Hi everyone, new to the forum and I hope I'll be able to find a little help. We are going to have a small escalation tourney next week and being a relatively new player i don't know how to approach the format! It's very likely that we won't have a 150 round but just the 60/90/120 rounds.
Regarding the ships... I was thinking about a Jake Farrell coupled with someone else but that would leave me with small room to add bigger ships to subsequent rounds... Another solution would be to run yt-1300 naked with a small filler just to boost it up later... What's your take?

Start by building the 120 pts build that you like, and work backwards from there. I would advice not going for the YT in escalation since it cannot be properly built in the 60 pts format (since you need two ships) and it start to bring relatively less to the table as the points increase. Having said that, since you are only going to 120 pts a YT-1300 might not be the worst choice.

If you wanna go that route, I might do something like this:

60

Chewbacca (42)

C-3PO (3)
Rey (2)
Millennium Falcon (1)

Bandit Squadron Pilot (12)

Total: 60

View in Yet Another Squad Builder

90

Chewbacca (42)
Expertise (4)
C-3PO (3)
Rey (2)
Millennium Falcon (1)

Bandit Squadron Pilot (12)

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

Total: 90

View in Yet Another Squad Builder

120

Chewbacca (42)
Expertise (4)
C-3PO (3)
Rey (2)
Millennium Falcon (1)

Bandit Squadron Pilot (12)
Harpoon Missiles (4)
Guidance Chips (0)

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

Biggs Darklighter (25)
R4-D6 (1)
Integrated Astromech (0)

Total: 120

View in Yet Another Squad Builder

(Biggs is still a thing after the nerf)

31 minutes ago, Calibri Garamond said:

Start by building the 120 pts build that you like, and work backwards from there. I would advice not going for the YT in escalation since it cannot be properly built in the 60 pts format (since you need two ships) and it start to bring relatively less to the table as the points increase. Having said that, since you are only going to 120 pts a YT-1300 might not be the worst choice.

If you wanna go that route, I might do something like this:

60

Chewbacca (42)

C-3PO (3)
Rey (2)
Millennium Falcon (1)

Bandit Squadron Pilot (12)

Total: 60

View in Yet Another Squad Builder

90

Chewbacca (42)
Expertise (4)
C-3PO (3)
Rey (2)
Millennium Falcon (1)

Bandit Squadron Pilot (12)

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

Total: 90

View in Yet Another Squad Builder

120

Chewbacca (42)
Expertise (4)
C-3PO (3)
Rey (2)
Millennium Falcon (1)

Bandit Squadron Pilot (12)
Harpoon Missiles (4)
Guidance Chips (0)

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

Biggs Darklighter (25)
R4-D6 (1)
Integrated Astromech (0)

Total: 120

View in Yet Another Squad Builder

(Biggs is still a thing after the nerf)

My thanks! what would you instead consider for an escalation tourney? I also have a K-wing and I was thinking about bringing miranda with sabine and Bomblet but as I said i cannot move in this meta