So, the interaction between Roark Garnett's ability and Swarm Tactics is insane.

For those of you who don't know, at the beginning of Combat, Roark Garnett can have a friendly ship at range 1-3 become a level 12 pilot until the end of the combat phase. If that pilot has Swarm Tactics, once again at the beginning of combat, target friendly ship of range 1 is treated as though it had the same pilot skill as the ship with Swarm Tactics, currently a level 12 from Roark's ability!

If every ship in your fleet other than Roark has Swarm Tactics, you shoot first every single time.

My first inclination was to do Roark with 3 Green Squadron Pilots, each with a concussion missile, as that's one heck of an alpha strike. Then I realized that if my opponents kill Roark, the entire fleet falls apart, so I needed a new plan.

Thus, I arrived at:

Roark Garnett

-Blaster Turret

-Chewbacca

Luke Skywalker

-Swarm Tactics

-R2 Astromech

Green Squadron Pilot

-Swarm Tactics

Green Squadron Pilot

-Swarm Tactics

27, 31, 21, 21 respectively.

What are your thoughts?

Not much firepower. Are there supposed to be missiles on a-wings?

Seriously lacks punch

Infact lacks any real hurt. No PTL, no missles, 1 xwing

I have a similar this to this that I ran and it is extremely effective.

But I stick with X-wings all the way. the A-wings with 2 Attack Dice dont give you the full punch that an X-wing does.

I don't think this build tactic is viable in a "swarm"-like squad because there aren't a lot of low PS ships with Elite Pilot Talent (need for Swarm Tactics). Y-Wings don't have EPT at all.

EPT only on (base pts):

Green Squad (19)

Kyle (21)

Jan Ors (25)

Tycho (26)

Ibitsam (28)

Luke (28)

Wedge (29)

Ten Numb (31)

Chewie (42)

Lando (44)

Han (46)

I like the idea. But only elite pilots can take swarm tactics, that is why you bought green squadron instead of cheaper pilots.

Elite pilots already are likely to go first, especially against me (I love low pilot ships) So you basically spent a few points to garentee what you are probably going to get anyway (at least for the most part)

I guess it might make the list good at killing really high skill pilots like Fell and Vader. (Or in a tournament, Wedge and Han)

If you are spending 3 points on a unammed pilot so he can go earlier, couldn't you just spend those three points to make him a better pilot (and get a special ability)

I dont have the cards on me but you can drop luke down to biggs strip roark and upgrade awing to tycho and missle up some gsps all with ptl. If you also squeezed in kyle you "can" still run swarm tactics and still get 1 turn tl and focus

maybe try a 150-200 pt gam3. I feel there it would shine.