Fenn Rau expertise, auto thrusters, advanced proton, and concord dawn protector.

if you can get range 1 with a target lock and are not stressed, potential 5 hits, 3 guaranteed.

I don't see the point of Advanced Proton Torps on Fenn. He already gets five dice at range one and if he has a target lock wouldn't the re-rolls be better?

Actually fenn gets six dice with APT, so he has one turn where his damage at r1 has a slight spike

Oh. I thought it was just primary

46 minutes ago, Lazyplayer88 said:

I don't see the point of Advanced Proton Torps on Fenn. He already gets five dice at range one and if he has a target lock wouldn't the re-rolls be better?

The reason is if guarantees three blanks into focus, so, with the 6th die, if you have focus, or in this case expertise, there is no reason you should not be getting 6 hits. The question is: is it worth it to spend that much on the ordinance for 1 dice and a better chance of hits? The APT is 6 points. In most lists, I can do a lot more with that

I fly this set up almost every time and I usually wind up getting 5 hits and one crit. Only downside is he normally dies after that first shot due to him being a shotgunner at range one.

I have a love/hate relationship with Rau. Flew against that very set up proposed here and half of both lists got obliterated in the first few turns. Quite glorious!

I haven't done the math, but Adv Proton Torpedoes definetely ensure that alpha strike damage without fail. His primary is potent, but I have yet to see a game where Rau did not at least make the Torps look good, regardless of cost. Necessity and expensiveness are one thing, but the results are there.

If only Fenn could take cluster missiles...

Adv. Torps are a cool idea, but ultimately useless. You're basically paying 6 points to do one more damage to something, once. In addition, Expertise is not good when you have access to Attanni (unless Fenn is in a 2-ship list, in which case PTL is better anyway).

Ok thx for the advice