I'm developing my Empire team at the moment, and have been leaning towards Darth Vader, Emperor Palaptine, Grand Moff Tarkin, Tie Fighter Pilot and Royal Guard. However I also have a pretty strong Grand Admiral Thrawn (5*) that I'm thinking of swapping instead of Grand Moff Tarkin.
Good idea? Bad idea? I have a really strong Phoenix team (strong enough to win 7* Palpatine this month) so if Thrawn's event comes back I'm going to build him up with them.
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I'm using Tarkin Lead right now with Thrawn, EP, Vader and Death Trooper. Made it to the 4th place payout in arena. I'm undergeared compared to my top 10. I have 4 gear 9 and Thrawn is at gear 10. I can beat any Rebel or NS team at the moment and I have 0 zetas and only a few omegas on their basics. lvl 7 on all of their specials.
Personally I would swap out either RG or TFP for thrawn and keep GMT
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why tarkin lead instead of palp lead?
A fast vader can provide the whole team with TM right of the bat.
Either way, my theorycrafting is leading to think the best Empire team is no longer Troopers (Thrawn(L), Shore, Death, Storm then either Krennic, Probe Droid or Veers) but now probably some zPalpatine team.
Likely zPalp(l), zVader, Shore, Storm, TFP (he gets so many turns under zPalp). But you may not need 2 tanks and Probe Droid might be better than TFP.
So maybe zPalp(l), zVader, Shore, zThrawn, Probe.
Not sure if Tarkin might be a better option in either of these.
What are their speed mods like compared to others on your shard? Usually to run a viable no tank team you need superior mods.
Actually for a long period of time, I was using Zarriss as my tank under a Zaul lead. Good against speedy thrawn and raid han teams. If raid han shoots first, it will be always be her first. And if thrawn fractures her at the start, no fret as well, cause all I need is her unique critical heal.
I'm in a Nov. 15 shard everyone has super mods at top. No speed advantage.
Pull TFP
Run Ep Dv Tarkin Thrawn and 5th. Either wampa, ShT, GK if you can.
2. Is Palp viable as lead w/o his zeta (currently farming this..)
3. If Palp not viable w/o zeta who is the next viable alternative for lead - Thrawn or Tarkin?
It sounds like you are in early game so yeah EP lead is fine without a zeta but then make it your 1st zeta. I honestly have no clue how to build a zetaless squad. But that is the only 1 zeta squad I know that can rock it on any shard.