AAAA..tack shuttle

By FourDogsInaHorseSuit, in X-Wing Squad Lists

I'm trying out this list tonight at the local X wing event that's a warm up for another event.

Tonight's Fun, 98 points.
Sabine Wren, -29 points

Attack Shuttle -21
Swarm Leader -3
Operations Specialist -3
Autoblaster Turret -2

Green Squadron Pilot -23 points
A Wing -19
A Wing test pilot -0
Chardaan Refit - -2
Snap Shot -2
Autothrusters -2
Juke -2

Green Squadron Pilot -23 points
Same as above

Green Squadron Pilot -23 points
Same as above

The Idea is to use juke to get mods even on Snapshot while spamming evade actions for duribility. Even with Juke, snap will miss and Sabine will feed out Focus Tokens keeping the squad healthy, and cleaning up with Swarm Leader. Hopefully the PS is low enough that by the time Sabine shoots, everyone who can shoot back is out of shots so I can freely take the evades. If they then miss at normal shooting then I can still use Operations specialist to focus again because there is no quantity limit on the specialist.
At 96 points I had enough left over for a turret on the Attack shuttle, and I like the token-stack ignoring effects of an autoblaster.

So what do you all think?

I like Juke and Snap Shot for sure. Sabine may be slippery enough to survive to get Swarm Leader to work but I do think that it works better on higher pilot skill ships. It allows them to beef up an attack and possibly kill stuff before it gets to shoot back. With mid-range pilot skill, you may run into aces that kill Sabine before she even fires once. The shuttle is pretty fragile if it gets caught in enough arcs. Then you just have some A-wings that aren't terrible, but don't have a lot of teeth. Also without PTL, you rely a lot on those snap shots and Juke but they will likely have to spend evade tokens before they get a chance to Juke or buff up Sabine. Just something to consider.

My big issue is that Sabine shoots before the A-Wings, losing a lot (literally half or more) of the benefit of Juke from the list.

While it otherwise would work super well, I think that Sabine taking the evade tokens is a real shame. If there is another option, I'd personally go with that, but I also get that there really isn't. If you drop autothrusters off two of the As, then you could fit Braylen with R2-D6, Operations Specialist and Swarm Leader, bit that also loses a lot of durability. Really up to you at the end of the day, so take it for a whirl and test it out.

3 minutes ago, Kreen said:

My big issue is that Sabine shoots before the A-Wings, losing a lot (literally half or more) of the benefit of Juke from the list.

While it otherwise would work super well, I think that Sabine taking the evade tokens is a real shame. If there is another option, I'd personally go with that, but I also get that there really isn't. If you drop autothrusters off two of the As, then you could fit Braylen with R2-D6, Operations Specialist and Swarm Leader, bit that also loses a lot of durability. Really up to you at the end of the day, so take it for a whirl and test it out.

I tried it earlier, and no one had auto thrusters and it was Norra leading the swarm in her ARC.
The thng is, if you want auto-thrusters, the only ship cheap enough for Operations Specialist and swarm leader is the Attack shuttle. With effectively four points open to you, you can pick any one of the shuttle's pilots at the cost of the turret.