[Epic lists] 500 points Scum & Villainy: "The Swarm"

By Cerebrawl, in X-Wing Epic Play

Syndicate Smugglers (58)
Point-Defense Battery (10)
IG-88D (3)
Damage Control Team (3)
Tibanna Reserves (3)

Ship total: 77 Half Points: 39 Threshold: 8

Syndicate Smugglers (58)
Point-Defense Battery (10)
Damage Control Team (3)
Tibanna Reserves (3)

Ship total: 74 Half Points: 37 Threshold: 8

Syndicate Smugglers (58)
Point-Defense Battery (10)
Damage Control Team (3)
Tibanna Reserves (3)

Ship total: 74 Half Points: 37 Threshold: 8

Drea Renthal (49)
Dorsal Turret (3)
Proton Torpedoes (13)
R2 Astromech (3)
Shield Upgrade (4)
Veteran Wing Leader (2)

Ship total: 74 Half Points: 37 Threshold: 5

Crymorah Goon (31)
Ship total: 31 Half Points: 16 Threshold: 4

Crymorah Goon (31)
Ship total: 31 Half Points: 16 Threshold: 4

Serissu (40)
Tractor Beam (2)
Veteran Wing Leader (2)

Ship total: 44 Half Points: 22 Threshold: 2

Cartel Spacer (28)
Heavy Laser Cannon (4)

Ship total: 32 Half Points: 16 Threshold: 2

Cartel Spacer (28)
Heavy Laser Cannon (4)

Ship total: 32 Half Points: 16 Threshold: 2

Inaldra (31)
Jamming Beam (0)

Ship total: 31 Half Points: 16 Threshold: 2


Total: 500

Three C-ROCs with Drea as support ship to give them rerolls for all their point defense battery shots. Scyk wing to disrupt other wings(tractor the leader), or strip opposing huge ships of tokens(jamming beam) and shields(HLCs) before the C-ROC bombardment.

Looking good. Your whole squad is at pretty low initiative, except for Drea and Serissu. What do you think of trimming some points to put Swarm Tactics on them? It will be really nice on Serissu to let Inaldra fire the Jamming Beam before Drea and Serissu attack. But even using it to let a goon or spacer shoot before it gets destroyed seems good for 3 or 4 points (7 if they both take it). Just dropping Proton Torpedoes to Plasma Torpedoes will get you enough for Swarm Tactics on Serissu. Not sure if that's the direction you want to go, but it's something to think about - they're already at range 1 in the wing formation anyway.

9 minutes ago, Parakitor said:

Looking good. Your whole squad is at pretty low initiative, except for Drea and Serissu. What do you think of trimming some points to put Swarm Tactics on them? It will be really nice on Serissu to let Inaldra fire the Jamming Beam before Drea and Serissu attack. But even using it to let a goon or spacer shoot before it gets destroyed seems good for 3 or 4 points (7 if they both take it). Just dropping Proton Torpedoes to Plasma Torpedoes will get you enough for Swarm Tactics on Serissu. Not sure if that's the direction you want to go, but it's something to think about - they're already at range 1 in the wing formation anyway.

Yeah downgrading torps for swarm tactics is probably a good move. The only reason that inaldra is in there though is because she's higher initiative than huge ship engage values, so she can always jam off their token stacks.

3 minutes ago, Cerebrawl said:

Yeah downgrading torps for swarm tactics is probably a good move. The only reason that inaldra is in there though is because she's higher initiative than huge ship engage values, so she can always jam off their token stacks.

That's a good point. I guess my thought was just that if you're going to strip a reinforce token anyway, might as well do it before anybody else in your squad shoots at that target. Really it's just Drea and Serissu that engage before Inaldra, but two damage blocked by a reinforce could make all the difference for your opponent.