Talk:TIE/x7/@comment-62.252.202.120-20170118191056/@comment-29680667-20170118195137

I hate facing x7 Defenders, but I think this regional season will result in FFG thinking they do not need a nerf. There have been a couple places where a rebel swarm is able to win out. If you have 4 three-dice ships attacking them, they can do down. TIE and A-Wing Swarms are out of the meta, often because they have only 2 dice, but the B-wing and X-wing swarms could be making a comeback. We will see if these results hold up throughout the season.

Blair Bunke had success with

2 Blue B-wings with FCS, a Stresshog y-wing, and two Z-95s with Guidance Chips and tracers.

and

2 Y-Wings with Plasma Torps, Guidance Chips, Autoblaster Turret, 2 Bandits, 2 Bandits with tracers and Guidance Chips.

If lists like this catch on, I doubt there will be a nerf. If the x7 pilots learn to adapt and start crushing rebel swarms, then I would guess a nerf could be coming, perhaps only allowing the evade if you are not stressed. Perhaps it would be too complicated, but I wouldn't mind keeping it actionless, but saying you only get it if you do not have full shields.

What needs help is the 2-dice swarms, we will see if swarm leader helps at atll (I doubt it). I would love squad titles. Where if you have the title on the same ship then there is some bonus. (So a Black Squadron title, and a unique Black Squadron 1 title. BS1 will give a bonus sort of like howlrunner, or for its own surviveability. The generic title then gives a bonus as long as BS1 is on the table; such as cancel an evade die to reroll an evade die.  Rebels would get a Rogue Squadron title that does something like that as well)