Vader's red rain!

By Kieran Rexer, in Star Wars: Armada Fleet Builds

Hi guys! I'm going to partecipate a store tournament here in Northern Italy, and I'm eager to test this double Cymoon build, Vader is my commander, and my task is simple, try to annihilate my foes at distance with a rain of red dice. I will setup my squad in a corner at speed 0, and I will try to lure the opppsing ships in the crossfire zone simply without moving for the first two turns, but just banking some command tokens to speed up and catch flanking ships. Probably my Cymoons have not the best configuration, but I'm trying to maximize the number of dice rolled, and the opportunities to reduce the number of spent defense tokens per attack by the enemy, since I have only two firing ships, and just three activations. As You can see, my Fighter Screen its very light, but combined with all those black Flak dice, I'm pretty sure that it can can hold a couple of squadron phases. I spared some points for the iniziative bid, but I'm not sure about that, probably the best thing I can do, is going to 400 adding one more TIE or something, and let my opposer to choose one of my objectives... What do You think guys?

"Red Rain" 400pt ☆Darth Vader☆
Author: keyran rexer

Faction: Galactic Empire
Points: 392/400

Commander: Darth Vader

Assault Objective: Most Wanted
Defense Objective: Asteroid Tactics
Navigation Objective: Solar Corona

[ flagship ] Imperial Star Destroyer Cymoon 1 Refit (112 points)
- Darth Vader ( 36 points)
- Devastator ( 10 points)
- Strategic Adviser ( 4 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- XI7 Turbolasers ( 6 points)
- Heavy Turbolaser Turrets ( 6 points)
- Take Evasive Action! ( 6 points)
= 187 total ship cost

Imperial Star Destroyer Cymoon 1 Refit (112 points)
- Avenger ( 5 points)
- Emperor Palpatine ( 3 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- XI7 Turbolasers ( 6 points)
- Spinal Armament ( 9 points)
- Shields to Maximum! ( 6 points)
= 148 total ship cost

Gozanti-class Cruisers (23 points)
- Comms Net ( 2 points)
= 25 total ship cost

4 TIE Fighter Squadrons ( 32 points)
= 32 total squadron cost

I tend to run a Vic2 heavy list with a larger bid. When facing a list like yours, I tend to just turtle at speed zero in the opposing corner, wait you out and get a very unsatisfying 6-5 victory by being second player. Two Vader Cymoon's are good, but multiple, properly kitted Vic2's deal more damage at long range. If you deploy at Speed 1 and then I turtle and drop to zero, we're getting maybe 2 rounds of shooting... maybe only 1.

Im more into Ackbar Twin Tanked MC80 Assault Cruisers, dont need to sit and wait, speed 2 get dirty. :D