Akbar capital ship challenge - tier V

Try so many times you can not count anymore, then it will suddenly work out at some point, because of RNG.

I just beat this on Sunday with the following:
lvl 66 Ackbar G8 with level 46 Home One
lvl 85 Plo Koon G9 with 7 star level 85 Ship
lvl 78 JC G9 with 7 star level 85 ship
lvl 80 Rex G11 with 5 star ship
lvl 78 Clone Sergeant G9 with level 85 6 star ship
lvl 78 Fives G9 with level 85 5 star ship

Backup:
lvl 75 Ahsoka G9 with lvl 80 5 star ship
lvl 73 Biggs G9 with lvl 63 5 star ship
lvl 61 Poe G8 with lvl 60 5 star ship.

Just had to keep restarting until I survived the opening onslaught and took out Rex immediately after. Plo goes first, I use his attack first time up, then give him tm with Rex, then give everyone tm with Plo. Consular was second, Ahsoka 3rd. AI reinforced 3 times: Consular and 2 clone sergeants. Finished up Ahsoka and then went onto the second consular. Then I just had to take out the 3 clone sergeants. Only lost my clone sergeant.

Giving tm back and forth between Plo and Rex whenever someone isn't in desperate need of Protection from Rex is why I won. That's also why I had to zerg Rex down first on their side. Can't be having all that protection restoration and tm gain. I never once used Plo's taunt ability, He hits way too hard and so do they. Putting a taunt up is just asking for one of my ships to die.

There's enough healing abilities in my squad that I was able to win despite him reinforcing 3 times and taunting 5 times.

All my shiprs were 7* level 85. I had Arc Clone S ship, Biggs, Wedge, Jedi Consular, Resistance, and Poe but only 5*. I took an evening and said I would not give up until I completed it. It must have took more perhaps 100 tries until the RNG gods lined up. I was finally able to do it though.

I finished this a few weeks ago using the following

Level 85 Jedi Consular's Starship

Level 70 Imperial Tie Fighter

Level 70 Biggs Darklighter's X-Wing

Level 70 First Order Tie Fighter

Level 70 Geonosian Soldier's Starfighter Correction (Thanks to @CK_3030 ) level 70 Ahsoka Tano's ship


Backup

Level 70 Wedge Antilles's X-wing

Level 85 Umbaran Starfighter

Level 85 Clone Sergeant's ARC-170

@Sthenos
You can't use dark side ships when doing the Tier V Ackbar/Mace challenge.

Been done with this one for awhile, combination of luck and over-leveling it.

JC (85 - 7* - G8)
Biggs (85 - 7* - G8)
Wedge (85 - 7* - G9)
Ashoka (85 - 7* - G8)
Fives (85 - 7* - G9)

With Poe (78 - 6* - G8) and Bistan (70 - 5* - G7/G8) in reserve.

Got lucky on assists calling Biggs and then Biggs landing his turn lock / taunt refresh. JC / Ashoka went down fast, then went after Rex. I had to deal with full reinforcements but managed to keep biggs alive / taunted long enough to have a numbers advantage and used that to win out. Poe's guaranteed, unavoidable crit on unprotected ships is a nice reinforcement to have as well.

Is there any new tips on this? I can't beat it with mostly 85 7* ships. WTK do I need to do to win? Most I can do is get the opponent down to 3 ships.

Biggs 7 stars level 85 gear xi, Wedge, same. Ahsoka 7 stars level 85 gear x. JC, same. Ghost, 6 stars level 85, Phx squad are all 85 gear 8 and 7 stars. 5 star level 85 Phantom off the bench wit clone Sgt and resistance pilot 5 star 85 gear 7 and 8 respectivly. Akbar is maxed as well as his capital ship, Maxxed.

I've tried a hundred times and I've never even been close, I have seen way weaker rosters finish this event. Beyond frustrated.

I finally did it an hour ago, i used the following:
Home one lvl 80, Ackbar g9 lvl 75.
wedge 6* g11 lvl 85 both.
Biggs 6* g11 lvl 85 both.
Cassian 6* lvl 77, toons g8 and lvl 74,75,80.
Jedi consular 5* g9 lvl 80 both.
Umbaran 5* lvl 85, g8 lvl 70.
Reinforcements: ghost, phantom, rex but did not use them.
This is probably no news for u guys, but for me it made the difference; use good MODS on your pilots. Don’t have to be your best, but use maxed 4 or 5 dot mods. Mod synergy doesn’t matter.

If i could not survive the first enemy attacks with decent health on all my ships, i retreated.
If i could not target lock asoka on biggs first attack, i retreated.
If u could not kill both asoka and jc before they taunted, i retreated.
If enemy rex didn’t taunt or i could not remove taunt to target and kill rex pretty fast, i retreated.
If my biggs died before any of this happened, i reteated.
The enemy reinforced twice, but it was late in the game and didn’t matter.

My strat was to keep biggs buffed and taunting as much as i could and alive as long as possible.

Rng plays a part here and i also got lucky that my umbaran survived for several turns on red health.

Hope this can be helpful!

T1

Just for further feedback as I'm sure people are trying hard for this for TB.... I just finished this with Biggs 7* g10, Ghost 6* g8, phantom 5* g8, ashoka 7* g10, and Consular 7* g8.... All lvl 85. Had three reserves, but these five were all alive at the end.

Key was killing their ashoka so she couldn't clear Biggs taunt and then getting insanely lucky with rng. Leave Rex till last no matter what. Mace did reinforce 3 times with clone sarg each time, but I had numbers.

It's so so so rng dependent it's crazy. Tried over 50 times again this morning.