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I decided to go with a variation of the Epsilon XX list above... 2x black squadron with Crack shot, Ryad(ptl/x7/mk 2 ) and Stele (crack/x7) in some games yesterday :

Game 1, vs 2x scouts and party bus (w/o dengar ): My opponent wasn't aware of the "clarification" about the R4 agromech so his list was kinda handicapped. Nevertheless, I think I made a mistake in splitting 1 pair of Ln & defender to go each way on the board - Ryad vs the bus and 1 scout and Maarek vs the other scout. My foe also had some horrible dice rolls, whiff ing 2 plasma torps (one at each Tie/Ln ... kinda the wrong targets as I mentioned after the game)... went to time at 60 min with me down a tie and half points on a scout & the bus.

Takeaway: it is kinda frustrating to have my "blockers" at a higher PS than his whole list, but it is nice to be able to lose a ship and not be at a massive points deficit.

Game 2, vs. Ghost, shuttle, tycho : this time I sent the Lns to chase tycho while the defenders risked the ghost (docked shuttle /zeb/autoblaster/accuracy correcter). Opponent kinda blocked Tycho in a corner where the TIEs were able to make a range 2 pass then set up a block/kill box. The cracks allowed me to strip the shields on the first pass (1 each) but never landed another shot. During those 2 rounds the defenders stripped the ghost's shields and maybe a hp or 2, but on the 3rd, both wouND up at r1. Fortunately the ties were also pointed in the right direction and the combined fire of my fleet killed it in 1 round (4 hits from Ryad, thanks to tl&focus )... defenders killed Ezra but one tie got too close to a fleeing tycho and was 1-shotted (blanks, thank you green dice).

Really proud of the block/trap I put down for tycho, but I really should have had a defender to exploit it.

This list bears more testing

Apostasus wrote:
This might be me doing my chicken little impression thinking the sky is falling, but I kinda think the Inquisitor got well and truly nerfed

This is just in regards to BMST, right?
(Like, there hasn't been anything else done to nerf him, has there?)

No, nothing else. But the inquisitor is quite vulnerable to it.

Well, I'd imagine anything that relies on PtL to get the most efficiency out of their ship wouldn't be too fond of BMST.

For this variation I'm wondering if I've got the Ryad build quite right...

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100 points
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Colonel Vessery (37)
TIE Defender (35), Tractor beam (1), Veteran Instincts (1), TIE/D (0)

Countess Ryad (37)
TIE Defender (34), Lone Wolf (2), TIE/x7 (-2), Stealth Device (3)

“Omega Leader” (26)
TIE/fo Fighter (21), Comm Relay (3), Juke (2)

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The general plan is for Vessery and OL to fly in concert (if not formation) so OL boosts Vessery with free target lock and then OL hopefully uses the 2 dice against a reduced evade dice target while Ryad just hopefully is almost impossible to damage with a (relatively) open dial (more free to use the hard turns by not constantly pushing the Limit) to harry targets of opportunity...

The idea of lone wolf on ryad came from watching a tournament video where she had predator instead of PTL for pretty good success (possibly in the video I posted higher up this thread)

Looking forward to your thoughts


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Oh right... I was also thinking that perhaps the stealth device might be better on Omega Leader given that the Countess already has a fair amount of defense built in and it might be better to give my weaker link a buff... or hull upgrade for either OL or Vessery so a) OL can save his evade for Juke or give Vessery that much more survivability

I can vouch that Mk2 Vader ism't bad. i found in my games that the engine upgrade isn't always needed but admittedly it is useful