X-Wing Tournament List: Quad Shuttles

OK so I have been looking at lists lately and getting back into X-Wing after a long hiatus. In X-Wing tournaments you can only field 100 points unless it is the new Epic format which hasn't been implemented yet and won't until the Corvette and Rebel Transport come out. So anyway there are the more typical tournament lists, Swarm, XXBB and Double Falcon lists but what about some potentially tough but unusual lists?

The following lists trades in mobility and speed for sheer crunchy toughness. It has FORTY hit points, half of which are shields. This makes the shuttle tougher than any other ship barring the Falcon or one of the Huge ships coming out. It also has three attack dice, which is the same as the X-wing or Interceptor. The shuttle has a large base and with four of them on the board it will be running into other ships all the time. Or optimally they will be running into you.

This is where the APLs come in. Whenever an enemy ship runs into you, then you get a free punch in the face and they get no actions.  The fire control system lets you get target locks without using an action allowing you to focus. So the shuttle gets to attack with focused target locks every turn enemy ships are in your firing arc. Now with the horrible mobility of the shuttle you will need to tach weave a bit here where shuttles are constantly turning towards each other and shooting the baddies off each other's tail. They can also stop completely and let the enemy ship run into them allowing the APL to shoot at them and preventing the ship from shooting that particular shuttle.

FOUR SHUTTLES

100 points

25 points Omicron Group Pilot #1 2    3    1    5    5     Omicron Group Pilot/Lambda-Class Shuttle (21) Fire-Control System (2) – After you perform an attack, you may acquire a target lock on the defender. Anti-Pursuit Lasers (2) – After an enemy ship performs a maneuver that causes it to overlap your ship, roll 1 attack die. On a  or  result, the enemy ship suffers 1 damage.

25 points Omicron Group Pilot #2 2    3    1    5    5     Omicron Group Pilot/Lambda-Class Shuttle (21) Fire-Control System (2) – After you perform an attack, you may acquire a target lock on the defender. Anti-Pursuit Lasers (2) – After an enemy ship performs a maneuver that causes it to overlap your ship, roll 1 attack die. On a  or  result, the enemy ship suffers 1 damage.

25 points Omicron Group Pilot #3 2    3    1    5    5     Omicron Group Pilot/Lambda-Class Shuttle (21) Fire-Control System (2) – After you perform an attack, you may acquire a target lock on the defender. Anti-Pursuit Lasers (2) – After an enemy ship performs a maneuver that causes it to overlap your ship, roll 1 attack die. On a  or  result, the enemy ship suffers 1 damage.

25 points Omicron Group Pilot #4 2    3    1    5    5     Omicron Group Pilot/Lambda-Class Shuttle (21) Fire-Control System (2) – After you perform an attack, you may acquire a target lock on the defender. Anti-Pursuit Lasers (2) – After an enemy ship performs a maneuver that causes it to overlap your ship, roll 1 attack die. On a  or  result, the enemy ship suffers 1 damage.

Tactics? Drive around playing  bumper cars an shooting at targets of opportunity. The dial has a lot of red maneuvers on it so i would use the tight 2 turn mostly with the occasional stop followed by a green 2 forward. Be unpredictable and ships will be running into you and hopefully taking damage or avoiding you and running into asteroids. Even if you make a mistake the shuttles can take the hits and keep going. At 25 points for each ship? They are dirt cheap. The models aren't cheap at $30 bucks a pop but hey at least you don't have to paint them...

X-Wing Repaints for my Star Wars Campaign

  Repainted one of my YT-1300 transports. I will use it in an upcoming X-Wing campaign as my Heroes' ride. I haven't come up with a name for it yet but tossing around these: The Red Ghost, The Solo Cup, The Stellar Frisbee, The Wayward Lady. I still haven't decided but i really like the paint-job. I just used Tamiya red and painted over the darker grey areas leaving only white behind and added some more red to other areas.

This Firespray is painted in subdued greys and black and will be the ride of a pair of up and coming bounty hunters. A pair of twin brothers, Castor and Pollux, who will cross paths with our intrepid band of heroes on occasion.They wear armored flightsuits and carry matched ion/blaster pistols. I used the Jango Fett model from the WOTC Star Wars minis game.

The main antagonists will be a ruthless an amoral Corporation from the Corporate Sector who uses various TIE fighter models (since they manufacture them on multiple worlds) to enforce their will across the sector. They all have red accents on their solar panels to represent their "militia" status.

One of the Interceptors is an ace pilot with over 15 kills to his name and has a red slash across his solar panels rather than just the panels themselves painted red. His name is Baran Thorne and he is a former Imperial pilot who left Imperial service and accepted a contract with the TriSec Corporation to train its pilots in Imperial tactics. He even occasionally leads patrols himself just to keep his flight hours up and skills sharp.

The Long Range Patrol Squadron 55 uses a licensed copy of the Tie/Advanced since the Imperials have switched production over to more modern models like the Tie Defender and Interceptor. The Hyperdrive equipped Ties allow TriSec to extend its influence into other systems and to escort shuttles carrying corporate commandos on espionage missions against their rivals.

The campaign will be a combination of X-Wing and R.I.S.K. roleplaying system i developed for my kids to play. X-Wing for the space battles and R.I.S.K. for the ground stuff and in-between scene stuff the players will most likely try to do like upgrading their ships or negotiating missions. If you want to use the R.I.S.K. rules they can be found here on RPGnow.com. Tomorrow I will post the cast of characters...