About 8 months ago I posted my first real list here. Basically a Rebel Bomber fleet built around an MC80 Carrier ( list here ). I've taken it out a couple times, but its been awhile. With the upcoming nerf to Yavaris, I wanted to try redrawing the list to not include it. List follows:
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MC80 Command Cruiser (106)
- General Dodonna (20)
- Flight Commander (3)
- Fighter Coordination Team (3)
- Boosted Comms (4)
- Electronic Countermeasures (7)
- Total: 143
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Modified Pelta-Class Command Ship (60)
- Toryn Farr (7)
- AFFM (5)
- Boosted Comms (4)
- Total: 76
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GR-75 Medium Transports (18)
- Wedge Antilles (4)
- Bomber Command Center (8)
- Bright Hope (2)
- Total: 32
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GR-75 Medium Transports (18)
- Leia Organa (3)
- Comms Net (2)
- Total: 23
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Squadrons
- Biggs Darklighter (19)
- Jan Ors (19)
- Norra Wexley (17)
- 2x B-Wing Squadron (28)
- 3x X-Wing Squadron (26)
- Total: 122
Fleet total: 396
(bog-standard Squadron objective suite)
Honestly I usually struggled to use Yavaris. Now that I can't B-Wing double-tap, I feel like finnicking around with positioning isn't really worth the hassle, so I rebuilt it around pure speed boosts. I cut the Nebulon in favor of a Pelta, moved over Toryn and added AFFM. Likely as just a discard effect, but banking a token to use it twice is viable. I've gone a bit back-and-forth on Boosted Comms vs Expanded Hangars and/or FCTs. Decided on Boosted Comms- not too keen on FCTs without Flight Commander, EHB is more expensive, and I don't want to just leave the OR slot blank. Toryn wants to stay near the squadrons, but Boosted Comms does give a bit more versatility to activations if I need to keep the Pelta at a distance.
Pushing 4 squadrons with FCTs on the MC80 was one of my favorite parts of the fleet, so I slotted in Flight Commander to more directly take advantage of the speed boost. Combined with AFFM I got fake-speed 5 squadrons (even speed 5 B-Wings with Wedge, which is terrifying).
Squadron comp mostly remains the same, but I ended up cutting Luke down to a generic X-Wing to clear the points for Flight Commander and the Pelta. Despite the Intel nerf, Jan synergizes well with Biggs so I kept her around. I've thought about cutting B-Wings in favor of Y-Wings- cheaper, and again, no Yavaris double-tap- but there's enough speed boosts to get them in the fight, and with the Intel nerf, my Bombers are gonna have to fight their way to the target.