Negative, was just a restock of wave 1&2 they said aces hopefully next week.

Man all stations! My FLGS says their xwing shipment is expected today! I'm assuming this is the aces shipment.

From the sounds of other are delaying aces until they reach all distribution points world wide or are trying to delay them as late as possible due to store championships, as I'm pretty sure aces are not tournament legal yet right? Or am I thinking of wave 4 not being legal till next season?

If I remember right you were going to try to make it to Games of War at Seaham? I know they have a few people who paint, if you want someone to do it and have the cash to spare, if I'm wrong ignore this =D

Have a heart for us UK players we have to wait for another few weeks while it gets on another slow boat over here

Has someone been reading my thread? It does look a lot of fun, let me know which list you fly and how it performs.

Some nice suggestions and discussions, I will update the OP sometime Thursday or Friday when I get home.

They could use a carrack light cruiser, altho it might be a tad big.

For rebel drop gunner for Chewie and use assault missiles instead, gives you something nice for vs swarms. I went 3-1 at my last FLGS tournament with that list, only losing to XXBB because I lost an xwing turn 1 because I forgot to focus for defense.

The Phantom may come with Targeting computer Mod and as mentioned FCS can be used. That or they are just shipping 1 of every token with every ship.

Sounds like you had fun at least =D Which is the most important thing. so XXXA Is pretty survivable huh? I may have to run it like I was planning. Think I will drop the R2 since I assume Wedge gets Hammered early and use the points for Missiles instead. Edit: Not one to double post to bump it so I'll post it here. I went 2-2 with a AAYB list in a Tournament yesterday. Green, PTL Green, PTL Dutch - Ion cannon Turret Dagger - Ion Cannon 99 pts. One of my wins I rolled pretty hard, 2nd was down to the last 60 seconds and the last shot. My two losses were mainly from losing shots/actions from the B and Y bumping things or getting ion'd vs Rebel list with Ion. Still a very fun list to run, I find if people don't focus on your B or Y first or spread their damage you can get a very good advantage early on, A-wings generally run up the side straight 5 with boosts then Sharp/gentle 2 in to the side/back of the fight for first round of combat - Y and B are together and moving 1's until the A-wings get in position unless they break off for the A's then you "Rush" The Y and B up and get Ion shots in. Double Ion so I can control where and when big ships move in a single turn instead of having to take two turns to Ion, I am tempted to drop the B-wings however, or maybe drop it entirely for maybe an X-wing, maybe Biggs to keep that Y alive longer.

Ah **** Was hoping somewhere had a cheap sale on.

Where did you order these from? As I'm thinking of getting in to it myself.

How about this? Kinda pulls off my other thread about Instant kill bombers. 3 x Scimitar Squad + Proton bombs (21) Omicron group Pilot + HLC + Merc Pilot + Merc Pilot + Engine Upgrade. Anything the Bombers don't kill the Shuttle and any remaining bombers finish off. Also comes in at 99 points for Initiative and 28 Health total. You could also drop one Merc for a Fire Control System.

I've been looking at maybe 3 Bombers and a Firespray. 3x Scimitar + Proton bombs. Firespray + Ion cannon. Comes in at 99 points, and a fairly tanky list at 28 Health total. Ion cannon to help get at least one ship in a flight path it cant get out of to make sure you get use out of the bombs, and the firespray to help clean up whatever is left, or drop Ion cannon and take Prox Mine or Seismic to get even more AoE/Area Denial in the list or one of the 4 cost missiles such as cluster for a big strike against a Falcon/Firespray/Shuttle/B-wing

If I did do both Engine upgrade and HLC that'd make it down to Howl, Mauler both with Swarm and two Academy, or 5 Academy which means a lot of low PS shooting.

So I recent got a shuttle and I've been looking for fun lists to run. I came up with this. Omicron Group Pilot + Merc Copilot + Merc Copilot (25) Academy Pilot (12) Academy Pilot (12) Howlrunner + Swarm tactics (20) Mauler Mithel (17) Or Mauler Mithel + Swarm tactics (19) Black Squad Pilot (14) or Academy Pilot (12) Total 100 points for either way its ran. The idea is to keep the shuttle as far back as possible and get as many range 3 shots in and focus them to Hits and then Merc them to crits. All the while the Tie's are getting up close and personal dealing damage and causing action losses and slowing any advances towards the Shuttle. Running the first list you'd get PS of 887421 until Howlrunner dies. (That is assuming you use it on an academy pilot) The 2nd variant has 887721, Howl and Mithel providing swarm boosts. So you get a lot of shots early to strip shields/cause damage then the shuttle follows up with (hopefully) some crits. Thoughts?

Exactly why I was thinking of dropping the R2 for missiles, means the A-wing gets some added punch. Ever thought of running Adv protons on Wedge? If you can get them off with TL and Focus, you are looking at 5 Dice, most likely all hitting since you get to change 3 blanks to focus. And the defender gets -1 Agi Dice due to it being Wedge, he just has to make it in to range 1 with a target lock and no bump so he can attack and focus.

For the Pilot cards I know its Grey but I think the Art Sleeves also fit, I've held off on art sleeves for X-wing cards as they are face up almost 90% of the time they are in use. May get some clear sleeves however.

Let me know how this runs. As I said above I'm thinking of Similar but no Missiles on A and Swarm tacts + R2D2 On wedge, may drop the R2D2 for missiles on the A.

I think it's deal one Critical Damage, not Deal one face up Damage card. There is a difference, one hits shields, the other bypasses.

As I said in the OP, it is mostly my opinion but I will try to fine tune the info and the list as more people post and give feedback I feel Homing would be better if it was "cannot spend Focus or Evade" but that might be too powerful, again with Clusters its two separate rolls, so more chance of more dice being cancelled, that and again it's all down to dice, you may hit all 6, you may hit none depending what you are rolling against.

By the sounds of it, if it is a FFG Sponsored event, such as Store Champs/Regionals, etc. It has to use FFG rules and Swiss format. But if it is just a Store holding it's own tournament with no input or prizes from FFG it can run its own Format but I believe most still run Swiss anyway as its more fair and more fun for all involved.

Wrong. See the links in all my posts. It looks as if the Organizer can chose reading the first few Paragraphs? Or does it contradict that later?

It depends if it is a FFG Sponsored Store tournament, or just a Internal store tournament.