X-wing - trying to work out a list for Trenton

[Jack Shrapnel]

Well Soontir Fel still isn't in (grrrr fantasy flight why you hate me so?) and as I bought Imperial Aces and not the actual interceptor kit (silly me thinking all the pilots would be in the big double box) looks like I've got to rethink my list...

All those push the limit shenanigans end pretty quick though as soon as the falcon or any turret ship hits the table anyways, but I thought a three ship list would be cool.

I've tested out:

Krassis with HLC

Vader with Cluster missiles

Jonus with munitions failsafe and concussion missiles

thought it was a tanky list with lots of ordnance... sadly once that ordnance fires it's got a mere 8 attack dice per turn, so initially it does quite a bit of damage, but struggles in the end game, and other than buffing secondaries, Jonus really doesn't do much on his own... so pretty unsure about this one.  21 hull/shield is pretty decent for empire, especially concentrated in three ships

next I tried:

Kath Scarlet, seismic charge

Carnor Jax - push the limit, stealth device

Kir Kanos -  stealth device

This worked out alright, even against a falcon.  The ability to survive the first salvo relatively unscathed and drop a bomb into the big tangle that inevitably occurs is nice.  However those interceptors are just as fragile as a regular tie fighter, so han solo pushed them pretty badly before he finally dropped... I'm getting to be a fan of kath though, the ability to give stress out is nice.

Next up on the thought process is going to be this one:

Kath Scarlet

Carnor Jax - push the limit

Howlrunner

Night beast

the idea is adding a fourth ship spreads out the damage and angles of attack.  Kath can hand out stress, Carnor takes away your actions, howlrunner buffs his friends, and night beast can get a free focus after barrel rolling or evading if he goes green (kind of a poor man's push the limit).  10 attack dice is fairly average, 19 hull/shield is fairly good for empire

[Admiral Agrippa]

If you need to borrow Soontir, I believe it could be arranged you know.

[Jack Shrapnel]

yeah but it's been fun testing out lists!

tonight I tried:

Bounty Hunter
Howl Runner
Academy Pilot
Academy Pilot
Academy Pilot
Academy Pilot

99 points - 6 ships, 13 attack dice, 25 hull/shield

Really liked how it ran and got lots of practice dodging asteroids... basically the more ships I can run the more it mitigates my inevitable poor placement skills.. lol...

so I think I'm going to submit this one as my list for the tourney (have to pre-submit for this one)...

Kayden is pretty set on his super friends list (Han, Biggs, Wedge) but we'll see what he finally decides on

[Admiral Agrippa]

First off, sorry about the pre-submit.

I know it's not exactly normal in these situations, but as this is Trenton's first X-Wing tournament and MY first attempt at being TO, I wanted to not spend any time on Saturday going over a dozen or so lists to make sure people used the right point cost and can count to 100 Especially, as if we end up with odd numbers, like we now have currently, I will need to play so I didn't want to delay the first game and anger my opponent

As for that list, that's amazing! Who needs Soontir?

And as I've told all the Trenton guys when they submit their list, you can resubmit at any time up to Thursday midnight.

By the sounds of it though, you've got some good practice in with this list so it might be a keeper.

[Jack Shrapnel]

yeah I'm going to run with it... I like the options it gives and it playtested really well tonight... no problem on the submitting lists early, I totally get it ... when I do bigger tournies I also try to do that as well so that it doesn't eat up time the morning of the tourney... Kayden wants to try out one more option tomorrow for his list and then he'll decide too.