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 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:
Drop the Moldy Crow from Kyle and give Kanan another Recon Specialist, it will be better in the long run.

It's okay in theory, but it all hinges on being able to pull off all of your tricks every turn (or most turns) and a moderately skilled player won't let you do it. Any stress-dealing build, Carnor Jax, Omega Leader, or Crackshot swarms will either stop you from using your tricks or just punch through your evades.

What if you put a Recon Spec on Kyle instead and Jan on the Ghost? You take a focus as an action, netting you two, Kyle does the same, then you pass one to the Ghost which gets converted to an Evade and Airen gives you a second Evade, but still leave Kyle with at least a focus? Or change one of those original focus tokens if anyone attacks before Cracken does?

I think your version of "Lots of potential defense" and mine are vastly different.

I like that Chewie build... Mind if I steal to test it out tomorrow?

Chewie was hard as nails. He survived long after the VCX-100 died. Long after. Although it can feel boring to do 1 banks all game long, that's basically all I did and with a stack of evades (sometimes splurging on a target lock) it was enough to discourage my opponent from targeting Chewie, which meant the VCX died very fast. The build is very delicate. You cannot afford to use red maneuvers or bump. Ever.

I took Nera Dantels down to one hull, as well as Tycho (he had a third B-Wing with way too many options on it). So it was, technically, close, but most of the damage was done by Chewie, strangely enough. And the TLT.

I had fun, because I always want to have fun. I'm just a fun-first kinda guy. It just plays very, very differently from a full-Hera list that I was completely aghast at how quickly the VCX went down.

Tycho dropped 4 shields with Proton Rockets, Nera Dantels damaged me again for 4 hits with Proton Torps. B-wing just b-winged. That's a couple more hits. I flipped 2 double damage crits in the brouahah, then I k-turned in order to keep firing. Really bad idea.

So I'm registered for another tournament (but not an official one) and I wanted to bring the Ghost to it. I'm worried about not having enough red dice on the board if I kit it out with the Phantom, so I thought I would stay light on it what do you think of these match-ups? It's 32 hit points.

Hera Syndulla (40)
Accuracy Corrector (3)
Autoblaster Turret (2)
"Zeb" Orrelios (1)
"Chopper" (0)

Blue Squadron Pilot (22)
Fire-Control System (2)
Tactician (2)
B-Wing/E2 (1)

Blue Squadron Pilot (22)
Fire-Control System (2)
Tactician (2)
B-Wing/E2 (1)

Total: 100

View in Yet Another Squad Builder

Or the Ghost could be kitted out like this:

"Chopper" (37)
Fire-Control System (2)
Dorsal Turret (3)
"Zeb" Orrelios (1)
Navigator (3)

You think so? I've only fielded it once or twice. It may have come in handy a couple of times, if at all.

I could replace him with Nien Nunb, on Hera. It gives her a nice range of movements.


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I could replace Zeb with Hera on Chopper's version of the ship.

Although I do confess to liking Hera as a pilot, a lot.

... old news, chap. But I only feel that Hera or a Navigator+Hera equipped Ghost can really take advantage of it, the range being so short.

Getting the range on Soontir with it is... delicious.