Hey, somebody throw out and discuss possible Alpha-class Starwing + Lamda shuttle lists, because A) I'm too lazy to generate them myself, B) I'm too meta-oblivious to come up with interesting or effective ones, C) I like the idea of the long winged beauties flying around together.
Please?
I'll throw in a Sith-bar (because cookies are yesterday). (Offer not valid anywhere because I'm lying.)
Edited by Deathseed
This maybe?
Palp and guidance chips lands two hits to help maintain a TL for harpoons.
Captain Yorr (24)
Fire-Control System (2)
Emperor Palpatine (8)
Engine Upgrade (4)
ST-321 (3)
Lieutenant Karsabi (24)
Crack Shot (1)
Harpoon Missiles (4)
Guidance Chips (0)
Os-1 Arsenal Loadout (2)
Rho Squadron Veteran (21)
Crack Shot (1)
Harpoon Missiles (4)
Guidance Chips (0)
Os-1 Arsenal Loadout (2)
Total: 100
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Edited by jwilliamson1216 minutes ago, jwilliamson12 said:This maybe?
Palp and guidance chips lands two hits to help maintain a TL for harpoons.
Captain Yorr (24)
Fire-Control System (2)
Emperor Palpatine (8)
Engine Upgrade (4)
ST-321 (3)Lieutenant Karsabi (24)
Crack Shot (1)
Harpoon Missiles (4)
Guidance Chips (0)
Os-1 Arsenal Loadout (2)Rho Squadron Veteran (21)
Crack Shot (1)
Harpoon Missiles (4)
Guidance Chips (0)
Os-1 Arsenal Loadout (2)Total: 100
Interesting. I've not fiddled with harpoons at all, but I understand them to be very popular in the meta (which, admittedly, I hardly pay attention to) right now.
I need to wrap my head around what makes them tick.
Palpy shuttle. (grin) I remember there being a day when that evoked howls of rage. Again, don't really know why. I wasn't paying attention (as usual).
23 minutes ago, Deathseed said:Interesting. I've not fiddled with harpoons at all, but I understand them to be very popular in the meta (which, admittedly, I hardly pay attention to) right now.
I need to wrap my head around what makes them tick.
Palpy shuttle. (grin) I remember there being a day when that evoked howls of rage. Again, don't really know why. I wasn't paying attention (as usual).
Harpoons hit hard with four dice, and you don’t have to spend the TL to fire them. So with the gunboats, you can reload next turn and fire them again potentially (depends on staying at range). If you wanted to get nasty, you could find the points for a Mangler on the shuttle to help trigger the condition, which deals additional damage.
all that considered, this may be better:
Omicron Group Pilot (21)
Advanced Sensors (3)
"Mangler" Cannon (4)
Emperor Palpatine (8)
Engine Upgrade (4)
ST-321 (3)
Rho Squadron Veteran (21)
Crack Shot (1)
Harpoon Missiles (4)
Guidance Chips (0)
Os-1 Arsenal Loadout (2)
Rho Squadron Veteran (21)
Crack Shot (1)
Harpoon Missiles (4)
Guidance Chips (0)
Os-1 Arsenal Loadout (2)
Total: 99
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Edited by jwilliamson12Just now, jwilliamson12 said:Harpoons hit hard with four dice, and you don’t have to spend the TL to fire them. So with the gunboats, you can reload next turn and fire them again potentially (depends on staying at range). If you wanted to get nasty, you could find the points for a Mangler on the shuttle to help trigger the condition, which deals additional damage.
Interesting. That's the thing I so frequently forget to do with ordinance.
And that's just mean 
(I approve). I forgot mangler cannons were a thing.
If you want to pull a dirty tricks, consider the following. Total gimmick list, of course:
Sounds random, but supports a pair of well-armed OS-1 missile boats.
The gunboat is capable of performing what's essentially a 'Speed 9 straight' and then binning off a 5-dice, double-modified cruise missile at a target busy trying to figure out when the empire learned to fire missiles without having to decelerate from lightspeed....
13 minutes ago, Magnus Grendel said:If you want to pull a dirty tricks, consider the following. Total gimmick list, of course:
- Captain Yorr
- Electronic Baffle
- Tractor Beam
- Inspiring Recruit
- Inspiring Recruit
- Engine Upgrade
- Rho Squadron Veteran x 2
- OS-1 Arsenal Loadout
- Push The Limit
- Cruise Missiles
- Proton Rockets
- Advanced SLAM
Sounds random, but supports a pair of well-armed OS-1 missile boats.
- Gunboat executes a speed 4 straight
- Yorr receives the stress
- Gunboat uses SLAM
- Gunboat executes a speed 4 straight
- Yorr receives the stress
- Yorr uses Electronic Baffle to suffer 1 damage and remove the stress
- Yorr uses Inspiring Recruit #1 to remove the other stress
- Gunboat uses Advanced SLAM to perform another action (and potentially Push The Limit to perform a third)
- Repeat as necessary using Inspiring Recruit #2
The gunboat is capable of performing what's essentially a 'Speed 9 straight' and then binning off a 5-dice, double-modified cruise missile at a target busy trying to figure out when the empire learned to fire missiles without having to decelerate from lightspeed....
That...that's complicated and hilarious.
I can just imagine some Imperial pilot saying, "Hold my blue milk and watch this!"
I may have to play with that just to see how ridiculous it is 
Other than that; OS-1 gunboats are incredibly token-hungry.
Activate, use Hux to give two gunboats plus yourself focus tokens, move, remove stress, assign free target lock to a third.
You can provide 'double tokens' to 3 gunboats at once, and still get a focused shot yourself.
2 hours ago, Magnus Grendel said:((STUFF))
The gunboat is capable of performing what's essentially a 'Speed 9 straight' and then binning off a 5-dice, double-modified cruise missile at a target busy trying to figure out when the empire learned to fire missiles without having to decelerate from lightspeed....
Makes me think of that Top Gun line:
Thirty seconds. We went like this, he went like that. I said to Hollywood, "Where'd he go?" Hollywood says, "Where'd who go?"
I posted mine that I flew at Systems open about 2 months ago. I had a blast. I completely second using Hux, Yorr. Yorr was nice because it matched the PS movements and created some cool combo's explained in there. I used tractors, with Hux's uncancellable, and came hard with double Harpoon RHO boats. I loved it and would fly it again with moderate changes. action economy was amazing.