Hyperspace Resistance - Let the Wookie win!

By darkflop, in X-Wing Squad Lists

I want to share the squad I played at yesterday's Nordics Hyperspace Qualifiers, because it's incredibly fun and fairly solid. Certainly caught many opponents off guard.

Chewbacca (72)
Trick Shot (2)
C-3PO (6)
Rose Tico (9)

Nien Nunb (55)
Crack Shot (1)
Integrated S-Foils (0)
Pattern Analyzer (5)
Black One (2)

Lieutenant Bastian (48)
Integrated S-Foils (0)
Total: 200

View in Yet Another Squad Builder 2.0

The general idea is to have Chewie going around the board, shooting from the side and keeping the X-Wings within range for his ability. Most of the time he does C-3PO's double calculate, but when appropriate he will coordinate. That allowed to pull off some incredible moves with Nien, impossible to predict!

Almost every time Chewie's ability triggered it did some brutal damage thanks to Rose's lock (only once did Chewie have no shot). I didn't go in my games with the intention of triggering Chewie's revenge shot, but when it did it always paid off. Nien's Crack Shot is there for flavour, Heroic would have triggered a couple of times in my games too so that's a valid alternative, I might try it next time. Or a 1pt bid if relevant to your meta (didn't matter in my case, all my opponents were 197 or lower and there were no I5).

I scored 3 wins out of 5 with it, and one loss was due to me making the wrong choice to open Nien's S-Foils before doing a 4-K in the final turn, preventing me from barrel rolling in what would have been the perfect spot behind Vader (ended up being just out of arc of each other). I only needed to push 1 damage on Vader to half-point him and score a win. Chewie got a perfect 4-hit Trick Shot at R3, and Vader proceeded to roll 1 evade and 3 eyes, spent all his Force - game over!

Every game Chewie was the star of the show, mostly being ignored by my opponents and finishing off the job. My first game ended with Chewie vs Rebel Han, Rose's lock was invaluable there, giving me better efficiency and ultimately bringing down Han.

All in all a blast to fly.

Nice. I love Rose crew - So good!

I was thinking about Resistance Chewbacca with Trick Shot and Rey, and 3A's with Heroic and Optics. Throw the A's right at the opponent and hang at Range 3 with Chewie.

Might not be good but sounds fun. I think you want as many friendly ships as possible with Chewie and 3As is the most you can get.

22 hours ago, MrHedgehogMan said:

I was thinking about Resistance Chewbacca with Trick Shot and Rey, and 3A's with Heroic and Optics. Throw the A's right at the opponent and hang at Range 3 with Chewie.

Might not be good but sounds fun. I think you want as many friendly ships as possible with Chewie and 3As is the most you can get.

I believe with no upgrades you can fit 4, but I don’t know if that’s better than your list above

I actually have a Chewie list with two A-wings and an X-Wing built:

Blue Sqd. Recruit + Heroic x 2

Blue Sqd. Rookie + Config

Chewie + C-3PO/Tac. Officer/VTG/Elec. Baffle

Haven't flown it yet, but I think it's interesting in theory.

Any Res YT with 3PO, Tac-Off, and Rey is WILDLY efficient. Double mods on your own shot AND a coordinate. Chewie is an excellent contender for the pilot. As for the rest - well, you want as many ships as possible if Chewie... 3 As is probably your best bet - 3 Greens with Heroic and Crack?

34 minutes ago, Greebwahn said:

Any Res YT with 3PO, Tac-Off, and Rey is WILDLY efficient. Double mods on your own shot AND a coordinate. Chewie is an excellent contender for the pilot. As for the rest - well, you want as many ships as possible if Chewie... 3 As is probably your best bet - 3 Greens with Heroic and Crack?

I make do - I only have the two As.

Fair point lol