Not sure what you call this, Inquisitor Aces? Inqy aces as called by @Ryuneke in his squad thread where I got the idea for this list from?
Anyways, here is the build I used and took to a local tournament:
Captain Kagi (48)
Jamming Beam (0) Free Free, Freefreefreefree, Free Free
Grand Inquisitor (14)
ST-321 (4)
Darth Vader (65)
Afterburners (6)
Soontir Fel (52)
Predator (2)
Total: 191
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The Squad Build:
I chose Kagi cuz I am sick of Proton Torp alpha lists like Luke/Wedge or now cheaper Ewings, etc. and worrying about their crap. Kagi soaks their damage and my aces dont "stress" about it. Also, double action ships like Poe, or coordinated Fenn raus cant get double mods on my aces until they take out Kagi. This lets me be a little more aggressive with my aces knowing its only a focused attack coming back, and that is if they didnt spend it defending my attacks. The key to the entire list though is Grand Inquisitor crew. I never flew this until this tournament. As long as an ace is within range 2, or shuttle gets within range 2, then your ace has Adv Sensors/Supernatty reflexes. Inqy also doubles as an adv sensors for Kagi in a way, cause you just 1 forward or bank and bump into ships, clear the stress, and when they activate, you pop inquisitor for an action, like a coordinate, and that shuttle title gives a lock for doing so. Lots of action economy. Worse case, you dont use inquisitor ability and you have a mod for one of your two arc attacks or defense.
Onto the tourney:
Match 1 vs RAC vader,tactical officer, ??? something else/Soonts/Tomax w. torps
My bid is bigger so opponent gets 1st Players.
I fly Kagi up the middle between some rocks. I am comfortable with my pilot ability and large ships in rocks. If his ships want Kagi, I want them to turn into the rocks. Soontir behind Kagi, and vader way off on right flank. Decimator and tomax coming down left flank. Evil Soontir heading that way after seeing vader coming for him. I feel good cause I know tomax cant torp my aces, only Kagi, and RAC has no reroll ability on my aces since he can only lock Kagi. I coordinate a focus + barrel too soonts who zooms in towards Evil Soontir, and evades and boosts to range 2 [SEE PIC!]. Rac Fires at Soontir, but cant do any damage since he reinforced and only had a single mod. My soontir does 1 damage to his soontir. Shuttle does two on RAC. Next round, my shuttle banks and blocks RAC onto a rock. My soontir turns away towards edge of match to get distance between RAC w/ vader crew. Evil Soontir blocks my vader.
The next round is game set match pretty much. My shuttle just bumps into RAC clearing stress. Rac two turns towards Vader. Evil Soontir activates, and I inquisistor coordinate a focus to vader, who then uses ability to get a lock on Evil Soontir. Evil Soontir 3 sloops. My vader 3 talon rolls range 1 in front of RAC, but afterburn boost out of RACs arc and into range 2 of Evil Soontir. Full mod vader shot and Evil Soontir is down. Kagi and my Soontir who got range 2 bullseye, obliterate Tomax as well on that turn.
Rest of match is just my aces tearing up RAC, and RAC trying to kill Kagi. Kagi is reinforcing every round and its just 1 dmg, 1 dmg 1 dmg. I kill RAC and Kagi survives with 2 hull left.
Loss half points on Kagi.
200-33 win.
Match 2 vs Vader Mini Swarm
Sent Kagi into rocks in middle again. I want the swarm to come to me in the rocks while my aces flank. Just want Kagi to jam them up and they have to split up from Iden, and then I can pick them off. Kagi was nice here cause Evil Vader couldnt lock my aces til Kagi is dead. This gave me a bit more confidence in my aggressiveness. Also, Iden doesnt work on Vader. Anyways, the swarm came in as I wanted. Vader trailing far behind Kagi, soontir flanking.
A couple TIEs got jammed up. A few went for a block on Soontir but I dialed a 3 turn away towards the corner and dodged all but one arc that was obstructed [SEE PIC!]. Vader flew over Kagi trying to block my vader, but I 3 turned away from everyone, not risking anything, and I setup a lock on his vader. Kagi plinked a shield off Evil Vader with the range 1 rear arc.
I am feeling good and in a good position. Next round some ties turn towards Kagi, and two towards Soontir. Soonts hard 1s and gets range 1 on Wampa, in bullseye, but he rolls all natties and takes no damage. Evil Vader talons behind my vader. But I dialed in a talon of my own and am now on the side of his vader at range 1. 2 hits and 2 crits and 1 crit was direct hit and his vader is down. Things are looking up. All the ties final kill Kagi though.
Now my opponents green dice begin to catch fire. Rest of the game, I am shooting full mod shots into ties getting 3 hit constantly and he keeps rolling all paint. This is no joke. He NEVER triggered Idens abiility cause he never needed too. Anyways, he began plinking a couple shields off vader cause my green dice went cold. The thing that went bad for me though was Soontir was range 3 obstructed with a focus. Rolls 4 blanks and 1 eyeball, and tie fighter had 1 hit, so I have to spend the focus. Then the only other shot was an academy at range 3 and rolls hit crit. I roll 4 blanks. Ugh. 2 dmg on Soontir.
A crit gets plinked on vader, and its the ion one. So vader going 1 straight after next round. Soontir dodges 3 tie fighters and gets range 1 bullseye on academy without tokens! and away from Iden! That tie drops. Time is called, last round but vader is now ion'd, and soontir no good shots. So vader and soonts live on 1 hull each. Ugh. I flew great this game, but ****, when tie fighters green dice are smoking, their aint nothing I can do about it.
110-129 loss. If Soontir wouldnt have blanked out and only taken 1 dmg, that is 27pts in my pocket and a win. UGH! My opponent flew great though. He caught me off guard one round, which gave Vader the ion crit. Howl runner was stressed, and he hard 1 turned toward vader which I didnt see coming. My vader landed range 1 of howlrunner, but Iden was right there, and Howlrunner was blocking my afterburner boost. So I take a range 1 on Howrunner and opponent rolls natty evades that round of course. That is how the game went. Is what it is. Everyone has those Soontir range 3 obstructed stories
Match 3 vs Adv Sensors Elusive Brobots and L337 shuttle.
Inqy was magicial here. I took 1st player, cause I wanted Kagi moving before the brobots, because I wanted to move into range 2 before Brobots activated. Kagi went down the right side. Vader down middle and soonts flanking left. Kagi banked in and was now range 2 of bro B . I dialed in a 3 bank with Vader, saw Bro B was gonna block vader, so I focused and barrel rolled Vader. ( thank the lord I took 1st player or the following would never have happened cuz the L337 shuttle blocked Kagi, only cuz of inquisitor crew was I able to do this) . Vader now flew right passed B's arc then afterburned and locked A at range 1. Then soonts did 5 straight passed Bro B and boost into range 1 of bro A in bullseye. Dropped Bro A to 3 hull left. Next round, Bro A is slooping, and Inqy coordinate vader a focus and lock and he 3 talons and finishes off Bro A [SEE PIC!]. After that is was just inquisitor crew wrecking Bro B, giving Vader b-rolls before he 2 sharps into range 1 of B, or giving soontir a focus before kturning behing Bro B. The entire game I only loss 1 shield on Kagi.
200-0 win.
Match 4 vs HLC Poe, HLC Nein, Lulo
Threw Kagi up the middle between rocks with Soonts on right and Vader on left. They went after Kagi. Vader plinked 2 shield from Lulo at range 3. Soonts 5 straighted and boosted and was range 2 flank on his squad [SEE PIC!].
Next round, Kagi moves forward and coordinates a focus to Soonts. Lulo activates and Kagi pops inquisitor for a reinforce. Lulo boosts and rotates ar backwards. Soontir sloops and lands range 1 on Lulos side and finishes her off. Vader gets range 1 full mod on Nein and takes his shields. Nein and Poe HLC Kagi, but reinforce only takes 3 shields total. Next round, inqy things happen, Nein 1 straights and vader focus locks and 3 talons then afterburns getting arc on Nein. Soonts 2 straights and brolls range 1 on Nein. Nein doesnt live. Poe's 2 bank doesnt make it passed Kagi and bumps.
Kagi clogging up lane and Poe has to fly over him. Soonts and Vader give chase and eventually catch him.
200-0 win. Only 3 shields off Kagi.
Results: 2nd overall in the tournament. Vader Mini Swarm went on to win it. I had the highest MOV with 1340-ish, and next highest was 1050-ish.
Notes:
I like Kagi alot. I just dont worry about Poe who can focus+lock or Torp carriers etc locking my aces. I can get pretty aggressive with them while Kagi is still on the board. Tomax was not a thought in mind until evil Soontir was dead. I never worried about a torpedo coming in my back. Facing another Vader, and he cant lock my aces was nice too.
Inquisitor crew is bonkers good.
I want to test this against rebel 5 ships and see what it does against Bwings and Uwing shenaigans.
Edited by wurms