What are people playing? Enquiring minds want to know.

By Darth Nadir, in X-Wing

My list...

Scummy (100)

•Sunny Bounder (20) - M3-A "Scyk" Interceptor
"Heavy Scyk" Interceptor (2), "Mangler" Cannon (4)

Tansarii Point Veteran (26) - M3-A "Scyk" Interceptor
Trick Shot (0), "Heavy Scyk" Interceptor (2), Heavy Laser Cannon (7)

•Inaldra (24) - M3-A "Scyk" Interceptor
Trick Shot (0), "Heavy Scyk" Interceptor (2), Heavy Laser Cannon (7)

Binayre Pirate (15) - Z-95 Headhunter
Cruise Missiles (3)

Binayre Pirate (15) - Z-95 Headhunter
Cruise Missiles (3)

Well, that and tomorrow night is epic night.

My last two matches on vassal were with four PS 8 Imperials. First one had Omega leader, Zeta leader, tomax, pure sabacc. I played against triple jump Masters and managed to take two off the board in three rounds combat so the opponent called it there. The second time I swapped tomax for The Inquisitor and squeaked out a win against 3 T-70s.

Good fun flying a list with no ordinance and where arcs mattered.

I'm still flying Tosche Station Gang — four T-65s — pretty much exclusively. My current record with them is 67-19. A buddy of mine and I are finally getting around to playing on Vassal; when we start, I will probably start flying something different.

15 minutes ago, stonestokes said:

I'm still flying Tosche Station Gang — four T-65s — pretty much exclusively. My current record with them is 67-19. A buddy of mine and I are finally getting around to playing on Vassal; when we start, I will probably start flying something different.

This amount of X-Wing play is astounding to me. 86 games? In what time frame? I've played four this month. Also, what is the list?

Edited by TheHumanHydra

Vader - VI, Stealth Device, title, ATC.

Epsilon Ace - Stealth Device, Comm Relay.

Echo - Decoy, FCS, ACD, Gunner.

PS11/12 Echo is amazing fun, folks. She's still fragile as all get-out, but man is it fun to see her dancing around again.

Played a 150 point game at a local ship flying 3 T-70s and a PS1 YT-1300 against a Decimator, Vader in his TIE Advanced, a TIE Defender and a TIE Striker.

I was flying Poe, Ello, and Blue Ace.

Poe didn't last long and went down quick. Blue Ace and Ello went after the TIEs while the larger ships circled the rocks well outside firing range. The Striker popped next and I focused on the Decimator just chipping away at it (the reds were against me every roll against that thing!)

In it's dying breath, my YT dropped it a trash on top of the Decimator and Vader allowing Blue Ace to take a shot on Vader, getting a crit which forced him to hit a rock his next turn, ending him. The Decimator finished off Ace and the Defender cleared away the YT.

Ello spent his time at range 3 taking shots at the Decimator and feeding his droid focus tokens to regen his shields while the Defender worked ita way through the rocks to try to get behins him, but thank the force for white Talon Rolla!

The Deci went down slow, but thanks to a stress and a console fire, it went down. The Defender took one last shot at me, but me with an ion cannon and it's primaries took me down to 1 hull. He misjudged his distance and k turned in front of me instead of behind. Range 1 I rolled 4 crits. He wiffed with his greens, evaded only one crit, took.out his last shield and the crit cards melted the hull.

This was my favorite game of x-wing to date :D

2 hours ago, TheHumanHydra said:

This amount of X-Wing play is astounding to me. 86 games? In what time frame? I've played four this month. Also, what is the list?

That's over the course of about two years. And I play 3-4 games a week (not always with the X-Wings, though) plus an epic game every Wednesday (I don't count that in my stats). The list is Biggs and three friends, seasoned with various astromechs to taste. There are a few variants.

Edit: to be fair, this is the list I've played most often. The list after that is a Vader miniswarm with only 25 games total (22-3), and I haven't played them in about a year.

Edited by stonestokes

I've been playing an all Wookiee list lately. I made it just for fun as a themed list that I liked, but it has ended up being fairly successful so far.

Chewbacca - Predator, Recon Specialist, Jan Ors (50pts)

Kashyyyk Defender - Wookie Commandos (25pts)

Kashyyyk Defender - Wookie Commandos (25pts)

Two lists currently, Omega Force and Battle for Endor.

Omega Force is Omega Leader and 2x Omega Squadron pilots with Juke and Comm Relay each plus an Omega Specialist with various upgrades that I'm still trying refine.

Battle for Endor is an older list featuring 2x GSP A-wings with wingman, PTL and Autothrusters plus 2x BSP B-wings with FCS and Intel Agent. Intel Agent is a recent change that I don't think really works for the list. I've flown variations of this list for a while now, the general aim is to have each ship be around 25 points and no one ship be anything special.

I got three games in over this past weekend. Two with Omega Force and one with Endor. First Order won one and lost one. Rebels won their match.

I took Omega Force to a store competition a while back where I lost three of my four games. Still was a lot of fun to fly :)

I'm going to play this list against my pal next time:

Gold Squadron Pilot (18)
Twin Laser Turret (6)
R3-A2 (2)
BTL-A4 Y-Wing (0)

Poe Dameron (PS9) (33)
Intensity (2)
BB-8 (2)
Comm Relay (3)
Autothrusters (2)
Black One (1)

"Snap" Wexley (28)
Intensity (2)
R2 Astromech (1)
Integrated Astromech (0)

Total: 100

I really like intensity T-70s, my third ship used to be Jess, but she doesn't work well with two arc-dodgers... not to mention, TIE/D Vessery loves someone TL-d by M9-G8 for offense reroll. I had to learn that the hard way. :( My pal usually flies Vessery, Ryad and Omega Leader.

Quickdraw: (40)

Expertise, FCS, Ion Pulse Missile, Title, LWF

Inquisitor: (34)

PTL, Prockets, Title, AT

Omega Leader:

Juke, Com Relay

Have been playing variations of this list all year, trying to get it right. IPM's are brutally effective in this low HP meta, and are a death sentence to Dash/Nym/Miranda. If Triple Jumps weren't so big in Europe I would take them on Inky as well, but as it stands I feel like I need the little extra damage provided by Prockets to keep up with the damage output of Jumps - still up in the air on this one.

Lots of fun, and has a chance against a lot of the current meta.

Edited by Bonza
17 hours ago, Joe Censored said:

I'm trying to show him the advantage of using upgrades and higher PS, but he still can't get past the idea of just throwing more naked low PS bodies on the table, thinking more = better

Joe, have you tried switching lists yet? Let him fly your list so he can have some exposure to what upgrades do for you instead of against you. It may be eye opening for him.

7 hours ago, Force Majeure said:

Joe, have you tried switching lists yet? Let him fly your list so he can have some exposure to what upgrades do for you instead of against you. It may be eye opening for him.

I only haven't because he is an Empire / First Order fan boy, but that's a good idea, I'll have him try that.