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Looks like I might be getting the rebel transport and tantive 4 for Father's day. I'm wanting them for the fantastic cards they have in them as well as the T 65 pilot cards. That and I'll use them for funsies games as well.

That being said how would you equip them? The transport has zero hard points so it might be a challenging ship to work with, and I've heard the tantive 4 is highly ineffective. The transport looks like I should equip it to be a super support ship and maybe that card that causes stress damage?

The Rebel Transport is actually pretty good.

Take the Bright Hope title and use it as a battering ram. You'll be using Reinforce every turn, so don't take any action-dependent abilities.

Shield Projector and Combat Retrofit make it a decent bunker that can tank hits for the rest of your squad - once a turn (if moving slow) plus once from stored energy you can force someone to shoot at your double-reinforced, massive shields.

Otherwise, it's a nice tactical support ship. Jam, Slicer Tools, etc are really good for aces who hate stress (Vader/Soontir Fel/Whisper) but frankly just use the thing as 'get out of the way or die' and it's impressive. It's only 30 points, and forcing a pack of enemy aces to scatter or die is worth that much....

Dodonna and Riekan are nice, and Toryn Farr is a brilliant answer to Jumpmasters with torpedoes - move in fast, spend three energy (or however many there are) and look - no focus tokens for you.....so no torpedoes.....and now, have some laser fire.

How to win with the CR90: turbolasers x3, weapons engineer, Tantive IV title (so you can take all three teams), Luke, and optimized generators. Then you park Roark and Essege with a recon specialist behind the corvette. Roark gives it PS 12, Essege gives it focus on two attacks, Luke gives you a second 5-dice primary attack after you miss with your final turbolaser shot, and the turbolasers absolutely murder any low-agility targets that dare to exist on your table. Remember that the updated epic rules no longer give extra green dice at range 4-5, you just get +1 at range 3 or greater. So a 5-dice primary shot with focus + TL is pretty scary to even high-agility aces.