I started out with a three ship fleet, one that has an additional TIE Defender Squadron and more upgrades for the Cymoon Refit Star Destroyer. Then I heard that the average fleet is supposed to have more than three ships, so I ditched that squadron and the upgrades and added a Gozanti. Do you think this fleet may be able to do well, or even hold its own?

Name: Four Ship Thrawn Fleet
Faction: Imperial
Commander: Grand Admiral Thrawn

Assault: Advanced Gunnery
Defense: Fire Lanes
Navigation: Superior Positions

ISD Cymoon 1 Refit (112)
• Grand Admiral Thrawn (32)
• Taskmaster Grint (5)
• Shields to Maximum! (6)
• Gunnery Team (7)
• XI7 Turbolasers (6)
= 168 Points

Gladiator I (56)
• Captain Brunson (5)
• Ordnance Experts (4)
• Engine Techs (8)
• Assault Proton Torpedoes (5)
• Demolisher (10)
= 88 Points

Raider I (44)
• Darth Vader (3)
• Flechette Torpedoes (3)
• Impetuous (4)
= 54 Points

Gozanti Cruisers (23)
• Repair Crews (4)
= 27 Points

Squadrons:
• Maarek Stele (21)
• Howlrunner (16)
• 2 x TIE Fighter Squadron (16)
= 53 Points

Total Points: 390

42 minutes ago, PC'sFrank said:

I started out with a three ship fleet, one that has an additional TIE Defender Squadron and more upgrades for the Cymoon Refit Star Destroyer. Then I heard that the average fleet is supposed to have more than three ships, so I ditched that squadron and the upgrades and added a Gozanti. Do you think this fleet may be able to do well, or even hold its own?

Name: Four Ship Thrawn Fleet
Faction: Imperial
Commander: Grand Admiral Thrawn

Assault: Advanced Gunnery
Defense: Fire Lanes
Navigation: Superior Positions

ISD Cymoon 1 Refit (112)
• Grand Admiral Thrawn (32)
• Taskmaster Grint (5)
• Shields to Maximum! (6)
• Gunnery Team (7)
• XI7 Turbolasers (6)
= 168 Points

Gladiator I (56)
• Captain Brunson (5)
• Ordnance Experts (4)
• Engine Techs (8)
• Assault Proton Torpedoes (5)
• Demolisher (10)
= 88 Points

Raider I (44)
• Darth Vader (3)
• Flechette Torpedoes (3)
• Impetuous (4)
= 54 Points

Gozanti Cruisers (23)
• Repair Crews (4)
= 27 Points

Squadrons:
• Maarek Stele (21)
• Howlrunner (16)
• 2 x TIE Fighter Squadron (16)
= 53 Points

Total Points: 390

The Raider should have Ordnance Experts. Vader is a one time use, and he'll probably freak your opponent out enough to where they'll target the Raider first. In my experience, small ships haven't been a good delivery system for the boarding cards. They get destroyed on approach. Also, you might get more use out of another Defender squadron rather than a Gozanti. It's more common for the Empire to only have 3 or fewer ships. The Rebels are the ones who want 4 or more.

21 minutes ago, schmidty1701 said:

The Raider should have Ordnance Experts. Vader is a one time use, and he'll probably freak your opponent out enough to where they'll target the Raider first. In my experience, small ships haven't been a good delivery system for the boarding cards. They get destroyed on approach. Also, you might get more use out of another Defender squadron rather than a Gozanti. It's more common for the Empire to only have 3 or fewer ships. The Rebels are the ones who want 4 or more.

Understood. My reasoning behind putting Vader on the corvette was to have him act as a deterrent against large ships getting to close. It seems it may have the opposite effect.

Ha! You can say that again, I look at that tasty little 54 points and eat it with 1 ISD attack... I love vader raiders, but for practicality's sake, you should stick with OE. I like the rest of the list, but IMO the Gladiator is a little too many points. I personally would cut off ET so you can build another squadron. I would also personally make the Gozanti a comms net gozanti. Also, Shields to Max might be a little underwelming, but that is really a personal thing. Another thing is that thrawn is better (normally) for Arquetens and other long range ships and can be underwelming when used on close range ships. I have used him to much success in both. I would also recommend looking at Tua+Electronic Counter Measures for your crew because that would more than like be a better choice than Grint.

Good Luck and welcome to the forums!

- cleto0

https://ffgstarwarsgames.wordpress.com/

48 minutes ago, Cleto0 said:

Ha! You can say that again, I look at that tasty little 54 points and eat it with 1 ISD attack... I love vader raiders, but for practicality's sake, you should stick with OE. I like the rest of the list, but IMO the Gladiator is a little too many points. I personally would cut off ET so you can build another squadron. I would also personally make the Gozanti a comms net gozanti. Also, Shields to Max might be a little underwelming, but that is really a personal thing. Another thing is that thrawn is better (normally) for Arquetens and other long range ships and can be underwelming when used on close range ships. I have used him to much success in both. I would also recommend looking at Tua+Electronic Counter Measures for your crew because that would more than like be a better choice than Grint.

Good Luck and welcome to the forums!

- cleto0

https://ffgstarwarsgames.wordpress.com/

Thanks man! Believe me, I'd use an Arquetens if I could find one for sale. But, I'm thinking you may be right, Electronic Countermeasures may be the way to go. My thinking was to use Grint as a means to get more tokens for Shields To Maximum. I figured both of the other ships could use it, what with their black die and all.

On 10/5/2018 at 8:24 PM, PC'sFrank said:

Thanks man! Believe me, I'd use an Arquetens if I could find one for sale. But, I'm thinking you may be right, Electronic Countermeasures may be the way to go. My thinking was to use Grint as a means to get more tokens for Shields To Maximum. I figured both of the other ships could use it, what with their black die and all.

Maybe, I have not been impressed so far. That really doesn’t mean it couldn’t work