Beating Hound’s Tooth teams without Hound’s Tooth?

Geonosians take him down like nothing. The thing you have to remember is that just because the AI always opens with Thrawn’s AoE doesn’t mean you should—use the heal that also buffs your ships. Geonosian Spy and Soldier with Offense Up means whichever goes first, Hound’s Tooth won’t go more than once.