Which squad to take travelling with a backpack?

By c3lb, in X-Wing Squad Lists

Hello everyone, I am going on a trip for three weeks and there will be the opportunity to play some X-wing during that time. The challenge is: There might be a tournament involved (hence I should take a squad without proxies) and I have to fit everything in a backpack. Thus: As (physically) small ships as possible, at most two squads, better one with some options.

I enjoy flying the following list:

Quickdraw - Swarm Tactics; Fire-Control System; Special Ops Training; Twin Ion Engine Mk. II 34pts
Pure Sabacc - Veteran Instincts; Adaptive Ailerons; Lightweight Frame 25pts
Colonel Vessery - Tractor beam; Expertise; TIE/D; Twin Ion Engine Mk. II 41pts
Great about the list is, that I can cut one or both Twin Ion Engines for initiative bid. The problem here is, that I do not own the TIE/D title, which pretty much wrecks the whole list. I have been successful with it manly because of the tractor beam / attack an opponent with less agility combo. Another very nice part is that the ships are reasonably small so I can transport them safely.
Other than that I will get the Wave XI ships today, so I thought about flying some sort of rebel junkyard, but I do not have the Rebel-Transporter and I do not own the Ghost expansion, so Bombs in Rebels without Sabine seems to be a big disadvantage, and Rebel Junkyard without R4-D6 seems weird, too, since there usually is not enough room to squeeze in R2-D2.
So the other option would be a scum list. I thought maybe the usual Dengar and another ship? Maybe Nym, or Fenn? The Jumpmaster is quite big for transportation but it might just fit in the box I am going to take.
Here are the expansions I do not own, so all the cards unique to those and ships included are off the table: All epics, A-Wing, Y-Wing, TIE Fighter, Lambda, Decimator, Ghost, T-70 X-Wing, ARC-170.
I hope some of you also enjoy this "tetris" squad building challenge.

I took the following ships in a small GoPro bag (a third the size of a shoe-box) on a plane multiple times:

- Decimator
- Defender
- Tie/SF
- Tie/FO
- Tie Adv. Prototype
- jumpmaster (x2)
- All the tokens/range rulers I would need

Packed with peanuts and only broke the peg off of the the SF :(

Edited by Rinzler in a Tie

Maybe twin pancakes? Packs fairly flat and mostly self contained for upgrades, except Threepio I guess?

1 hour ago, Eyegor said:

Maybe twin pancakes? Packs fairly flat and mostly self contained for upgrades, except Threepio I guess?

What do you mean by pancakes?

I am planning on taking a box similar to this one:

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So small ships are really preferred. I thought of a Dengar / Nym list, that might be ok, what do you think about it?

Captain Nym Veteran Instincts; Extra Munitions; Bomblet Generator; Cad Bane; Cluster Mines 42pts
Dengar Expertise; K4 Security Droid; Unhinged Astromech; Punishing One; Engine Upgrade 57pts