Anti-Droid Ion Squad Build

Build summary

Players heading into missions dominated by Separatist droid forces.

1. Bay 1

   Trick

   Soldier·rifle

   A clone trooper with the Soldier's explosives kit. Area damage answers grouped droid formations, and cover destruction removes what they hide behind.

2. Bay 2

   Hawks

   Medic·pistol

   Required for story missions, and the Injury prevention matters because droid engagements are attrition fights.

3. Bay 3

   Custom Operator

   Gunslinger·pistol

   Multi-target output to spread Ion damage across several droids in one turn rather than overkilling one.

4. Bay 4

   Custom Operator

   Heavy·repeater

   Absorbs the return fire that comes with fighting a numerically superior force.

• Combat Stim + Gunslinger✓Confirmed
  A flat damage buff applied to the Operator who attacks most often in a turn.
• Bulwark gathers, Rocket Strike punishes◇Theorycraft
  Manufacturing the clustered group that an area attack is normally waiting for.
• Hawks' AP support on a Gunslinger◇Theorycraft
  Buying an Action Point with Advantage and spending it where a point buys the most.
• Heavy + Medic◇Theorycraft
  Turning squad-wide chip damage into damage on one predictable Operator.

1. Step 1

   Turn 1 — Soldier: open with explosives on the densest group, destroying cover as well as dealing damage.

2. Step 2

   Turn 1 — Gunslinger: spread attacks across the damaged droids to finish several rather than one.

3. Step 3

   Turn 1 — Heavy: advance into the position that draws the most return fire.

4. Step 4

   Turn 1 — Medic: hold AP for healing rather than committing it early; attrition fights punish over-extension.

If Tel-Rea Vokoss is in the company

Field her here rather than anywhere else, and put a Droid Dismantler in a Utility slot. Patch 1.1 establishes that it grants Harmony on a Droid death — so the one mission type this squad is built for is also the one that funds her resource, which nothing else outside her own Focus Tree does.

Safer

Swap the Gunslinger for a second frontline Operator when facing droid forces that outnumber you badly.

More aggressive

Swap the Heavy for a Scoundrel and use Identify Weakness on the largest droid, converting the squad's focus from spread damage to elimination.

Mixed enemy missions

This squad specialises. On missions with mixed factions, prefer the Combat Stim or displacement squads, which are not built around a single counter.

Mechanics this build depends on

• Injuries and permadeath
• Cover and flanking

Other builds

• Medic + Gunslinger Combat Stimconfirmed
• Scoundrel + Sharpshooter Criticalconfirmed
• Force Push & Overwatch Squadconfirmed
• Hawks Pico-5 Supporttheorycraft
• Heavy + Medic Frontlinetheorycraft
• Force Push + Sharpshooter Exposuretheorycraft

Sources

• Star Wars Zero Company: How Some of the Greatest Minds in Tactics Games are Pushing the Genre, Again

  Xbox Wire · Tier 2 — Developer interview · accessed 6 August 2026

  Supports: Greg Foertsch and James Brawley on the eight Specializations, Combat Stim + Gunslinger synergy, Advantage, and Specialization changes on authored characters

• Lead Zero Company To Victory on August 27

  Electronic Arts · Tier 1 — Official · accessed 6 August 2026

  Supports: Operator introductions; 3 Action Points per turn; Advantage caps at 10; the eight Specializations; Bonds in the Personnel Facility; Hawks' species options

• STAR WARS Zero Company — Patch 1.1 Notes

  Electronic Arts · Tier 1 — Official · accessed 14 September 2026

  Supports: Published 9 September 2026, the first post-launch patch; re-read in full on 14 September 2026, when it was still the newest entry on EA's News & Updates page. **Every item below is listed by EA under bug fixes**, which is what makes each one a statement about 1.0 as well as about 1.1. Secondary Specializations: their passive Cross Trainings "now correctly enter the selection pool at Relationship +8", and Secondary Specializations "now count for Specialization-specific Operation requirements and results". Chance-to-Hit: attacks displayed at 100% "can no longer erroneously miss". Scattergun: Tiers II, III and IV "no longer incorrectly use Tier I values". Droid Dismantler: Harmony "is granted only on Droid deaths, not on every enemy death". Tel-Rea: the Ranged Damage Cross Training bonus "is now applied once rather than twice" to her Force attacks, and Critical Damage bonuses "now correctly apply" to them. DC-17m Anti-Armor: it "can now critically hit" and "receives damage bonuses that apply to grenades". Ion Blasters "no longer double Critical Damage". Sweeping Salvo: "enemies outside the targeting cone are no longer hit". A Life of Labor II "can no longer infinitely accumulate bonuses when purchased repeatedly". Immovable: the status "now provides its intended bonuses". Bacta Tank, missed on the first read and added 14 September: "Fixed an issue where the Bacta Tank could be used more than one in a cycle" — EA's wording, typo included; the intended rule is one use per cycle. Overwatch, three lines, quoted verbatim on 14 September because the first pass had paraphrased the first of them too loosely: "Fixed an issue where Overwatch shots triggered against attackers caused the enemies to fire through solid objects at Operators they couldn't see" — an enemy-side line-of-sight failure, not the player's reaction shots passing through walls; "Fixed some instances of Overwatch triggering on a unit outside of the targeting cone"; and "Fixed various Overwatch issues that caused enemies and Operators to be unintentionally attacked". A fourth mentions it in passing: "Fixed a turn ordering issue that caused the Coil Captain to heal a target already slain by Overwatch". **Checked for and absent**: any figure for anything — no Scattergun tier statistics, no Harmony amount, no DC-17m damage, no figure for what Immovable now provides, no Bacta Tank cost. Also absent: any fix for Overwatch *failing* to trigger. Every Overwatch line corrects a shot that should not have happened, and none claims a shot that should have happened now does.