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We've seen FFG make some really good "fixes" for under used cards and ships. (Well, mostly ships). I'm hoping FFG will make more cards to interact with Tarkin, he's my fav commander cuz he requires thinking to maximally utilize basically what amounts to 2 commands per ship you have.

What are your best Tarkin fleets? Mostly for fun, but I'd love to see competitive ones too.

I have had a BLAST with Tarkin in CC. He super shines at 500 pts. My fleet was an ISD II, Gladiator, and 2 Arq's and a Gozanti with squad cover.

This is the fleet I was going to take to Regionals this year. It is similar to my CC fleet since my plan was to use the CC as practice for flying my regional fleet. The idea of the fleet was use Tarkin'd squad tokens to funnel the squadrons where they were needed early, then switch to engineering tokens to spam repair and just tank. With all those red dice with Jonus, IO, and conc. fire it's a lot of damage at long range. I don't know if it helps at all, but this is what I was going with:

Faction: Galactic Empire
Points: 397/400

Commander: Grand Moff Tarkin

Assault Objective: Most Wanted
Defense Objective: Capture the VIP
Navigation Objective: Solar Corona

Arquitens-class Light Cruiser (54 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Dual Turbolaser Turrets ( 5 points)
= 66 total ship cost

Arquitens-class Light Cruiser (54 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Dual Turbolaser Turrets ( 5 points)
= 66 total ship cost

[ flagship ] Gozanti-class Cruisers (23 points)
- Grand Moff Tarkin ( 38 points)
- Comms Net ( 2 points)
= 63 total ship cost

Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer (120 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- Reinforced Blast Doors ( 5 points)
- Dual Turbolaser Turrets ( 5 points)
- SW 7 Ion Batteries ( 5 points)
= 142 total ship cost

1 Black Squadron ( 9 points)
1 Captain Jonus ( 16 points)
2 TIE Interceptor Squadrons ( 22 points)
1 Tempest Squadron ( 13 points)

My recent Tarkin fleet that I consider to be tournament-ready

Tarkittens
Author: PT106

Faction: Galactic Empire
Points: 395/400

Commander: Grand Moff Tarkin

Assault Objective: Opening Salvo
Defense Objective: Planetary Ion Cannon
Navigation Objective: Dangerous Territory

[ flagship ] Arquitens-class Command Cruiser (59 points)
- Grand Moff Tarkin ( 38 points)
- Defense Liaison ( 3 points)
- Engine Techs ( 8 points)
- Reinforced Blast Doors ( 5 points)
- Dual Turbolaser Turrets ( 5 points)
= 118 total ship cost

Victory I-Class Star Destroyer (73 points)
- Warlord ( 8 points)
- Defense Liaison ( 3 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- H9 Turbolasers ( 8 points)
= 99 total ship cost

Raider-I Class Corvette (44 points)
= 44 total ship cost

Gozanti-class Cruisers (23 points)
= 23 total ship cost

Arquitens-class Command Cruiser (59 points)
- Captain Needa ( 2 points)
- Engine Techs ( 8 points)
- Reinforced Blast Doors ( 5 points)
- Turbolaser Reroute Circuits ( 7 points)
= 81 total ship cost

1 Ciena Ree ( 17 points)
1 Valen Rudor ( 13 points)

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50 minutes ago, BrobaFett said:

I have had a BLAST with Tarkin in CC. He super shines at 500 pts. My fleet was an ISD II, Gladiator, and 2 Arq's and a Gozanti with squad cover.

This is the fleet I was going to take to Regionals this year. It is similar to my CC fleet since my plan was to use the CC as practice for flying my regional fleet. The idea of the fleet was use Tarkin'd squad tokens to funnel the squadrons where they were needed early, then switch to engineering tokens to spam repair and just tank. With all those red dice with Jonus, IO, and conc. fire it's a lot of damage at long range. I don't know if it helps at all, but this is what I was going with:

Faction: Galactic Empire
Points: 397/400

Commander: Grand Moff Tarkin

Assault Objective: Most Wanted
Defense Objective: Capture the VIP
Navigation Objective: Solar Corona

Arquitens-class Light Cruiser (54 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Dual Turbolaser Turrets ( 5 points)
= 66 total ship cost

Arquitens-class Light Cruiser (54 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Dual Turbolaser Turrets ( 5 points)
= 66 total ship cost

[ flagship ] Gozanti-class Cruisers (23 points)
- Grand Moff Tarkin ( 38 points)
- Comms Net ( 2 points)
= 63 total ship cost

Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer (120 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- Reinforced Blast Doors ( 5 points)
- Dual Turbolaser Turrets ( 5 points)
- SW 7 Ion Batteries ( 5 points)
= 142 total ship cost

1 Black Squadron ( 9 points)
1 Captain Jonus ( 16 points)
2 TIE Interceptor Squadrons ( 22 points)
1 Tempest Squadron ( 13 points)

Dude this build looks bombdiggity

I love Jonus and long range reds. How well did it work out on the table? Also, 4 ships

Also, can you pass the link? I'mma tweak it for my purposes.

Ill be totally honest, I had it memorized so I just threw it in manually since I am on mobile. I'll PM it to you when I get a bit.

Unfortunately I couldnt make it to my regionals, so I couldn't test it against a battery of skilled opponents, but it worked really well. I played one on the table practice game against a local opponent and they got tabled turn 4 and it wasnt even kinda close.

He was running a pelta, liberty, MC30, 2 flot, and bombers. The Arqs killed the liberty by stripping tokens with big jonus aided hits turn 3 without hardly taking a scratch in return while the ISD barrelled into the pelta and mc30 killing the pelta in one shot and tanking some heavy mc30 double arcs with rbd and engineering tokens shuttled via coms net.

Playing the 500 pt version in CC it did very very well too. I can't speak highly enough of how good Tarkin is the with the Arquitens especially.

7 hours ago, pt106 said:

My recent Tarkin fleet that I consider to be tournament-ready

Tarkittens
Author: PT106

Faction: Galactic Empire
Points: 395/400

Commander: Grand Moff Tarkin

Assault Objective: Opening Salvo
Defense Objective: Planetary Ion Cannon
Navigation Objective: Dangerous Territory

[ flagship ] Arquitens-class Command Cruiser (59 points)
- Grand Moff Tarkin ( 38 points)
- Defense Liaison ( 3 points)
- Engine Techs ( 8 points)
- Reinforced Blast Doors ( 5 points)
- Dual Turbolaser Turrets ( 5 points)
= 118 total ship cost

Victory I-Class Star Destroyer (73 points)
- Warlord ( 8 points)
- Defense Liaison ( 3 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- H9 Turbolasers ( 8 points)
= 99 total ship cost

Raider-I Class Corvette (44 points)
= 44 total ship cost

Gozanti-class Cruisers (23 points)
= 23 total ship cost

Arquitens-class Command Cruiser (59 points)
- Captain Needa ( 2 points)
- Engine Techs ( 8 points)
- Reinforced Blast Doors ( 5 points)
- Turbolaser Reroute Circuits ( 7 points)
= 81 total ship cost

1 Ciena Ree ( 17 points)
1 Valen Rudor ( 13 points)

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Yes! Someone finally got their squad composition right!