Im heading to league night yesterday and haven't run my A-Wings in a while so I decide to give Swarm Leader Jess Pava a try. I only have 2 A's and no Sabines Tie and Rebs are short on cheap evade capable ships so I run Ezra in the attack shuttle with Kanan. Never flown the shuttle before this. The A's have refit, title, PTL, Snap Shot and Vectoted Thrusters. You read that right, an attack shuttle without a Ghost and A's with vectored not auto thrusters.
Ezra has adaptability so all at PS 3. We set 5 asteroids to form a triangle in the left corner in front of my deployment zone with the 6th alone in the opposite corner. I set up my ships on the right side in the mostly clear area. He puts his Dengar in the opposite corner with N'Dru and Serissu next to him closer to the middle. First turn I go straight pretty fast while he goes straight with Dengar and banks to skim the hypotenuse of the triangle with the other two. Next round Dengar turns into the center of the triangle but is range 3 of Green 1 who evades. Meanwhile I turn in with my group and an A takes some damage from a Ndru missle while Jess swarms Serrisu for 2. One or 2 other shields each side are lost. Next round we pass and I get a little out of position as he pulls some surprising KTurns but just barely puts Dengar on a rock at range 1 of Green 2 while Green 1 manages 1 snap shot damage and 1 primary which combined with the asteroid damage stripped 3 of his shields. Could be worse for me as I have no shots with anyone else and only take 3 more shields between Ezra and Green 2.
I bank Green 1 into a bump of Dengar but I feel its my best shot to stay on his tail and away from retaliation fire. Green 2 pulls a stressed 1 Turn. Clears stress with Kanan, then does a barrel roll right in front of Serissu. Then he pulls the tightest bank boost ever just squeezing between Ndru and Serrissu with about 1.5 mm on each side. Opponent moves those two out of the way and he planned on turning Dengar into the place they just left but Green 2 is right there and Dengar moves from just being on the front edge of the asteroid to just on the back of the same rock. He takes another damage from the asteroid for his final shield. Then Green 1 snap shots for Crit Crit. He blanks and draws BACK TO BACK DOUBLE DAMAGE. The 1 hull Dengar is now a sitting duck when Green 1 gets his shot in the combat phase and finishes him off. Meanwhile Jess and Ezra bugged out the otherside while he was clearing stress with Ndru and Serrisu and I was able to regroup my whole squad as we both ended up almost back at our starting positions. Two 5 Dice focused shots from Jess later and it was all over. He managed to finish Ezra as a last ditch shot just to clear something from the board.
Green 1 did 5 damage with the snap shots and 3 with primaries while 2 from the asteroid along with a nearly miraculous block by a wingmate made quick work of Dengar.
I cant wait to get some more As and run 5 Snap/Crack Greens. I may not go far but man it is super fun.