How are you running Padme and Luminara?

By Pa Weasley, in X-Wing Squad Lists

I'm pretty much set on taking a Padme and Luminara list this week and I can't quite come up with one I'm entirely satisfied with. Suggestions are welcome, very welcome, but I'm leaning toward the list below. So sound off all!

Luminara Unduli (43)
Delta-7B (18)

Padmé Amidala (45)
Juke (7)
Fire-Control System (2)

104th Battalion Pilot (42)

104th Battalion Pilot (42)
Total: 199

One idea for your consideration: take out FCS on Padme and add Daredevil instead. Although it takes away your bid, might be worth it to give her more ways to keep enemies in arc. For example, DD means she can now do a 180-degree turn by doing a 3-turn followed by a red 1-turn boost, and still have her Evade for defense or Juke.

Padme and/or Luminara behind a Sinker swarm.

And you thought beef was bad on the outside!

2 hours ago, bitsai said:

One idea for your consideration: take out FCS on Padme and add Daredevil instead. Although it takes away your bid, might be worth it to give her more ways to keep enemies in arc. For example, DD means she can now do a 180-degree turn by doing a 3-turn followed by a red 1-turn boost, and still have her Evade for defense or Juke.

Daredevil and Juke use the same "slot"

3 hours ago, RoockieBoy said:

Daredevil and Juke use the same "slot"

True - but R2-C4 lets you use your evade offensively if you need to. I'd rather dump Juke - it's nice but it's of only so much value when you only have one - Juke is most useful when firing at a target which can't modify the change back, which is good for padme but best of all when used en masse, which you can't do here.

I think there's an argument to be made for running Padme as the solo Juke of a list. Take a situation where the target has rolled eyeball, evade, X and has a focus token. Juke flips that evade to an eyeball. While your opponent is still likely going to spend that focus token, Padme will only allow one of those dice to flip. Since she only has a two dice attack that's a handy boon. Admittedly this is a bit contrived but not completely out there.

Now, is that worth more than Daredevil for more possible time on target as several have already suggested?

8 hours ago, RoockieBoy said:

Daredevil and Juke use the same "slot"

Oops, you're absolutely right!

I've been tinkering with the following atm:

Gold Squadron Trooper (25)

Gold Squadron Trooper (25)


Luminara Unduli (43)
R4 Astromech (2)
Calibrated Laser Targeting (3)

Padmé Amidala (45)
Daredevil (3)
R2-C4 (5)

Ric Olié (42)
Predator (2)
R2 Astromech (4)

Previous version had Ric with Daredevil and R2 Astro, but while the 1-hard boost is pretty solid, I found myself really struggling with pushing damage through. Not sure if Predator will necessarily fix that though...
Trying to keep Daredevil on Padmé though, to try and maximize "time in arc", although still not sure if it's better to try and get some mods in with R2-C4 or bring in R4, to account for the stress that comes in from all that daredevil'ing.

I still had a good time at a very small tournament this past weekend, and will probably be taking this to another one next weekend.

I actually rather like @bydand 's suggestion of sinker! Padme with Juke, Lumi with 7B, a Gold, and Sinker leaves 8 points to bid or outfit!

And what do you think about list like that?

Saesee Tiin (43)
Calibrated Laser Targeting (3)

Luminara Unduli (43)
Calibrated Laser Targeting (3)

Padmé Amidala (45)
Fire-Control System (2)
R3 Astromech (3)
Adv. Proton Torpedoes (6)

Anakin Skywalker (41)
Fire-Control System (2)
R3 Astromech (3)
Adv. Proton Torpedoes (6)
Total: 200

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