Unsophisticated Sato bomber list

[Momonip 26]

Risky rebs (399/400)
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Assault Frigate Mk.II B (72 + 43)
    + Commander Sato (32)
    + Boosted Comms (4)
    + Electronic Countermeasures (7)

Assault Frigate Mk.II B (72 + 11)
    + Boosted Comms (4)
    + Electronic Countermeasures (7)

Modified Pelta-class Command Ship (60 + 16)
    + Flight Commander (3)
    + All Fighters, Follow Me! (5)
    + Expanded Hangar Bay (5)
    + Fighter Coordination Team (3)

Ten Numb (19)
Tycho Celchu (16)
2 x E-wing Squadron (2 x 15)
2 x B-wing Squadron (2 x 14)
Gold Squadron (12)
2 x Y-wing Squadron (2 x 10)

Fighter Ambush
Minefields
Opening Salvo

 

I'm playing an opponent who usually goes very light on squadrons, and usually flies a couple of pickles, or a couple of Cymoons. 

Hopefully he won't bring 7th fleet and chaff... 

 

I want to lay down a carpet of bombers and keep my assault frigates free to skirt around and fire black dice from afar.

 

The Pelta is just there to speed the bwings up, and provide a diversion. 

 

The list is nothing exceptional but will hopefully get the job done.

 

Any improvements? 

Thanks

 

 

[Bertie Wooster 1,334]

Sato isn't that scary if you don't have ordnance upgrades like Assault Proton Torpedoes or Assault Concussion Missiles. If you're going to throw black dice at long range, why not give them more punch? 

If you want to command lots of generic bombers, Dodonna is the better commander. 

[Momonip 26]

That's a fair point, Sato on mc30's is worth investigating.

 

Have made an alternate AF2 list with Dodonna, and swapped out Tycho and a y-wing for a green squadron a-wing and Nora, for more bombiness.

[Momonip 26]

Well my opponent turned up with Ackbar, Quantum Storm, Bright Hope, Home One, Defiance (both: QBT, leading shots, ECM and early warning), and zero squadrons. I went with my original list.  

 

I went second and he chose minefields, which forced him to try going down one of the edges. I parked my AF2 in front of his conga line and used my squadrons to take out Home One/Ackbar.

 

I lost an AF2 and the Pelta but Sato and 125 pts of squadrons survived. He lost Home One and Bright Hope. Technically it was a tabling cos he flew Defiance off the table slightly but I let him off with it.

 

216/157 to me ?

 

But yeah, squadrons did most of the work so there's a case for using Dodonna.

 

[Cleto0 217]

AFII will not perform as well as ordanance carrying ships like already mentioned. You also want a lot of rerolls which is why I would say use a mc 75 or hammerheads. Mc30s also work