Yes, the 180 triggers fearlessness.

For that opening, usually they’ll slow roll turn 1, expecting the joust. The turn out is usually unexpected. Turn 2 they expect hard turns into center board control, so they’ll bank to face it, and your 1 bank is very odd. Turn 3 is very obviously a turn back into the table. They’ll either still be out of range, or possibly land a range 3 engagement with a ship or 2. Next turn you should be able to use your hard 2 and boost to be at Range 1 with boba fairly easily. The strength is that with a fearlessness boosting boba they expect early engagement.

Ran into what seemed to be a pretty hard counter against this list:

VI Chiraneau with Dauntless, Gunner, Kylo, HotCop

PTL Vynder with Harpoons, ASLAM

Chirpy also had Chips and a Flechette Torpedo, effectively giving him the ability to guarantee at least one crit against most targets.

With hindsight, I should have gone hard after the Decimator, but Boba and Assaj were both down to PS0 within two attacks. Assaj was already down to four hull by the time her shields dropped.

My buddy uses a very similar deci, with expose. It absolutely has to die, and fast.

I love the fat deci and vynder list! I'd fly it more if only there were less black one Poes shedding locks all the time.

Had some more success with bobasajj, looks like I'll be running against aces with it in league soon. Thanks for your tips on engaging John

2 minutes ago, gadwag said:

I love the fat deci and vynder list! I'd fly it more if only there were less black one Poes shedding locks all the time.

Had some more success with bobasajj, looks like I'll be running against aces with it in league soon. Thanks for your tips on engaging John

Absolutely man. I’m happy people are enjoying the list so much. I’m still racking my brain on what to fly next! My locals are a bit tired of shenanigans when i was grinding reps tuning the list

Fat vynder is an option?

Otherwise you could try the PtL vipers that Phil GC is raving about on his blog. I'm still not convinced by PtL on that dial (I found I was only using it about half the time) but they are solid little ships

Final update on Bobasajj for a little while: After mashing vader and quickdraw in the top 4 of my store league, I lost to ghost fenn in the final. Got the ghost down to 2hp, fenn was still up. That was following another loss to ghost Fenn the night before on Vassal.

Ghost Fenn is a really hard list to beat just generally, and even with the assistance of stims it's a lot of work. Advice I've had for Bobasajj has been to try ramming the ghost so I can focus on shooting Fenn without the ghost boosting away to get shots. Getting in close to the ghost is obviously good, and from experience in my game getting in close to avoid the TLT is totally worth it. Main areas I need to practice are my movement and bumping/range control (hard to do against a ghost with access to PS11 boost!).

Bobasajj will see more play, but I'm going to try some different jank in the meantime with deadman Zs and jostero

I'm thinking about revisiting this list with a few changes to fit my playstyle. Instead of going with Latts on Asajj, I am going to try Dengar. This will allow me to just do an evade for an action and use Dengar (+ Stims in some cases) for my offense. I'm counting on hitting more reliably with Asajj, which will give me more defense in the sense that I can tractor people more often for defensive purposes and to get Boba's combo off more often.

On Boba I'm switching out HotShot Co-Pilot for Outlaw Tech. I know that sounds like absolute heresy, but the K-Turns fit my playstyle better. I'm also giving Boba a Tractor Beam Cannon for when I think moving a guy onto a rock or out of arc is better than putting damage on him.

We'll see how it goes.

Interesting choices. Keep the reports coming, excited to hear how this works out for you.

I am also looking into the lancer + spray combo at the moment:

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39 minutes ago, flooze said:

Interesting choices. Keep the reports coming, excited to hear how this works out for you.

I am also looking into the lancer + spray combo at the moment:

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You know, that's not bad at all. With Dengar on Kath you're getting the offensive rerolls all the time that Boba only gets in range one.

7 hours ago, Boba Rick said:

You know, that's not bad at all. With Dengar on Kath you're getting the offensive rerolls all the time that Boba only gets in range one.

True, but I will miss the defensive rerolls. I take them to a small tourney this weekend, will report