5*Hound, 4* Xanadu and Silencer, So good my 410k vs 361k loses every time

GP becomes a useless metric once everyone has a 7* capital ship and is fielding full reinforcements. Similar to squad arena, the differences become much narrower at the upper end of the scale; 20k vs 40k is a major disadvantage, but 380k vs 400k is a negligible disparity. Also, multi-crew ships have way overinflated GP numbers.

As for your difficulties, if you can't kill a 5* Hound's Tooth and aren't going to include what ships you have available to you, I can only offer the following:

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I would not advice using geonosian to take on bh ships lol. Worst possible thing to do

TIE Fighter can be very effective against Hounds Tooth, especially in coordination with TIE Advanced or Bistan’s U-Wing. After target locking Hounds Tooth, use TIE Fighter’s special to apply buff immunity. Typically, another hit or 2 after that should see it go down.

Mace led HT Xanadu Fives and Gauntlet seem to be in the new ships meta. 5 of 10 of my server's top ten have this starting line up. 3 year old server....

This fixation with fleet gp is weird. Never see the same complaint about t'other arena.

I run Executrix with HT, TFP, and Silencer and I take 1st every day. My Cad Bane is G6 so I can't even use his ship, but I do just fine without it. You just have to use the big attacks and Tarkin's buffs wisely and the enemy's HT will go down pretty fast.

"CHFC22;c-1746080" wrote:
This fixation with fleet gp is weird. Never see the same complaint about t'other arena.

Really?

Maybe not lately but I remember seeing it a lot before.

"Roopehunter;c-1745007" wrote:
... everyone wins on offense.
This also means that nothing holds on defense...

This has been true in arena since forever.

And TFP dodge is easy to work around - don't AoE, use guaranteed hits (Vader, HT, Bistan). Or AoE when his cap ship is about to go anyways. Then the dodge doesn't matter.

"TVF;c-1747675" wrote:

"CHFC22;c-1746080" wrote:
This fixation with fleet gp is weird. Never see the same complaint about t'other arena.

Really?

Maybe not lately but I remember seeing it a lot before.

You're referring to when Bastilla came in at 3* I'm guessing? I'll grant you that, but that was the exception rather than the rule. It's a regular thing with ships - people seem to think having a load of GP sat on your bench doing nothing means something.

Ok so the OP comes on and claims his fleet should win because it has more gp. Without knowing what ships he uses that cannot be determined. If I randomly used all my highest gp ships it would make my fleet worse. I level ships to have at least two teams for tw/tb/ga since often thet ate restricted. But I use the ships with the best synergy in fleet arena and that isn't based solely on gp.

Another point is that bh ships aren't ptp anymore. I have a 7 star ht ftp. I use it in fleet arena. So can everyone else. So nothing is stopping the op from farming ht to 7 stars. I also have cad's ship at 5 stars. I don't use it yet but I have known it was good for awile so I farmed it so I can switch if needed. It has been out long enough that 6 stars or possibly 7 star is possible ftp with focus and allocation of crystals. It's also needed for ot falcoln which will likely be good so there are plenty of reasons to farm bh ships.

But if you choose not to update your ship roster, you'll lose in fleet arena. Just like you can't take first in regular arena with a maxed gk barris team.

There are counters but they will always be more difficult to win than by using the meta and likely hold less on defense. But we don't even know if the op is running a team that can counter bh ships.

Now, I'm not making any decesions about my fleet until the kit for ot falcoln is released. Since bh may be on the way out and a 5 star falcoln may be better in my fleet than a 5 star xb. We'll have to see but i need to star them anyway and they are all good so I will gear them for tb/tw/ga where you need multiple fleets because there will be a place for them.

So the choice is adapt your roster to stay on top or lose. I choose the first rather than to whine about the second.