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I tried out the Ghost for the first time last night, and overall I was impressed with it. This is the list I used:

Kanan, accuracy corrector, autoblaster turret, recon specialist, recon specialist, Ghost title
Biggs, R2-D2, Shield Upgrade
Zeb, chopper, Phantom title

I kept Biggs as close to Kanan as I could, and used him to essentially give the Ghost some agility, using focus actions for defence, and using Kanans ability to stop as much damage as possible. Zen stayed docked until either the Ghost was nearly destroyed, or was destroyed.

Largely this put out a lot of hurt, but something I noticed was that on turns I needed to pull a red manoeuvre for whatever reason with the Ghost, losing Kanan's ability hurt the list a lot. For that reason I'm looking at trailing the advanced sensors in place of the accuracy corrector to mitigate this problem. Is it worth keeping the autoblaster turret, or should I go with my gut feeling and change to the dorsal turret? My instinct is that without accuracy corrector the autoblaster isn't as strong a choice, although it does work very well for keeping people out of range one

It's not as efficient actions-wise, but you could consider putting Chopper onto the Ghost itself, to be able to perform actions even while pulling a red maneuver.

I like the fire control system, having a primary shoot of four with a target lock that you get simple for shooting and leaves your action for focus or evade is pretty nice.

I'd suggest FCS and Dorsal Turret, it means when you k-turn you'll pretty much always have a TL for the primary

Keep the autoblaster even without accuracy corrector. Dorsal turret is pretty much nonexistent at range 2 anyway, so you might as well have the better range 1 shot.

 Peregrine wrote:
Keep the autoblaster even without accuracy corrector. Dorsal turret is pretty much nonexistent at range 2 anyway, so you might as well have the better range 1 shot.

This. Autoblaster and Ion Turrets are the only ones to run on the Ghost.

 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:
Keep the autoblaster even without accuracy corrector. Dorsal turret is pretty much nonexistent at range 2 anyway, so you might as well have the better range 1 shot.

This. Autoblaster and Ion Turrets are the only ones to run on the Ghost.

Why Ion Turrets, exactly? Not disagreeing, as Chopper with Zeb could have fun with it, but I'm curious to hear your reasoning.

 krodarklorr wrote:
Why Ion Turrets, exactly? Not disagreeing, as Chopper with Zeb could have fun with it, but I'm curious to hear your reasoning.

Effectively the same damage as the dorsal turret in most situations, ion adds control and sets up kill shots with the primary gun, and TLT doesn't work with the title and is of limited value if you're playing your Ghost in the "run straight into the middle of the fight and be obnoxious" style.

 Peregrine wrote:

 krodarklorr wrote:
Why Ion Turrets, exactly? Not disagreeing, as Chopper with Zeb could have fun with it, but I'm curious to hear your reasoning.

Effectively the same damage as the dorsal turret in most situations, ion adds control and sets up kill shots with the primary gun, and TLT doesn't work with the title and is of limited value if you're playing your Ghost in the "run straight into the middle of the fight and be obnoxious" style.

Wait, you mean that's not the only way to fly the Ghost?!