just a fun 3 ship list

By RyonAndo, in X-Wing

Not super competitive or serious but may be fun to fly, my list goes:

Kyle Katarn, Moldy Crow title, recon specialist, squad leader, Blaster turret (33pts)

Garven Dreis, R2-D2 (30pts)

Wedge Antilles, Swarm Tactics, R2-F2, Stealth Device (37pts).

so the idea is for the formation to stay fairly close together and have wedge pass swarm tactics to garven at the start of the combat phase and have him shoot first and use his focus and then pass it to wedge so he can take a targetlock and a focus into his attack, and have Kyle building focus just inside range one of graven and wedge. The blaster turret gives enough offense to Kyle while he stays in formation. I built upgrades more defensively to try to draw the battle out early so I can get as many shots in the first couple round to even the playing field.

Seems like it would be fun to try let me kno what you guys think?

Squad leader on Kyle? Whom to you intend to hand the action to?

all the focus, all the time! this squad is so utterly focused that no other focus shall be as focused. Having played something very similar with Jan Ors instead of Kyle, and others with Biggs instead of Garven, I bet you will chew thru small rebel lists and large base ships with ease. I couldn't get anywhere near beating a swarm, however. Best I did was get down to three out of 6-7 TIEs. BUT it beat Han Shoots First and a dual Firespray list. had its strengths, also big weaknesses.

I'd trade Wedge for "Dutch" or Lando, to maximize your Actioning :)

I like having wedge as sort of my hammer in the team, the blaster turret allows kyle to still have an offensive impact on the game while my x-wings do work. Also by having squad leader on Kyle I can choose depending on the situation if I want to swarm him or garven, giving me a couple options on how to go about things, but like I said I need to be able to keep them in a relatively good formation/position trying to keep all my ships at least within range 2 of each other.

Also by having squad leader on Kyle I can choose depending on the situation if I want to swarm him or garven ...

No. Kyle cannot use squad leader on either of the other pilots. Wrong PS. It's two points for an ability that list cannot possibly use.

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Edited by dvor

Also by having squad leader on Kyle I can choose depending on the situation if I want to swarm him or garven ...

No. Kyle cannot use squad leader on either of the other pilots. Wrong PS. It's two points for an ability that list cannot possibly use.

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Right. Squad Leader only passes actions to folks of a lesser Pilot Skill than your pilot. On Kyle, it can boost 1-5.

It's been mentioned but Squad Leader is a COMPLETE waste on Kyle when the only other ships are another PS 6 and PS 9. Even if you are trying to "burn" 2 points so you can avoid initiative there are much better choices available that have some potential upside.

I also think you have too much one Wedge and it isn't going to do much good. With R2-F2 there goes his action (no TL for you!) and then the Stealth Device probably doesn't last long either. With it set up you'll have Wedge give Garven PS 9 to shoot and to hand Wedge another Focus token. Given what you have on Wedge you're going to be needing two focus tokens (one from Garven and Kyle) to try and maximize that 4 agility you are shooting for but that means you're taking a big hit on his offensive output. I mean Luke would probably fill the purpose better for a little less.

Kyle/Garven is an interesting pair but you need to work on what they support and what supports them.

Not super competitive or serious but may be fun to fly, my list goes:

Kyle Katarn, Moldy Crow title, recon specialist, squad leader, Blaster turret (33pts)

Garven Dreis, R2-D2 (30pts)

Wedge Antilles, Swarm Tactics, R2-F2, Stealth Device (37pts).

How about this instead?

Kyle Katarn: moldy crow, recon spec. & Ion cannon

Dutch Vander: R5, shield up. & ion cannon

Wedge Antilles: R2F2 & stealth dev.

Wedge takes R2F2 because with Dutch & Kyle giving him TL & Focus, he would have no actions otherwise. You could also drop the R5 & trade the stealth device for engine or shield upgrade on Wedge, or even give him a proton torp (nice with the free TL & focus that he will have)