With so many new mechanics and possibilities, I can’t stop making lists. I think I’ve made a few dozen lists since Wave 7 was fully spoiled, but of course, I’ve only played two or three of them. Every time I make a small change using Wave 7 upgrades to an older successful list, I’m thinking, “Why am I doing this? There are tons of other awesome things in Wave 7, and I should use them!” Add Strategic Advisor to an MC80? No! It should be a MC75 Ordnance Cruiser with ACMs and Expanded Launchers...and Bail instead of Strategic Advisor...and...and...and

Halp! I can’t be the only one with this problem.

I have the same problem and I try to ignore the cards, they are the nicotine in an otherwise healthy hobby!

One way to break the addiction is to remember that a carrier will still be a carrier whether I put lando or bail. Similarly the fleet archetypes will still be the same. No matter what cards I put. Still a nice game.

I don’t have to try bail at all, ever. Still an awesome game! Maybe if my friends keep first lasting me.

And I’m lying, I’m crazy about building a good fleet around bail. But that’s the addict speaking.

What I found really fun: Have a friend design 2 lists. No stress building it, and you learn to adapt to completely new things. And when you find a new way out of a tricky situation it is more rewarding and you will built an intuition for that way of solving things. And can reuse it in other lists.

Amen. This went from a minor rash, to a full blown 'shun me outside of the village' sort of disease this wave.

I'll guess I'll fly whatever rolling version I worked on most recently when I get a chance to actually play a game.

I'm like a rolling stone, or is that a leaf on the wind!

One of the things I do when I have a gazillion lists is to build individual ships that I want to try. Sure, I may want to fly 2 Raiders w/ HIE and an ISD... but really what I want to fly is the HIE Raider. And I want to give the Kuat refit a try. And I want to try _____. So I can get a feel for more ships quicker if I build individual ships that I want to try, and shoehorning a fleet out of that. That way I can get a feel for whether its worth trying a ship in a given list or not.

yeah, and sometimes they're like 3 variants of the same list but the variants change a lot of things about it, the squad makeup, the bid, the objectives

I know what you talking about... So hard to settle on a list for tournament! Especially when you have no time to test it.