Do you think a "no medal" squad is still viable? Is the Y wing finally facing extinction?

Here are a couple of squad builds I am thinking about:

"Passing the Buck"

Garven Dreis (26)

Dutch Vander + Blaster Turret + Proton Torpedo (31)

Rookie X wing (21)

Rookie X wing (21)

Simple concept: Garven activates first and passes on focus to Dutch to use Blaster Turret who uses Target Lock and gives a Rookie a Target Lock too. The good thing is that these abilities are range 1 - 2.

"Gold Cloaks"

Dutch Vander + Ion Cannon + Proton Torpedo + R5-K6 (34)

Gold Squadron + Blaster Turret (22)

Gold Squadron + Blaster Turret (22)

Gold Squadron + Blaster Turret (22)

Dutch is mainly going to TL as an action so a Blaster Turret is not so useful for him. The astromech R5-K6 then may give him another TL which also may be allow another Gold Squad member to have a TL. Goldies stick to focus action.

So if I am correct: Dutch picks a TL as an action and another Goldie within range gets a TL immediately. Dutch then spends his TL and the droid may give him back the TL which would also trigger Vander's ability to allow another ship to acquire a TL? Sounds cool if this is right!

DB Draft said:

It's exactly right.

DB Draft said:

passing the buck looks solid enough to perform well

Gold Cloaks however looks to be a list that will fall short due to sacrificing your actions every turn just to use blaster turret.. not having the option to at least focus to maximize damage will really hurt the list in the long run and i honestly believe you'd be better off with all 4 Y-wings having ion cannons for the control aspect.. at least then you can get re-rolls with every attack to almost surely guarantee the hits