2pt Raid?

[The Adept]

I'm gonna be going to a multi-game-system day soon. One game, of course, is B5, which has been set at a 2pt Raid (due to time constraints).

I play Vree, Brakiri and EA 3rd age. Does anyone have any bright ideas for fleets? So far I'm thinking 4 Xaars and 2 Xeels, though using tokens and taking two Garasoch carriers has a certain appeal...

 

[Banichi]

Go on, take a zonn, you know you want to. :wink: Then dare your oponants to get close to it with their little skirmish/patrol/raid ships. (just pray you don't get any of those nasty weapons crits)

 

[The Adept]

I thought about the Xonn, but it's too vulnerable to having its only arc knocked out. A pair of Xills could work - only half as vulnerable to the crits, and with more firepower total.

 

[Marco Raimeous]

your original build I think will work great, only suggestion I would make is to switch out one of your xeels for a xixx for the extra range and firepower.

or if you want to be a dink take four xixx's, get into your 25" range then just keep backing up with SM so your opponent can never get into range.....I wonder if that would work. Obviously anything with a longer range would be the first to take it from your xixx's.

If you look at it this way 16 AD of TD,Precise,SuAP will take down any raid level ships one turn, leaving your opponent with only half his force.

something to think about :wink:

 

[Burger]

4 Xeels would give you total gankage with fighters!!

 

[The Adept]

Yeah, but it would be mean. So I might do just that...

 

[Triggy]

4 Xeels would give you total gankage with fighters!!

But I think the Xaars are actually better in low PL games due to the initiative sinks. I think the original list (ISA aside) is just about the most powerful fleet you can make for any race! Centauri can be made similar in ability and ISA with a Blue Star horde would be very nasty too.

Whether you get criticised for the excessive cheese or not is another matter though :roll:

 

[Burger]

A Drakh Carrier would be quite nasty, too.

 

[No. 1 Bear]

Take a Gquan just so you can say i have faith!

Seriously though id say take 8 of those patrol boats.