Tie swarms

By Mightycaz, in X-Wing Squad Lists

Hi there!

I'm new to the forum but have been playing a while. I've built up a fairly large fleet over the past 6 months or so.

Anyways, after trying loads of different builds with large ships, small ships, and aces I've returned to flying swarms.

I've got two lists I've been trying with mainly against a fat han list and had alright success.

My questions are:

1) which of the lists would you think would have most success at a tournament?

2) which list is better?

3) can you improve on either of these?

List 1:

Howlrunner

Swarm tactics

Scourge

Swarm leader

Stealth device

Mauler Mithil

Snap shot

Youngster

Expose

Wampa

Total 100

List 2:

Howlrunner

Swarm tactics

Scourge

Swarm leader

Stealth device

Mauler Mithil

Snap shot

Wampa

Academy pilot x 2

Total 100

So one swarm is 5 ships, the other is 6. Howlrunner pulls Wampa upto ps8 for shooting, hopefully to push a damage through for Scourge to swarm leader and expose giving 6 dice attack (7r1). Admittedly it's only once or twice a game when it all lines up and you're out of arc and safe to expose with Scourge but when it does its nasty. In list 1 Mauler acts as a blocker to proc snap shot for a nice extra attack (list 2 uses the academy's to pre block for mauler) and the rest of the swarm does like ice cube when he sees a blue uniform and swarm.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

Expose isn't even close to worth the points or actions, so the one without expose.

Thanks, the other option is to drop youngster in list 1 and throw in pure sabacc with s leader and change Scourge to Stealth