Opposite of Meta

By Hepitude, in X-Wing

19 minutes ago, debiler said:

Shuttles. Naked f***in Shuttles.

Nah. If you really want probably the worst ship in the game in terms of cost to utility ratio, naked Black Eight Squadron Punishers. 4 of them have only a slightly better health than the shuttle, but WAY worse offence.

10 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Nah. If you really want probably the worst ship in the game in terms of cost to utility ratio, naked Black Eight Squadron Punishers. 4 of them have only a slightly better health than the shuttle, but WAY worse offence.

Yeah, but the shuttle can't turn its fat behind around. The punisher is the worse ship, but it'll beat the shuttle 1on1 9 out of 10 times due to maneuverability. You can't beat something you can't shoot at.

1 hour ago, debiler said:

Shuttles. Naked f***in Shuttles.

That can actually be effective if you castle.

3 hours ago, debiler said:

Shuttles. Naked f***in Shuttles.

Nah, that actually can win by concentrated firepower

2 hours ago, Duskwalker said:

That can actually be effective if you castle.

Not engaging your opponent isn't playing, actually. It may not be forbidden, but it's definitely frowned upon. In the open field, the Shuttle is a sitting duck.

For pure terrible the naked hawks or hawks plus gunner is a pretty good bet. For something not great but a little thematic you could fit Hobbie, Biggs, Jek Porkins, and a rookie pilot on a list and have 3 points to spare for upgrades. You could replace the Rookie with a Red Squadron pilot or Tarn Mison and drop to 1 point left:

Edited by mdl0114
7 hours ago, Arkanta974 said:

Kir Kanos : 24 pts

Lt Lorrir : 23 pts

Fel Wrath : 23 pts

Winged Gundark : 15 pts

Chaser : 14 pts

Total : 99 pts

in this type of event, this would be too good.the base ships are just too good for their lackluster abilities to hinder them too badly

You can always use the random function in many list builders.

Another thing to try is All Generics.

24 minutes ago, heychadwick said:

You can always use the random function in many list builders.

Another thing to try is All Generics.

It is so sad that "just try all generics" is actually a reasonable answer to what constitutes bad squads nowadays. Wouldn't have imagined ever being at that point wave 3.

Like awful but fun or just straight awful? I'd go with the first.

Mux: TLT Greedo

4-LOM: title+Tractor Beam, Stay on Target, Outlaw Tech, Advanced Sensors

Tel Trevura: Lone Wolf, Gonk, R5-P8, Feedback Array

Why play awful squads?

Why not try taking normally unseen pilots and try to make them work. I've been running Esege, Ibtisam and Sabine(Attack shuttle) and I've had a blast.

As many naked tie bombers as you can take.


YT-2400: · Dash Rendar (36)
Expose (4)
XX-23 S-Thread Tracers (1)
Tractor Beam (1)
Smuggling Compartment (0)
· Luke Skywalker (7)
· Outrider (5)
· Experimental Interface (3)
Scavenger Crane (2)


HWK-290: · Jan Ors (25)
Expertise (4)
Shield Upgrade (4)
· Leia Organa (4)
· Moldy Crow (3)


-- TOTAL ------- 99p. --

99pts for a 1 red dice pero turn (if you can)

We need to specify: 90 points or over, or else I fly 1 z95.

On 3/2/2017 at 0:52 AM, stonestokes said:

The "better" part of my list is Dash with Luke. Luke never gets to do his thing, because Dash no longer has a primary weapon. He only has a tractor beam. But it is a 4 dice tractor beam if he uses Expose. ;)

It's even "better" than you thought! Expose only works on primary weapons!

Double post.

Edited by MortalPlague

6 Scimitar Squadron pilots, all with TIE Shuttle title and Guidance chips. 4 point bid.

Though honestly a pure 6 naked HWK list is probably worse.

Edited by BadMotivator
19 minutes ago, BadMotivator said:

6 Scimitar Squadron pilots, all with TIE Shuttle title and Guidance chips. 4 point bid.

Though honestly a pure 6 naked HWK list is probably worse.

6 naked Bombers are actually pretty efficient. They used to be almost on par with the TIE swarm back in the day (using Howlrunner).

This......not terrible, but really in no way meta:

  • Sigma Squadron Pilot, Fire-Control System, Stygium Particle Accelerator (29)
  • Sigma Squadron Pilot, Fire-Control System, Stygium Particle Accelerator (29)
  • Colonel Jendon (42), Lambda-Class Shuttle (26), Fire-Control System (2), Ion Cannon (3), Weapons Engineer (3), Darth Vader (3), ST-321 (3), Anti-Pursuit Lasers (2)
Edited by clanofwolves

Stock Scyk swarm. No mods, no titles, no extra weapons.

On 3/2/2017 at 10:23 AM, mdl0114 said:

For pure terrible the naked hawks or hawks plus gunner is a pretty good bet. For something not great but a little thematic you could fit Hobbie, Biggs, Jek Porkins, and a rookie pilot on a list and have 3 points to spare for upgrades. You could replace the Rookie with a Red Squadron pilot or Tarn Mison and drop to 1 point left:

Jek Porkins with push the limit. "how fast can I kill me?"

Electronic baffle, Chopper, Experimental interface on an ARC-170. 2 Damage a turn until death.

3 knave squadron E-wings all decked out. Unstoppable. We could finally get to see how overcosted these things are supposed to be

14 hours ago, FlyingAnchors said:

Jek Porkins with push the limit. "how fast can I kill me?"

I actually like Porkins and I've run him with PTL or Rage and he can --dice rolls needed of course-- do real damage and "hold it!"

On 3/1/2017 at 6:21 PM, Hepitude said:

My X-Wing Wednesday group is playing purposefully awful fleets tonight for fun. What's the worst fleet you can come up with?

After following Worlds, just tell them they have to play Imps.

Done.

Thanks FFG,

-Scum and Rebels