I just bought my fifth resistance A wing - now I need some good lists

Crack Shot, Adv Optics x 5 and L'ulo seem fairly nailed on to me. Other elements may be debatable.

If I were taking 5A to an event tomorrow, this is what I would take:

Zari Bangel (35)
Heroic (1)
Crack Shot (1)
Advanced Optics (4)

Ship total: 41 Half Points: 21 Threshold: 2

Greer Sonnel (36)
Heroic (1)
Trick Shot (2)
Advanced Optics (4)

Ship total: 43 Half Points: 22 Threshold: 2

Blue Squadron Recruit (32)
Heroic (1)
Advanced Optics (4)

Ship total: 37 Half Points: 19 Threshold: 2

Tallissan Lintra (35)
Heroic (1)
Crack Shot (1)

Ship total: 37 Half Points: 19 Threshold: 2

L'ulo L'ampar (38)
Heroic (1)
Crack Shot (1)

Ship total: 40 Half Points: 20 Threshold: 2


Total: 198

View in Yet Another Squad Builder 2.0: https://raithos.github.io/?f=Resistance&d=v6!h=200!271:172,116,,186:;270:172,133,,186:;301:172,,186:;240:172,116,,:;239:172,116,,:&sn=Unnamed Squadron&obs=

Most people would drop Trick Shot from Greer and the Heroic from the Blue and add Optics to Tali.

Another take on 5 A-Wings is 5 Green Squadron Experts, all with Heroic, Crack Shot, and Advanced Optics. Being all I3 they're a little easier to fly and you don't have to worry about so many pilot abilities.

37 minutes ago, Micanthropyre said:

If I were taking 5A to an event tomorrow, this is what I would take:

this is, by the way, the correct choice of pilots if you want to go for best chances on a good placement. Personally I like Lulo and 4x the i3 pilot much more, just for fun reasons, or even 5 Greens. I'd argue that they still have a lot potential but are harder to play.

My pick would be either:

• 4x Green sqd experts plus L'ulo;
• -> all with with heroic & advanced optics (=199 pts in total)
• optional: drop AO on Lulo and add crack shots for everyone

or my current flavour of the day:

• Green Squadron Expert; Heroic, Advanced Optics (39)
• Green Squadron Expert; Heroic, Advanced Optics (39)
• Zari Bangel; Heroic, Advanced Optics (40)
• Greer Sonnel; Heroic, Advanced Optics (41)
• L'ulo L'ampar; Heroic (39)

Total: 198

I've been running the following:

Greer, Zari and Green Squadron x3, all with Heroic and Advanced Optics.

I like that they're a 4, and four 3s, which means sequencing isn't much of an issue. I also like the two abilities of the named pilots.

With the two talents they can put out fairly consistent damage, and have proven to be fairly resilient.

all the named + blue with optics on all but lulo, heroic on all. 3 point bid without crack shot, or crack on your choice of 3.

I know this is the less popular version and has a bit more variance, but I've run 5 without optics and incorporate two prockets instead (one on Tali and one on a Green). I've just found the prockets more useful against the things that As aren't as good at taking down (and often just the threat of them forces an opponent to fly very differently). I also just find it more fun to fly that way. FWIW, I played about 8-10 games with the list and won them all. I ended up putting the list down because even though the prockets helped to make it more interesting to fly than the optics versions, I just wasn't having fun flying it. (I say surprisingly because I love 1.0 As and interceptor class ships).