causes people to yell and scream about bad dice. Without actions naked dice are much less reliable. That being said Ryhmer with snap shot and Tactician is so incredibly tough to get a reliable stress output that I really could never justify spending that many points on him just for stress. Much better would be crack shot Brin with a homing missle.

Homing missile ignores those pesky evade tokens, and does not spend the TL to fire it so rarely have I seen less than 3 hits when combined with Chips. And the crack shot every turn is just icing on the cake.

Literally everyone short of dengaroos dengar cares about stress. Simply denying focus on a hera ghost is already huge due to the damage you wouldve otherwise suffered

But the only stress youre likely to find is asajj and r3a2 and the little droid sadly hasnt appeared much

Stress does not make rhymer any less disgustingly overpricrd though