Swarm Leader

By Browncoat50, in X-Wing Squad Lists

A friend just gave me a swarm leader card, so I thought I would put it to use.

Tomax Bren: Cool hand, tie shuttle, twin ion engine MKII, system officer, fleet officer. 31

Omega Leader: Juke, comm relay. 26

Omega Ace: Swarm Leader. 23

Sienar teat pilot: auto thrusters and title 19.

Each ship can pretty easily get evades and other actions, plus Tomax can just hand out target locks and focus while getting a free focus or evade with cool hand. In theory, omega ACE can put 4 crits on a target and maybe live to do do it again.

15 minutes ago, Browncoat50 said:

Sienar teat pilot

Now there's a top job at Sienar if I ever saw one!

Lol, I swear I fixed that autocorrect

I used Omega Ace in Epic games a lot and its beautiful to put 4 crits (plus 1 at range 1) on a Huge (minus Reinforce most of the time though).
It's interesting to see a 4 ship Imperial list like that, I'm tempted to test it out myself.

I tried a Scum list with Swarm Leader and it played pretty well :

Dengar : Swarm Leader, Unhinged, K4, Title

Sunny Bounder : Light Scyk

3x Cartel Spacers : Light Scyk

Lost Sunny then Dengar but my imperial opponent wasn't ebale to damage 3 evading Scyks with off ordnance bombers remaining.

But you need to know having Swarm Leader is painting a HUGE target on your ship...

17 minutes ago, Foxtr0t said:

But you need to know having Swarm Leader is painting a HUGE target on your ship...

Been wondering about using it on an Upsilon for that reason;

Kylo Ren with a Rebel Captive on board may be a huge target, but do you really want to shoot at him?

  • Kylo Ren - Swarm Leader, Reinforced Deflectors, Rebel Captive, Recon Specialist, Weapons Guidance, Pattern Analyser
  • Epsilon Ace - Targeting Synchroniser
  • Epsilon Squadron Pilot
  • Epsilon Squadron Pilot

Dengar was a good call, too. Shame there's not enough points for R5-P8.

Edited by Magnus Grendel

But Unhinged+K4 is still a good combo and painting a big target on a guy begging you to shoot at him to return fire with 5 dices is fun!

51 minutes ago, Magnus Grendel said:

Kylo Ren with a Rebel Captive on board may be a huge target, but do you really want to shoot at him?

Unquestionably yes. Nuke him to death in a round or two, the rest of the list is trivial to kill.