Final touches on my rebel list, critiques welcome ^_^

By Beard, in X-Wing Squad Lists

Ok, so the ships that I am hard core set on are naked Rex in the tie (14pts) and standard stress hog (26pts) for a grand total of 40 pts spent, 60 left over. I have whittled my options down to the following

Rey

Tfa title

Smuggling compartment

Tactical jammer

Expertise

Finn

Kanan Jarrus

Inertial dampeners

This gives me a beefy, fairly high PS ship that hits like a truck and is pretty popular in the meta. I expect to be going up against large ships and defenders in my local area, so buckets of red dice are great lol. This list screws up my opponents priorities. Either shoot the somewhat defensive Rey at potentially range one, while bogged down with stress and suppressive fire, or take a shot at Rex potentially through tactical jammer. Either way, neither shot is ideal, and they'll be getting kicked in the teeth regardless. Rey is great for late game, but I fear other stress builds can be a powerful shut down to her. My other option is this:

Biggs

Integrated astromech

R4-D6 (ya, yall talked me into it in the other thread lol)

Heffernan tober

Pivot wings

FCS

Seismic torpedo

Zeb

Finn

Cause I was thinking, why does Finn have to be only on Rey? Sure, she rerolls his blanks, but I can do that with the free lock from FCS heehee This guy throws buckets of dice and acts as a low, large base blocker. Imagine, in a perfect world, performing a 4 forward, getting the bump, shooting Seismic torps and then shooting primary thanks to zeb! Biggs keeps Rex and ywing alive a couple turns longer, keeping the opponent bogged down so Heff can hopefully do his thing. And should I maybe drop seismic torp for tactical jammer instead? That would also allow MK-II on Rex

Edited by Beard

I don't agree that Rey is good in late game. In all my experience flying with her she gets burned down pretty quickly. But that said, I think the Rey list is better than the Biggs list.

Oh...I really like this idea. It provides some target indecision, because your opponent won't want to ignore any of those ships. What about something like this? Rex isn't naked, but could be a pain to bring down. I've thought about that or Countermeasures on Rey instead of Tactical Jammer, because you know they're just going to try to burn her down.

Rey (45)
Veteran Instincts (1)
Finn (5)
Kanan Jarrus (3)
Inertial Dampeners (1)
Smuggling Compartment (0)
Tactical Jammer (1)
Millennium Falcon (TFA) (1)

Captain Rex (14)
Stealth Device (3)

Gold Squadron Pilot (18)
Twin Laser Turret (6)
R3-A2 (2)
BTL-A4 Y-Wing (0)

Total: 100

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Edited by gennataos

Personally, I think you are better off with the Biggs list. I like Rey, but she needs a wingman/duo that can win late Game. If I was up against the Rey List, I would focus fire on her and burn her down ASAP!! Besides the annoyance factor, taking the others out with most any late game Ace (Poe, Miranda, Fenn, OL, Ryad, Fel, Vader,Horn, Whisper.....etc.) would be Cake IMHO. I agree I'll loose at least one ship to Rey, but in most scenarios she should go down before taking my whole list even with Rex and StressHog messing with me. You run the Biggs list with Biggs tucked behind the U-Wing He get at least one 3 dice shot himself and the U lasts a bit longer. If you are really sneaky with flying you can force your opponent to spread the attacks out and not able to focus fire. I think both lists lack a "good" closer, but with 4 ships hopefully you have a better position for a war of attrition. Especially vs. lists with a Rey or other "FAT" MOV bleeders.