Hi,

Was playing a round with luke and 2 tie fighters.

Luke has a 2x shield + during defending, he can change 1 focus result to evade. Plus if he takes a R2D2 upgrade, he can recover his shield.

Any one has any idea how to effectively take down luke using tie fighters? I tried using Darth Vader and seems diffcult to damage luke's Xwing.

* this is besides having bad dice throw.

Luke wth R2-D2 can be very tough to deal with in small games. Honestly, your best bet is to go ahead and start expanding towards 100 points. When you get to normal sized games he can be taken down by concentrated fire. If you let him survive to the late game where there are only one or two TIEs left though, it's going to be rough.

Yes, right:

Give him the third shield and R2-D2 and Luke is close to unkillable and only falls to very concentrated fire.

Add Biggs for add. protection just in case and include Wedge as damage dealer and keep him protected by the other two…

Nice Red Squad … but it needs some time to actually kill the opposition.

Cheers

Festus

If you are just starting out build to 60 points. It's pretty easy with just a couple of extra ships. concentrate firepower whenever possible.

Anybody tried luke with R2-F2 (increase agility), Elusiveness (make attacker re-roll 1 attack dice), and stealth device (increase agility)? Add in the fact that luke can turn 1 defensive focus into an evade and it would seem to me that this makes him very tough to kill. Stealth devices are usually almost worthless on x-wings because they are usually gone after the first or second attack round. So the goal is to preserve that stealth device as long as possible. I'm sure many have tried this but has anybody had success with it?

I like

Luke (28)

R2-F2 (3)

Stealth Device (3)

PtL (3)

37 points, but the enemy will get frustrated trying to hit Luke while you are doing R2 + Focus or Focus + TL. Great on offense, great on defense. He has a big wibbly wobbly target sign on his ship that people can't hit because he is Luke.

thanks for all the replies. will try 100 point game soon.

Please keep any successful strategy updated here. cheers.

imo Luke with r2d2 is enough of a pain. id be temped to give him a shield upgrade but that would be the most defensive id go.

would love to see them print a 9 pilot skill version of luke with an upgraded ability.

I ran a squad of only 3 ships as follows:

Luke + R2D2 + Elusiveness + Shield U pgrade

Wedge Antilles + Marksmanship+ Proton Torpedoes

Arvel Crynyd + Stealth

Ran this against a swarm of ties and at the end only lost Arvel and 1 hull on Luke. Despite losing all of the shields on luke during the course of game by the end he was full again. Luke was impossible to kill and probably lost a total of 7 shields. Wedge was a monster killer with Marksman and Arvel just kept crashing into everyone and then shooting them.

Running Elusiveness with Luke when you are going to do a green next turn anyway to get back a shield is just like free beer! Expensive but powerful mix