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My son is playing in an X-Wing tournament next week. 100 points. He wants to play Imperials. His list to date is:

Slave 1: Boba Fett
Tie Interceptor: Soontir Fel, Push the Limit
Tie Advanced: Darth Vader

Thoughts?

Needs some upgrades to be effective. Boba Fett is best when you have a reason to care about changing your maneuver (close-range weapons, etc) but I guess if he's in there for character reasons it's not a terrible choice. But naked Firesprays are really not making best use of the hull, you want at least a recon specialist to take advantage of the crew slot and a gunner is also a good choice. If you're willing to invest more points then a heavy laser cannon is also good. Fel is mostly fine, PTL is the standard choice but you probably also want a stealth device. Vader is probably the worst of the ships, without anything to take advantage of the double actions you've pretty much got a 29 point academy pilot. I would trade him for either 2x academy pilot, or a saber squadron interceptor with PTL. So:

Boba Fett, recon specialist
Soontir Fel, PTL, stealth device
Academy pilot
Academy pilot

or

Boba Fett, recon specialist
Soontir Fel, PTL, stealth device
Saber squadron, PTL

The first list gives you your two elite pilots with some extra meatshields and blocking, the second option goes all-in on the elite concept and gives you a "backup Fel".

Do you have any other ships to use or just those three types?

Slave i, 4 x TIE fighters, 1 x advanced, 1 x interceptor

A very strong list that I've seen using those models has been:

Slave I: Krassis Trelix, heavy laser cannon - 43p
Howlrunner, Stealth Device - 18p
Academy Pilot - 12p
Academy Pilot - 12p
Academy Pilot - 12p

Alternately you could drop the stealth device to upgrade the academy pilots to obsidian squadron pilots to have pilot skill 3. I've played both as and against this list and consider it pretty great. Just keep Krassis Trelix moving in slowly from the rear/side so he can use the heavy laser cannon at least once or twice, have howlrunner in the back as well so she hopefully gets 5 defense dice if they try to focus her down on the first engagement, and keep the academy pilots within range of howlrunner as your front line. Once Krassis Trelix is too close to use the heavy laser cannon you will want to make sure he is within range 1 of howlrunner as well to make use of her great dice rerolling buff.

Thank you good sirs.