I'm not that much impressed by the Nantex. For a while I'v been considering a fat Maul build:

Darth Maul (67)
Hate (9)
Count Dooku (10)
Chancellor Palpatine (14)
Shield Upgrade (4)

Ship total: 104 Half Points: 52 Threshold: 6

General Grievous (44)
Outmaneuver (6)
Impervium Plating (4)
Soulless One (6)

Ship total: 60 Half Points: 30 Threshold: 4

DBS-404 (30)
Adv. Proton Torpedoes (6)

Ship total: 36 Half Points: 18 Threshold: 3

Total: 200

It is a definite opposite of what I'm fielding right now (swarm:)). Maul is very fat points wise. With 5 Force he can be tough to kill and hit very hard each turn. Palp gives control and occasional coordinate, Dooku force. Shield is to add 1 more health for halving purposes. Grievious is also in a very fat build, which hots hard and has a lot of health. DBS-404 is a wildcard, which ignored can delete a ship.

First tests are very promising. Maul is tough and ignored is devastating. Grievious is dangerous middle to end game piece. DBS-404 needs to land one shot. If he is ignored he can delete two ships before going down. It seems that there is no definite good choice which ship to target first. It is a good thing

For me some tweaks can be made (shield to hull or outmaneuver for ex. to Crack shot), but these are tweaks only to add bid. But I don't think I need it much.

I really think that Maul, while dope, is overloaded with anything more than Hate and PerCo - that allows him to take and modify all of his shots as much as possible.

That saves 20 points - You could fit a couple ESC vultures in too, or cut/cut down Grievous and get more such beasties

1 hour ago, Greebwahn said:

I really think that Maul, while dope, is overloaded with anything more than Hate and PerCo - that allows him to take and modify all of his shots as much as possible.

That saves 20 points - You could fit a couple ESC vultures in too, or cut/cut down Grievous and get more such beasties

Thanks for the comment. Your point goes against my initial idea. I’ve run Maul only with hate and Grevious before and it was ok. Co-pilot is not worth it as it forces me to use Focus action which doubles the usability of Force and is not used at all while Maul executes KTurn or SLoop.

I’m tempted trying max force approach. I’ve seen similar stuff from Imperial lists (Loaded Decimator). 5 Force really opens up options on the board. Especially when on a ship that is not lonely on the board.

I flew a very similar list, but I used Chertek as the third ship instead of DBS-404 and cut Dooku. Maul with his ridiculous force pool and hate is an absolute monster, and he can stress every ship that shoots at him with Palpatine. My opponents always went for Maul first, so I constantly had full force. Him and Grievous are absolutely nasty.

DBS-404 with APT is hilarious, but shouldn't be too hard to avoid. I would give him concussion missiles instead so he throws out 3-4 dice at every range from 0 to 3. Good luck!