I’m a new player looking at playing with bombers. Right now I use Vader and TIEs. How many bombers do people use?

Personally I suck with bombs, in the same breath I haven't seen many utilize them in competitive play..... point drop? To answer your question I use "bombers" as missile boats.

Disclaimer! This is not a built list, just frame works of single ship builds I have seen positively accepted. Maj. Vynder is a personal project to me and I may be overly determined to be successful in flying him

Also this ship

I think the standard is still Rhymer with APT for an ace option (plus whatever else your taste or upgrades allow).

Range 0-2 Five dice attacks are insane (to die to and to fly ;)

But my question is how many bombers? 2-3?

As far as I can tell it depends on your list. If you just want one, take Rhymer, otherwise they can range anywhere from 2 as fillers, to a Jonus swarm (Jonus plus two/three as I can tell).

I personally stick to one just because the Empire has so many other options to add variety to your list, but because they're so cheap you can really wrangle them to be whatever you need. Low point missile boats, 1-2 kitted out sluggers, whatever floats your boat.

Just don't put too many points on them because they die super quick if you don't have more important threats (which, of course, can be used to your advantage).

There isn't a number....

Bren is the only imperial i5 proton torpedoes platform (except redline)

I advice you to pair him with a lambda to double mod his dices (i use kagi to have a little more protection)

Now jonus is quite expensive so i tend to use him only if i got almost another bomder (or more) or missile/torp ship

Rymer and generics a good choise if you want to use 1 bomber as filler

To answer you i usually take 2 of them

My list is

bren(protorp),bomber i2 (barrage), kagi (title) wishper(juke) (my list)

But if you want to field more they are effective (a little limited action economy because they only want to focus but....)

Jonus+ 4 bomber i2 is cool

Has anyone had any success with Saturation Salvo? Seems legit, however I think that points need to be reduced by 1-2 for efficiency