Mothma?

By Stovrose38, in Star Wars: Armada Fleet Builds

I'm thinking about something out of the box here... Objectives have not be thought of, just trying to get the synergies of the ships first. The MC80 will receive the nav tokens from the transports for the Nav Teams. Antilles will fuel the all fighters follow me, the expanded hangar bay will allow the pelta to activate all the B-wings and Foresight I hope is self explanatory... The MC80 is kind of a scary beast, but not really the heavy hitter... suggestions?

Faction: Rebel Alliance
Points: 397/400

Commander: Mon Mothma

MC80 Star Cruiser (96 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- Nav Team ( 4 points)
- Dual Turbolaser Turrets ( 5 points)
- X17 Turbolasers ( 6 points)
= 118 total ship cost

MC30c Torpedo Frigate (63 points)
- Foresight ( 8 points)
- Ordnance Experts ( 4 points)
- Electronic Countermeasures ( 7 points)
- Assault Proton Torpedoes ( 5 points)
= 87 total ship cost

[ flagship ] Modified Pelta-class Command Ship (60 points)
- Mon Mothma ( 30 points)
- Phoenix Home ( 3 points)
- Raymus Antilles ( 7 points)
- Flight Commander ( 3 points)
- Fighter Coordination Team ( 3 points)
- Expanded Hangar Bay ( 5 points)
- All Fighters, Follow Me! ( 5 points)
= 116 total ship cost

GR-75 Medium Transports (18 points)
- Comms Net ( 2 points)
= 20 total ship cost

4 B-Wing Squadrons ( 56 points)

Why Mothma, when you've only got two ships that benefit from her?

What happens after your first B-Wing salvo, when a bunch of TIEs stand on them? You've got 70+ points invested into them (ignoring the Pelta's chassis itself), but they're probably only going to get one shot off, and then spend the rest of the game throwing 4 dice at brace/scatter aces or cheap escorts.

ECMs on an MC30 isn't necessary because it has two evades and two redirects. RBDs or Advanced Projectors would be better.

That Whole Pelta is just a waste of points, it is invested into 4 squadrons.

Swap the B-wings for Tycho, Shara, and two A-wings. You gain one point.

Drop the MC80, it doesn't benefit from Mothma. Replace it with an MC30 scout with TRCs, Admo, OE, APTs, RBDs, IO. You gain 14 points.

Then make the Pelta an Assault Pelta with STM! or EntrapForm!, ER, and Raymus. You gain another 14 points.

You now have 32 points left. Swap ECMs on the MC30 Torp for RBDs.

You now have 34 points left, so put Derlin on the MC30 Torp, put Leia on the Comms net Flotilla.

You now have 24 points left, so get another comms net flotilla with Ahsoka, And you have two points left over!

Hope I helped

yeah, I've had more time to think on this, this was a thought exercise gone wrong

39 minutes ago, Stovrose38 said:

yeah, I've had more time to think on this, this was a thought exercise gone wrong

The only way to get better at list building is to go through those thought exercises! I've also found good on-paper lists that sound so great, and practically get blown up with ease lol.

This is a bit confusing, as stated above, your choices don't go together.

Mon Mothma is a beast defensively, which goes perfectly with MC30's (Admnonition and Foresight), with CR90's and now also with HH's. You shouldn't go for large bases with her.

Also for the fighters, BWings + All Fighters is a good combo, but you need to cover/protect them from other squadrons who will easily lock them in dogfights. For that, you'll need XWings/YT1300 ('cause they "taunt") and/or HWK ('cause they have Intel). But Bombers are not the best with Mon Mothma. You should focus on interceptors like AWings (Shara>Tycho>AWing) to take care of the enemy bombers.

Oh, and Mon Mothma likes to be first player, so try to lower your points.

Just to give you maybe just an idea, here is the Mon Mothma list I ran 3 times (2w, 1l):

387pts

MC30 torp, Foresight, Lando, Ordn experts, RBD, APT

MC30 torp, Admonition, Blissex, Ordn experts, RBD, APT

CR90a, Jaina's Light, Mon Mothma, TRC

CR90a, TRC

GR75, slicer tools

Tycho Celchu, Shara Bey, YT2400