The TIE Reaper with its Jam action can fulfil a similar role to the Hot Shot Co-Pilot from before, and in addition it gets to carry Palpatine for some guaranteed dice results. I’ve only ever put the Phantom on the board once in the whole time I’ve played X-Wing, so I suspect there’s going to be a steep learning curve here. Whisper here is fulfilling the Zuckuss role from before, but better – a four dice attack (which now doesn’t give the opponent an extra green dice), a Sensor Jammer on defense as well as more green dice, the Cloak ability (which now doesn’t break), and then the target lock/shield stripping of Krennic. Veteran Instincts, Sensor Jammer, Advanced Cloaking Device, Director Krennic

Whisper seems a good a place as any for him to go, and that led me to construct the following list:

But… it has quickly become obvious that Director Krennic is a hugely powerful card and so I was tempted to play around with that instead. At a point cheaper MSC could offer some decent protection as well as give me a one point bid. Stygium only works whilst the Cloaking Device is still around and after it breaks is effectively two points wasted. The TIE Reaper expansion is not one I was initially going to purchase however the reveal of the Multi Spectral Camouflage was somewhat interesting, as a potential replacement for the Stygium on Zuckuss. With the arrival of wave 14 I figured I’d switch things up a bit and try to employ some of my findings to some new/better things. To me this is where the list is really at it’s not bad as it borrows some elements from some of the stronger lists around at the moment, but it’s not top-tier as it’s employing this approach using inferior (for now at least) ship chassis. I played a few more games with the exact same Boba-Zuckuss list, coming out with marginally more wins than losses.

Suffice to say I needed a short break from the game but it’s time to get back into the swing of things. So it’s been a little while since I wrote anything, which is down to a number of factors, none of which really need delving into.

Are we blind deploy the garrison