I’m looking at trying my first imperial run on epic this summer so I can say I’ve flown everything. Our area is running a summer league for epic games. One game/month.

Here is what I’m thinking for the empire. Gunboats are a little spendy but I have no other idea when I’d ever get to load them up like that. Should I drop adv slam for LRS and make it a two turn attack (one to set up, one to slam in).

I am envisioning my raider primarily gunning for fighters, with defender support. The gunboats will try to cripple the rear section of the opponent’s epic ship if possible. The VI is to just get high enough ps that they’ll be above average enough to make the jump over the epic ships and tie most mid-range fighters I expect to see.

Imperial epic (300)

Raider-class Corvette (Fore) (58) - Raider-class Corv. (Fore)
Harpoon Missiles (4), IG-RM Thug Droids (1), Supercharged Power Cells (3)

Raider-class Corvette (Aft) (80) - Raider-class Corv. (Aft)
Weapons Engineer (3), Shield Technician (1), Ion Cannon Battery (6), Harpoon Missiles (4), Ordnance Experts (5), Backup Shield Generator (3), •Impetuous (3), Ordnance Tubes (5)

Rho Squadron Veteran (30) - Alpha-class Star Wing
Veteran Instincts (1), Proton Torpedoes (4), OS-1 Arsenal Loadout (2), Advanced SLAM (2)

Rho Squadron Veteran (30) - Alpha-class Star Wing
Veteran Instincts (1), Proton Torpedoes (4), OS-1 Arsenal Loadout (2), Advanced SLAM (2)

•Captain Jonus (22) - TIE Bomber

Glaive Squadron Pilot (40) - TIE Defender
Ruthlessness (3), Ion Cannon (3), TIE/D (0)

Glaive Squadron Pilot (40) - TIE Defender
Ruthlessness (3), Ion Cannon (3), TIE/D (0)

For 28pts each those rhos can be linked battery mangler rhos with adaptability or trick shot. That frees up 4 pts for bonus to take unguided rockets and lwf

Or for 25pts nus with linked manglers.

Basically bring cannons. Any turns spent reloading could have been spent shooting.

2 hours ago, Dabirdisdaword said:

For 28pts each those rhos can be linked battery mangler rhos with adaptability or trick shot. That frees up 4 pts for bonus to take unguided rockets and lwf

Or for 25pts nus with linked manglers.

Basically bring cannons. Any turns spent reloading could have been spent shooting.

I’ll look at cannon gunboats. But nothing I packed in the list is lwf eligible

17 minutes ago, ScummyRebel said:

I’ll look at cannon gunboats. But nothing I packed in the list is lwf eligible

Captain Jonus should get LWF and Unguided Rockets.

11 minutes ago, Praetorate of the Empire said:

Captain Jonus should get LWF and Unguided Rockets.

Ah, I see it now.

1 hour ago, ScummyRebel said:

Ah, I see it now.

Yes bonus is what my autocorrect called jonus