The idea here is to revisit a fleet I played against at Scottish Not-A-Regional—but updated with the new Insatiable [Legacy] title. We talked about Insatiable in a recent post, and this is exactly the kind of shell where I think it shines.
The ceiling is straightforward and disgusting: between Trench and San Hill, you can push four Hyenas with Insatiable in a single window. That’s potentially all your shields stripped. But if that sequence lets you delete a key ship, you happily pay the price.
Running the list is both simple and not.
Simple, because the core plan is: concentrate Hyenas into one problem at a time, while Patriot Fist shapes the fight—finishing wounded ships, bullying small fry, and generally making sure the opponent can’t just ignore the ship part of your fleet.
Not simple, because CIS squad lists like this live and die on token management, aura ranges, and activation timing. Also: generic Hyenas and Vultures are absurdly efficient and absurdly fragile. They reward reps and punish sloppy positioning. But Fleet Dossier isn’t the place for a tactics clinic, so let’s get to the list.
Trench Insatiable Hyenas (391)
Name: Trench Insatiable Hyenas
Faction: Separatist
Commander: Admiral Trench
Assault: Precision Strike
Defense: Fighter Ambush
Navigation: Superior Positions
Recusant-class Support Destroyer (90)
• Admiral Trench (32)
• Rune Haako (4)
• Flight Controllers (6)
• Boosted Comms (4)
• Expanded Hangar Bay (5)
• Patriot Fist (6)
= 147 Points
Hardcell-class Transport (47)
• Tikkes (2)
• Auxiliary Shields Team (3)
• Bomber Command Center (8)
• Foreman’s Labor (5)
= 65 Points
C-ROC Gozanti-class Cruisers {CIS} (24)
• San Hill (3)
= 27 Points
C-ROC Gozanti-class Cruisers {CIS} (24)
• Insatiable [Legacy] (3)
= 27 Points
Squadrons (125)
• Jango Fett - Slave I (22)
• Wat Tambor - Belbullab-22 (18)
• DBS-404 - Hyena (17)
• 4 x Hyena (44)
• 3 x Vulture (24)
= 125 Points
Total Points: 391
9 points is a lot — what to do with it?
A 9-point bid is… chunky. This list does benefit from some initiative control, but if you’re not playing the full “bid chess” game, you might as well go to 400 and buy more power.
Those 9 points can go in three directions:
1) More squadrons (up to 134).
You’re at 125, so you have room. You could push from 10 squads (5 drops) to 12 squads (6 drops) if you’re willing to go more generic. I’d keep Jango regardless—he’s doing real work against enemy aces. DBS-404 also feels “right” if you’re leaning into Insatiable.
If you want one neat upgrade: swapping a Vulture into DIS-T81 gives you a long-range control piece. Just don’t pretend it magically solves the anti-squad problem by itself.
2) Upgrade polish.
Patriot Fist can absolutely roll cold; it doesn’t have built-in dice fixing. Dual Turbolaser Turrets are a cheap consistency nudge. TRC is stronger but starts asking uncomfortable questions about points density on a ship that is still, at heart, a carrier Recusant.
3) Move Trench.
Putting Trench on the Hardcell spreads your points and reduces the “shoot the Recusant and the fleet falls apart” pressure. If you do that, Expert Shield Tech is a clean add—Trench likes being able to leverage that extra bit of shield discipline.
My casual 400-point version
If I were running this at 400 into friends / casual online games, I’d do this:
Name: Trench Insatiable Hyenas 400
Faction: Separatist
Commander: Admiral Trench
Assault: Precision Strike
Defense: Fighter Ambush
Navigation: Superior Positions
Hardcell-class Transport (47)
• Admiral Trench (32)
• Tikkes (2)
• Expert Shield Tech (5)
• Auxiliary Shields Team (3)
• Bomber Command Center (8)
• Foreman’s Labor (5)
= 102 Points
Recusant-class Support Destroyer (90)
• Rune Haako (4)
• Flight Controllers (6)
• Boosted Comms (4)
• Expanded Hangar Bay (5)
• Dual Turbolaser Turrets (4)
• Patriot Fist (6)
= 119 Points
C-ROC Gozanti-class Cruisers {CIS} (24)
• San Hill (3)
= 27 Points
C-ROC Gozanti-class Cruisers {CIS} (24)
• Insatiable [Legacy] (3)
= 27 Points
Squadrons (125)
• Jango Fett - Slave I (22)
• Wat Tambor - Belbullab-22 (18)
• DBS-404 - Hyena (17)
• 4 x Hyena (44)
• 3 x Vulture (24)
= 125 Points
Total Points: 400
600-point version
This is a Sector Fleet build, so it’s 25% squadrons max (150). Locally, you might also enforce something like 1 ace per 150 to keep it grounded—feel free to ignore that if your group doesn’t care.
We’re also not chasing “competitive” at 600. That format isn’t really where bid/initiative theory lives. But we can still build efficiently and keep the archetype intact.
Name: Trench Insatiable Hyenas 600
Faction: Separatist
Gamemode: Sector Fleet
Commander: Admiral Trench
Assault: Precision Strike
Defense: Fighter Ambush
Navigation: Superior Positions
Hardcell-class Transport (47)
• Admiral Trench (32)
• Tikkes (2)
• Expert Shield Tech (5)
• Auxiliary Shields Team (3)
• Bomber Command Center (8)
• Foreman’s Labor (5)
= 102 Points
Recusant-class Support Destroyer (90)
• Rune Haako (4)
• Flight Controllers (6)
• Boosted Comms (4)
• Expanded Hangar Bay (5)
• Turbolaser Reroute Circuits (7)
• Patriot Fist (6)
= 122 Points
Munificent-class Star Frigate (73)
• Veteran Captain (2)
• Projection Experts (6)
• Thermal Shields (5)
• Linked Turbolaser Towers (7)
• Point Defense Ion Cannons (6)
• Sa Nalaor (5)
= 104 Points
Pinnace-class Corvette [Legacy] (43)
• Shu Mai (4)
• Heavy Ion Emplacements (9)
• Heavy Fire Zone (2)
• Koklivex [Legacy] (3)
• Disposable Capacitors (3)
= 64 Points
C-ROC Gozanti-class Cruisers {CIS} (24)
• TI-99 (4)
= 28 Points
C-ROC Gozanti-class Cruisers {CIS} (24)
• San Hill (3)
• Insatiable [Legacy] (3)
= 30 Points
Squadrons (150)
• Jango Fett - Slave I (22)
• Wat Tambor - Belbullab-22 (18)
• DIS-T81 - Droid Tri-Fighter (17)
• DBS-404 - Hyena (17)
• 4 x Hyena (44)
• 4 x Vulture (32)
= 150 Points
Total Points: 600
Added: a Star Frigate, a Pinnace, plus the Tri-fighter ace and another generic Vulture.
Patriot Fist gets TRC. You could go LTT if you think flak matters more, but between red flak coverage and the LTT nerf, I’m not excited about paying for it here.
The Star Frigate is slow but reasonably tanky with Thermals + PDIC + Sa Nalaor. And honestly, any shot into that ship is a shot not going into something more important, so I’ll take it. Projection Experts helps the whole fleet, but I was specifically thinking about how this list wants to “buy time” for Insatiable turns.
Koklivex doing Heavy Ions + Heavy Fire Zone (two blue dice on a 43-point ship!) is probably too many eggs in one tiny basket… but come on. That combo is just cool.
San Hill moving onto Insatiable also frees room for TI-99, and we land at 600 on the dot. Works for me.
My take: Is the 391/400 competitively viable?
Yes, with caveats. The core engine is real: Trench + San Hill + big Hyena package + BCC is absolutely capable of deleting ships, and Insatiable adds a nasty “burst” lever.
The caveats:
You’re very squad-centric and your squads are fragile, so you’re punished hard by strong opposing anti-squad plans and by mistakes.
Your ship plan is basically “support the squad plan,” and if you lose the carrier posture too early, the list can feel like it collapses.
Your objectives are aggressive and can pay off big, but also invite counterplay if the opponent knows how to deny your scoring while still trading efficiently.
So: viable, but it’s a list that rewards reps more than it rewards clever listbuilding.
And the 600 version? Looks extremely fun, and it does what a good sector-fleet “scaled archetype” should do: keep the core identity, add staying power, add side threats, and not pretend it’s a totally different list.
And that’s Trench Insatiable Hyenas—a list that’s brutally simple in concept, but rewards you hard for getting the timing and positioning right.
What would you do with the flex points at 400: tighten the ships, add more bodies, or keep a smaller bid? And if you’ve put Insatiable [Legacy] on the table already, I’d love to hear what you paired it with—and whether it overperformed, underperformed, or landed exactly where you expected.
Got a fleet concept you want to see in a future Fleet Dossier? Drop it in the comments.
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