Akbar capital ship challenge - tier V

I only have one question about this challenge: Who's the drunkard at EA who came up with the idea that you can beat this at level 82 with 6x5* ships?
One tip: Play your own game for a sec, guys :D

i almost won it once
there was only one clone ship left and i had 4 ships but all at red or yellow hp
lost by a hair all ships of mine dead opponent clone ship left with red hp
never did get to that point ever again

I failed like 30 times until Mace didn't call in reinforcements for whatever reason. I think this challenge is more about luck than anything else.

Biggs 7*/G11
Wedge 7*/G11
Ahsoka 7*/G11
JC 7*/G10
Bistan/RPF 7*/G8
Plo 7*/G7

Ok, so I finally beat it after 100+ attempts.
I have a slightly different ship composition (no Plo), but the general result was as a few others have mentioned. Here's how I played it:

1. If you lose a ship during the initial assault, restart.
2. Target Ahsoka first, then JC, then Clones then Rex last
3. If at any point during the battle Mace calls in reinforcements, restart.

I kept this going for a *very* long time, until suddenly Mace didn't call in reinforcements. I'm sure it's possible to beat it even if he does, but at least for my part, it's far less infuriating to just go by those 3 rules, as it's just rinse and repeat that way and you don't end up sitting at *almost* beating it.

I don't know how much this will help but - if you have Resistance Pilot leveled up, that X-wing is quietly one of the more solid Ships in the fleet imo. Don't use her much now other than as an occasional Reinforcement; and my RP is still only Gear VIII (toon is 7* / ship was still 5* at the time) but she was crucial, applying target lock and expose. I guess she got usage in my fleet because other than Biggs I am light on Rebels.

RNGesus smiled on me. No reinforcements, so I killed him. Finally. Now I just have Tarkin left, but I don't even have the ships for that, so /shrug.

Did it with:

Ahsoka lvl 85 7* G10, ship 7*
Biggs lvl 85 7* G10, ship 7*
Wedge lvl 85 7* G10, ship 7*
JC lvl 85 7* G8, ship 6*
Bistan 4* lvl 71 G7 / 4* lvl 65 G7, ship 5*
Clone Sergeant 5* lvl 64 G6, ship 5*

All ships, including AA are lvl 85.

"Darksaber98;c-1052922" wrote:
i almost won it once
there was only one clone ship left and i had 4 ships but all at red or yellow hp
lost by a hair all ships of mine dead opponent clone ship left with red hp
never did get to that point ever again

So much this.

Came close to winning once, then ever since they've blown me out.

Considering Tier V for Tarkin is SUPER easy, Tier V for Mace and Ackbar is ridiculously hard and all 3 need to be the same: all easy, all moderate or all hard. Pick one.

My plan for Mace's Tier V is to bring Rex's and Fives's ships to 5*s and then just continuously use taunt and protection up on Rex.

"CK_3030;c-1058662" wrote:

"Darksaber98;c-1052922" wrote:
i almost won it once
there was only one clone ship left and i had 4 ships but all at red or yellow hp
lost by a hair all ships of mine dead opponent clone ship left with red hp
never did get to that point ever again

So much this.

Came close to winning once, then ever since they've blown me out.

Considering Tier V for Tarkin is SUPER easy, Tier V for Mace and Ackbar is ridiculously hard and all 3 need to be the same: all easy, all moderate or all hard. Pick one.

My plan for Mace's Tier V is to bring Rex's and Fives's ships to 5*s and then just continuously use taunt and protection up on Rex.

That's my plan too, it's just hard starring up ships you don't use while farming shards for those you do. I think most players like me have a couple strong DS ships and a couple strong LS ships. Nice for zeta challenge, not so good for capital ship challenges.

Hardest battle in game so far!

Funny part is how many times mace capital ship hits you before yours even goes off! Rediculous