Syck and Xi Swarms are cool and fun to play against

By Boom Owl, in X-Wing

5 hours ago, Biophysical said:

I'd venture to guess that you're a rarity. Are you seeing non-Bugs, or are your generics mostly bugs?

In person or tts? In person non bugs because nobody bought so many. In TTS, bugs turned up until the emergency point change

22 hours ago, Biophysical said:

Imagine if you saw FO swarms or Scyk swarms as often as you saw force aces.

I'm not exactly clamoring for force aces to sit back on top, but during all of Galaxies, I saw much more swarm play than I saw force aces. I played against maybe 4 Kylos and that was it.

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1 hour ago, Stay OT Leader said:

There were only 3 force POINTS in the entire top 16 of Coruscant and not loads more waiting outside in lists 17-32. If you’re using the Force you’re not really trying very hard to win.

So... that was during 6x bugs meta, right? Doesn't really prove much except they got wrecked by bugs.

1 hour ago, 5050Saint said:

I'm not exactly clamoring for force aces to sit back on top, but during all of Galaxies, I saw much more swarm play than I saw force aces. I played against maybe 4 Kylos and that was it.

30 minutes ago, Cerebrawl said:

So... that was during 6x bugs meta, right? Doesn't really prove much except they got wrecked by bugs.

Yeah, this is pretty much what I'm thinking. I might be wrong, but with bugs knocked down 2-3 pegs, I have every expectation if force aces returning. Look at the one squad that wasn't a bug squad that won, it was a Boba squad, and Boba is basically a super force ace.

38 minutes ago, Cerebrawl said:

So... that was during 6x bugs meta, right? Doesn't really prove much except they got wrecked by bugs.

No, it was this week.

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9 hours ago, Cerebrawl said:

That's not a swarm, that's an ace+swarmlet, this is a swarm:

There's also the 7 ship list with a zealous recruit, 3 tractor scyks and 3 nekkid/jamming beam scyks, or the 2 zealous, 2 ion, 2 tractor list. There was even an 8 ship list with a zealous, 2 tractor scyks, 1 nekkid/jamming, 3 MG TIES, and autopilot drone.

Yep, you're correct.

I've arbitrarily drawn the definition of a swarm at six, so Fenn plus four doesn't quite get there.

I was commenting more on the scyk part of it, as opposed to the quantity.

Has anyone else noticed that when generics aren’t priced well enough vis-a-vis ace-type uniques, people complain that the aces are too good, and when they are, people start to complain that the generics are too good?

35 minutes ago, Cpt ObVus said:

Has anyone else noticed that when generics aren’t priced well enough vis-a-vis ace-type uniques, people complain that the aces are too good, and when they are, people start to complain that the generics are too good?

Yeah, generics are in a decent place right now, not all of them, but they're not meta dominating either. Only dominating generics were early Phantoms, and summer point bugs.

1 hour ago, Cpt ObVus said:

people complain that people complain.

Fact.

5 hours ago, Cpt ObVus said:

Has anyone else noticed that when generics aren’t priced well enough vis-a-vis ace-type uniques, people complain that the aces are too good, and when they are, people start to complain that the generics are too good?

Maybe different people have different opinions and complain at different times?

1 hour ago, Biophysical said:

Maybe different people have different opinions and complain at different times?

ObVusly.