Scavenged YT-1300 Light Freighter - •Rey - 92 •Rey - Resourceful Scavenger (73) •Leia Organa (19) Resistance Transport - •Cova Nell - 41 •Cova Nell - Evacuation Escort (38) Elusive (3) T-70 X-wing - •Ello Asty - 57 •Ello Asty - Born to Ill (56) Heroic (1) Integrated S-foils (Open) (0) Total: 190/200 View in the X-Wing Squad Builder

So I'm working on this list, and I have the basic framework done, but I don't know how to use the 10 points. Since I have 2 initative 5s, I'd prefer to have a okay-ish bid, but you can use as many points as you want to make a list you think will work!

Free free to tell me what you think!

Well, Ello could be Nien Nunb with Pattern Analyzer. I personally kinda think he's better, but there's not really right answer there. I'm sure either Nien and Ello .

Another option would be a regen droid or two. While Ello has strong time-on-target, the option to bug out and gain back a shield can be helpful.

Finn gunner is always strong on Rey, but that'd eat all 10 points of the bid. Agile Gunner might also be handy; I seldom think about it since most ships don't need it, but the Resistance Falcon has that nasty red Rotate action. AgiG could swing those arcs around as needed without stress, which means Rey could probably fly more unpredictably.

Actually... Can't believe I didn't think of Pattern Analyzer on Cova Nell. That'd be handy for having actions on red moves. That's probably my pick: Pattern Analyzer on Cova.

New Squadron

(73) Rey [Scavenged YT-1300]
(5) Rey's Millennium Falcon
(6) Korr Sella
Points: 84

(38) Cova Nell [Resistance Transport]
(19) Leia Organa
(1) Heroic
Points: 58

(56) Ello Asty [T-70 X-wing]
(0) Integrated S-foils
(1) Heroic
Points: 57

Total points: 199

Maybe Move Leia to Cova so her ability is always on and doesn’t have to fight Rey for a force pool? Korr Sella and the title to let her do whatever she wants to do. Ello stays the same.

Yeahhh I do not like force crew on force pilots - wayyy too much competition. Give Leia to anyone else, keep Rey skimpy, and round it out with a nice little ace

1 hour ago, Greebwahn said:

Yeahhh I do not like force crew on force pilots - wayyy too much competition. Give Leia to anyone else, keep Rey skimpy, and round it out with a nice little ace

Should I give it to cova? That bumps her up to 65 points with pattern analyzer. Do you think that will make her a point pinata?

I could also go bare bones on cova and fit a naked poe:

T-70 X-wing - •Poe Dameron - 68 •Poe Dameron - Trigger-Happy Flyboy (68) Resistance Transport - •Cova Nell - 57 •Cova Nell - Evacuation Escort (38) •Leia Organa (19) Scavenged YT-1300 Light Freighter - •Rey - 73 •Rey - Resourceful Scavenger (73) Total: 198/200 View in the X-Wing Squad Builder

I'm not gonna lie, idk if Leia is really worth her points rn

23 hours ago, Greebwahn said:

I'm not gonna lie, idk if Leia is really worth her points rn

How much would you pay for an upgrade that turns all your red moves white and gives you am extra attack and evade die? That's what Leia does for Cova. Yes, you lose some of the maneuverability when you lock yourself into red moves, but the punishing one title is 8 points and only boosts offense (and grants a droid slot instead of crew, but I'm torn on what is better for that trash pile).

Oh she gives Cova a lot, make no mistake. I just think that makes Cova cost more than she's worth

I gotta ask, how the transport doing for you?

I'm just starting to test out Resistance, and locally, no one takes the transport. I am looking for what's good in there.

4 hours ago, TwoDeeSix said:

I gotta ask, how the transport doing for you?

I'm just starting to test out Resistance, and locally, no one takes the transport. I am looking for what's good in there.

Yesterday I got a chance to play 3 games with the transport. I used cova nell with tactical officer, elusive, and pattern analyzer, and let me tell you she is a Incredible knife fighter. I flew her alongside naked rey and black one/heroic poe, so she was often disregarded at first. In the first game against a Hyena/Vulture droid swarm, she was an excellent support for poe, coordinating range one + double modded shots so he could consistently score kills. I did lose that game, but only by 8 points.

The next game was against a boba/fenn duo, and cova was easily the mvp. Her extra offense helped melt boba fast, and her backwards manuvers let her stay on target without sacrificing mods or actions.

I went on to win, only giving up half points on rey. Cova was constantly putting out consistent offense and doing damage.

The third game, I misplayed her early on and she got killboxed by a sinker swarm, but the previous turn, she caught lumi off guard and got half points. I eventually won, though.

In my opinion, cova is incredibly versatile. She's like a perfect mix between a B-wing and a U-wing. She can function as ace support and then jump into a furball and wreck havoc. I highly recommend her and I can't wait to see. More of them on the tables

That sounds good. I hadn't looked at the Transport much, but it sounds like a good force multiplier (pun intended??)

I have been playing all Scum in 2.0, just starting to mess with Resistance, so all this is interesting.

I think rey might be the weak link in this list. The only things she's done in games are soak damage and occasionally block I6s. Versus swarms, she gets cornered too easily and goes down fast. However, sometimes the damage soaking works out, and she buys time for poe to deal damage.

Should I swap her for something else? And If so, what? I can fit 2 A-wings with heroic and optics for some efficiency.

On 8/25/2019 at 3:23 AM, SwampyCr said:

How much would you pay for an upgrade that turns all your red moves white and gives you am extra attack and evade die? That's what Leia does for Cova. Yes, you lose some of the maneuverability when you lock yourself into red moves, but the punishing one title is 8 points and only boosts offense (and grants a droid slot instead of crew, but I'm torn on what is better for that trash pile).

Well how much would you pay for Vader, Grand Inquisitor or Emperor Palpatine cause I’d argue they are equalling as powerful on the board in various ways, but 5 points cheaper at the minimum.

Resistance only has one force user in the entire faction and costing out Leia to be only viable on one or two ships isn’t great.

It’s also a double crew slot so there is already cost to it’s use. Compared to Palp, who is 11 points...hmmm.

Generally I think most of the Resistance crew cards are over costed. The transports don’t last very long under fire, they aren’t offensive without upgrades and there aren’t any crew abilities that have great area effects, save Leia. The crew cards are localised affects and they over price any ship they are placed on, Leia being the worse of them all. She’s only viable on Cova because it becomes a 2 agility ship. Any other transport wouldn’t last a round.

30 minutes ago, Tyhar7 said:

Well how much would you pay for Vader, Grand Inquisitor or Emperor Palpatine cause I’d argue they are equalling as powerful on the board in various ways, but 5 points cheaper at the minimum.

Resistance only has one force user in the entire faction and costing out Leia to be only viable on one or two ships isn’t great.

It’s also a double crew slot so there is already cost to it’s use. Compared to Palp, who is 11 points...hmmm.

Generally I think most of the Resistance crew cards are over costed. The transports don’t last very long under fire, they aren’t offensive without upgrades and there aren’t any crew abilities that have great area effects, save Leia. The crew cards are localised affects and they over price any ship they are placed on, Leia being the worse of them all. She’s only viable on Cova because it becomes a 2 agility ship. Any other transport wouldn’t last a round.

Compare also Leia to Kanan Jarrus. He's 12, she's 19. For those 7 points, there's no range restriction, and she also turns red moves white, and not just white moves blue. That's impressive.

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Don't get me wrong, I like Palp, but Palp seems nowhere near as strong as Leia has the potential to be.

Palp is a calculate token, anywhere in your list, whenever you need it. Great.

Leia can turn red moves white or white moves blue, anywhere. Calculate isn't a particularly strong action, maybe 75% of a Focus. Leia lets an X-Wing or a Resistance Transport pull a red move, and take an action (which will be better than just a Calculate). Or she'll let Poe clear stress on a white move if he has to.

I think there's a fair case to make that an Omicron Group Pilot is a lot stronger than a Logistics Division Pilot.

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Thought experiment: if Resistance could take Emperor Palpatine, and Empire could take General Leia, I think Empire would be more likely to use Leia than Resistance use Palp. Falcon and Transport aren't as strong carriers as Lambdas, Reapers, or Decimators, and getting one Force charge is nice, but you can get by without it.

However, Imperials getting access to Leia to reduce maneuver difficulty? Dang. Soontir Fel treating his entire dial as white. Darth Vader pulling stress-free K-Turns. It'd be ABSURD.

If you want to make the case that Resistance is lacking overall, I'd believe that, but I'm not buying it that Leia specifically is overpriced.

PA on Cova and Optics or R3 astro on Ello. (Edit: and Black 1 title)