Rogue Squadron 2E- Howling Inferno

Welcome to Rogue Squadron, pilot! In this series, we will be looking at different squadrons you can fly in Fantasy Flight Games X-Wing miniatures game. We give you the squad, what expansion pack all of the upgrades come from and then give you the low down on how best to fly it. Strap in and get ready to fly.

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TIE/ln Fighter “Howlrunner” (Wave 1) (40 pts) (I5)

While a friendly ship at range 0-1 performs a primary attack, that ship may reroll 1 attack die.

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TIE/ln Fighter “Iden Versio” (Wave 1) (40 pts) (I4)

Before a friendly TIE/ln fighter at range 0-1 would suffer 1 or more damage, you may spend 1 Charge. If you do, prevent that damage.

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TIE/ln Fighter “Gideon Hask” (Wave 1) (30 pts) (I4)

While you perform an attack against a damaged defender, roll 1 additional attack die.

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TIE/ln Fighter “Del Meeko” (Wave 1) (30 pts) (I4)

While a friendly ship at range 0-2 defends against a damaged attacker, the defender may reroll 1 defense die.

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TIE/ln Fighter “Seyn Marana” (Wave 1) (30 pts) (I4)

While you perform an attack, you may spend 1 Crit result. If you do, deal 1 facedown damage card to the defender, then cancel your remaining results.

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TIE/ln Fighter “Wampa” (Wave 1) (30 pts) (I1)

While you perform an attack. you may spend 1 Charge to roll 1 additional attack die. After defending, lose 1 Charge. Energy regenerates.

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Lock S-Foils in Attack Position

There are lots of ways to build a TIE swarm. I’m starting with this one primarily to highlight a lot of the new pilots and their synergy together more than anything else. A Black Squadron Juke swarm or just classic eight TIE’s will probably be the most effective.

The four TIEs in Inferno Squadron all have abilities that play off each other. Seyn fires first, hopes to get a crit. If she does, she gets a damage card under shields. Now, Del Meeko will protect the swarm from that ship. Gideon can now fire and deal extra damage. Howlrunner helps on the accuracy with free rerolls (that she can now take advantage of aswell) and Iden is there to keep the first ship to die alive.

Meanwhile, Wampa is your secret weapon, your Imperial Biggs. He’s a lowly I1. If anyone decides to shoot him to negate his bonus die, that’s one less ship shooting at your more valuable pilots.

With less AOE damage, fewer defense options and less free attack mods, the swarm should make a comeback.

Variations

As I mentioned, there are a lot of ways to build a TIE swarm. To stick with this basic set up, the only thing you could really do to add any mods would be to change Wampa to an Academy, giving you seven points. That could give you Elusive on two ships, probably Howlrunner and Del Meeko since their your group buffers. That leaves you one point to give Seyn Marksmanship (yes, really). It only works in bullseye arc, but at one point for increased odds of triggering her ability, why not?