Faction: Imperial
Commander: Grand Admiral Thrawn

Assault: Opening Salvo
Defense: Planetary Ion Cannon
Navigation: Solar Corona

Victory II (85)
• Grand Admiral Thrawn (32)
• Disposable Capacitors (3)
• Quad Battery Turrets (5)
• Leading Shots (4)
• Seventh Fleet Star Destroyer (5)
= 134 Points

Victory II (85)
• Disposable Capacitors (3)
• Quad Battery Turrets (5)
• Leading Shots (4)
• Seventh Fleet Star Destroyer (5)
= 102 Points

Victory II (85)
• Disposable Capacitors (3)
• Quad Battery Turrets (5)
• Leading Shots (4)
• Seventh Fleet Star Destroyer (5)
= 102 Points

Squadrons:
• Bossk (23)
• Black Squadron (9)
• Gar Saxon (23)
= 55 Points

Total Points: 393

I did have some thoughts about taking Veteran Gunners instead of Leading Shots and sacrificing some of my squadron points/bid to pay for it.

I mostly through this build together because I wanted to try something new with a ship (the VSD) that I've had little success with before. It has been 1+ years since I played Armada, but my local group is trying to start things up again. I've always wanted to throw together a Thrawn fleet, but he seemed only worth it if you were going to field 3+ ships on the board.

Is there a reason for Saxon? Maarek surely would be better?

I payed a similar 3 VSD list with Thrawn. It did ok but small fast ships can still be a huge problem.

Tua ECM on flagship maybe?

On 8/12/2019 at 1:24 PM, ISD Avenger said:

Is there a reason for Saxon? Maarek surely would be better?

I payed a similar 3 VSD list with Thrawn. It did ok but small fast ships can still be a huge problem.

The reasoning I had behind Saxon was his Rogue trait and Raid ability. If they aren't playing with a large fighter screen (like me), then I can possibly drop a raid token on the ship I'm focusing fire on. Preventing one of those annoying Engineering dials from saving a ship.

Maarek is one of the pilots I really like, and I do think you are right and he is better in this situation. I could switch it up to Maarek, Valen and Ciena, and that would also free up some points for maybe something else.

On 8/12/2019 at 1:42 PM, Constantine Valdor said:

Tua ECM on flagship maybe?

I thought about that, and it is the one idea that I keep coming back to. It is just getting the 9 points to pull it off

6 hours ago, Xphile101361 said:

I thought about that, and it is the one idea that I keep coming back to. It is just getting the 9 points to pull it off

bye bye Black Squadron?