Does anyone have some good assault frigates ideas for a list? I recently got a second one on the cheap and want to play them. I've never even played Garm before (I'm not sure I've even looked at his card until i bought the 2nd one).

My initial thoughts are to use them as pushers so AFii B ECM, Flight controllers, EHB and maybe x17s.

Then i get stuck filling it out.

The other thought i had was to use Cracken and the Early Warning System and load up on Boarding Troopers and DTTs, zoom in from different angles burn all the tokens and then sneak in with MC30s and finish the ships off with torpedoes.

Dual AF tend to work well with Ackbar.

I like Quad Battery Turrets better than XI7: AF2s don't need to be moving very fast and are chipping away with lots of small hits rather any big hits.

TRC is certainly another option. Especially if your going into Boarding troopers range.

It's also a tough enough ship you can probably benefit from Reinforced Blast Doors.

I think an important point is don't overload it with upgrades - it's just not that resilient and is going to perform better if you've not made it a high value target.

I would try Madine or Leia as a commander to help line up double-arcs/maximize engineering commands. Boarding engineers could be pretty fun, too.

I like something like this fleet, haven't gotten to fly this variant yet tho.

Ackbar AF Gunships - 2 TRC90s 1 Flot Rogues

Author: Matt Antilles

Faction: Rebel Alliance
Points: 398/400

Commander: Admiral Ackbar

Assault Objective: Most Wanted
Defense Objective: Planetary Ion Cannon
Navigation Objective: Solar Corona

CR90 Corvette A (44 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Turbolaser Reroute Circuits ( 7 points)
= 58 total ship cost

[ flagship ] Assault Frigate Mark II B (72 points)
- Admiral Ackbar ( 38 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- Reinforced Blast Doors ( 5 points)
- Dual Turbolaser Turrets ( 5 points)
= 134 total ship cost

CR90 Corvette A (44 points)
- Jainas Light ( 2 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Turbolaser Reroute Circuits ( 7 points)
= 60 total ship cost

GR-75 Medium Transports (18 points)
- Leia Organa ( 3 points)
- Comms Net ( 2 points)
= 23 total ship cost

Assault Frigate Mark II B (72 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- Dual Turbolaser Turrets ( 5 points)
= 91 total ship cost

2 YT-2400s ( 32 points)

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2 AF + Pelta IF! Ackbar + 2 transports. Add a light screen or go ham on maxing ships.

2 hours ago, Blail Blerg said:

2 AF + Pelta IF! Ackbar + 2 transports. Add a light screen or go ham on maxing ships.

This is a good base. Pelta/IF + Ackbar is a great combo. Used it to win a tourney today.

4 hours ago, shmitty said:

This is a good base. Pelta/IF + Ackbar is a great combo. Used it to win a tourney today.

Yeah. Its awesome. I love IF. And Peltas are cute. Kinda like a porg.

Except those Rieekan Peltas. Those are like porgs with a lightsaber.

I've really been wanting to try to 2 AFs + Pelta idea, sounds like fun.

Also sounds like the start of a bad joke. Two Assault Frigates and a Pelta walk into a bar...

Looking forward to trying this out.

Ackbar IF - 2 AF2s
Author: Matt Antilles

Faction: Rebel Alliance
Points: 399/400

Commander: Admiral Ackbar

Assault Objective: Most Wanted
Defense Objective: Planetary Ion Cannon
Navigation Objective: Solar Corona

[ flagship ] Assault Frigate Mark II B (72 points)
- Admiral Ackbar ( 38 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- Reinforced Blast Doors ( 5 points)
- X17 Turbolasers ( 6 points)
= 135 total ship cost

Assault Frigate Mark II B (72 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- Reinforced Blast Doors ( 5 points)
- X17 Turbolasers ( 6 points)
= 97 total ship cost

Modified Pelta-class Assault Ship (56 points)
- Raymus Antilles ( 7 points)
- External Racks ( 3 points)
- Intensify Firepower ( 6 points)
= 72 total ship cost

GR-75 Medium Transports (18 points)
- Leia Organa ( 3 points)
- Comms Net ( 2 points)
= 23 total ship cost

GR-75 Medium Transports (18 points)
- Hondo Ohnaka ( 2 points)
- Comms Net ( 2 points)
= 22 total ship cost

1 Han Solo ( 26 points)
1 Dash Rendar ( 24 points)

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I like how with External Racks and Ackbar, an Assault Pelta can have 6 dice on a whim out the front or side arc.

1 hour ago, Matt Antilles said:

I like how with External Racks and Ackbar, an Assault Pelta can have 6 dice on a whim out the front or side arc.

I had started with that, but moved to a Dcaps Command Pelta. The range boost was really helpful and as a trailer I had it finish off 2x ISDs and Quasar in one game yesterday.

I've come to really like the DCaps Command Pelta. Haven't used it with Ackbar yet though. @shmitty did you end up shooting out the front with it or Ackbarring out the sides?

1 hour ago, Matt Antilles said:

I've come to really like the DCaps Command Pelta. Haven't used it with Ackbar yet though. @shmitty did you end up shooting out the front with it or Ackbarring out the sides?

My general plan has been to shoot out the front or go for double arcs, but having the Ackbar boost in my back pocket for side shots. I’ve been using it to come in from behind my gun line as a “trailer”.

In this case it attacked and finished off that ISD-K after my AF had strafed past it.