OT Millenium Falcon Kit Revealed

Gah, this means I have to finish gearing those pesky Phoenix goofballs with their 12093915473910743 stun guns... I had started to push Kanan up a little bit as he's the one dragging the furthest behind but had moved away from him after I decided I wasn't going to use Ghost in my fleet arena after all... Kanan, Chopper, and Zeb are all G10 at least, so I just have to bring them up one gear level at worst, but I don't like it! Also I just finished maxing out Endurance, and now I have to push Home One up! Ackbar is G11, but I'll probably need to push him to G12 to be at maximum effect. I have HO's ultimate maxed, the mass assist and crew power unique are both at rank 7, but Sieze the Advantage and his basic are at ranks 5 and 6 respectively. So that'll be a slog that I wasn't wanting to mess with. I've been holding on to ship omegas for a little bit after I finished off my BH peeps, but I'm only at like 40 ship omegas, I'm sure that won't go terribly far towards maxing out the MilF. The rest of my Rebel fleet isn't super impressive either, Biggs is done, Phantom is mostly good to go, Cassian's, Wedge, and Ghost are serviceable, but Bistan's is terrible.

I'm thinking that Anakin's, Hound's Tooth, and even XB and IG2000 will be decent in this fleet since the BH ships synergize with MilF's scoundrel faction tag too, and aoe's will be really good in this fleet.

Ironically, my alt account is better prepared on the Rebel ship front, I actually have all the capital ships maxed on that account, and my Rebels are pretty good over there, but I will likely only unlock at 5* on that account since IG2000 just barely hit 5* yesterday.

 

I'm in a nearly identical position. Cassian's U-wing crew are kind of a no-brainer considering their P6 mission for LSTB, so I'll probably continue to work on them. My Biggs and Wedge are G12 and the ships are in good shape. My Phoenix appears to be slightly ahead of your maybe. I have Ezra G12 with a zeta, Hera and Sabine are G11, and the other three are G10. Probably just barely ahead on pilots mainly due to the zeta. I also already have a maxed out Revan, so I don't have to save zetas for him at least. I have one stored up, but I kind of want to hang onto it until we see what's coming in Feb. This last couple of months has been crazy with the need for zetas with now four legendary (counting Revan in this crowd) over the past 3-4 months and presumably another next month. Each of those need 2-3 zetas plus anything else you're trying to build up along the way (or to support the legendary character like Jolee or Ewoks for C-3PO). I still need a second zeta on both Chewie and C-3PO and Chewie's has now become more useful with him being a pilot.

 

If Rebels become meta in fleet then I am in pretty good shape, but there is still some work to do.

Ackbar just needs 1 piece of gear for g12, but it's a precious MK6 Stun Gun. Home One is maxed.

All my Phoenix characters are g12, except Chopper. He's g11 and needs 4 pieces for g12. I think Ezra and Sabine only need G12+ gear, so in good shape there. Phantom is maxed except for one ability that requires 20 ship omegas. I haven't given any ship omegas to Ghost.

All of Cassian's U-wing abilities have been maxed saved for K2's abilities since he is only g9. Cassian and Jyn are both g12. I had been using this ship as a third or fourth reinforcement for quite some time.

Biggs' ship is maxed and he only needs g12+ gear.

Wedge will need some work if he becomes crucial in the meta. He's 4 pieces of gear from g12. I maxed his X-wing's reinforcement bonus not too long ago, but haven't given it any ship omegas yet.

I have 79 ship omegas, which probably won't be enough to max everything upon unlock.

After seeing the Falcon's kit, my first thought for starting fleet was HT, Falcon and Ghost with Phantom as the first reinforcement, followed by Biggs, Wedge and take your pick.

 

I'm very close to 4 million GP, probably within 15k after getting a 6-star Falcon. However, I made a school-boy error and forgot to save enough ship building mats for the Falcon after buying so many mods. I could only get the Falcon to level 80 today and that still leaves me needing to level up all of its abilities.

I'm also torn on who to gear. I've got a MK6 stun gun ready. Ackbar and Vandor Chewie are my candidates.

 

The 7* tier was actually a little bit of a challenge. I had to swap around my lineup it seemed, but could have just been better rng. Only took maybe 3 or 4 tries, but was not too bad otherwise. I can tell that this new Rebel fleet meta is going to be an RNG crap fest though already. Since it relies on assists that are called randomly and "have a chance to assist", RNG will win/lose more battles than tactics ever will. Not very excited about that prospect considering fleet is already RNG frustrating.

The biggest RNG factor I'm noticing is the MilF's 50% chance to counter when another rebel ship takes an action on their turn. Combined with the MilF's call to assist on it's basic, this represents quite a bit of damage variance based on the coin flip chance to assist to begin with. In addition, the choice of who randomly gets called to assist can add damage variance beyond just the normal crit/non-crit stuff.

I've been playing around with my tactics this morning since my fleet payout is in 15 minutes. I am currently using AA, HT, MilF, Ghost in my initial team, with ETA, Cassian, Phantom, and Lando's MilF as reinforcements. My Ghost crew is not maxed and it shows. That ship is really squishy without G12 crew. I have a couple abilities that are not maxed as well because of this (Kanan and Zeb at G10, Hera is G11). Going against a fully maxed Ghost, the health pool difference is pretty large. I didn't have much success bringing Phantom as first reinforcement, so I started bringing in Cassian first. This dispels all the initial buffing that goes on and actually usually allows you to focus on the opposing MilF early, which I find really important. It also can help protect Ghost by using the stealth ability. Generally I use the call to assist ability first though, calling MilF for some good damage. Then I use Phantom as second reinforcment. This makes it so that I can call Lando's MilF on the next AA turn and get three turns right away. This tactic has been the most effective for me.

 

For what it's worth, on my shard we've discovered that Kylo's Silencer works pretty well to counter some aspects of the MilF. Silencer is faster than the MilF and, as such, can stun it before it has a chance to go. Depending on the speed of the rest of your team, you potentially could knock it out before it really has a chance to get going. It has been working pretty well for me in mirror matches since my Ghost is underdeveloped.

 

It'll take some time to get the right lineup for sure. And who knows, maybe they'll release some more rebels in the near future, people are clamoring for the b-wing and y-wing and luke's xwing. I'm wondering now if I should swap Biggs in the front instead of HT to take advantage of the extra assist attack on Ackbar's aoe and on Ghost's aoe, then just have HT in there as a reinforcement. It's useful if it clears out a character on the opening melee for sure probably. The main issue being there isn't really a reliable source of Target lock for Biggs' taunt or assist attack. But either way, it's another rebel ship to generate potential assists for MilF. I'll have to do some more testing the next couple of days to be sure.

I hate needing to throw more gear at Ackbar's useless fish face too. He's already G11, but now I've gotta push him to G12 and that means a super stun gun that should be going to C3PO, Young Lando, Sabine, Zombie, Cassian, Chopper, Qi'ra, Kanan, and Zeb among others that are WAY higher priority for it. Kanan, Chopper, Sabine, and Zeb need it solely BECAUSE of this dang ship lol. Just for Rebels that are currently within range of G12 for fleet, I need 7 Super Stun Guns (the ones that need a Gold Eyeball plus the Mk 5 Stun Gun) and another 4 Mk 5 Stun Guns (primarily for the three non G11 Phoenix goobers). That's a lot of key gear to commit for fleet. I'm not sure how willing I am to do that right now, and I'm lucky in that most of my other teams are pretty well developed at this point and key characters are already at G12 in most cases. I can't imagine what this looks like for your more average player in the 3.5m+ range since Rebels have not been fleet meta in a long time, if ever really.

These characters are not used much elsewhere. At least with Phoenix, maybe it makes for a stronger TW/GA defensive team and maybe it helps in LSTB but most people that are facing this are probably getting 45 stars already there. Cassian and K2-SO I can maybe justify by improving my Rogue One team for LSTB. But none of these guys are useful in any of the raids or arena. Even for TW, Phoenix and Rogue One are filler teams more than anything. They don't create a daunting wall by any means.

I may end up just slow-rolling it for now and work on one ship's crew at a time. Unless they add some sort of Fleet raid or something, it's really just a means to stay fleet relevant for arena, and I already don't have any issue reaching 1st for my payout each day. C3PO and Young Lando are next on my list to G12 from G11 and both need Mk 6 Stun Guns, so I probably won't deviate from that plan because they are used in multiple areas. Maybe I'll work on some of the other gear that is needed in the meantime for Phoenix. Meanwhile, it's on to New Old Republic for my farming.

 

That's exactly what I'm seeing too

 

I'm still ticked at myself for not saving enough ship building mats for the Falcon. It's up to level 82 now, but I can't max its abilities until level 85. On the bright side, one of the mods I bought with the building mats turned into a health triangle with +22 speed, so it was worth it in the end.

That said, I have switched to a Rebel fleet today and went with AA along with MilF, HT and Ghost. The only fleet I had trouble with was a mirror match. His capital ship would go immediately after my MilF and destroy Ghost with all the assists. I checked and he has a full set of MK6 mods on AA and his Home One has 180 speed. I swapped mods to do the same, but my Home One only hits 179, so I'm not sure where he's getting the extra speed. I have two pieces of G12 gear on Ackbar. Maybe he's got G12+ gear.

After losing a few matches with either Phantom or Biggs as the first reinforcement, I tried with Cassian's U-wing and won.

 

Yeah, Cassian is a pretty clutch reinforcement. I find it pretty tempting to bring him in first, then phantom, so that I can get a quick third with Lando's.

I'm still finding that KRU is working well in the starting lineup for me in mirror matches though. Generally I can stun the MilF right away, then get another stun on turn 2, allowing me to burn through the MilF super early. You have to get a little bit lucky with either resists or cleanses for Breach so that the MilF's basic dispels HT, but it's usually not a problem. I still get irritated with the RNG though, I went like 11 straight rebel moves without a single assist from MilF's unique here in this last battle, 50% my ass.