I haven’t played since wave 2. I play empire. What I have are 1ISD, 2 victory class, 2 gladiator class, and the rogues and villains pack. I’m wondering what I should add. Yes everything is an option eventually. But to dip my toe back in, what should I get.

First off is a flotilla. The Gozanti is 23 points and can take Comms Net to add tokens to your bigger ships or can take Bomber Command Centre if you fancy a list of 4+ TIE-Bs or Firesprays. It also adds to your ship activations for a reasonable amount enabling you to Last/First with Demolisher or avoid enemy fleets doing that to you. The Gozanti title Suppressor also works quite nicely with Avenger on your ISDII.

Next look at an Arquitens or a Quasar carrier.

You may find trouble getting hold of the Arquitens as stocks are low and it will probably be 3 months before the reprint hits the stores. It has a good commander Moff JerJerrod who can make Demolisher and VSDs in particular turn very tightly. Arquitens with Needa & TRC or just plain old DTTs to keep them cheap makes a good fire support flanking unit to soften up or polish off targets of your Demolisher & ISD.

The Quasar carrier is a cheap way of adding fighter control abilities like Boosted Comms and Flight Controllers as well as freeing up your ISDs to do other things after they help out with one squadron command on turn 2 just to get your massed TIEs involved in combats. You also get the QBT Turbolaser upgrade to add to slow VSDs boosting their fire and with Disposable Capacitors too the VSD2 is now a rather tasty fire support unit. Boarding Troopers coupled with the Avenger title makes ISD-Is very deadly at close range (once).

Finally get onto eBay and look for a few cards available in rebel pack. Several of these have recently been participation prizes in the OP kits so there are plenty on offer second hand.

• APTs - Good for Demolisher and maybe VSD-Is
• TRCs - Good for Arquitens particularly if you add Captain Needa too.
• External Racks - Excellent on VSD-Is or the ISD-Kuat refit.
• XI7s - A staple on ISD-IIs

I would say a Gozanti first, and if you want to play in tournaments, having 2 of them is nice. They are nice activation buffers and I run 2 of them with Comms Net in almost every single one of my builds. (Total 50 points). I would then get the Chimera pack, which comes with another ISD and some cool refits. you can run 2 ISDs which is a very good list right now. But if you want to use VSDs, I would get the Quasar pack. This pack comes with Disposable Capacitors, which make VSDIIs, very good. Continuing the VSD route, I would plan on getting an Arquitens pack because it comes with A fantastic admiral for VSDs, Jerjerodd.

Squadrons.

There are many ways to do this. I don't have a HUGE things for squadrons, and if you dont, then I would pick up Imperial Squadrons 1 and the Correlian Conflict. This will give you access to Ciena Ree and Valen Rudor, which is 30 points and super easy to run. you just sit them in front of your ISD to block squadrons. If you do like squads, I would recommend picking up both of those packs and Imperial Squadrons 2 so that you can run sloane, or any of the ace list that you will have access to now. Squadrons are a much bigger part of the game, so definitely put some thought into how you would like to play with them.

Just look around your meta and see what people like, and feel free to ask questions up here anytime.

Welcome back!

Thanks for the advice. Picked up a light carrier pack and the squad 2 pack. I forgot I had the squad 1 pack already. Looking forward to play testing these.

Have fun!