Been some Cracken threads lately + someone over a Discord asked about Lancers.

This is the resulting lovechild of Cracken and Ketsu Onyo (only she's at home, with a headache, so Cracken took Hera out for a spin instead).

Not sure it's hyper-competitive, but it actually looks both fun and reasonably effective. Actually, locally that 8 pt bid is plenty, and I think it would do really well.

Now I want to try it at our next session

Comments?

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Cracken 5 ship bomber storm v2
Author: Green Knight

Faction: Rebel Alliance
Points: 392/400

Commander: General Cracken

Assault Objective: Precision Strike
Defense Objective: Fighter Ambush
Navigation Objective: Superior Positions

CR90 Corvette A (44 points)
- Jainas Light ( 2 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Turbolaser Reroute Circuits ( 7 points)
= 60 total ship cost

CR90 Corvette A (44 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Turbolaser Reroute Circuits ( 7 points)
= 58 total ship cost

MC30c Torpedo Frigate (63 points)
- Admonition ( 8 points)
- Skilled First Officer ( 1 points)
- Ordnance Experts ( 4 points)
- H9 Turbolasers ( 8 points)
- Assault Proton Torpedoes ( 5 points)
= 89 total ship cost

GR-75 Medium Transports (18 points)
- Bright Hope ( 2 points)
- Toryn Farr ( 7 points)
- Bomber Command Center ( 8 points)
= 35 total ship cost

[ flagship ] GR-75 Medium Transports (18 points)
- General Cracken ( 26 points)
- Quantum Storm ( 1 points)
- Ahsoka Tano ( 2 points)
= 47 total ship cost

2 E-Wing Squadrons ( 30 points)
1 Hera Syndulla ( 28 points)
3 Lancer-class Pursuit Crafts ( 45 points)

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Note to self: Ahsoka isn't that useful in this list. Get rid of her. Only I can't. We're in love you see.

My only concern is that all the squadrons are Rogue (after accounting for Hera), so they're all vulnerable to an alpha strike from a dedicated space superiority list. The Lancers are a double-edged sword here, because they are Speed 4, and able to reposition to avoid alpha strikes, but at four hull, when they are caught, especially by swarms of high-output squadrons like Interceptors or Defenders, I'm concerned they will be destroyed for minimal loss. Chewing through the E-wings and Hera will take effort, but the Lancers less so. They're also more expensive per unit hull. It's certainly not a lethal problem, but one to practice around extensively I should think.

I did consider X-wings with the Lancers, but it wasn't sexy enough