Going HAM With Hamvettes

By reegsk, in Star Wars: Armada Fleet Builds

Alright, so this list is kind of hilarious in a stupid sort of way, but against a lot of lists I think it could pack quite a punch:

Hammerhead Torpedo Corvette x 6 - 252 pts (42/ea)

- Task Force Antilles

- External Racks

Modified Pelta-class Assault Ship - 69 pts

- Raymus Antilles

- "Shields to Maximum!"

GR-75 Medium Transports - 27 pts

- Bright Hope

- Slicer Tools

GR-75 Medium Transports - 52 pts

- Leia Organa

- General Rieekan

Objectives

- Opening Salvo (duh)

- Not sure on Yellow

- Intel Sweep

Simple and straightforward. The Hamvettes swarm in packs of three so they have room to maneuver, spreading damage with TFA. StM helps recover from early damage, and the Pelta can follow up the 'Vette swarm to finish off things that are wounded. Bright Hope causes some Slicer Tools shenanigans while Leia helps protect from Slicer Tools shenanigans. I was thinking Rieekan so you can plop these things in front of an ISD or somesuch and still get your shots off (each group of three could unload 3 Red, 3 Blue, 9 Black dice if it's their first shot). But Madine could also be a choice, then you could fly them at Speed 3 and compensate for their crappy maneuvers at that speed. Obviously it's very susceptible to a bomber swarm, but the hope is that they could survive long enough to kill the carrier (maybe a round or two) while only losing a ship or two. Since each ship is only 42 points, sacrificing even two of them to a Gunnery Team ISD would net a solid 40+ points. And that's not even talking about the fact that it's nine activations. . .

I like it! I might go down to 8 activations and add a speed bump, but that's just me, I get anxious.

I think you could pump out some more activations.

Hammerhead Scout Corvette 1x (45 points)
- Garel's Honor (title)

GR-75 Medium Transport 17x (18 points each)

GR-75 Medium Transport 1x (20 points)
- Dodonna (Admiral)

19 Activations. You can do some damage with the HH or you can activation stall your opponent into bored submission.

Edited by puntspeedchunk
18 hours ago, Admiral Theia said:

I like it! I might go down to 8 activations and add a speed bump, but that's just me, I get anxious.

It's brittle, to be sure. But the ST flotilla can be used as a cheap sacrifice, if need be. I also toyed with the idea of dropping a Hamvette or two and throwing in a blob of YT-2400s. I'm leaning that way a little bit given the prevalence of bomber swarms, and at least until we see how popular Sloane TIE swarms will be.