X-Wing at Gen Con...

Well, have to decide what I play next Friday at Gen Con.  I have essentially narrowed it to 2 lists.  The TIE Reaper, probably Maj Vermeil, Ryad and either the Inquisitor (more likely) or Soonter Fel (trading for the Imp Aces pack, if it arrives in time…) would be the first one.  The “Firestorm Special” being the second one.  CPT Nym and Ten Numb with Proton Bombs, Harpoons and the like just being chucked forward…  After playing the Inq/Reaper/Ryad list a few times, I think that is the one I will go with.  I have some concerns with the Firestorm list against a swarm(ish) list…  As the number of ships on the field have increased, the ability to erase one Ship in the Alpha Strike is no longer THAT important.  When there were at most 3 Ships on the other side it was key, but…  So, the 3 ship list with two Ace(ish) ships and Maj Vermeil in the TIE Reaper.  Now, I got burned BADLY in Bloomington with the inability to deliver a finishing blow to just kill things.  The Major hits AMAZINGLY hard.  I think the math works out to better than 85% to get 3 Hits on the 3 Dice Attack, 75% of 4 Hits a Range 1 I think…  Mind, this is on the target of the optimized prototype and that it will have no tokens of its own.  Since he rolls in and hits with the Jam action first, that should strip all of the tokens.  Then they do the Fencik/Plank thing where one hits the target, strips shields and grant the TL to the Maj…  Then the now vulnerable target gets hit again with the super accurate main guns…

So, bringing this:

InqRyadReaper3 (100)

Major Vermeil — TIE Reaper	26
Adaptability	0
Director Krennic	5
ISB Slicer	2
Advanced Ailerons	0
Ship Total: 33
Countess Ryad — TIE Defender	34
Push the Limit	3
Twin Ion Engine Mk. II	1
TIE/x7	-2
Ship Total: 36
The Inquisitor — TIE Advanced Prototype	25
Push the Limit	3
Autothrusters	2
TIE/v1	1
Ship Total: 31

Maj Vermeil drops his PS to 5 in order to shoot at the same time as each other…  With the PS in this edition being so wildly varied…  Well, basically, you have PS 9+ or you do not.  I do not.  So, I really do not care about the difference between PS 5 and 6…  So, solid Squadron altogether.  Ryad has token stacks for days, and with 4 (!) Shields she is really quite difficult to kill in the time allotted…  The Inquisitor is just such a solid ship in this edition…  I use him as a flanking sniper.  And of course I can actually put the Optimized Prototype on ANY of my ships as they are all able to meet the conditions.  I suppose if there is TLT spam on the other side, the Inquisitor might be the better Prototype choice.  But all three are solid choices.  And it will be fun to fly I think…  Frankly not anything that I feel like is just stupidly broken like say, the bomb chucking of the Firestorm list…