I loved how this list felt when I played today.

Dengar (64)
Fearless (3)
Punishing One (8)
R5-P8 (4)

Palob Godalhi (38)
Trick Shot (1)
Moldy Crow (12)

Captain Nym (52)
Predator (2)
Seismic Charges (3)
Proton Bombs (5)
Havoc (4)
Trajectory Simulator (3)
"Genius" (0)

Total: 199

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Will probably drop predator from Nym for Elusive on Palob, or else just drop both talents for l337 or 0-0-0 on palob. Gonna get more table time with it. As long as Palob lives, Dengar is a monster. They make a good pair.

Nym is a god with seismics. The entire middle, and I mean the ENTIRE MIDDLE is off limits to aces. Launch that seismic and let it sit there. This draws them straight to Dengar and Palob.

Realized I didnt write my report for first game with list above. Was against three bombers,a baron of empire, and The Baron "Soontir Fel".

Soontir and baron empire and a bomber came for Palob and Dengar along the edge while his seismic bombers initially wanted to flank through rocks, but Nym launched a bomb just like picture above and said "CLAIMED! MY ROCKS!" Soontir got to close to Palob and his focus went "bye-bye". Dengar got a dmg in, and Palob finished him off with the HWK primary! Nym took on two bombers in the middle, messing them up with double seismics and a proton bomb. Meanwhile Palob and Dengar took care of the baron. R5P9 is awesome,btw. I didnt lose anyone, only half of Nym. 1.5 bombers lived.

The FAQ updated and I saw Fearless no longer works with Dengar. So I had some decisions to make. Predator (or any bullseye card) probably will never be used with nym who likes people chasing. So I can drop that as well. Trickshot is useless on Palob with Nym blowing **** up. So I found myself with 7pts to play with

Dengar (64)
Punishing One (8)
R5-P8 (4)

Palob Godalhi (38)
Elusive (3)
L3-37 (4)
Moldy Crow (12)

Captain Nym (52)
Seismic Charges (3)
Proton Bombs (5)
Havoc (4)
Trajectory Simulator (3)
"Genius" (0)

Total: 200

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And they all went into Palob to make him even more of a monster. I couldnt think of any good talents I want on Dengar or Nym that is better than keeping Palob alive.

Another game with the list is now in the books vs Whisper,Maarek,Dutches, Tomax

Nym does the seismic thing with three center rocks and this forces whisper and dutches to go the long way around the left side, while Palob and Dengar move up the right side. Maarek and Tomax are slow rolling, not wanting to get close to the rocks. Dengar is riding the edge and getting in position to pounce like a tiger. Palob jsut slow rolling as well, wanting his ships to get close to rocks. Whisper on other side of baord flying wide around the rocks trying to hunt Nym while staying clear of Palob.

Eventually Dutches makes an error as combat engages. She clips a debris and is stressed and cant b-roll out of range AND rolled a crit. Nym sets off the seismic and Dutchess is at half life. Dengar has arc on Dutchess range 3 through a rock and takes it and rolls 2 crits blank and uses r5p9 to roll that blank into a hit. Dutches only gets 1 evade and a bunch of eyeballs. Dead dutchess. Opponent went for Palob and that was a mistake. Maarek range 1 of palob rolls 3 hits and an eyeball. He is about to reroll the eyeball with FCS and I go "WAIT!" I flip L337 over and make him roll all attack dice. He rolls them into 1 hit and 3 eyeballs. He has no focus, cause Palob. Palob rolls an evade. Tomax fires at Palob and get two hits, but palob rolls paint (and had elusive still active if I didnt). No damage to palob. Whisper I guess says "F that" and decides instead to shoot Dengar in the back.

Tomax would die next round from a seismic and proton being held by Nym. Maarek gets chewed up and at 2 hull when we call time. Whisper only down 1 shield. My squad isnt looking too bad. Dengar took some punishment and 3 hull left, but Nym was only down a shield or so and Palob down 1 shield from Nyms proton bomb.

Im liking this list. Nym and Palob are monsters. L337 crew is a beauty. Im not sure if Dengar is the right call, but he has been doing damage in both games and is a mean early game jouster with r5p9 and palobs de-focusing ability.

Have you considered ablative plating for Nym? With genius does that make him even more of a nightmare. Could be a straight swap for r5p9.

18 minutes ago, eljms said:

Have you considered ablative plating for Nym? With genius does that make him even more of a nightmare. Could be a straight swap for r5p9.

Not for Nym, a hull upgrade is only 3pts, or shield upgrade for 4pts. Id have to use ablative plating twice in a game to get value. Maybe on Dengar, so Nym could just chuck bombs in his direction.

Actually genius is used and very scary with seismics because seismics can travel quite a distance. And if its the difference between 1 shield on Nym and a Tie swarm, a proton bomb is getting dropped anyways.