How do you think this will work out mates?

I have Juke on Rex, Marksmanship on Maarek, and Crackshot on both Mithel and Scourge.

I've been so into my only 2.0 faction FO, I've not flown the good guys in forever.

One of my regular opponents is flying Marek with marksmanship, Rexlar with Juke and Soontir with predator. It’s pretty nasty when the whole crit thing works.

Do you have FCS on Maarek? Because you really should lol

53 minutes ago, Greebwahn said:

Do you have FCS on Maarek? Because you really should lol

^^^^^ This.

You might look at adding FCS to Stele, and getting rid of Crack on the TIEs.

Or...

Slightly downgrading your TIEs so that you can keep the Crack on them, in addition to the FCS on Stele.

Gideon, Seyn, etc...

Seyn and Gideon are really neat. Marksmanship on Seyn and FCS on Maarek. Would be my go to.

Seyn also dovetails very nicely with Rex.

I want to try Crack Shot on Maarek. Landing a couple of crits with Marksmanship is pretty deadly and nice insurance, but being able to force one through with Crack might be more clutch.

21 hours ago, Greebwahn said:

Do you have FCS on Maarek? Because you really should lol

No, but that’s a nice one to have for focusing on a ship, thx.

20 hours ago, underling said:

^^^^^ This.

You might look at adding FCS to Stele, and getting rid of Crack on the TIEs. Or...Slightly downgrading your TIEs so that you can keep the Crack on them, in addition to the FCS on Stele. Gideon, Seyn, etc...

Hummm? I’ll look at those. I dug the all 5s thing as it leaves all my movements order up to me; but LNs could still work moving earlier.

16 hours ago, Cuz05 said:

Seyn and Gideon are really neat. Marksmanship on Seyn and FCS on Maarek. Would be my go to. Seyn also dovetails very nicely with Rex.

I’ll check these out (I’m just familiar with the 1.0 LN pilots currently 😉 ) I gotta keep up.

On 4/7/2019 at 12:05 AM, Cuz05 said:

Seyn and Gideon are really neat.

Seyn and Del Meeko are even tastier to my mind, when you've got a decent ship to support. Del's ability is great when supporting a TIE fighter, but the key advantage he has over Iden Versio is that her ability is limited to TIE fighters only and his isn't . A Full Throttle TIE defender with a defence die reroll is a real pain to hurt.

Thanks for all the assistance @Estarriol , @Greebwahn , @underling , @Cuz05 and @Magnus Grendel ; I think I'm going to try this brain-trust built list below. Just gotta get the 2.0 pilot cards, dials and chits on the two LNs as I have collected what I need for Rex and Stele through friends who have extras of ships they just don't fly and just passed them off to me..... it looks classic and fun!

I-5 Rexler Brath (89) w/ Juke and Fire Control Systems

I-5 Maarek Stele (49) w/ Crackshot and Fire Control Systems

I-4 Seyn Marana (31) w/ Marksmanship

I-4 Del Meeko (31) w/ Crackshot

Total 200

6 hours ago, clanofwolves said:

Thanks for all the assistance @Estarriol , @Greebwahn , @underling , @Cuz05 and @Magnus Grendel ; I think I'm going to try this brain-trust built list below. Just gotta get the 2.0 pilot cards, dials and chits on the two LNs as I have collected what I need for Rex and Stele through friends who have extras of ships they just don't fly and just passed them off to me..... it looks classic and fun!

I-5 Rexler Brath (89) w/ Juke and Fire Control Systems

I-5 Maarek Stele (49) w/ Crackshot and Fire Control Systems

I-4 Seyn Marana (31) w/ Marksmanship

I-4 Del Meeko (31) w/ Crackshot

Total 200

Looks awesome.

I'd fly it...

Agreed.

The point on Del's benefit to Rex is well made too, @Magnus Grendel .

I like Gideon for the punch, I always choose attack.... he becomes a bit of a terror, hanging off Seyns shoulder.

But a Del fuelled Rex will be extremely hard to put down and gives you some different approach options.

I'm not sure about dropping the TIEs to I4, since that means they fire last and you really want Maarek and Rexler firing last to take advantage of their pilot abilities (after shields are stripped). Mithel and Scourge have more situational pilot abilities but they're at least decent and I5 seems like a real benefit in this list. From your original list, maybe drop Marksmanship and Crack Shot from Mithel to add FCS on Maarek?

There's a list on ListFortress from Adepticon (6th in Swiss) I really like that's similar to yours but swaps out Rexler for Howl + Duchess. I'm thinking of it as "Imperial 5x5" though the creator might have a different name:

Maarek Stele + FCS + Marksmanship (49)
Duchess + Crack Shot (43)
Howlrunner + Crack Shot (41)
Mauler Mithel + Crack Shot (33)
Sourge Skutu + Crack Shot (33)
Total: 199

I do love Rexler, but this is exactly the kind of list I love to fly where you have a strong in-formation joust but also lots of maneuverable ships with good abilities for when things degenerate into a furball. I'm not sure about all the Crack Shots (I've had trouble making them work in 2.0) but it's definitely one I'm planning to play and experiment with.