Overpowered by Elite X-Wing Pilots

I finally made it out to a nearby game store last night to play a couple X-Wing battles with a few others that are trying to build local interest in this cool table-top game. I have not had an opportunity to play in over a month so I was rusty on a lot of the upgrade cards. I elected to play a list of imperial scrubs so that I could reduce the number of variables I needed to keep track of by eliminating special pilot abilities. This was the last list that I had played too, so it was already at hand and ready to go. I fielded 4 academy TIEs, a scimitar squadron TIE bomber with a seismic charge and a Firespray bounty hunter. Opposite of my squad were the three amigos, Luke, Biggs and Wedge in X-wings with several R2 droids on board.

The asteroids ended up in fairly uniform six-pack arrangement. I set up mostly towards one corner. With the higher pilot skills, my opponent set up second and chose the opposite corner to try and force me to spend more turns flying my ships in formation. I was really out of practice on trying to judge the distance and angles for my selected ship maneuvers and early on this caused me to split my academy squadron as I failed to successfully navigate around my bomber. As our ships engaged, I quickly lost a TIE to Wedge and had to focus fire on Biggs since he was drawing fire off of the other X-wings. I was unable drop Bigg's shield much and then I pushed my TIEs up into the X-wings...

...in hopes that my bounty hunter could swoop in for some flanking shots.

Moments later, I lost a couple more TIEs but a successful hit from my seismic charge and the effect of cumulative shots on Biggs looked like he might drop too. Since Biggs is about the same cost as 3 TIEs I hoped I might have a chance to even things up if I could get him off the board. But, my bounty hunter could not finish him. The X-wings then took out the firespray and with only a bomber and single TIE remaining, I decided to concede the match. Despite the thorough whooping, it was lots of fun.