Nice write up man.  Good to hear the Firespray getting some time on the winning side for a change, I've yet to experience that for myself :D

I love the Firespray, I ran two this weekend and did really good in one game and I made some bad mistakes that cost me my second. I made some really interesting squads around the ship that I look forward to trying out soon. Great to see others are loving the ship.

R5Don4 said:

my firespray hasn't tasted defeat yet!

jetsetter said:

"Great kid! Don't get cocky!"

How do you run it? I'm loving the Bounty Hunter. My two rules for the Firespray-31 are 1) keep the support ships a lower pilot skill than the Firespray, and 2) have at least 3 support ships (4 if you can manage). I see both of these rules sliding when I get more experience, but for a beginner, they really make it easy to get the hang of this ship.

Take this with a grain of salt as my LGS is just now learning and growing the community, but I have run this list twice now and it has been awesome! 2-0 so far. We are trying to get tournaments set up and this has been the best Imperial list I have been able to make work for me. 

Thanks for posting it and I hope you consider imitation the highest form of flattery, because I plan on using this list for a few tournaments now!

Musicman4163 said:

Thanks! I am flattered. Glad you are seeing success with it. This squad just got squashed the other day, though. Lando, Biggs and Gold Squadron Pilot destroyed my hold squad without one of them being destroyed in return. dbmeboy had sound tactics to go with it, but I don't feel right showing his hand because it was an AMAZINGLY well-run squad. The low Pilot Skill of my squad was their undoing, but I still like it, and will use it in the future. In the mean time, I'm gonna try to break in my A-wings, which haven't seen any combat time yet.

P.S. Shameless plug: if you like this squad, you should give a thumb's up for "Parakitor's Bounty Hunter" on Voidstate's X-wing Squadron Builder. Go to http://x-wing.voidstate.com/list and enter "Parakitor" in the search bar.

A friend ran a variation of this list tonight at our first LGS tourny, he ran

Krassis w. HLC

Alpha Interceptor

3x Alpha Ties

Believe that was it, could be off on an upgrade or two. He had moderate success. I prefer your set up better with a few more upgrades.

Krassis is nice, but the Seismic charges and the Shield Upgrade make a huge difference in my opinion. I also like having 4 support ships instead of 3. I'm  glad to hear you agree. However, I may give his list a try, since I've only dabbled in TIE interceptor squads.

My Bounty Hunter strikes again! I face an opponent with Tycho, Wedge and Luke + R2-D2. This time it wasn't a timed match, so Luke and R2-D2 were a REAL pain. It felt like an uphill struggle even though the match ended with a full-strength Academuy Pilot and my Bounty Hunter had one shield remaining.

I'm realizing that this squad may not be everything I thought it was. I have really only played 3-ship rebel squads, which lack the activations necessary to deal damage to a lot of ships.

@Musicman4163: what was the squad composition of the opponents that you faced?

Check out my battle report. Since someone ran the list I posted earlier in this thread, I decided to go with a two Firespray list to avoid an almost exact mirror match. Should he not run that again, I will try this list since it was my first choice. 

The one time I played it was against a beginner that made his first list. Ran 2 A-Wings, 2 X-wings, and 1 Y-Wing. He just wanted to get a feel for how the ships move. This same guy is I believe currently 6th in the Nation in Flames of War, for those of you that know what that is. So I am confident he will be fielding very competitive squads once he learns the game better.