I've been having a lot of success with this list, so I thought I'd post it and see what people think. I'm 3-0 with it so far.

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Inquisitor - Swarm Leader, TIE v1, Autothrusters (31)

"Howlrunner" - Stealth Device (21)

"Youngster" - Expose (19)

"Wampa" (14)

"Winged Gundark" (15)

100 total

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I fly them pretty tight. Most rounds I use the Target Lock + Evade for Inquisitor and Evades everywhere else.

Inquisitor is dishing out 5 attack dice at any range fairly frequently due to Swarm Leader. Under the right circumstances I also use Expose with him due to Youngster and get 6 attack dice. If I can get myself out of someones arc I'll go Expose all the way around and throw a ton of dice in a round plus have Howlrunner's re-roll available. Wampa is also good for forcing some damage through.

I actually managed to not take a single hit in a game yesterday (although 2 ships did get ionized).

I don't think Inquisitor is allowed to share Expose from Youngster. I'm not 100% familiar with him, but I'm pretty sure his ability only works with TIE fighters, /fo's and /sf's. Other than that, looks like a fun little casual build.

I didn't realize that. It says TIE fighters, so I assumed it would work with the Inquisitor. I'm still fairly new to the game.

Fortunately I've only mis-used that twice so far. With that in mind I'll have to do some thinking on if that is still the best way to go or if those points are better spent. With 4 TIE Fighters in the list I think I'll still get benefit from it.

It works pretty well with little swarms. I have run Youngster with Rage and 3 academy pilots and 2 scimitar bombers with thread tracers and Ion pulse missiles. Worked wonders and it wasn't terribly hard to have double modded shots the first 3 rounds of combat (aside from the first tracer thread and youngster shot).

What if you used Debris Gambit on Youngster instead of Expose. It becomes a much more potent action use when you can spend one of those evades to give Inky extra dice and still have one for yourself.

Other than that, I think it is a very cool concept. They are all really really fragile, but it could work. I might change that SD to HU on Howlrunner, and at least throw on a cheap EPT, if not dump Wampa down to a generic and get better options for upgrades. Wampa isn't the strongest w/out crit guarantees.

51 minutes ago, Greebwahn said:

What if you used Debris Gambit on Youngster instead of Expose. It becomes a much more potent action use when you can spend one of those evades to give Inky extra dice and still have one for yourself.

Other than that, I think it is a very cool concept. They are all really really fragile, but it could work. I might change that SD to HU on Howlrunner, and at least throw on a cheap EPT, if not dump Wampa down to a generic and get better options for upgrades. Wampa isn't the strongest w/out crit guarantees.

I really like the Debris Gambit idea. If I plan the point of engagement right I could boost damage and still have evades available.

7 hours ago, Darth Wrath said:

I really like the Debris Gambit idea. If I plan the point of engagement right I could boost damage and still have evades available.

If you want a cheap Swarm Leader feeder, try swapping Winged Gundark and/or Youngster out for either Night Beast or Chaser.

• Night Beast gets a free focus action on a green move, meaning he can focus for one action and evade for the other.
• Chaser can evade as his action and 'snag' a free focus out of the air when a friendly nearby spends theirs (which, since he'd be the lowest PS in the squad, they can do when they shoot if they haven't up till that point*)

Both leave you with a ship with a focus and evade, which is actually probably more useful than someone with two evades (because the second evade is only useful if someone shoots at you, whilst the focus can help when you shoot, too).

14 hours ago, Darth Wrath said:

I didn't realize that. It says TIE fighters, so I assumed it would work with the Inquisitor. I'm still fairly new to the game.

It's easy to get confused, but it's not bad once you get your head round it.

When something says 'TIE Fighter only' or 'X-wing only' or whatever, it works if the 'ship name' (under the pilot name) includes all of those words in full .

So, for example:

The Inquisitor's ship type is "TIE Adv. Prototype".

TIE/v1 specifies "TIE Adv. Prototype only". The Inquisitor's Ship Type has all those words in its name, so he can equip it (It's the TIE Adv. Prototype's title, so obviously he can, but I'm starting with the obvious one, bear with me).

Twin Ion Engine MkII says "TIE only". The TIE Adv. Prototype's name includes the word TIE, so it can equip it. (Most imperial fighters can - the Alpha Star Wing and the large ships are about the only ones which aren't).

TIE/x1 is "TIE Advanced Only". Now this is one the Inquisitor can't equip - whilst Adv. is clearly short for 'Advanced', remember that the rule is you have to have exactly the same words in full as the restriction. 'Adv.' is not the same as 'Advanced', so no TIE/x1 Inquisitor.

Youngster's restriction is 'Friendly TIE fighters'. The Inquisitor is a TIE, but he's not a 'TIE fighter' (compare to Youngster's 'ship name' bar).

By comparison:

The two first order ships are "TIE fighters". One is a "TIE/fo Fighter" and one is a "TIE/sf Fighter" but they're both "TIE fighters" for the purposes of the rules because they both have "TIE" and "Fighter" in their ship name (even though they have extra stuff too). That's why the T-70 X-wing (like Poe Dameron) can still take stuff which says "X-wing Only" like Integrated Astromech.

(as an aside, if you don't mind mixing Rebellion and Resistance era stuff, this is not a bad use for youngster; despite the 'TIE fighter' name, a TIE/sf is a big, tough, medium fighter with a 3rd red die, missile upgrades, and really nasty pilots, and Youngster can use his ability to hand it evade via debris gambit, focus/rerolls via rage, or whatever)

* Remember you can always spend your focus "to change all [focus] results to [hit] results" even if you've not rolled any [focus] results. "All" includes "zero".