Can't Touch This

By A Curious Punnisher Player, in X-Wing Squad Lists

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Looking at a neat dodge/mitigation based list.

"Countdown"

Lightweight Frame

22 Total

"Dark Curse"

16 Total

Commander Kenkirk

Draw Their Fire

Ysanne Isaard

Palpatine

Engine Upgrade

61 Total

Dark Curse naturally avoids token usage, and Countdown could take 80 hits and mitigate it to 1. Kenkirk is designed to suck up as many hits and keep trucking. Thoughts?

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Cool list, I've been playing countdown since I got my hands on a striker and he needs some careful flying so don't think of him as too much of a tank, especially if focussed fired. Kendrick is an interesting choice and the 1 evade is better than nothing but not great compared to Chinareau but I assume that's some point mitigation, how do you plan to use Palp, he's usable but not worth 8 points anymore SPG Nymz gave a break down at some point I believe (don't quote me on that) engine upgrade isn't especially useful unless you have are in a meta that requires that level of maneuverability on a 360 arc ship.

I would suggest something like this for more damage and support but still high mitigation on those three ships (as far as I can see :P):

"Countdown" — TIE Striker 20
Lightweight Frame 2
Adaptive Ailerons 0
Ship Total: 22
"Dark Curse" — TIE Fighter 16
Twin Ion Engine Mk. II 1
Ship Total: 17
Rear Admiral Chiraneau — VT-49 Decimator 46
Trick Shot 0
Emperor Palpatine 8
Ysanne Isard 4
Thermal Detonators 3
Ship Total: 61
The decimator I changed the most:
trick shot because it wants to run on the outside of combat shorting inward so it helps when asteroids are involved the admiral also boosts damage and thermal detonators are for anyone who comes behind te decimator as it will set them back a turn in terms of stress.
Important (somewhat):
you can change LWF on countdown for Stealth device as it won't be removed if he damages himself, as of last FAQ in regards to gunner they said that it would trigger if he hurt himself as it is technically a miss as all results are cancelled meaning that you could keep stealth device which is marginally better than LWF by a little bit.
(for mitigation Vader can be good with Acuracy Corrector as he takes an evade and a focus every turn with maximum damage and saves them for defence)
hope this helps ;)