The Dark Lord

I made another 400/600 point list... I think that's going to be a thing going forward. 

Anyway. This one is Empire, not Rebel Sato scummy yuck! In case you didn't know... Empire is THE faction the cool kids play. Now that you DO know you have no excuses!

It's inspired by my very old VASSAL WC list that - as usual - ALMOST won the damn thing 😆 It used Cymon/Devastator (with Gunnery Team in that case) to get rid of those tokens ASAP and start MURDERING things. Between the Cymoon and Devastator (who was as yet unnerfed), the list could kill almost anything in no time, while using gozanti spam to stall (no damn pass tokens back then, kids).

This is a more casual take on the same archetype, padding it (by necessity) with Raiders. It's tight; I'd like some OE on those raiders, but whatever. We're all friends here and you brought your casual list, so we'll be fine. Don't look at me like that... I didn't bring IO or Pryce or any of that stuff... it's 100% casual!

The 600-point version does a few things: it fleshes out the existing ships, it adds a Dcaps HIE Raider-II, and it adds squads. Squads are fun and mannerly, and besides, at 600 points, you're going to melt if you run into a squad-heavy list. Overall, I'm pretty pleased with it.

If you like these lists, go petition ARC, Legacy, or whoever to reduce the cost of Raiders slightly! All the smalls were radically devalued by the pass tokens... and all they got in return was a slight boost to Evade. Make Riader-I 42, Raider-II 44. 

### 400 points ###

Name: The Dark Lord 400

Faction: Empire

Commander: Darth Vader

Version: ARC01

Assault: Advanced Gunnery

Defense: Contested Outpost

Navigation: Intel Sweep

ISD Cymoon 1 Refit (112)

• Darth Vader (28)

• Commander Beck (3)

• Sensor Team (5)

• Intensify Firepower! (6)

• Spinal Armament (9)

• XI7 Turbolasers (6)

• Devastator (10)

= 179 Points

Gladiator I (56)

• Ordnance Experts (4)

• External Racks (4)

• Demolisher (10)

= 74 Points

Raider I (44)

• External Racks (4)

= 48 Points

Raider I (44)

• External Racks (4)

= 48 Points

Gozanti Cruisers (23)

• Munitions Resupply (3)

= 26 Points

Gozanti Cruisers (23)

• Comms Net (2)

= 25 Points

Squadrons:

= 0 Points

Total Points: 400

### 600 points ### 

Name: The Dark Lord 600

Faction: Empire

Commander: Darth Vader

Version: ARC01

Assault: Advanced Gunnery

Defense: Contested Outpost

Navigation: Intel Sweep

ISD Cymoon 1 Refit (112)

• Darth Vader (28)

• Commander Beck (3)

• Sensor Team (5)

• Intensify Firepower! (6)

• Spinal Armament (9)

• XI7 Turbolasers (6)

• Devastator (10)

= 179 Points

Gladiator I (56)

• Minister Tua (2)

• Ordnance Experts (4)

• Engine Techs (8)

• External Racks (4)

• Demolisher (10)

• Electronic Countermeasures (7)

= 91 Points

Raider I (44)

• Iden Versio (6)

• Ordnance Experts (4)

• Reserve Hangar Deck (4)

• External Racks (4)

• Instigator (4)

= 66 Points

Raider I (44)

• Ordnance Experts (4)

• Reserve Hangar Deck (4)

• External Racks (4)

= 56 Points

Raider II (48)

• Weapons Battery Techs (4)

• Disposable Capacitors (3)

• Heavy Ion Emplacements (9)

= 64 Points

Gozanti Cruisers (23)

• Munitions Resupply (3)

• Reserve Hangar Deck (4)

= 30 Points

Gozanti Cruisers (23)

• Comms Net (2)

• Reserve Hangar Deck (4)

= 29 Points

Squadrons:

• Ciena Ree (17)

• Vult Skerris (18)

• "Mauler" Mithel (15)

• Valen Rudor (13)

• 2 x TIE Interceptor (22)

= 85 Points

Total Points: 600