I know it's only 5 ships bu it has done me quite well so far

vader with cluster missiles and marksmanship 36 ppoints

howlrunner with swarm tactics 20 points

backstaber 16

dark curse 16

acadamy pilot 12

thats 100 on the nose!

so far I have played rebel 3 ship builds and I have done quite well (about 50%were wins). My questions are how do you think the list would cope with 4 ship rebel builds and how would it cope with tie swarm lists (we have not seen the two above in our area yet and it's our kessel run event tomorrow)?

That's close to what I plan on running, so I'll know here soon enough.

I'm also playing a 5 ship Imp build, though mine has 2 Advanced with 3 Fighters.

The 2 advanced fighters sounds interesting, what are you thinking vader and a tempest?

i won't change my list now,it's too late. I am just curious as to how others perceive its weaknesses

although 2 advanced fighters is something I plan on playing with very soon

a 2 tie advance team went 4-1 only lose against me

Tellos said:

It was Vader with Swarm Tactics and Concussion Missles, Tempest with Concussion Missles, Dark Curse, and 2 Academy TIEs. With my limnited number of ships I pretty much had to use 2 Advanced.

My 5 ship build was Vader + squad leader + concussions, Howlrunner + swarm tactics, Mauler, Backstabber, and an academy pilot.

I went 2-1 against 3 rebel squads sporting 4 ships (1 squad was 2 X's and 2 Ys and the other squads were 4 Xs). My tactics weren't very sound as I hardly used swarm tactics or squad leader. I initially had Vader and Howlrunner with swarm tactics but at the last minute decided to try out squad leader. Maybe it was because I ended up facing a few Wedge + ST but having only one on Howlrunner didn't do much. Having the option to make 3 ships PS 9 or two 9 and two 8 would have served me a lot better. Also I rag on proton torpedoes all the time but concussion missiles on Vader are pretty hot. Only in the game that I lost was I not able to missile + focus fire to take down an X-wing in the first salvo. Every time I fired one, I was able to get 4 hits (by using a focus as well). Those are brutal.