Kit fisto....

By clontroper5, in Star Wars: Armada

To advocate Kit Fisto over Plo Koon we first have to understand the situations where Plo Koon is bad in.

  • Running a light to none low end non-uniques squads (V-19 or Y-wings). Meaning Kit fits more delta or Arc-170 based lists.
  • Facing Heavy snipe or flak fleets. Kit struggles in these situations as well but some of Plo's value is going to waste if no wants to join him in the squadron dogpile or can attack him directly without escort protection. Only aguement for Plo is lucking out to use scatter aginst a big bursty imperial snipe.

With more so the first thought in mind I would consider flying him with Axe, Kickback, and Odd ball as your additional aces. Pick a light touch of deltas or arc-170s to go along with it. Have Odd ball angle himself just right so he can benefit from intell and single engagement to get continuous rerolls.

Hard for me to see the appeal of Kit Fisto for his price, but I do like that the Republic at least has an Intel option, and I like that it's not locked to some wacky unthematic chassis (looking at you, Jumpmaster 5000).

That said, I think it's easy to underestimate how hard the Jedi also hit against squads. 4-5 Dice with 2 Rerolls is potent, though it's far from unprecedented (it can be pretty easily achieved in Rebs/Imps with things like Howl+Swarm, Toryn Farr, etc.), though time will tell if it's worth a whopping 24 points. I know none of my early back-of-the-napkin theorycrafted fleets have even come close to including Kit yet, though.