What target do you pick?

My list is VI QD, VI Vader and VI Inquisitor, with Harpoons and GCs, PS 11/11/10. That gives an expected damage of 11-12 hits on 0 agility, very likely with one crit to trigger harpoons. By now that‘s the list which I played most (after A-Wings, still) and of course I have learned some lessons, but I still wonder whether they are wrong or not.

I use @Boom Owl s pretty awesome list here, with some lists omitted (eg quad-X).Which ship would you target with the alpha strike? I mark my choice in bold, but of course that depends on countermeasures, selflessness and other cards changing the outcome.

Empire

• RAC/Kylo + Ace
• Palp Shuttle + 2x Ace
• Kylo Lambda/Upsilon + 2x Ace
• 3x Small Ship Control + Ace

Rebel

• Kanan /Biggs or Low
• Rey/ Poe
• Dash/ Poe
• Miranda /Biggs/Low
• Dash/ Miranda
• Dash/Nym
• Rey/Nym [???]

Scum

• Dengar/Nym
• Dengar/Assaj
• Assaj/Ketsu
• Bossk + 2x Scruggs
• Bossk/Ketsu
• Assaj + Fenn + Scout
• Dengar + Fenn + Inaldra

I realized that I generally let Nym and Dash live and prefer to remove their wingman entirely rather than dealing some damage. Dash/Nym is a dilemma here, but I think going for Nym is better. Is Nym generally a better target? I‘m more afraid of Miranda, and I‘m more sure of nuking away Poe, so I‘m not sure.

Also 2agility ships with high HP (Dash, Assajj/Ketsu, Jm5k) are a pain because they just survive... which means I have no clue about scumlists! Dengar is dangerous because of his returnshot and because he could survive rather well. So which scum ships do you target?

The next question is: what about ships like Rey, Kanan and RAC that will very likely or guaranteed survive the alphastrike? Do you aim for & nuke the wingman or do you deal the damage to the point fortress and try to take it down in the next turn? Which would kinda waste the alphastrike...

And lastly: what about miniswarms? 4 Wookies, quadTLT, ordnance swarms: focus one down and waste some damage, or do you split the missiles 2 and 1 to get more effect?

So what do you guys think?

If Vader has engine upgrade, I usually target him first, otherwise QD.

3 Harpoons should kill Dengar, or wound him so badly that he dies next round, so I'd go for him before Nym or any other wingman. If your ships were lower PS, I might prefer to remove Nym first.

6 hours ago, Gilarius said:

3 Harpoons should kill Dengar

Not always, unfortunately. The first shot will probably be against a focused Dengar, so 2.4 damage expected. The other two will be 2.9 each for a total of 8.2 plus maybe a triggered condition. But that's very close and can definitely miss the kill. To compare, I once nuked a Tel in two shots, using a third to destroy him for good. That's also possible, but I wouldn't bank on it.

To compare, Nym gets 3 expected damage on the first against a focus, and 3.3 on the other two, for a total of 9.6, which also could be enough with the condition, but it's again not certain.

No one?

I‘m also happy if you just mention one matchup, doesn‘t have to be the whole list of course!

(You omitted the rest of my sentence last time...)

Anyway, I've played against RAC plus Inquisitor twice and the first time went after Inqy: bad move, he dodged just enough damage for RAC to arrive and wreck my ships. So, next time I aimed for RAC first. He tied with my PS10 alpha strike team and also managed to win the initiative roll and gave it to me. He managed to avoid range 2/3 by boosting into range 1 so took 13 damage in the face and fled. This meant I still had my torpedoes to take out Inqy while he had no support. I took 3 damage all game...

Wrecking the Decimator first worked best for me.