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What are your thoughts on or experiences with squads featuring two K-Wings?

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well, second place at yesterday's store championship. Bit of a slog, but won every match save v a palp shuttle list where I thought my tactician warden would have won against the last remaining ship, a palp shuttle, but it was 33 points w/jammers. Gave up a mod win there :(

 

Miranda w/c3po TLTs and double seismics, which are invaluable and make the list far more fun than normal

 

people always forget the seismics

 

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Warden w/TLT tactician

 

Stresshog

 

 

 

Stressy's great and I wouldn't take any other generic over it, because dice don't factor into how effective it can be

 

that said, being arc-locked and self-stressing, I got into the habit of foddering it without hesitation

 

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turned out to be a better Biggs for 26 points

 

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I went up against Poe + 2x TLT Tactician Kwings last night at a store championship.  I was running 3x TLT Ys and Palob.  The threat of Palob taking Poe's focus kept him on the back foot while I hammered the Ks with TLT.  Tactician only came into play once.  I only lost Palob in the win.  I feel like if you just want a generic TLT carrier Y-Wings are the way to go.   Generic Ks are probably better with advanced slam / bomb shenanigans unless you can fly really smart to bring a tactician into play.  Sabine will be a really interesting crew for the Kwing.  

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I have been playing around with 2 Ks with tacticians and I find it hard to justify the 31 points compared to 24 for a Gold TLT. Clever people tend to find ways to avoid getting caught in the range-2 arc. I find the biggest benefit over the Y-wing is the 3 red dice turret the K-wing has at range-1.

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Maximum Danger Zone

 

Gold + TLT + R3-A2 + BTL-A4

2x Warden + TLT + Tactician

Bandit

 

I started out 25-0-1 (including a Winter Tournament where I didn't make the cut due to a modified win and a draw), but I'm on a relative cold streak lately, so I'm now 30-4-1. I won't get the chance to play in a store Championship until late February or early March. Doctor Paul took the same squad to a Store Championship and won with it, going 5-0, 1000MoV in Swiss. bmf also took 2nd in a store championship with the squad.

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Maximum Danger Zone

 

Gold + TLT + R3-A2 + BTL-A4

2x Warden + TLT + Tactician

Bandit

 

I started out 25-0-1 (including a Winter Tournament where I didn't make the cut due to a modified win and a draw), but I'm on a relative cold streak lately, so I'm now 30-4-1. I won't get the chance to play in a store Championship until late February or early March. Doctor Paul took the same squad to a Store Championship and won with it, going 5-0, 1000MoV in Swiss. bmf also took 2nd in a store championship with the squad.

Our meta is not very full of the TLT right now and I smell an opportunity.  How do you fly these? In a swarm for maximum focus fire? Do you run the Stress bot and the Bandit into the fray and let the Ks ping from the outside? 

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Maximum Danger Zone

 

Gold + TLT + R3-A2 + BTL-A4

2x Warden + TLT + Tactician

Bandit

 

I started out 25-0-1 (including a Winter Tournament where I didn't make the cut due to a modified win and a draw), but I'm on a relative cold streak lately, so I'm now 30-4-1. I won't get the chance to play in a store Championship until late February or early March. Doctor Paul took the same squad to a Store Championship and won with it, going 5-0, 1000MoV in Swiss. bmf also took 2nd in a store championship with the squad.

Our meta is not very full of the TLT right now and I smell an opportunity.  How do you fly these? In a swarm for maximum focus fire? Do you run the Stress bot and the Bandit into the fray and let the Ks ping from the outside? 

 

 

Generally I try and keep my forces together and try and force their aces into my arcs. You have to win during turn 0 with this strategy.

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Maximum Danger Zone

 

Gold + TLT + R3-A2 + BTL-A4

2x Warden + TLT + Tactician

Bandit

 

I started out 25-0-1 (including a Winter Tournament where I didn't make the cut due to a modified win and a draw), but I'm on a relative cold streak lately, so I'm now 30-4-1. I won't get the chance to play in a store Championship until late February or early March. Doctor Paul took the same squad to a Store Championship and won with it, going 5-0, 1000MoV in Swiss. bmf also took 2nd in a store championship with the squad.

 

Just ran this for our local store champs and went 6-0.  My MoV was close to that impressive but I felt luck was on my side a couple of crucial turns through out the tournament.  It's a great list but very exhausting to fly imo, but then again this was my first all day X-Wing event.

 

On a side note everyone that showed up was awesome and I had a blast playing with all the people that traveled to our store. 

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I've done two Store Champs now with 4x Wardens with Autoblaster Turrets. I went undefeated at the smaller tourney where we only did four rounds of Swiss, and went 3-2 on Saturday to finish at 11th out of 36 or so.

 

Lessons learned:

—quad TLT Y-Wings will eat the Wardens alive

ALWAYS take a TL on Fel

 

I think I know now what I need to tweak, and I feel running two AutoWardens max is probably the way to go. A lot of people had either never encountered the Autoblaster Turret before or flown against K-Wings, and that helped quite a bit, but the biggest factors were being able to box in high AGI targets and choosing to SLAM away from a fight. Going all-in with the Wardens made for some interesting matchups but they have a couple of significant downsides that were amplified by a 4x25 build.

 

If you aren't running Esege or Miranda I highly recommend the 25-point Autoblaster Warden as a strong, potent Rebel ship; one or two can really bring a lot of punch and a lot of meat to a build. I feel they're complimented very well by TLT Golds or FCS Blues, or the right Ace and a filler ship.

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