Hello XWing Community!

How many ships do you usually bring to the table? Are 3 ship lists or even 2 ship lists viable nowadays?

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Three ship lists are the most common followed by four. Two ship lists can work but require much more careful positioning because pretty much everything takes damage when shot at in 2.0.

3ish ~ SNR Kylo and Rey in some way are in 99.9% of every list I put on the table. Sprinkle in support as needed.

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Most my lists are 3 and 4. I don’t have any two ship lists and I’ve worked on a 5 ship casual list that still needs some work.

I have a 2, 3 and a 5 ship list. Still working on a 4...

I've always struggled with 3 ships, but I find 4 works really well.

At least 4.

6 is my magic number.

4. Fair, Rebel ships.

Somewhere between 2 and 8.

3 (50%ish) or 4(35%ish).

really I find that the higher ship count lists have a hard time. For example a 6-8 ship swarm list may have numbers, but a bunch of I1 and 2 ships struggle mightily against the 4 ship I4 lists. The mid initiative pilots usually have enough upgrades and punch that your numbers count for nothing. Pretty reliably they can even the ship count before you even shoot.

2 or 5.

3 - 4.

one ace. two utility. one blocker.

I aim for 4, often settle for 3, and prefer 5 or 6.

1 hour ago, Da_Brown_Bomber said:

3 - 4.

one ace. two utility. one blocker.

This is how I always build non-swarm lists. really cool someone else does this.

3 ships is my usual contingent.

3 for the good factions or 4 if you play the hard-mode faction

4 has seen most success on my end. Rebel.

Switching to First Order for a little bit. Four seems to be the sweet spot there as well.

One ship takes the heat, while two others flank. Number four does support work.

Works for me.

My go-lists are: 5 Scum, 3 Alliance, 4 Empire, 3 Resistance, 3 First Order

scum is one of the factions that can operate well at 3-5. even 2 but the meta is more 4-5 right now. for scum at least.

I fly primarily Rebels and Resistance (Rebels 2: Electric Boogaloo). My lists are normally 2-4 ships. My 2 ship lists do amazing against other faction 2 ship lists and many 3 ship lists. Once I go up against 3+ ship lists, I find my ships melting PRETTY quick.

I play scum, usually 3-5 ships

Thank you very much for your responses

For the most part, people play 2-5 ships, that's for sure.

Honestly, what I really had in mind is, what is the best average number of ships for you?

Do you actually put trust into a 2 or 3 ship list? If you had to go with one and the same list for a few months, how many ships would it be?

Please don't say 2 to 5 or something like this. Please give me just one number of ships