Breaking out some Garm

By Alpharius18, in Star Wars: Armada Fleet Builds

Never really played Rebels before, so thought I might try this, thoughts?

Precisely One Garmi Boi
Author: Alpharius

Faction: Rebel Alliance
Points: 400/400

Commander: Garm Bel Iblis

Assault Objective: Station Assault
Defense Objective: Fighter Ambush
Navigation Objective: Superior Positions

[ flagship ] MC80 Command Cruiser (106 points)
- Garm Bel Iblis ( 25 points)
- Defiance ( 5 points)
- Flight Commander ( 3 points)
- Fighter Coordination Team ( 3 points)
- Electronic Countermeasures ( 7 points)
- Quad Battery Turrets ( 5 points)
- Leading Shots ( 4 points)
= 158 total ship cost

Modified Pelta-class Command Ship (60 points)
- Phoenix Home ( 3 points)
- Flight Commander ( 3 points)
- Ahsoka Tano ( 2 points)
- Fighter Coordination Team ( 3 points)
- All Fighters, Follow Me! ( 5 points)
= 76 total ship cost

GR-75 Medium Transports (18 points)
- Bright Hope ( 2 points)
- Toryn Farr ( 7 points)
- Bomber Command Center ( 8 points)
= 35 total ship cost

1 Green Squadron ( 12 points)
1 Jan Ors ( 19 points)
1 Dagger Squadron ( 15 points)
2 A-Wing Squadrons ( 22 points)
1 Ten Numb ( 19 points)
1 B-Wing Squadron ( 14 points)
1 Norra Wexley ( 17 points)
1 X-Wing Squadron ( 13 points)
= 131 total squadron cost

Garm and Ashoka to get the tokens for AFFM, and provides the MC80 with some nice shield regen, extra squad for initial punch, and an additional reroll. Squad build becomes a lot more threatening with the speed 4/5 B-Wings, and can deal with other squad balls if needed (whilst letting some of the bombers get to work). Did not want to undermine Garm with Precision strike and Station assault will help draw the enemy towards the B-Wings, fighter ambush starts them closer, and superior positions because, well superior positions I guess. Defiance was put in but did consider EHB for an even bigger first punch to the nose from Garm being activated, or potentially Hardened Bulkheads.

A few thoughts come to mind on this.

  1. You've got Garm, so you're a winner right away.
  2. I get what you mean about Garm and Precision Strikes, especially with a mix of bombers and not. Not a fan of Station Assault though, despite your reasons. Most Wanted tends to be a safe, if boring, option.
  3. B-Wings are good.
  4. Not many activations so I'm not sold on Defiance. Could be dropped for Boosted Comms to get the squads activated without getting too close?

Rest looks good!

Yeah I get what you mean with Defiance, good switch. Would not want to threaten the transport by making it the most wanted ship, maybe advanced gunnery or is that too much of an advantage to my opponent?

5 hours ago, Akhrin said:

  1. I get what you mean about Garm and Precision Strikes, especially with a mix of bombers and not. Not a fan of Station Assault though, despite your reasons. Most Wanted tends to be a safe, if boring, option.

1 hour ago, Alpharius18 said:

Would  not want to threaten the transport by makin    g it th  e most wante  d ship, maybe advanced gunnery or is that too much of an advantage to my opponent? 

If you’re confident you can kill an ISD without being tabled, Most Wanted is your best bet. Advanced Gunnery is no slouch, but it puts your MC80 at risk instead.

My 2 cents is to drop the A-Wings. They don't use BCC and don't need the speed boosts. Some more X-Wings and Y-Wings to replace. If you drop Defiance to Boosted Comms, you can get 1 X-Wing, 1 Y-Wing and Gold Squadron for the cost of the 3 A-Wing varieties.

10 hours ago, Alpharius18 said:

Yeah I get what you mean with Defiance, good switch. Would not want to threaten the transport by making it the most wanted ship, maybe advanced gunnery or is that too much of an advantage to my opponent?

Dunno, I feel like with Advanced Gunnery most of the time you'll be using it at long range so it's 3 red and 1 blue from QBTs. Even double-tapping that's not super high damage, while if something like BT Avenger gets two of your arcs in it's front it's got first player to really punish that and get a lot of points.

Maybe do as @Divad said, grab some more bombers and take Precision Strikes that way.