Strategies versus 4 Wookies?

By eagletsi111, in X-Wing

9 hours ago, Icelom said:

You just blow them up... not too sure how else to respond. Reinforce is good and all but they still only have 1 evade and you can get in behind them. Also, one well-placed block and all of the sudden that Wookie ship eats huge damage from the rest of your list, it's not like they are hard to predict block the 2 hard turn and then crush them.

This.

5 hours ago, wurms said:

Blocking, stress, ion, bombs, stressing bombs, ion bombs, and stressing things and ion-ing things is a good start.

Flanking is muy importante. Get a ship behind them and start wreaking havoc.

Barrel roll. I find ships with barrel-rolls are better against wookiees as its easier to stay behind them and/or roll out of the reinforced side and still get shots, where as the boost in a single arc ship may not get you shots, only out of arc.

And this. A couple of sensible posts in a thread of dross.

Honestly, what is the point of suggesting list builds against Wookiees? What's the point of suggesting list builds against anygthing? The game is Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock; of course there are hard counters out there, there's hard counters for everything, but pointing them out isn't answering the bloody question, is it? Tabletop strategy DOES NOT EQUAL list tailoring.

To take down Wookiees, you want to get behind them ASAP. They have an 180 arc, true, but no k-turns and no repositioning actions. Get behind them early, dial in moves that'll take you where they were and unless you totally mess up it's pretty much game. Focus fire on one at a time, block or fly into the others to deny return shots, you're gold.

I see lots of posts about blocking. May I ask what you are bringing that your can reliably block a PS1 ship and not die to the other 3 ships that are near it with a 180 arc and tossing 4 dice at you?

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22 minutes ago, viedit said:

I see lots of posts about blocking. May I ask what you are bringing that your can reliably block a PS1 ship and not die to the other 3 ships that are near it with a 180 arc and tossing 4 dice at you?

Der Schwarm

Maybe a TIE Aggressor with Twin Laser Turret and Ruthlessness.

12 hours ago, Icelom said:

You just blow them up... not too sure how else to respond. Reinforce is good and all but they still only have 1 evade and you can get in behind them. Also, one well-placed block and all of the sudden that Wookie ship eats huge damage from the rest of your list, it's not like they are hard to predict block the 2 hard turn and then crush them.

true, but the guy flying 3 also had a pede ps1 to give them actions even if they bump or block. Very nasty. Plus yes you can get behind them, but they re-enforce rear and the pede can shoot out rear and hand out stress.

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3 hours ago, viedit said:

I see lots of posts about blocking. May I ask what you are bringing that your can reliably block a PS1 ship and not die to the other 3 ships that are near it with a 180 arc and tossing 4 dice at you?

They have very bad/predictable dials, you need to get into a furrball with them thus forcing them to crash into you or be even more predictable and avoid you. You can then get in behind them fairly easily. The 4x wookie list does not hit very hard its basically unmodified attacks if you can't survive that for a round to get things setup then your list would have died to pretty much anything. Once the wookie are in tight scrambling to get your ships in arc you will be splitting their fire, dening optimal moves and basically tearing them apart. If you're opponent comes at you with a wide formation then just pick one off at a time.

The trick to beating this list, like almost all lists is to out fly your opponent. If you can't do that their is no magic thing you can do to win against pretty much anything.

9 hours ago, Captain Lackwit said:

Officer disruption also does not damned work on them if they use their overload, so they still get their bowcaster.

And yeah Death Troopers, the fanbase always says they need a nerf... I uh, haha, I guess they don't play Blast in Mos Eisley much. >_>

Nerf death troopers? Please. They're fine as is. The only thing that bothers me is why all the light side enforcers are wookie warriors. Shouldn't the clones have ARC Troopers? And the alliance have something unique too? The dark side has death troopers , flame troopers and super battle droids depending on the faction and I like the variances between them. Wookies for all light side enforcers is boring IMO

2 hours ago, Phoenix5454 said:

Nerf death troopers? Please. They're fine as is. The only thing that bothers me is why all the light side enforcers are wookie warriors. Shouldn't the clones have ARC Troopers? And the alliance have something unique too? The dark side has death troopers , flame troopers and super battle droids depending on the faction and I like the variances between them. Wookies for all light side enforcers is boring IMO

Yeah they'll be getting ARC trooper soon according to recent leaks. But they won't be replacing Wookiees. Even though they totally should. Though worth consideration, all enforcer classes have a large body profile. ARCs are more agile looking.

4 hours ago, Captain Lackwit said:

Yeah they'll be getting ARC trooper soon according to recent leaks. But they won't be replacing Wookiees. Even though they totally should. Though worth consideration, all enforcer classes have a large body profile. ARCs are more agile looking.

Well, I hope they do something soon. The next season needs to start, I'm getting bored lol

15 hours ago, viedit said:

I see lots of posts about blocking. May I ask what you are bringing that your can reliably block a PS1 ship and not die to the other 3 ships that are near it with a 180 arc and tossing 4 dice at you?

You can still "block" 4 wookiees. A large base ship can ram into them, then depending on position, next round their moves are VERY limited and easier for other ships to avoid their arc. A large base just off the wookiees front nubs, blocks any turns they can do.

3 hours ago, Phoenix5454 said:

Well, I hope they do something soon. The next season needs to start, I'm getting bored lol

Expect it to backpack off of "SOLO". For relevancy.