The idea is Vader for rerolls, isd Cymoon for reaching out and touching someone and flacking limited squadrons. I come up short on turbo lasers however. I feel the gunnery teams let you dual shoot out the front or shoot and flack. Intel is there on the testbed to damage harm the brace tokens. I like contested outpost as it lets your sit ad make people come to you and get victory points. Weaknesses low activations and no squads and fast fleets. Your thoughts?

OSD Test bed verison 1.0
Author: Sobonis01

Faction: Galactic Empire
Points: 399/400

Commander: Darth Vader (com)

Assault Objective: Surprise Attack
Defense Objective: Contested Outpost
Navigation Objective: Solar Corona

Imperial Star Destroyer Cymoon 1 Refit (112 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- XI7 Turbolasers ( 6 points)
= 125 total ship cost

Imperial Star Destroyer Cymoon 1 Refit (112 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- XI7 Turbolasers ( 6 points)
= 125 total ship cost

[ flagship ] Onager-class Testbed (96 points)
- Darth Vader (com) ( 36 points)
- Cataclysm ( 5 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Orbital Bombardment Particle Cannons ( 5 points)
= 149 total ship cost

I Don't know where you'd get the points from, but Hondo Ohnaka (officer) would be a great addition to this fleet.

You already have the rest of the required setup in place(cataclysm + orbital bombardment particle cannons) - Hondo would allow you to drop the token & make an ignition attack on the first turn.
(And believe me you can get decent shots on the first turn, especially if the enemy is in a rush to close with you.)

I'd be hesitant to suggest it (because XI7's are rather good), but if you dropped them down to quad battery turrets (inevitable blue dice on each attack because everyone will be going faster than you) you would get the 2 point's you'd need.

(you have a very tight list there - not much you can cut)

It's something to think about.

I came up a alternative version of this list. I think this one is more balanced.

OSD 2 Vader
Author: Sobonis01

Faction: Galactic Empire
Points: 398/400

Commander: Darth Vader (com)

Assault Objective: Surprise Attack
Defense Objective: Contested Outpost
Navigation Objective: Solar Corona

[ flagship ] Onager-class Testbed (96 points)
- Darth Vader (com) ( 36 points)
- Cataclysm ( 5 points)
- Intel Officer ( 7 points)
- Gunnery Chief Varnillian ( 6 points)
- Orbital Bombardment Particle Cannons ( 5 points)
= 155 total ship cost

Imperial Star Destroyer Cymoon 1 Refit (112 points)
- Strategic Adviser ( 4 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- XI7 Turbolasers ( 6 points)
= 129 total ship cost

Victory II-Class Star Destroyer (85 points)
- Harrow ( 3 points)
- Gunnery Team ( 7 points)
- Engine Techs ( 8 points)
- Disposable Capacitors ( 3 points)
- XI7 Turbolasers ( 6 points)
- MS-1 Ion Cannons ( 2 points)
= 114 total ship cost

= 0 total squadron cost

Cataclysm isn't really necessary, unless you have Hondo to do turn 1 shenanigans. It's not that useful after turn 1 as it's not too difficult to predict your opponent's movement well enough to place the token properly at the end of the Onager's activation. If you want to run Cataclysm, I'd add Hondo on the Vic.

Otherwise, I don't you'll find much use for Cataclysm as you have little token generation to sustain it.

Think I should put a Wulff or a taskmaster grint? Then put Hondo on a vsd? My main question is how important is intel officer on the onager.

I can only speak from personal experience, but Intel officer on the onager seems really good;

It changes the opening shots from something the opponent can mostly ignore into something they have to worry about. Good use of intel officer on the opening shots can force them into either taking a lot of damage or burning important defense tokens.

I really like the idea of two Cymoons escorting a testbed. I can see putting Hondo in the list on the Vic 2. Have the Vic 2 geared up to a mini Cymoon.