Threw Maarek on the table today. TIE D, a score to settle, Ion cannon.

Then Quickdraw and draw their fire. And my goodness was it nasty! Reliable crit generation, target priority issues... it was beautiful.

I even threw cruise missiles and chips on Maarek to 4K and guarantee a crit. I was really surprised at how many times I could get off his ability and how horrid that ability is.

Anyone else tried this combo?

Did you run it with just those two or did you have something else?

I had Sabacc with crack shot as a flanker

That‘s a nice idea I haven‘t seen before!

It lets you build a nice 36pt QD (40 wih Harpoons), and then you can do the reliable 40/34/26 split that works so well for imperials. The usual 26pt suspects are Lockdown and Sabacc of course.

34pt works nicely with Vader and ASTS - which means he will very often put 2 crits on the table and have a full token stack to defend, too! Of course you can swith the harpoon from QD to Vader if wanted.

Talking about changes: ASTS can also be put on Sabacc instead. Slap Targeting Synchronizer on QD who flies next to him and you have a missile machine that gets double mods and defend quite well. In that squad, Vader would play the flanker - a role that fits him well!

Sorry I got carried away a bit, but I really like this idea

17 minutes ago, GreenDragoon said:

Sorry I got carried away a bit, but I really like this idea

I was honestly very surprised at how effective it was. None of my opponents really seemed to know where to shoot. Sabacc always dies but I was generally left with a healthy Quickdraw and Maarek. Pretty sure I'm going to take it to Systems Open

The main downside is the „low“ PS at 9. My main squad at the moment is an imperial alpha list, and I would like it very much to vaporize QD or Maarek in the first turn. After one of them is gone the whole squad loses more than just some parts.

There is also Poe or PS10 Nym or RAC.

You need a good plan for these oponents, but otherwise this looks pretty good!

Yeah you make a good point about high PS alpha, and in fairness I haven’t faced that yet. I guess I’ll just have to line up arcs nicely and hope I can survive the alpha with some draw their fire shenanigans. If QuickDraw gets nuked, the list loses a lot of its threat.

I have advanced optics on QuickDraw so he will have a focus for defence and I can either barrel roll for position or target lock to make sure both his shots are modded.

And I fly Sabacc aggressively to further draw fire off the main two if possible.

Oh lol that is crazy. I love it. DTF seems actually rather fun on QD. Would you consider dropping Maarek to Vessery? That would provide some greatly improved action economy.

Originally it was Vessery, but ASTS helps Maarek generate those crits while DTF helps mitigate the return fire. The list probably works better with Vess but is much less fun.

Maarek’s ability is just superb and while I know it’s not a good idea to chase crits, this list does it fairly easily. Of course, the trick only works on one opponents ship so I try to save the cruise missile for the other ships.

Going to a 24 player tournament today with it, will see how it goes!

Went 3-1, and Maarek continued to just wreck things. Between cruise and chips and ASTS I had multiple games where he was choosing crits 2/3 times.

Actually, the part of the list that didn’t really work was draw their fire on Quickdraw. I used it once. So that may go for crack shot or VI.