Rebel BABY List

By Tomcattwo, in X-Wing Squad Lists

Looking for any recommendations for improvement:

BABY List - 198/200 (Extended)

A/SF-01 B-Wing Braylen Stramm (47)
Elusive (3)
Fire-Control System (2)

RZ-1 A-Wing Arvel Crynyd (34)
Intimidation (3)
Daredevil (3)

A/SF-01 B-Wing Ten Numb (46)
Elusive (3)
Fire-Control System (2)

BTL-A4 Y-Wing Norra Wexley (Y-Wing) (41)
Expert Handling (2)
Ion Cannon Turret (4)
R4 Astromech (2)
Veteran Turret Gunner (6)

Total: 198

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Recommendations?

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Tomcattwo

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Corrected list

Braelyn would benefit more from debris gambit than elusive.

I feel like the oddball here but I much prefer debris gambit on the B-Wings. Especially the named pilots. Guaranteed stress, unless you’re near a rock in which case you focus and attempt a barrel roll. If you can’t complete a br you still gain the stress.

Thanks. So DG on BOTH B-wings (vice Elusive)? Just flew this in Fly Casual vs an echo/Howl swarm. Elusive did trigger a couple of times. Arvyn flies well with daredevil...very agile. And Norra is a beast-tank. Gotta love the Ions with VTG. She locks them up and the B-Wings take them apart.

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TC2

Edited by Tomcattwo

I prefer Jake to give out focus, but that's personal preference I think

16 minutes ago, Tomcattwo said:

Thanks. So DG on BOTH B-wings (vice Elusive)? Just flew this in Fly Casual vs an echo/Howl swarm. Elusive did trigger a couple of times. Arvyn flies well with daredevil...very agile. And Norra is a beast-tank. Gotta love the Ions with VTG. She locks them up and the B-Wings take them apart.

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TC2

I prefer DG over Elusive because you’re guaranteed at least one evade. Elusive is a potential for you to just roll another blank. And it just helps with triggering their abilities.

I kinda don't think I'd bother with FCS on Braylen Stramm. He's got an ability for rerolls, so I don't see him needing/wanting locks too often. To that end, I don't know that Elusive makes sense on Braylen. There are only so many green dice he'll have to reroll. Yeah, that's my only issue. Braylen has two upgrades which grant him rerolls, but he doesn't need them because he's already rerolling dice from his ability a lot of the time.

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Other than that, it's all sorts of little preference things, rather than something seeming wrong with the build. Daredevil Arvil, for example. Makes enough sense. Adds decent mobility. I'd probably take Predator/Intimidation or Crack Shot/Intimidation, but if you're doing well with Daredevil and not having any tokens when using it, go for it.

I get both sides of the Debris Gambit/Elusive debate for B-Wings. When Ten Numb pulls a red move, he'll have focus-type mods and reroll-type mods on his green die, which is nice. My issue with Debris Gambit is that it loses value once you get in the rocks.

I feel like Norra doesn't necessarily need both R4 and Expert Handling. Having at least one seems like a really good idea, but with two, I could see cutting one for points. Each one lowers the value of the other a little--if you're not stressed from a Roll, blue hards don't matter as much; if you've got blue hards, it's easy to clear the stress from red barrel rolls. I think I'd rather have Expert Handling and cut the droid, if I wanted the points. You don't need to cut them, but if there was something you'd wanted to add, one of these seems like the best first cut, after Braylen's FCS.

What would I spend points on? HLC for Braylen. If you're able to do a focus linked barrel roll to get bullseye on something, that's a lot of fire he's throwing. With FCS cut, and either the 2 points of bid, or one movement upgrade on Norra, HLC on Braylen drops right in.

I'll also say that I think Braylen is totally fine with just Crack Shot and nothing else.

I would strip Braylen down to nothing, give Ten AdSen, Elusive if you want, and Arvel with Pred/Intimidation. Very consistent

12 hours ago, theBitterFig said:

I get both sides of the Debris Gambit/Elusive debate for B-Wings. When Ten Numb pulls a red move, he'll have focus-type mods and reroll-type mods on his green die, which is nice. My issue with Debris Gambit is that it loses value once you get in the rocks.

If you get in the rocks, then you can use the focus>BR (that may or may not fail) to get your stress.

Rename the list to “Hit me BABY One More Time?”

If possible I'd love to squeeze some Proton Bombs onto Norra here. Also, Trick Shot and Baffle works wonders on Braylen.

5 hours ago, XPav said:

Rename the list to “Hit me BABY One More Time?”

Lol! Trying NOT to get hit!

Will try out some of the other recommendations. Thanks everyone!

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TC2