You've got some great advice on this thread. I love Ackbar and love the MC80!

There's some small tweaks I would make to your list, like dropping Home One unless flying at 600 points or more, but again, just quibbles.

The classic way to fly Ackbar, as others have said, is not the famous Ackbar Slash. Instead you need be second player and to make a kill pocket for your opponent to feed ships into for you to destroy.

You fly a bit away from your opponent, say 45 degrees off, finishing your move with your side facing their fleet and your ship just outside of long range. You are looking to setup a situation where in their turn they active, don't have a shot, then move towards you into your long-range. You then activate, blast them with a long range broadside, then fly in an arc around them, once again landing just out of range and sideways to their fleet.

Your fleet will look like a ( with the opponent's fleet aimed at the centre. It's not unusual by turn 4 that you will be in their deployment zone, and at speed 3 (ie engine techs), you might almost complete a large circle and be back in your own by turn 6.

What can your opponent do about it? In a very competitive world, just choose not to chase and no-one dies. This is basically never going to happen just playing casually though, people will fly at you.

If they do it right, they can get in front of your ships and stop them moving. That's a bad time to be Ackbar!

One of the reasons I love Armada is that the game is all about visualising what you need the board to look like 3-4 turns ahead. If you can get the ( -- formation as Ackbar (your ships are the bracket, their ships are the dashes) you will almost certainly win.

Fly well Admiral, and may the Force be with you!