Ladies of the Dark Side

By DarthCognis, in X-Wing Squad Lists

So I play a lot of Casual fun lists, and I thought it would be a fun challenge to build a list of only Imperial female pilots

Omega Leader with Push the Limit (24)

Lt Kestel with trick shot, synced turret and lightweight frame (28)

Juno Eclipse with hr Targeting Computer and a Score to settle (29)

And Howl runner with Crack (19)

Try pitching your own "Valkyrie" list

What are all the known female Imperial pilots in the game? Here's a roster of those I know of (I took the cheapest 'standard' builds I'm aware of):

Juno Eclipse (28)
Juke (2)
Accuracy Corrector (0)
TIE/x1 (0)

Lieutenant Kestal (22)
Deadeye (1)
Synced Turret (4)
Lightweight Frame (2)

Countess Ryad (34)
Push the Limit (3)
Twin Ion Engine Mk. II (1)
TIE/x7 (-2)

"Howlrunner" (18)
Crack Shot (1)

"Whisper" (32)
Veteran Instincts (1)
Fire-Control System (2)
Advanced Cloaking Device (4)

"Duchess" (23)
Veteran Instincts (1)
Lightweight Frame (2)
Adaptive Ailerons (0)

"Omega Leader" (21)
Juke (2)
Comm Relay (3)

"Quickdraw" (29)
A Score to Settle (0)
Fire-Control System (2)
Lightweight Frame (2)
Special Ops Training (0)

Total: 238

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I left off Kath Scarlet. I have no idea how people normally run her (when they do).

1 hour ago, TheHumanHydra said:

What are all the known female Imperial pilots in the game? Here's a roster of those I know of (I took the cheapest 'standard' builds I'm aware of):

Juno Eclipse (28)
Juke (2)
Accuracy Corrector (0)
TIE/x1 (0)

Lieutenant Kestal (22)
Deadeye (1)
Synced Turret (4)
Lightweight Frame (2)

Countess Ryad (34)
Push the Limit (3)
Twin Ion Engine Mk. II (1)
TIE/x7 (-2)

"Howlrunner" (18)
Crack Shot (1)

"Whisper" (32)
Veteran Instincts (1)
Fire-Control System (2)
Advanced Cloaking Device (4)

"Duchess" (23)
Veteran Instincts (1)
Lightweight Frame (2)
Adaptive Ailerons (0)

"Omega Leader" (21)
Juke (2)
Comm Relay (3)

"Quickdraw" (29)
A Score to Settle (0)
Fire-Control System (2)
Lightweight Frame (2)
Special Ops Training (0)

Total: 238

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I left off Kath Scarlet. I have no idea how people normally run her (when they do).

238? You could run an epic list with upgrades for the entire fem roster XD

"Flight of the Valkyries"

I'm just curious where is it quoted that Omega Leader is female?

2 hours ago, DarthCognis said:

238? You could run an epic list with upgrades for the entire fem roster XD

"Flight of the Valkyries"

I'd do that, had I the ships.

Pretty sure Echo is a female pilot as well

As for Imp Kath I usually run mangler cannon and engine upgrade as a start

7 hours ago, Ronu said:

I'm just curious where is it quoted that Omega Leader is female?

I actually have no idea, everyone just always says she is.

3 hours ago, JediRush24 said:

Pretty sure Echo is a female pilot as well

As for Imp Kath I usually run mangler cannon and engine upgrade as a start

I thought I once read someone saying we don't know Echo's gender, but that he or she preferred to think of them as such. Dunno! Thanks for the build advice; that's helpful.

I think most of the callsign pilots don't have defined genders (because a lot of them were just invented by FFG), but absolutely everyone calls Whisper female (maybe this was confirmed in an article somewhere?) and in my experience it's about 50/50 for Echo and Omega Leader. I think people just get used to one or the other. There's way more male pilots in general, so when there's nothing else to go on I tend to assume female just to balance it out a bit. :)

According to this article, Echo is a dude.

Never saw anything that said OL was a woman. For some reason I picture Echo and Whisper as either women or androdgynous men.. think Tolkein-esque elves.