I've tried 5 Strikers with Proximity Mines, and later (after the recent points change) 6 strikers, some with Seismic Charges. Both matches were among the worst games I've ever played why strikers, even considering the early days when I had to get used to Ailerons.
Obviously the Seismic Charges are questionable when you have 6 ships of your own. Their blast radius makes it difficult for all strikers to clear the area, and my style is to mob the opponent, so I only dropped one charge.
Proximity Mines have legs, but it's a heavy investment having 5 of them. Every time I dropped one, either I missed my target or my opponent was able to dodge, and I'd shake my head and think, "I wish I had the Nimble Bomber ship trait." Might be worth trying again now that 5 with Proximity Mines are initiative 3 instead of 1.
I've tried Vagabond with Proximity Mines once. I loved it. Next I need to try him with Seismics to see if I can blow up two rocks in one round.
I think TIE bombers could do alright with just bombs/mines equipped, and maybe Skilled Bombardier. But after the points drop, 31-point strikers or interceptors seem like a steal: 4 points for one more attack die seems great, even if you lose some health. You have to really love bombers to try them out as bombers. Addendum: Deathfire is an exception - I would take him in a variety of squads just to toy with my opponent.
Right? You even opened with, "Let's have a conversation," and I think it's definitely an interesting conversation worth having.

Well not many Lancers in here!

Beautiful  
 

I'm assuming this means that you (like me) are finally able to do better than you were when you started as a painter.  Way to go!  

Because 16 health with Reinforce and words is quite good for less than 80 points base?
Because their durability means any toys you put them on tend to stick around for a while, increasing their value?
Because they won a 80-player Grand Championship a couple months back?

They knew it was wrong at inception but went ahead and did it anyway. Now they can't nerf the entire expansion out of the game. And of course they put the tractor mechanics in the game at all. If they stop tiptoeing around Nantex and Ensnare they start doing more than making their tacit admissions of tractor not being all that great in the first place. 
They are lucky I didn't quit this game at the beginning of my time with it after being the new guy with X-wings against the just buffed TIE Defenders with tractors. 
 

Honestly, not all of my takes are good.

#17-21 Finally! Feel prepared enough to take on my swarm. This is just about putting together a team of 5 TIEs with numbering and some decals for details   1. So this is the first time I'm taking on multiple ships of the same treatment so I have my assembly line setup. Tackling each ship a stage at a time. It did get a bit tedious and take a lot longer than i expected but then I remind myself its a x5 factor. 2. I use Mr Hobby's Mr Finishing Surfacer 1500 instead of Citadel. It has a much finer finish. My first few rebels was done with Citadel and I often ran afoul of frosting because of the humidity in Singapore. Since switching it seems much better. Also, white because I figured it's easier to paint black panels instead of trying to do white frames over a black primer. I think I have figured out the level of thinning as well as 2 coats of black with a bit of touch up was enough. 3. I used the Vallejo masking fluid again for the windows before priming, but a bit of the edge came up or was masked so still had to touch up the edge and ended up painting the frames white anyway. 4. Ulthuan Grey gave a nice 'off white' base so that the white scar pops a bit more 5. Stripes were freehand, too small for tape. a good brush makes a big difference here but still not as consistent in the width as i wanted. 6. Decals! First time with these. I bought a few Gunpla sheets from a hobby store that had the numbering i wanted. So the process is:
a) cut out and dunk in water for 3mins.
b) Brush on Mr. Mark Softer on the model.
c) use tweezers to remove the decal paper and blot off excess water from the back.
d) slide of the decal using a soft blunt tool (mine is the cut end of a paperish cotton bud).
e) position the decal, i even had to move one using a knife when i realised i put in the wrong location but the Mr. Mark Softer gives you a bit of time to play with it.
f) Use a cotton bud to carefully press the decal into place and soak up excess fluids g) carefully brush Mr. Mark Setter to 'fix' the decal and melt it on to the plastic 7. I went over some of the white parts with watered down nuln oil to bring out the definition but I might have overdone it more than i wanted. They ended up looking dirtier than they should be. 8. I wanted these to have that stormtrooper level gloss on the major white parts so went over it with Aarcoat but not really getting the right type of shine.   White Mr Hobby Primer Ulthuan Grey for the white parts base Abaddon Black for all the panels White Scar for highlighting Mephiston Red for the designation stripes Wild Rider Red for the Twin Ion Engines Nuln Oil watered down and Tamiya Panel Liner And Aardcoat for that stormtrooper gloss    

Finished my Squad.
 

 

My Scarif Squadron: 
 

Though rare, there will be chances to weaponise that.
Depending on the Initiative of everyone involved, you could have dialled in a red move on a ship, then see your opponent decloak or drop a device in a way to punish it. You then use K-2S0 to stress your ship, which now aborts the red move into a white 2-straight and gets a Calculate for its trouble.

Oh how I miss the days when the points were on the cards and the cards didn't actually do what they said :V

Depends.
A lot of these ships seem to be on the shelf to purchase in 2.0, which certainly makes it easier for new players without having to pick up a conversion kit and hunt around for older models. A new player doesn't need to learn the dials/abilities for as many ships at the same time, the learning curve isn't as steep A newer player doesn't need to go through as many cards to figure out what is good for them in a list. There's a lot of advantages for a newer player in Hyperspace. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's not terrible.

Respectfully, I think you just asked a person to not use their fate-given own brain. To accept what was given, and not ask for more. To turn off their greatest asset, the mind. 
As a chronic overthinking individual myself, I sympathize. Believe me, if this brain-thing had an off switch, I'd have flipped it already. Years of counseling and therapy and medication could not alter how I was formed, and how I exist. I just ask every question without realizing it. So yeah, I too get ripped out of the moment too when there are major holes like this. Yes, I understand that any system can be expanded and evolve. And I'm okay with adding in content. But when your own content doesn't follow the stated and sensible rules of your own content, you lose people like me.
Not that we're incapable of 'just enjoying' stuff. Like I love John Wick. Do I know that the level of gun-fu is insane? You bet! But it's consistently insane, so I can join the ride and kinda go with it. Only the occasional hiccup. But it's experience is predicated on it being that way, so off we go. Really folk like us just need a set of consistent rules. A few minutes of exposition and we're right back with you. 
Please don't belittle our fellow forum members for being who they are, just as we should all do the same. In the words of /\/\entor, we hunger for steak and were given scraps.

If you don't count bomb tokens, sure. I had to buy a firespray just to get some proxy mines for my strikers.

I'm fairly certain that at least one every ship ever rendered into CG form by Lucasfilm was included in that sequence. If they already have the art assets rendered into 3D, why wouldn't they include it? It would only add to the hodgepodge nature of the battle.

I mean, honestly, it's probably about the same in cost. Last big event I went to was in the UK, which if I was day tripping to would have run me about €65 total. Last package I got from FFG's store was €20 worth of items costing €30 in shipping and a smidge over €10 in tax.
I'm not saying it's a bad compromise, I think they should be commended for listening to customer feedback. I just wish there was an EU store too. It's not like Asmodee don't have EU distribution centres.

Since I am apparently the first person to do it: Thank you FFG for letting us buy these even if we aren't going to the event. The completionist in me thanks you. It actually looks like a pretty cool repaint.

Welcome, everyone, to the second annual "complain about or defend Adepticon repaints" thread!  

You could run Recoil in HS... There are currently no cards that work with his pilot ability..... 😂

No, but neither did the GR-75, technically.

The lot of them. Change the freaking Force mechanic, then revise the costs is the tin foil hat dream really for me. 
A huge selling point to me for second Ed was the move away from passive mods. Force was an abandonment of that. 
Not that I dislike the idea of having the Force as a mechanic in the game. To me it's the parallel to say Calculate. It's a mechanic that helps you distinguish the pieces in an ever growing game.
The downside to it right now is that it's just, plain, stupid, good. Because it's a passive mod, essentially a free action, in a game where we got rid of free actions. And that's a problem to me. It's entirely too common to show up to a game where every ship on the table, or at least in one side, has Force from something. 
And on top of that, it's a non-interactive component. I can't block your ship to prevent it, can't stop it with stress, strain, deplete. Can't counter it with my own action. It just happens. 

Separatist Privateer retrofit.

No, no, no!!  I don't want to relive the tragedy of What Happened To Luke/Han/Leia but with Rey/Finn/Poe.
This is why these movies are getting panned so badly.  They are supposed to be part of the "core mythos."
SW needs to break new cinematic ground forevermore.  No one is moaning about Filoni's work because {a} it's good, but way more importantly {b} it stands on it's own.
Movies set in the SW galaxy are going to be at their best when the writers/directors/producers can do whatever they want while playing in the SW sandbox.