How are you supposed to survive the event ?Right when I get to the last part I am always hit by boba's sonic bomb(which should be on cooldown at the start)and thrawn's ultimate (also should be on cooldown) and the half my units are gone and the rest are in terrible shape my ships hold in the top 200 easy and I'm just getting zero chance to win this. Are alot of others seeing this issue or do I just not get to complete this event?

I was irritated that the sonic bomb wasn't on countdown but it didn't actually do too much damage to my ships. How complete are your pilots? The bomb did not destroy any of my ships except Biggs who had been taunting and was in deep red going into that wave.

All of my pilots are tier 9 or above except for the Phoenix team they are at least tier 6 all ships but one are 7 star

just gotta keep gearing up to gear 11

If it's anything like previous capital ship challenges, they are heavily RNG based and it could take multiple retries! Does the event always play out in the same pattern-enemy reinforcements, dodges, etc.?

Rex was my MVP for this fight.I got trashed the first time when I went in with a starting lineup of:Biggs (7 ship, 7 char, G10)Wedge (7 ship, 7 char, G11)Asohka (7 ship, 7 char, G10)Ghost (6 ship, 7 crew, G8 crew)Phantom II (6 ship, 7 crew, G8 Chop/Sabine, G10 Ezra).As reinforcements I had:Fives (7 ship, 7 crew, G9)Poe (7 ship, 7 crew, G11)Rex (7 ship, 7 crew, G10)I learned in that first fight, though, that the enemy pretty much doesn't buff at all. Not like fighting in the arena versus a taunting Biggs, a buff-spamming Plo Koon, or a Retribution-granting Tarkin or Maul. So I swapped Asohka and Rex, putting Rex in the starting lineup and saving Asohka so she could have a crit-guaranteed special on reinforcement to do 50k+ damage.But it was actually that combo of Rex plus Biggs that won it for me, I think. Rex was able to get two of his specials in to restore Biggs' protection, and Rex' basic doing target lock on unbuffed opponents also kept Biggs topped off in protection. The extra few target locks from Biggs also made Ghost's attacks more effective, and I think I got one or two times where one of my ships resisted a debuff and triggered Rex' unique that gives people protection recovery.Because of Rex, I went into the third round nearly full of health and protection across the board. I did lose someone there and brought Poe in to finish off, but 2 stars still gets you the 15 Ackbar shards. :)

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Armaturbatyr
8 years ago
Full rebel team makes miracles some how. :/ no one even died. I don’t know why, I thought my beastan u-wing with 8 gear crew was useless, but with it I passed last wave twice, and I could pass with resistance x-wing
NicWester
8 years ago
If Boba's bomb on turn 1 is killing your ships, then your ships aren't good enough. You should breeze through the first two rounds with some protection damage, but still with plenty protection intact. Boba's bomb bypasses protection, so if you've taken "real" damage you'll lose.

I got wiped on my first try. On my second try I burned Bona down first, then auto'd my way through the rest.
jsoutherland507
8 years ago
I swapped in all three Jedi fighters and wedge and Biggs up front after getting creamed first time. Worked great, I just made sure to take out slave 1 off the bat before his Sonic blast could go off then Vader to take out his Target lock ability and rest was easy only lost one ship.
shahcoolest
8 years ago
I loaded up tm on akbar and used his ultimate to give all my ships tm. Then i just killed bobba and the rest was easy..
hacim007
8 years ago
On my first try boba did his bomb then chimaera did it's aoe, all 5 of my ships were at critical health and I died shortly after.
2nd try same thing happened but this time I survived and won. just the way it goes sometimes. Unfortunately, fleet battles seems to be the battles that are most heavily determined by rng. That has been my experience.
Range1974
Seasoned Rookie
8 years ago
3 stars on my second run. I just rearranged which ships came in first and did not use anything advanced until wave 3.
pieeater420
Seasoned Newcomer
8 years ago
I beat it on 2nd attempt without losing a ship. First attempt i put 5 best ships n main squad n then two bad ships as backup n lost. Switched the two bad ships into starting 5 an put two good ships into backup an i won easily without even having to call in one of my backups.
Eclipso23
8 years ago
First 3 attempts I got annihilated on wave 3, didn't get to go. The 4th attempt however was what I would consider to be "normal" and I was able to complete it.
FatherTime1001
8 years ago
How to win: git gud.

JK but for real, I relied on Rex and Phantom putting target lock on enemies to replenish Biggs' protection pool.
Acidwormss
8 years ago
Hmmm maybe I got lucky as I did it without losing more than 1 ship I think it was on my first try. Wedge, Biggs, and Fives are all g11 though.