To be honest though, while it is sad that FFG seems to be breaking up, as long as the games continue to be good, that's what really matters, and I'll be happy if they do continue to be good.

It's annoying how we won't even be able to access the archive of threads. I'm sure there are rich veins of wisdom that I haven't found yet, and it would be nice for that to be there even if we can't post anything new. There's probably a good coding programming reason for it, but it's still annoying...

Welp, this is bad news for me, because I'm not on social media and don't intend to be on it soon. I guess I'll just have to get all my news from Crabbok/Hairy Nick and pray that they'll make a bunch of videos that help with strategy/list building...

I am confused when it comes to strain tokens/gas clouds. I was watching a GSP game, and when a ship landed on a gas cloud, they rolled to see if the ship would gain a strain. I hadn't been playing like this, so I looked at the G.A.R. rules reference and it didn't mention anything about strain tokens. Were the rules updated??

Also watch Gold Squadron Podcast games on YouTube. I don't know if they have CIS vs. Y-Wings specifically, but I've found watching games helpful for kind of learning the flow and what ships to go for at different points in the game and what-not.

Those look great! Good job!

Do you mean synchronized console? None of the Republic ships can take targeting synchronizer, but I suppose it would be good with the V-Wings

Yeah, I guess it could be useful for blocking... But I don't think the Delta or the Eta really want to do that... maybe the Nimbus V-Wing?

Yes, this is definitely great advice. I find myself doing that a lot. When I said that, I was talking about my Republic losing when jousting with CIS Not that I know of. I don't really know what that is, so I guess he probably doesn't😁. He usually just blasts his guys forward at my guys and straight up jousts. It looks like what you need to do is fight beef with beef. CIS doesn't really have any reliable aces, (the tri-fighter might change that, I don't know) so you won't be able to pull something off like Republic would be able to with 2 Jedi.

In my experience, that hasn't ever really happened, although my opponent hasn't really tried it. I usually lose when jousting

I like the sound of that! But what expansion do you get snapshot in? The Y-Wing? I don't have it and I really want it...

I dunno, I feel like maybe you can drop one Bulbullab and give the vultures grappling struts and give the remaining Belbullab Kraken. Then you'll still have room for one more precise hunter. Vulture-class Droid Fighter - •••Precise Hunter - 24 •••Precise Hunter - Pinpoint Protocols (23) Grappling Struts (Open) (1) Vulture-class Droid Fighter - •••Precise Hunter - 24 •••Precise Hunter - Pinpoint Protocols (23) Grappling Struts (Open) (1) Vulture-class Droid Fighter - •••Precise Hunter - 24 •••Precise Hunter - Pinpoint Protocols (23) Grappling Struts (Open) (1) Sith Infiltrator - •Darth Maul - 74 •Darth Maul - Sith Assassin (65) Hate (9) Belbullab-22 Starfighter - Skakoan Ace - 53 Skakoan Ace - (38) Impervium Plating (4) •Kraken (11) Total: 199 View in the X-Wing Squad Builder Instead of adding a third Vulture, you could also turn the Skakoan Ace into being Wat Tambor or General Grievous. Impervium plating can be anything, I just put it on there because there were some points left to spend.

I play Republic, so I might have some insight into this (but I don't play Y-Wings so also take all of this with a grain of salt) One of the main people I play against plays CIS, and what always works for him when he plays against me is a swarm. Multiple times he's tried to use a few beefed up guys, but that hasn't worked very well. CIS is very good at swarming. Try not to sink too many points into one ship, and make it so that losing any one or two ships isn't a huge deal. Assume that some of your vultures are going to die at some point and prepare for that. Another thing (and this goes for swarms in general) is to try to focus your fire on one or two ships at a time. Point all your ships at one guy, and you'll probably be able to get it off the board in a turn or two. Also make use of Networked Calculations and Kraken. I don't know if you're using vultures, but hoarding and sharing calculates is one of the big parts of flying vultures. Always default to a calculate action. You'll find that calculates can do a lot more than you might initially think, and they have been a big source of power for my CIS friend. I hope this helped a little bit!

Is there any point to use the hyperspace ring after you've deployed at the beginning of the game? It doesn't seem to provide any benefits after that.

Just a little update (if you all even care 😁) I've been using this list, and it actually works pretty well! V-19 Torrent Starfighter - Blue Squadron Protector - 26 Blue Squadron Protector - (26) V-19 Torrent Starfighter - Blue Squadron Protector - 26 Blue Squadron Protector - (26) ARC-170 Starfighter - Squad Seven Veteran - 44 Squad Seven Veteran - (44) Naboo Royal N-1 Starfighter - •Ric Olié - 47 •Ric Olié - Bravo Leader (45) R4 Astromech (2) Delta-7 Aethersprite - •Ahsoka Tano - 55 •Ahsoka Tano - “Snips" (43) Delta-7B (12) Total: 198 View in the X-Wing Squad Builder I'm still experimenting with what to put on Ric, but it hasn't seemed to matter all that much (I'm not sure if that's a good sign or a bad one...) But overall it's been great! The ARC and Torrents are able to joust well while Ahsoka and Ric get behind and clean up after them. I'm able to set up nice situations where my opponent get punished by my aces if they go for the clones, but get punished by the clones if they go for the aces. Of course I haven't played with this list super much, but from what I've seen it works really well. Thank you all for the suggestions!

That's why it's probably good to use more than one and send them out there together. When using clones, I try to think of them as getting enemy ships ready for when your Jedi (or your ARCs) come in to finish them off.

That's why it seems like to me that Alpha-3B "Besh" is sorta necessary to be able to guarantee a hit/actually use the locks well. In my experience locks aren't too great for 2 attack dice ships.

For me, I think the main thing for Yoda would be the 3 Force for lower points than Anakin and Obi

I was thinking more to play X-Wing with, but definitely feel free to talk about display value.

That is a definitely a good resource, but it is also good to get multiple opinions

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I've noticed that there aren't really many people who review/unbox new X-Wing ships, so I thought I would start this thread for people to review Jango Fett's Slave I that came out recently. Please try to take more list-build-y discussion-y type things elsewhere. This is intended to be a tool for people looking into buying the Jango Fett's Slave I. (Also please let me know if someone is already doing something like this). *I know that Crabbok does unboxings, but (at least for me) it is nicer to have multiple opinions on a product rather than just one.

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I didn't realize there was a main forum! Thanks! I wasn't sure which category to put this in. Do you think I should repost it on the main one or just leave it for now?