This 500 point build attempts to represent what an actual ISD Battlegroup would look like. You get the ISD, her support carrier and screening escort along with proper fighter compliment. I'm not really concerned with tournament competitiveness, this is themed.

ISD Battlegroup

Faction: Galactic Empire
Points: 500/500

Commander: Admiral Motti

Assault Objective: Most Wanted
Defense Objective: Fleet Ambush
Navigation Objective: Minefields

[ flagship ] Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer (120 points)
- Admiral Motti ( 24 points)
- Relentless ( 3 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- Redundant Shields ( 8 points)
- Heavy Turbolaser Turrets ( 6 points)
- Leading Shots ( 4 points)
= 179 total ship cost

Quasar Fire I-class Cruiser-Carrier (54 points)
- Flight Commander ( 3 points)
- Flight Controllers ( 6 points)
- Expanded Hangar Bay ( 5 points)
- Boosted Comms ( 4 points)
= 72 total ship cost

Raider I-Class Corvette (44 points)
= 44 total ship cost

Raider I-Class Corvette (44 points)
= 44 total ship cost

4 TIE Defender Squadrons ( 64 points)
4 TIE Fighter Squadrons ( 32 points)
1 Maarek Stele ( 21 points)
2 VT-49 Decimators ( 44 points)
= 161 total squadron cost

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I've been thinking about thematic fleet, and yours looks good on ship side, but i'd change the squadron contingency.

By the lore, a default ISD carries 6 squadron or TIEs, 4 normal (or interceptor) 1 bomber and 1 scout squadron. The scout can be a Drfender or decimator, or a lambda, as Armada doesn't have it.

You could extrapolate that to the quasar

So maybe 6 fighters for the ISD and 10 for the quasar.

Was gonna say thematically the Defender was an expensive prototype, could drop it to 1 and steele (or just 2 generics), get a gozanti in their and maybe 3 generic Bombers? Take a Decimator our for a lambda shuttle as well maybe. Just my thoughts.

Thematic list: ISD battlegroup
Author: Alpharius

Faction: Galactic Empire
Points: 498/500

Commander: Admiral Motti

Assault Objective: Most Wanted
Defense Objective: Fleet Ambush
Navigation Objective: Minefields

[ flagship ] Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer (120 points)
- Admiral Motti ( 24 points)
- Relentless ( 3 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- Redundant Shields ( 8 points)
- Heavy Turbolaser Turrets ( 6 points)
- Leading Shots ( 4 points)
= 179 total ship cost

Quasar Fire I-class Cruiser-Carrier (54 points)
- Flight Commander ( 3 points)
- Flight Controllers ( 6 points)
- Boosted Comms ( 4 points)
- Expanded Hangar Bay ( 5 points)
= 72 total ship cost

Raider I-Class Corvette (44 points)
= 44 total ship cost

Raider I-Class Corvette (44 points)
= 44 total ship cost

Gozanti-class Cruisers (23 points)
- Bomber Command Center ( 8 points)
= 31 total ship cost

2 TIE Defender Squadrons ( 32 points)
4 TIE Fighter Squadrons ( 32 points)
1 Lambda-class Shuttle ( 15 points)
1 VT-49 Decimator ( 22 points)
3 TIE Bomber Squadrons ( 27 points)
= 128 total squadron cost

I'd do a one or two Arquitens over raiders. While the raider makes a nice anti-fighter escort that's really the role of Ties within a fleet with both a ISD and a Carrier. Typically the Raider isn't really found in fleets, in the lore laid out for it by FFG and Battlefront 2 (the story was... okay) the raider is more of a patrol and special forces ship. The Arquitens is going to support a ISD better when fighting other capital ships while the fighters cover the anti fighter role.

Honestly I'd go
1xISD
1xQuasar
2xArquitens
Fill the rest with Tie fighters, Interceptors and Bombers

On ‎7‎/‎18‎/‎2019 at 4:03 PM, Anaxander said:

This 500 point build attempts to represent what an actual ISD Battlegroup would look like. You get the ISD, her support carrier and screening escort along with proper fighter compliment. I'm not really concerned with tournament competitiveness, this is themed.

ISD Battlegroup

Faction: Galactic Empire
Points: 500/500

Commander: Admiral Motti

Assault Objective: Most Wanted
Defense Objective: Fleet Ambush
Navigation Objective: Minefields

[ flagship ] Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer (120 points)
- Admiral Motti ( 24 points)
- Relentless ( 3 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- Redundant Shields ( 8 points)
- Heavy Turbolaser Turrets ( 6 points)
- Leading Shots ( 4 points)
= 179 total ship cost

Quasar Fire I-class Cruiser-Carrier (54 points)
- Flight Commander ( 3 points)
- Flight Controllers ( 6 points)
- Expanded Hangar Bay ( 5 points)
- Boosted Comms ( 4 points)
= 72 total ship cost

Raider I-Class Corvette (44 points)
= 44 total ship cost

Raider I-Class Corvette (44 points)
= 44 total ship cost

4 TIE Defender Squadrons ( 64 points)
4 TIE Fighter Squadrons ( 32 points)
1 Maarek Stele ( 21 points)
2 VT-49 Decimators ( 44 points)
= 161 total squadron cost

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Fleet created with Armada Warlords

Replace most of those Defender squads with Interceptor squads.

I thought about going with interceptors, but I love me some Defenders. Fighter superiority says what? lol

On July 22, 2019 at 9:32 AM, Anaxander said:

I thought about going with interceptors, but I love me some Defenders. Fighter superiority says what? lol

Not trying to bust your balls here, but you're talking about trying to build a "realistic" ISD group, while adding in Defenders over TIEs and INT because it's much cooler to you. How about doing a realistic build first, and then the Defender build for yourself?

ISD Battlegroup

Faction: Galactic Empire
Points: 500/500

Commander: Admiral Motti

Assault Objective: Most Wanted
Defense Objective: Fleet Ambush
Navigation Objective: Minefields

[ flagship ] Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer (120 points)
- Admiral Motti ( 24 points)
- Avenger ( 5 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- Reserve Hangar Deck ( 3 points)
- Electronic Countermeasures ( 7 points)
- XX-9 Turbolasers ( 5 points)
- Leading Shots ( 4 points)
= 182 total ship cost

Quasar Fire I-class Cruiser-Carrier (54 points)
- Stronghold ( 5 points)
- Taskmaster Grint ( 5 points)
- Flight Controllers ( 6 points)
- Expanded Hangar Bay ( 5 points)
- Reserve Hangar Deck ( 3 points)
= 78 total ship cost

Raider II-Class Corvette (48 points)
- Corvus ( 2 points)
- Weapons Battery Techs ( 5 points)
- Disposable Capacitors ( 3 points)
- Overload Pulse ( 8 points)
= 66 total ship cost

Raider II-Class Corvette (48 points)
- Admiral Titus ( 2 points)
- Weapons Battery Techs ( 5 points)
- Disposable Capacitors ( 3 points)
- Overload Pulse ( 8 points)
= 66 total ship cost

2 TIE Bomber Squadrons ( 18 points)
2 TIE Interceptor Squadrons ( 22 points)
4 TIE Fighter Squadrons ( 32 points)
1 Dengar ( 20 points)
1 Howlrunner ( 16 points)
= 108 total squadron cost

This would be a more "realistic" battlegroup. I went with the same objectives, commander, and ships. OP raiders exhaust all defense tokens on 2 ships, Quasar uses squadrons to wipe the shields, then Avenger finishes them off (hopefully). You can also switch DC for more reserve hanger decks to regen 4 interceptors.