Rogue Squadron- Sinister Six

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…

All Wings Report In

M3-A Scyk Interceptor “Laetin A’shera” (M3-A Expansion) (27 pts) (PS 6)

After you defend against an attack, if the attack did not hit, you may assign 1 evade token to your ship.

Title- Heavy Scyk Interceptor (M3-A Expansion): Your upgrade bar gains the Cannon, Missile, or Torpedo upgrade icon.
Cannon- Mangler Cannon (IG-2000/M3-A Expansions) – Attack (3, range 1-3) – When attacking, you may change 1 of your Hit results to a Critical result.
Modification- Stealth Device (Slave-1/M3-A Expansions) – Increase your agility value by 1. If you are hit by an attack, discard this card..

Kihraxz Fighter “Graz the Hunter” (Kihraxz Expansion) (30 pts) (PS 6)

When defending, if the attacker is inside your firing arc, roll 1 additional defense die.

Modification- Stealth Device (Slave-1/M3-A Expansions) – Increase your agility value by 1. If you are hit by an attack, discard this card..
Illicit- Glitterstim (Kihraxz/Hound’s Tooth Expansion) – At the start of the Combat phase, you may discard this card and receive 1 stress token. If you do, until the end of the round, when attacking or defending, you may change all of your results to or results.

Aggressor “IG-88C” (IG-2000 Expansion) (43 pts) (PS 6)

After you perform a boost action, you may perform a free evade action.

Elite Pilot Talent- Adrenaline Rush (TIE Bomber Expansion) – When you reveal a red maneuver, you may discard this card to treat that maneuver as a white maneuver until the end of the Activation phase.
System- Sensor Jammer (Lambda Shuttle Expansion) – When defending, you may change 1 of the attacker’s Hit results into a Focus result. The attacker cannot reroll the die with the changed result.
Modification- Autothrusters (StarViper Expansion) – When defending, if you are beyond Range 2 or outside the attacker’s firing arc, you may change 1 of your blank results to an Evade result. You can equip this card only if you have the Boost action icon.

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Defense! Defense! This list really is all about being annoying to kill. It’s primary strength is against Twin Laser Turret (TLT) lists. Laetin will either die quickly or be impossible to kill. Due to only three health she doesn’t have much staying power. But before she takes that first hit and loses the stealth device, rolling four die and getting a free evade if she dodges can really keep her going against a swarm or TLT’s. Those Evades can really start to stack up.

Graz wants to always be facing his opponent, which can be hard with a ship that lacks any repositioning ability. But he can be tough to take down, especially in early engagements. Range 3, in arc, with stealth and he’s now rolling 5 green dice.

The big TLT fighter is IG-88C who is able to Boost into closer range, getting a free evade and hopefully then be in the TLT donut hole. Sensor Jammer plus Autothrusters can also really shut down many attacks. TLT attacks will be losing one hit on their roll and then facing an almost guaranteed evade result.

The squad’s big weakness is the high PS arc dodgers. While Laetin and IG-88C have some repositioning ability, PS 6 is very middling and most arc dodgers are 7+. Plus Laetin really doesn’t want to barrel roll and boosting a large ship without a turret is less useful than you’d hope. It’s very easy to just go to far with that large base.

Fortunately, the list is completely independent of each other. The three ships can move and position anywhere that is most advantageous as none of their abilities are dependent on the others. They are each just annoying to kill and all move at the same time so can be done in the most advantageous order.

Variations

This list can have a lot of simple variations. You could give Laetin a Heavy Laser Cannon (HLC) instead of a Mangler by stripping Graz’s Stealth Device, something he’s likely to lose quickly anyways. This makes her a bigger threat which can be good if she plays defensively. Similarly, you can throw Graz’s Glitterstim over to IG-88C who might be able to make better use of it.

For Graz himself, you could also switch his Stealth Device and Glitterstim for an Engine Upgrade. This gives him some repositioning ability and might help you keep enemies in arc so he gets his bonus defense die. Also gives you another free point to give him or IG-88C Inertial Dampeners.

IG-88C can also switch out easily with almost any of his other variations. IG-88A would be good for shield recovery but only useful against opponents with 4+ ship squads. Facing two big ships he’ll almost never use his ability. IG-88D also gives you some options for maneuverability, especially sticking with Adrenaline Rush. While normally IG-88C is the go-to ship to fly of the robots, you need to give him a cannon and that would cost you your Sensor Jammer, which defeats the defensive tone of this squad.