tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51122856410615269792024-03-14T04:01:03.602-07:00Confessions of a mid table X-WingerFantasy Flight Games made this tabletop space battle game called X-Wing.
I am the epitome of a mid table X-Wing player! I am not professing to be any kind of authority on this game (or very good at it for that matter!) but these posts might be interesting to players in a similar position to myself or people just getting into the game.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413585448346634288noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112285641061526979.post-71351517081875807402017-02-07T15:01:00.001-08:002017-02-07T15:01:44.113-08:00London Regionals / Warboar / 4-2-17 & 5-2-17<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Here we are again,
two regionals in as many weeks. I attended Warboar’s regional last
year and it was one of my favourite X-Wing events of the whole year.
The staff, the organisation, my opponents, everything was great. You
can read about it <a href="http://midtablexwing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/regionals-warboar-bromley-21-05-16.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Before I go into my
full report, I should mention my big news. At the end of my last
report, I mentioned there would be big changes ahead for me, and the
blog. That is due to myself and Joel being invited to join the 186<sup>th</sup>
Squadron. Needless to say that we both accepted wholeheartedly!</div>
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With that in mind,
I’ll talk about my first X-Wing event wearing a 186<sup>th</sup>
hoodie (albeit, not one I owned. Thanks to Nick Yun for lending me
one of his.)</div>
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I took Paratanni
again, having got so far with it last weekend, I knew I would just
kick myself if I took something else and did worse. Anyway, for those
of you that don’t know the list, it’s this:</div>
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Manaroo – Atanni
Mindlink</div>
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Asajj – Atanni
Mindlink / Latts Razi</div>
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Fenn Rau – Atanni
Mindlink / title / Autothrusters</div>
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It’s a monster!
One small and two large ships in a list is nothing to be sniffed at
in general but the amount of green and red dice, coupled with the
total health of the ships is awesome. That’s not even taking into
account the crazy action efficiency of Mindlink AND the fact that all
three pilots have great pilot abilities in general. It’s no wonder
the list is being seen everywhere!</div>
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Well then, onto the
matchups:</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Game 1 vs James
Finlayson</span></div>
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Chopper – FCS /
Autoblaster turret / Hera</div>
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Dash –PTL /
Smuggling Compartment / Feedback Array / HLC / Kanan / Outrider / APL</div>
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I hate Dash. I
really hate Dash. If there are two ships in the game that I hate,
it’s Dash and Miranda. It often just seems like to get into the
doughnut hole that the title creates, you have to go through at least
one round of being fired at by the HLC, which is terrifying…</div>
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This is probably the
reason I decided to go for Dash first, I was quite cagey with Fenn to
start with and took a few potshots with Roo and Asajj, which did a
bit of damage, then I got a magic turn, whereby I had Fenn at range
one with a focus and target lock and Asajj and Roo at range 2. It
turns out that I didn’t need Asajj and Roo because Fenn rolled well
and Dash rolled poorly. He died before firing that turn.</div>
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During that turn
Fenn also took a fair bit of damage from a well placed Chopper shot.
He was left one one hull and a red target lock token from Chopper’s
FCS.</div>
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Then I made a boo
boo which, by all rights, I should have been punished for: - I put
Fenn at range one of the ghost. I had 1 hull left, he had autoblaster
turret and a target lock. James rolled no hits, and target locked
into two crits, which Fenn evaded.</div>
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Then I made another
boo boo which I definitely should have been punished for: - yep, I
put Fenn at range one again. And again, Fenn sailed away on his
single hull. 8 dice and not a single hit...</div>
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This is a testament
to James’ temperament, there’s a lot of players out there that
would get seriously satly about those dice but James was resolute and
still friendly.</div>
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For what it’s
worth, I don’t think it mattered much to the game as a whole, Fenn
just ran away for the rest of the game while the others whittled
Chopper down.</div>
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Win 100-20</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Game 2 vs Henry
Westcott</span></div>
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Rey – VI / Kanan /
Finn / sloop title / Engine</div>
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Norah – title /
Experimental Interface / Lando / VI / R2-D2</div>
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Henry is another
great opponent. I’d played him the last time I was at Warboar and
he was a gent then. You can read about it <a href="http://midtablexwing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/29-08-16-warboar-bromley-defend.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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So, Lando on Norah,
eh? That is cool. The idea is to TL then EI to trigger Lando, most of
the time you will get something useful, then next turn, do a green to
clear the stress and trigger R2-D2 and regen a shield. It’s a great
idea.</div>
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This time, however,
Norah didn’t get to pull any shenanigans. On the first round of
combat, I got Norah at range 2 of Asajj and range 1 of Fenn and
Manaroo. The result was a double stressed Norah with not much hull
left. I took her out the next round and then it was my list vs Rey.</div>
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Rey then got down to
the task of plinking down my ships, she got both Asajj and Roo down
to half before getting a console fire crit… which killed Rey and
won me the game… a slightly unceremonious end, but a win,
nonetheless.</div>
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Win 100-54</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Game 3 vs Jesper
Hills</span></div>
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Contracted Scout –
Atanni Mindlink / Chips / Proton Torps / Extra Munitions / Boba Fett</div>
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Manaroo – Atanni
Mindlink / Unhinged / Plasma Torps / Chips / K4</div>
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Fenn – Atanni
Mindlink / title / Autothrusters</div>
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Jesper and myself
had played at the last Warboar regionals, he had royally trounced my
Chewie / Chopper list with his Hillbots. Here we are again almost a
year later, playing against each other again. Last year, Jesper
offered me a sweet when I sat down - for tradition’s sake, he did
it again this year. Good times.</div>
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Also, here we go, my
first ever 186<sup>th</sup> off! Also, my first mindlink vs mindlink
game of the day.</div>
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My game plan was to
go for the scout. That’s the easiest target and if I can take it
off the board before it gets both it’s torps off then the list has
some “dead” points.
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In the first round,
Jesper’s Fenn ended up just outside of range 3 of my Asajj, he
decided to barrel roll into range 3 and take a pot shot. This was the
beginning of Jesper’s bad dice luck. In that engagement, Asajj came
away untouched and Fenn ended up with a Weapons Failure crit!</div>
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In the second turn,
Jesper’s scout was in range of all three of my ships, all three of
which rolled very well and the scout rolled 6 blanks. This resulted
in a dead scout… before it had even fired. Jesper looked over and
said “That’s basically game there” I said “No, we’re
playing X-Wing. Nothing is game!”</div>
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I’ve been in way
too many games where I’ve <i>definitely </i><span style="font-style: normal;">got
it… and then I don’t got it. There’s no place for complacency
in this game. So we carried on playing, Jesper’s Fenn (still with
the weapons failure crit) </span><span style="font-style: normal;">manages
to take out my Fenn, then I take out his.</span></div>
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In
a last ditch attempt, Jesper’s Roo sloops to get a Torp shot at my
Asajj. It ends up at range 2 so I stress Manaroo and, as I can see
what is about to happen, I take an evade.</div>
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Roo
shoots, get’s four hits. Asajj rolls an evade and focus. I use the
focus token, evade token and Latts Roo’s stress away to take
absolutely no damage. At that point, Jesper conceded.</div>
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Win
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<span style="font-size: large;">Game
4 vs Alex Birt</span></div>
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Manaroo
– Atanni Mindlink / Plasma Torps / Extra Munitions / K4 / Unhinged
/ Chips</div>
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Old
Teroch – Atanni Mindlink / Autothrusters / title</div>
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Fenn
Rau - Atanni Mindlink / Autothrusters / title</div>
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Another
186<sup>th</sup> off!</div>
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Fangaroo.
Or, as it’s more affectionately known when in the hands of Alex;
Bortlink!</div>
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I
had three big worries here;
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Firstly,
Bortlink comes out to 99 points, meaning he will give me initiative
so that a) his Fenn moves after my Fenn and b) he makes me do my
start of combat stuff first so he has full knowledge of where my
tokens are before he moves his around and finally steals some of mine
with Teroch.</div>
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Secondly,
Alex is a very good player, I know this because he beat me in a
previous tournament (read about that one <a href="http://midtablexwing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/no-i-am-your-father-christmas-woking-04.html" target="_blank">here</a>).</div>
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Thirdly,
the reason the list is called Bortlink, is because he has been
playing this (almost) exclusively since wave 9 dropped… that’s a
lot of experience!</div>
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All
is not lost, there are a few saving graces, 1) Joel has also been
playing this list since wave 9 dropped so I’ve played against it a
fair few times (albeit not with Paratanni) and 2) if Alex gives me
initiative, (which he will) my Roo will be moving before anything
else so I should be able to get some good blocks in.</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">OK,
the strategy going into this was to take Teroch off the board ASAP.
</span><span style="font-style: normal;">Teroch is probably the most
squishy of all the ships and at least if I managed that, I wouldn’t
be worried about token theft any more. As it happened though, Alex
presented his Roo to me in a lovely killbox, I took advantage of
that. Unfortunately, my Fenn died that turn too. Fenn for Manaroo…
points wise I’m up but I’m not sure if it was a great trade.</span></div>
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From
this point on, we flew around for a while whilst I plinked away at
his ships, unfortunately, nothing stuck (tokens, autothrusters, etc.)
and in the end Alex’s aces whittled me down enough to win.</div>
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Loss
37-100</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Game
5 vs Justin Choy</span></div>
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Rey
– Expertise / Finn / Kanan / sloop title / Engine</div>
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Miranda
– TLT / 3PO</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Line those ships up.</td></tr>
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This
was a really tough match. I got a few really nice shots on Rey
towards the beginning of the match but ended up trading Fenn for the
engagement. Justin then managed to switch his ships around so that I
had to focus on Miranda instead of Rey. He then managed to steer
Miranda out of the fight so she could regen. This left me with a half
health Asajj and a full health Manaroo against |Rey.</div>
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There
then followed two crucial turns. Justin boosted Rey out of Asajj’s
arc and it was so close we had to call Jason (Warboar owner and TO)
over to check arc. Jason ruled that Rey was out of arc. The very next
turn a similar thing happened but this time it turned out that Rey
was just in arc. That left me with two shots on an un-tokened Rey,
this killed her and won me the game… but only just.</div>
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Win
62-52</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Game
6 vs Calum Brown</span></div>
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Paratanni!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Asajj spent a lot of time off her base today.</td></tr>
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The
mirror match. And for both of us, the result of this game is the
difference between making the cut or not!</div>
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The
pressure is on!</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Calum
won the roll and took initiative, I was disappointed about this as
the only Paratanni mirror match I’ve won (at </span><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span><span style="font-style: normal;">
Exeter </span><span style="font-style: normal;">regional</span><span style="font-style: normal;">,
read about it <a href="http://midtablexwing.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/exeter-regionals-crediton-28-01-17.html" target="_blank">here</a>) I had initiative and used it to force bumps to
get the win.</span></div>
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I
set up in my bottom right corner and Calum set up opposite to go for
the joust. So we got down to it, mega bumps in the first few turns.
The problem Calum faced was that his Roo was not in the correct
alignment to clear stress by turning, my Roo could go left to clear
her stress. This didn’t matter a huge amount in the end as both
Roos went down fairly quickly.</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Then
there was lots of awkward (and not very effective) shooting from both
sides. In the last turn both Fenns were healthy, my Asajj was just
above half health and Calum’s Asajj had one hull left. </span><span style="font-style: normal;">The
Asajj’s were both at range 1 pointing at each other. </span><span style="font-style: normal;">Calum’s
Asajj had a great roll against my Asajj and brought her down to
below. </span><span style="font-style: normal;">He also got an
extremely </span><span style="font-style: normal;">frustrating blinded
pilot crit. No killing 1 hull Asajj for me!</span></div>
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So
the result was that we both had Fenn and half health Asajj left…</div>
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Final
salvo then. There’s no point dragging that bit out. I won. It
wasn’t particularly pretty but it was effective.</div>
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Win
48-48 (Final salvo to me)</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">So,
I went 5-1 and ended up 9</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
in Swiss. </span><span style="font-style: normal;">I MADE THE CUT!!! </span><span style="font-style: normal;">I
MADE MY FIRST CUT!!!!! YEEE HAWWWW!!!!!</span><span style="font-style: normal;">
In a great turn of events, Calum also got in at 13</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">!</span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
In
a not too great turn of events, I realised that my first opponent in
the cut would be none other than Alex Birt… yep, the only person I
had lost against in the whole day. Sad face.</div>
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Still,
as the regional was set over two days, I at least had the evening to
think about a different strategy for taking on Bortlink. The last
approach didn’t work so I’d have to consider other options.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The top 16 (I'm the only one NOT looking at the camera)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Game
7 vs Alex Birt</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXo9S0xK2mpcdCXvD0J6FLAO_4iEl3i9mq2Ka9fYZ8idKOhyphenhyphenwvOn9felLPs0OmUhiAffAUyKXNq1oMaPgazJmi1NGwdjYoprv8oFLQ_KOEvghv5mtZPU9E7muy_OA8FFk_G4qDPoKks4/s1600/Vs+Bort2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXo9S0xK2mpcdCXvD0J6FLAO_4iEl3i9mq2Ka9fYZ8idKOhyphenhyphenwvOn9felLPs0OmUhiAffAUyKXNq1oMaPgazJmi1NGwdjYoprv8oFLQ_KOEvghv5mtZPU9E7muy_OA8FFk_G4qDPoKks4/s400/Vs+Bort2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just about to get Borted... A. Borted!</td></tr>
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So,
taking Manaroo off the board early in our last game had not done me
many favours, however, I still think that my original strategy of
going for Teroch first was the way to deal with this list. So that’s
what I’m going to try for again this time.</div>
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Honestly,
it was a pretty poor showing from me, in the first round of combat, I
needed to barrel roll with Roo to avoid an asteroid, then bumped with
Asajj and so, when I ended up at range 1 of Teroch with my Fenn I had
to make an awful choice, do I focus for everyone, but in doing so,
leave Fenn open to token stealing and death (because Alex’s Fenn
was bound to have a range 2 shot) or boost past, leaving everyone
else focus-less and my Fenn (probably) at range 1 of his Fenn.</div>
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I
decided to focus, Teroch stole Fenn’s focus and proceeded to roll 3
hit/crits against an un-tokened Fenn. In response to this, I managed
to roll three natural evades! Woo, I might just survive this round
after all!</div>
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It
turns out my optimism had been unfounded as a combination of a range
2 shot from Alex’s Fenn and a range 1 shot from his Manaroo, took
out my Fenn.</div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
It
was now a massively uphill battle. I continued on my quest to take
out Teroch but my shots were never target locked and I had trouble
focus firing. In the end, Alex killed my Asajj and I still hadn’t
done a single point of damage to any of his ships. I conceded. Alex
outflew me by a mile and, to be honest, I was happy enough to get top
16. You’ll hear no complaining from me!</div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I’ve
never conceded in a tournament before, however, not having to think
about MoV is slightly liberating. I was never going to take out 3
ships with just Manaroo, for sure!</div>
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So
that was that then, sooooo close to sparkly dice but not close
enough. I still have the Daventry regional in a month’s time…
I’ll get them there!</div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
One
last shout-out. Full-on managed to fly his bombing K-wing list to
victory in ALL six of his games on the first day, coming first in
swiss. He then proceeded to keep winning right up until the final
where he was beaten in an absolute nail-biter of a game by Rob Kane.
Well done Rob and well done Full-on.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413585448346634288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112285641061526979.post-77692766866756635422017-01-31T15:36:00.003-08:002017-01-31T15:36:17.099-08:00Exeter Regionals / Crediton / 28-01-17<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Here we go, first
regional of the season for me and it’s all the way in Exter. That’s
a three and a half hour drive away (dedication)</div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
So, the prep. As you
could probably tell from my last post, I. Love. Strikers! They are
great, really nippy and crazy manoeuvrable… I did not run a list
with them in, and I’ll tell you why.</div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I have been running
a list that I came up with called “The Four Horsemen” (crap name,
I know, I was going to change it but then it got mentioned on the
186<sup>th</sup> Squadron Podcast and so it kind of stuck) It is as
follows:</div>
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</div>
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Omnicron shuttle –
Vader / Collision Detector (24)</div>
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Duchess – Ailerons
/ Frame / VI (26)</div>
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Sabacc – Ailerons
/ Frame / Adaptibility (24)</div>
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Omega Leader –
Juke / Comm Relay (26)</div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
The main idea behind
it is target priority, none of them are safe to leave until the end
game (except maybe the doom shuttle but then, hopefully it would have
done it’s job by then) Unfortunately, the problem is that it’s
all just soooo fragile. Against any kind of turret list, you need to
be relatively lucky with your green dice to stand a chance and as we
all know, those green dice are pretty fickle.
</div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I had been playing
the list for a while with about a 50/50 win loss ratio. A few weeks
before the Exeter regional, I suffered four horrendous losses against
pretty standard meta lists and decided to shelve the list for the
time being.</div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
So what now? A week
to go until a premiere level event and I don’t have a list to
run!!! Maybe I’ll go back to Palob, Manaroo, Fenn. I do love that
list and it’s probably the thing I’ve had most success with. I
then came across the stream of the final from the Dublin regional...
</div>
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Paratanni.</div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I’ve heard about
it and heard that it’s pretty good, maybe I should run that? I
already have a lot of experience flying Manaroo and Fenn. Asajj
couldn’t be that much harder to pick up, right? So I tried it on
Vassal… and it is good. Man, it is good.</div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
It’s not only an
efficiency list, (many hull and shields to chew through and a
respectable amount of red and green dice) it’s also a great toolbox
list. With Mindlink, Manaroo’s token passing shenanigans and
Asajj’s stress and Latts-tank combo there’s a fair amount of
utility going on. Add Fenn into the mix and the list can do some real
nasty things to a lot of the lists out there!</div>
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So it was decided
then, Paratanni was coming with me to Exeter. I managed to get four
practice games in (on Vassal) before Exeter and that was it. My
Shadow Caster had never even been on it’s base before getting to
the regional on Saturday morning. Was this a good idea? Read on to
find out.</div>
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*** Disclaimer ***</div>
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A lot of my games
went to time here and there was very little time between round (which
is when I usually write up my notes of the previous game) so some of
these match reports may be less detailed than usual. Sorry about
that!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Game 1 vs Ben Moore</span></div>
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Omega Leader –
Juke / Comm Relay / Stealth Device</div>
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Pure Sabacc –
Swarm Leader / Adaptive Ailerons / Lightweight Frame</div>
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Academy Pilot</div>
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Academy Pilot</div>
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Imperial Trainee –
Adaptive Ailerons / Lightweight Frame</div>
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Glancing over Ben’s
list for the first time, I didn’t notice Swarm Leader and couldn’t
really work out what the deal was with the list. When I saw it, I
understood at once. The PS1 “disposable” ships would run in and
take an evade and then when Sabacc shot, he would eat their evades to
go for a 6-7 dice shot! Nasty.</div>
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Ben was a great
first game opponent, we were both very chatty and easy going before,
during and after the match.</div>
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The start of this
match was a perfect example of cagey play, we were both vying for
position and it was a good 30 minutes before either of us fired a
shot. I knew I had to take Sabacc out fast because those swarm leader
shots were going to seriously hurt! From what I remember, I had
managed to cause Sabacc 2 damage before he attacked, thus depriving
him of one dice. He did however, use swarm leader to full effect to
throw 5 dice at Fenn, however, by that point, he had spent his focus
so the attack was modified and Fenn only took one crit… of course
it was damaged cockpit (which I’m sure is stapled to most people’s
Fenn card by now.)</div>
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In the end it didn’t
matter much, Sabacc went down before he could fire another shot and
then I concentrated on the low PS ships that were easy to take out. I
lost Fenn and then decided to leave Omega Leader to pootle about as
there was only a few more minute and I’m pretty sure my Roo and
Asajj were sitting fairly comfortably.</div>
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Win - some amount of points - a fewer points (can’t remember the actual amount but I think I had
Asajj and Roo left, Ben had Omega and an Academy left... I think... I won it anyway, OK?)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Game 2 vs Cadan
Jones</span></div>
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Warden – Extra
Munitions / Intel Agent / Cluster Mines / Seismic Charges / Advanced
SLAM</div>
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Warden - Extra
Munitions / Chopper / Cluster Mines / Seismic Charges / Advanced SLAM</div>
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Warden - Extra
Munitions / Sabine / Cluster Mines / Advanced SLAM</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just about to have some clusters dropped on Fenn there, there's a cheeky K-Wing underneath the Shadowcaster</td></tr>
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I saw my name next
to Cadan’s and grinned. Cadan was my second opponent at my first
ever X-Wing tournament back in December 2015. I remember we were both
flying Whisper and he, quite honestly, showed me how it was done (in
a good way)</div>
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Also, bombing
K-Wings; I’ve been practicing against these things. Both Lloyd and
Full-On run Biggs and two bombing K-Wings so I’ve had a fair bit of
experience with them, and it <i>really</i> helped in this matchup.</div>
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Lots of cheeky
Advanced SLAMs, Sabineing, Asajj-stressing, etc. ensued. It was a
really good game, anybodies for the taking from beginning to end! To
cut a long story short, I had a half health Roo and half health Asajj
against one last K-Wing. It came down to the last round. If he killed
my Roo, he wins, if I kill his K, I win.
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I killed his K, I
won.</div>
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Win 100-66</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Game 3 vs David Peet</span></div>
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Whisper – VI / ACD
/ FCS</div>
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Omega Leader –
Juke / Comm Relay</div>
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Vessary – x7 / TIE
mk II / Juke</div>
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(I think that list
was right… Bad me, I didn’t take enough notes here!)</div>
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Another great
opponent, 3 for 3 so far! David did say that he didn’t like the
look of my list when I put it down, then he got his list out and I
realised why… Whisper does not like stress!</div>
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I won the initiative
roll and took initiative. I figured I could probably get a few shots
on an uncloaked Whisper with Fenn.</div>
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This started off as
another really cagey engagement. David moved all his ships from the
top left of the board, to the top right whilst I barrelled through
the rocks in the middle to meet his forces head on. Whisper did die
pretty soon after the first engagement and then it was a war of
attrition. David’s dice were fairly cold, Fenn took a hit or two
but other than that, Paratanni was unscathed.
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Win 65-0</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Game 4 vs Andy
Cameron</span></div>
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Paratanni!</div>
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Mirror match!</div>
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This is what I get
for winning my first 3 games. Table 3 and facing off against
Paratanni flown by, what seemed to be a very experienced pilot.</div>
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I gave Andy
initiative and we set up. My strategy for this was to go for, what I
think, is the main cog in the list, Asajj. It soon transpired that
Andy was going hard for my Manaroo. Andy’s startergy was much
better than mine. By the time I got half points on Andy’s Asajj, he
had killed my Manaroo and then my Fenn. Bad times.</div>
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Here’s my thoughts
on this; in hindsight, I made the wrong decision. Going after Asajj
is really difficult, she has lots of health to chew through, access
to an evade token AND the whole stress-Latts shenanigans. <i>If</i>
you can bring her down early, the game should be yours… but it’s
hard, very hard. As I slowly lost this game, I thought, if I ever
face another mirror match again, I’m going for Roo first…</div>
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Loss 20-60</div>
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***Incidentally,
Andy ended up winning the regional so, I’m pretty happy with that
result!***</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Game 5 vs Andrew
Banks</span></div>
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Er… Paratanni!</div>
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***No photo for this one, we were having a pretty fun match so I just forgot***</div>
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As I walked up to
the table I saw a Fang Fighter, Jumpmaster and Shadow Caster, myself
and Andrew looked at each other, looked at our lists and laughed!</div>
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OK, so it seems
Paratanni is some kind of meta list or something? Who knew? Well
then, let’s see if I can put some of those things I learnt in the
last matchup into practice then. Andrew had also just come from a
mirror match which he had also lost… let’s see how this goes
then.</div>
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I won the initiative
roll and decided this time to keep the initiative for the bumps. I
went in full steam for these bumps and in the second turn of combat I
got a fantastic few bumps which left Andrews ships token-less and my
Fenn up in range one of his Asajj.</div>
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Now if I was going
to follow the lead from my last game to lthe letter, I should have
ignored Asajj and gone straight for Manaroo. However, Asajj was just
too much of a juicy target and I ended up sinking a lot of damage
into her that turn and following it up next round to take her out.
After a few annoying bumps on Andrew’s Manaroo, he wanted to make
sure his Roo would not get bumped the next turn so shot forward and,
as a result, overshot and ended up leaving Manaroo facing the board
edge with no room to turn.</div>
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At this point, it
was just a case of chasing down a single action Fenn and sailing home
to victory.</div>
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Win 100-14</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Game 6 vs Anthony
Yeates</span></div>
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RAC – VI / Vader /
Gunner / HotShot / Engine</div>
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Marrek (Defender) –
x7 / Juke / Twin Ion mk II</div>
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So I’m 4-1 in a
regional! If I win this, I make the cut, even if I don’t win it I
can still get in on MOV… possibly.</div>
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I’d like to give
Anthony a big shout out for his attitude during this match; he was
upbeat, cheerful and friendly for the whole game. A stand up
gentleman!</div>
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My plan going into
this is to trade Fenn for RAC. If I can get a good round of shooting
in, plus make him have to Vader me 4 times to kill Fenn I will have
done a lot of good work. I’m fairly sure I can mop up one Defender
with Asajj and Roo.</div>
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The first half of
this game went really in my favour. By the time RAC died, he took
Fenn with him and Asajj had only lost a few shields. It was going
well.</div>
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I’m not entirely
sure what happened next but Marrek managed to solo the rest of my
list. Looking back on this, I think it was down to pilot skill. There
were more than a few times when Marrek barell rolled to save himself
from being stressed and/or shot by Asajj. Honestly, it was tough
watching this match slip away from me. I really did think I had it in
the bag. We ended up with a full health Manaroo and a half health
Marrek floating through space neither willing to engage. I couldn’t
hope to get three damage on an x7 defender so my best bet was to
preserve MOV.</div>
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I wonder whether I
should have engaged Marrek first and when he was dead, then concentrated on RAC, at least you don’t need to focus fire on RAC
to get damage through. Must practice more!</div>
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Loss 63-72</div>
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So, 4-2, I might
just make the cut… I did get that 100-14 result in game 5 which
should have done good things for my MOV.</div>
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Long story short, I
came 20<sup>th</sup>, I missed the top 16 by 4 places. Slightly
disappointed but actually, I’m over the moon about going 4-2 in a
premiere event. There’s s special mention here for Full-On who came
17<sup>th</sup> … He missed the cut by 1! Well played and better
luck next time.</div>
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So that is that,
Exter done. Warboar is up next weekend.
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Also, I may have
some exciting news that might have implications for the blog in the
near future… watch this space. Exciting times ahead :)</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413585448346634288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112285641061526979.post-53469772587420300532017-01-05T16:05:00.000-08:002017-01-05T16:05:07.335-08:00Strike Action! A discussion on the movement and usage of the TIE Striker<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I love the TIE Striker. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There, I said it. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I don’t care that it’s
only got two green dice and four hull. I don’t even care that it’s
got no target lock action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I. Just. Love. It.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It’s just so manoeuvrable -
being able to do that ‘pre-boost’ move gives so much arc-dodging
and repositional potential to the high PS ships that it’s possible
to go whole games without getting shot! Who needs three green dice if
you never have to roll them!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There are other little tricks
that make this ship great as well, things like being able to Aileron (yep,
that’s a verb now) onto a debris, get a stress and then do a green
move straight after to clear the stress… then do an action!!! As
long as you don’t roll a crit, you have just gone over debris with
no negative consequence! Same thing with an asteroid, it’s slightly
more risky as you have a 50% chance of taking damage but still…
pretty cool! The reason I don’t want to dwell on things like that
too much is that, potentially, they will be FAQ’d to say that you
lose your action if you go over an obstacle at any point during your
activation. I can’t <i>really </i>see why they would do that, but
it’s still possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Anyway, the purpose of this
article is to show you what you can achieve and expect from, what is
(in my opinion) one of the most exciting ships in the game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Useful
moves that are only possible with the Striker</b></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I’ve often thought about how
cool it would be to be able to move forward and to the side but <i>not
</i>change direction. Essentially like doing a straight move and then
barrel rolling but without having to spend an action! With Adaptive
Ailerons, it’s possible to Aileron right, then bank left.
Surprisingly, (to me anyway) if the bank is a three, this is the
furthest a small ship can travel in the game! (without using a boost
or barrel roll) It ends up being slightly further than a 5 straight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Anyway, here's a picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Assuming you do a banking
Aileron -</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
1 bank move takes you just shy of a 4 forward an</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">d
just under</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
two base lengths to the side</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">T</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">he
2 bank move takes you a 4.5 forward and just over two base lengths
to the side</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
3 bank move takes you about a 5.3 forward and about two and a half
base lengths to the side</span></span></span></span></div>
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<u><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Getting
back into the fight</span></span></b></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">These
things can turn round quickly! Where every other ship (using non-red
moves) can only turn 90 degrees (not taking into account the
Defender) the Striker can make it 135 degrees by Aileroning (verbage)
in one direction then hard turning the same direction.</span></span></div>
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the picture.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Both
turn locations end 2.5 base lengths forward. The 1 turn lands you
three base lengths to the side and the 2 turn lands you four base
lengths to the side.</span></span></div>
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<u><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
pincer maneuver</span></span></b></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">This
is so cool! If you Aileron one way, then turn the other way, you end
up changing your angle by 45 degrees but essentially just moving
forward - the furthest sideways you travel is about a base length.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Very good for barrel rolling and arc dodging!</span></span></div>
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<u><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Hunting
down your target!</span></span></b></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">So,
how can we use the Ailerons to help us with our offence?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Say
you have managed to get behind a U-wing, there is a rock is front of
it so you know it has to change direction, but which way will it go?
And by how much?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In
the following pictures, the Striker has a one forward </span>dialled<span style="font-size: small;"> in, I’ve used the most likely moves that the
U-wing would do, potentially it would try and escape with a longer
bank, but that would just result in the Striker getting a,
non-range-one shot.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Starting position</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The U-wing does a 1 bank<br /> The Striker Ailerons forward, et voila, a range one a shot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The U-wing does a 1 bank<br />The Striker Ailerons right then rolls, a range one shot but with, <br />potentially, a better position for next turn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The U-wing does a 2 turn<br />The Striker Ailerons left for another a range one shot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The U-wing does a stop (or a 0 K-turn) <br />Most Strikers will bump BUT Duchess can choose <br />to not Aileron and still get a range one shot.</td></tr>
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in conclusion, this U-wing, in this situation, is unlikely to escape
unscathed!</span></span></div>
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arcs!</b></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In this example, our dutiful
TIE Striker is being jousted by an Arc. They start off facing each
other at range three. If we dial in a 1 straight on our dial, let’s
see what our Ailerons and Barrel rolls can do to get us out of the
Arc’s arc! (Yea, I went there)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Starting position</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Arc does a 1 forward<br />The Striker Ailerons forward and then rolls forward. Arc dodged.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Arc does a 1 bank<br />The Striker Ailerons forward. Arc dodged and a range one shot.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Arc does a 2 bank<br />The Striker Ailerons right. Arc dodged.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Arc does a 2 bank<br />***Duchess special*** <br />The Striker choses not to Aileron. Arc dodged and a range one shot.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Arc does a 2 turn<br />The Striker Ailerons left. Arc dodged and a range one shot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Arc does a 2 forward<br />The Striker Ailerons left. Arc dodged.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Arc does a 3 bank<br />The Striker Ailerons right and then rolls. Arc dodged.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Arc does a 3 forward<br />The Striker Ailerons right. Arc dodged.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">This Striker is not getting
hit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">So, I know it’s not
indestructible and actually, in test games, it’s damage output can
be quite frustrating (my kingdom for a target lock) BUT I’m still
very excited about this ship. I may have said this before but… I.
Love. This. Ship!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I will just leave you with one final picture. This is <i>all </i>the final positions a Striker can end up (not including barrel rolls)... almost a rival to the K-wing and the mighty Echo, eh?</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413585448346634288noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112285641061526979.post-26047016816003061742016-12-05T16:36:00.000-08:002016-12-05T16:36:02.258-08:00No! I Am Your Father… Christmas! / Woking / 04-12-16<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Here follows an
account of one of my favourite X-Wing experiences of all time.</div>
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Spoilers! I didn’t
win the tournament, I didn’t go undefeated, I didn’t even get
more wins than loses… I just had a fantastic time!</div>
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So, this tournament
was held and organised by woking locals Zombie Squadron and, apart
from one instance of repairing, which didn’t affect me, it went off
without a hitch. Well done to Ian Courtney and his Zombies!</div>
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<u><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">My list</span></b></u></div>
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Spurred on by my experience in Harlow two weeks back and some very
successful practice games, I went with a variation on the Hot Shot RAC
list.</div>
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RAC – VI / Engine / Rebel Captive / Hot Shot Copilot / Gunner (63)</div>
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Vader – Adaptability / Engine / title / ATC / Prockets (37)</div>
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It’s worth noting that I had a massive panic about whether to
include the Prockets or not.
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I had been playing the list (sans Prockets) at 97 points for a while
because I really wanted initiative against VI Rey (striping the focus
with Hot Shot before she shoots is excellent) but someone mentioned
that I should probably put Prockets in because it would help against
90% of the meta and being PS10, I don’t need the bid against any
other matchups… so I went with it. I faced no ships above PS9 so it turned out to be the correct
choice! Winning already.</div>
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<u><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The matches</span></b></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Match 1</u></b> </span><br />
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vs Joel North</div>
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Fenn – Mindlink / Autos / title</div>
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Teroch – Mindlink / Autos / title</div>
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Manaroo – Mindlink / K4 / Unhinged / Feedback Array</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiting with RAC, flanking Vader!</td></tr>
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***Sparkle Motion Showdown***</div>
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Welllll, it was going to happen, wasn’t it? To be honest, at least
when I knew I was playing Joel, I knew we would have a fun game.</div>
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So we set up and engaged, Vader had a few good range 2 target locked
shots on Teroch but had to barrel roll to arc dodge so no focus token for him. I’d stripped
focus tokens with RAC and then just needed a semi decent roll with
Vader to get a crit through (with ATC)… double blanks. Oh well,
it’s alright, I haven’t taken much damage, I’ll come back round
and try again next turn. Which I did and, with exactly the same
conditions, the exact same result happened - double blanks… still no
damage on Teroch. Thankfully (for me) my luck turned after this round
and I started putting damage into Fenn, who died in fairly short
order. I then managed a clutch attack on a full health Roo, a nice
roll with RAC and Prockets with Vader took her down to below half
health. I <i>think </i><span style="font-style: normal;">I killed her before the end and got the win.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Win 66-32</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-style: normal;"><b><u>Match 2</u></b> </span><br />
<span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-style: normal;">vs Alex Birt</span><br />
<span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Ketsu – VI / Dengar / Black Market Slicer Tools / Engine / Title</span></div>
<span style="font-style: normal;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-style: normal;">2 x Gold Squadron Y-Wings – Unhinged Astromech / TLT / BTL-A4</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coming up to the initial engagement</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Alex Birt, eh? Of 186</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
Squadron Podcast fame, eh?</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Avid readers of my blog (if there
are such things) may remember my post regarding Warboar regionals (<a href="http://midtablexwing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/regionals-warboar-bromley-21-05-16.html" target="_blank">here</a>) where I mentioned that I’d played both Mike Dennis and James Dowdall
from the podcast and I was now hunting down Alex Birt to complete my
collection! Here we go then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">It’s a pretty nasty list to look
at really. If you give it the chance, Ketsu gets in to burn down your
agility, then attacks, hits and brings your agility down even further
with the title then each Y-wing gets 3 shots on you! Beast mode!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Anyway, target priority was always
going to be Ketsu, I had to kill her before she got to put some
serious hurt onto Vader! One mistake and he was pretty much dead!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">So I managed to burn down Ketsu in
fairly short order. I’m actually really pleased with how I flew
Vader, with caution but still managing to put in a nice bit of
damage. Successfully arc dodging one of the most satisfying things in X-wing. </span>
</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">By this point though, RAC was on 3
health and had a Y-wing hot on his tail. </span><span style="font-style: normal;">By
the time he bought it, Vader was on 3 hull and each Y-wing had lost
shields and had a few damage put into it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Vader vs 2 Y-wings… it’s
definitely possible but </span><i>this time</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
I didn’t manage it. It came down to a turn where I had both Ys
looking at me and had to turn left to avoid an asteroid. I knew Alex
would move one of the Ys into block me so I decided to gamble on
flying over the asteroid and attempting to be out of range of the
other Y. Unfortunately, it was not to be, I was in arc and untokened,
I took three damage and the game was up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Alex was a great opponent and I’m
fairly happy with how I flew, we had a chat afterwards and he gave me
some tips. Good stuff!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Loss 50-100</span></div>
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<u><b><span style="font-size: large;">Match
3</span></b></u></div>
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vs Vid Cleall</div>
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Miranda – Conner Net / Ion Bomb / Homing Missile / Advanced SLAM /
Extra Munitions / TLT / Sabine</div>
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Corran – PTL / Engine / R2-D2 / FCS<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Run Miranda! Run!</td></tr>
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OK, I just faced Alex Birt who I think of as quite a big part of the
community and now I’m sitting across the table from Vid!</div>
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Vid (although he probably doesn’t know this) was at my first ever
X-Wing tournament (in December of 2015 at the Games Shop in
Aldershot) and has probably been at about half the tournaments I’ve
attended since then.</div>
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I’m pleased to say that we had a great game and Vid was amiable and
friendly all the way through!</div>
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I should caveat this by saying I’ve been having a nightmare of a
time against Corran lately, ever since this list made the final at
Worlds, various iterations of it have been all over Vassal. I have
yet to beat a list with Corran in it!</div>
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To cut a long story short, I went hell for leather after Corran. If
you are going to kill him, you have to commit. And commit, I did! I
ended up boxing him in a bit. However, I made a mistake here against
the fiend that is the bombing K-wing: I ended up getting Vader Conner
Netted in such a position that he had one hull left and would be
going onto a rock on the next turn! Balls!</div>
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At this point, myself and Vid discussed the fact that, if Miranda
dropped an ion bomb on the next turn, due to Sabine, Vader was dead!
It was also obvious that Vader was going onto a rock and, I assumed,
the turn after that, if he survived, he would have to flying over the
rock to get off it… it was very unlikely that Vader would survive,
even if no ion bomb was dropped.</div>
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Vid opted to save Miranda’s ion bomb, leaving Vader to the fate of
the rock. I rolled a blank that time… still alive! Next turn, I
managed to get the template in without touching the rock. Vader was
still on the board!!!</div>
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Shortly after that, I managed to kill Corran, losing Vader in the
same turn to a TLT shot from Miranda.</div>
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I had taken a shields off Miranda with a few lucky shots earlier and
in the next few turns, managed to pull out the win!</div>
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I didn’t write my score down for this game, I <i>think</i> I still
had over half health on RAC, but I could be wrong.</div>
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Win 100-37 <i>OR </i>100-69</div>
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<u><b><span style="font-size: large;">Match
4</span></b></u></div>
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<br />
vs Tom Duncan</div>
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Ryad – TIE MKII / PTL / x/7</div>
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Howlrunner – crackshot</div>
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3 x Black Squadron TIEs – crackshot<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">OK, this looks bad, but I'm pretty sure I managed to arc dodge everything here!</td></tr>
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What is going on? I feel like I’m in the presence of X-Wing
royalty! My opponents, down to a man, have been fantastic today.</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">I’ve never played Tom before but I
don’t think it’s possible to play X-Wing in London and not have
heard of the guy. I have an enduring memory of being at the Warboar
regionals in May and with about 2 minutes to go until registration
shut, Tom ran breathless through the door. The place erupted in
cheers and applause - </span><i>that </i><span style="font-style: normal;">is
how much this community loves Tom Duncan.</span><br />
<span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">When Tom realised I wrote a blog
called “Confessions of a mid-table X-Winger” he had his angle. He
constantly ribbed me about being a mid table played and called me out
for not having Navigator on my Deci. (wtf?) So I offered him a chocolate
coin that I had acquired from Alex Birt earlier in the day and that
seemed to do the trick in quelling the emotional assault he was
obviously trying to win the match with.</span></div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">In all seriousness, I get it. I
understand why he’s the darling of the London X-Wing community. I
get it, but I can’t explain it. If you haven’t played him before,
you should try and get a game in with him, it’s... an experience.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">Anyhoo, about 5</span><span style="font-style: normal;">7</span><span style="font-style: normal;">
minutes into the most recent 186</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
Squadron Podcast, (which you can find <a href="https://soundcloud.com/186th-squadron-podcast/episode-20" target="_blank">here</a>) Alex mentions Tom and how he always seems to manage
to point his TIE at the one thing you don’t want them pointing at,
Oli Pocknell then states that he’s psychic. I think he’s probably
right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">There’s not a huge amount to say
about this game, I took out Howlrunner in the second turn of combat.
My Deci had take a fair amount of damage though. A few turns later, I
had an important decision to make. I had a Vader target lock on TIE A
but had two TIEs (let’s call the A and B) in my arc. B had already
had his focus stolen by RAC so I decided to Procket B, I killed him,
no problem but then had TIE A, who still had a focus, put two damage
through on Vader.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Later, Tom said I probably should
have gone for the TIE I had the target lock on, I was likely to kill
it anyway with a focus and Target lock and then I would have had a
TIE with no focus shooing at me as opposed to a TIE with a focus
token shooting at me. Fair point, we live and learn… well, Vader
died soon after but, you know, the point was still good.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">The match ended with RAC on PS0
against Ryad and a TIE. No arc dodging for me! RAC died and the final
result was:</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Loss 100-49</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<u><b><span style="font-size: large; font-style: normal;">Match
5</span></b></u></div>
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<br />
vs Martyn Chivers</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Fenn – Fearlessness / Autos /
title</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Serissu – title / Mangler /
</span><span style="font-style: normal;">Stealth Device / Mindlink</span></div>
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Manaroo – Mindlink / Rec Spec /
R5-P8 / Plasmas / Guidance Chips<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erm, I think Vader is doing some kind of evasive action there...</td></tr>
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This game. This game! A
rollercoaster of emotions. Seriously!</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">I got a pretty good first
engagement, RAC and Vader had shots on Serissu and only Serissu had a
shot back. I stripped tokens AND got a hit in with RAC! Stealth
device down! I was at range one with Vader with a focus but no target
lock… I know I shouldn’t but I couldn’t stop myself: Prockets!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">This should have been very good, it
wasn’t - 1 hit, 1 eyeball and 3 blanks. I spent the eyeball and
Serissu got two evades… Prockets wasted. Sad face!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">After that, some stuff happened,
including Martyn doing some excellent blocking of my RAC whereby I
had to sit on a rock for two turns with a console fire!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">In the endgame, I had Vader vs
Manaroo and Fenn. I was chasing Fenn down, I had one thing in my
mind, Vader was 37 points, so was Manaroo. If I managed to kill Fenn,
it would be final salvo. 2 dice each, it was my best shot!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Final turn of the match – 2 hull
Fenn is focused and facing away from Vader, I have him target locked
and I have a focus. I shoot, I get a hit, and an eye, I spend my
focus and add the crit for ATC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Fenn rolls an evade and an eye. A
crit goes though… is it a Direct Hit??? No!!!!!! It’s Major
Explosion, if Martyn rolls a hit, Fenn is dead and it’s down to
final salvo. Martyn rolls a hit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">****** FINAL SALVO *******</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">I roll a hit, the crowd goes wild!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Martyn rolls a hit, the crowd goes
wild!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">I roll another hit, the crowd goes
wild!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Martyn rolls an eye, the crowd goes
wild!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">I’ve done it, I’ve won, this is
the best moment of my life! (It’s probably not, but, you know? I
was in the moment, right?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Phew, OK, let’s clam down and fill
in our score sheets. </span>
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“<span style="font-style: normal;">OK” I say “you’ve killed 63
points of my list and I’ve killed 63 points of your list”</span></div>
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“<span style="font-style: normal;">Hang on!” exclaims Martyn “I
had a one point initiative bid, you only killed 62 points!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Bollocks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Loss 62-63</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Yep, the final salvo was all for
nothing, Martyn had already won.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">I should probably be salty about
this, but you know what? After an experience like that, there’s no
way I could be annoyed. It was one of the best games of X-Wing I’ve
ever played! Bloody awesome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">So, in the end, I came 19 of 32
players, </span><i>just about</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
still mid table. I did, however, win a prize for the best sport,
voted on by my opponents from the day. Thanks everyone!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">I think it’s also worth mentioning
that ALL of my opponents, came higher than me in the rankings, even
Joel and Vid, who I beat so I’m still fairly pleased with my
showing. My Strength of Schedule would be off the chain!</span><br />
<span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-style: normal;">Before signing off, I'd like to say thanks to all my opponents and that I really hope I have the pleasure of sitting across the table from all of you again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Right! No tournaments in the diary
now until Exeter regionals so it’s time for the fun lists to rear
their peculiar looking heads. Also, the TIE Striker article just dropped, time for
some list building I feel!!!</span></div>
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Until next time, Redd XIII, standing
by!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413585448346634288noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112285641061526979.post-89116573344453030832016-11-20T15:20:00.000-08:002016-11-20T15:21:55.871-08:00Sparkle Motion Squadron / chapter 1 / The Sparkle Awakens<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
OK, so first off,
here is my apology for being rubbish at updating my blog recently…
sorry!</div>
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And here is what
I’ve been up to since failing to update my blog.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Ibuywargames /
Woking / 16-10-16</span></b></div>
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I’d been running
Raulob Roolink (Fenn Rau / Palob / Manaroo all with Mindlink) for
absolutely ages at this point, basically since the dial for the Fang
had been spoiled after Gencon. I’d had A LOT of practice with this
list, on Vassal and on tabletop (subbing the Fang dial for the almost
identical TIE/FO dial) so I definitely should have taken this list,
right? I didn’t.</div>
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At the eleventh
hour, I decided to take a “jank-tastic” Imperial list consisting
of Quickdraw, RAC and Scourge. It was crap and I went 1-3 :(
Interestingly enough, the players who were running Mindlink Scum
lists all ended up near the top of the rankings.</div>
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Lesson learnt –
don’t change your list at the last minute. Idiot!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was taken during my only win of the day</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Ting Comic-con /
Tring / 22-10-16</span></b></div>
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<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
So, I wasn’t going
to be an idiot this time. Raulob Roolink it was! And I did great! I
was 2-0 after the second round (out of four) and I got paired against
Joel who was also 2-0.
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Joel was also
running a Mindlink Scum list but with Old Teroch in place of Palob.
Myself and Joel had played out this matchup 6 or 7 times and because
of my initiative bid, I had come out as the winner every time. Before
we started the match I went to the toilet, whilst in there, I
revelled in the fact that after this match I would be 3-0 and in with
a pretty good chance at winning the whole thing.</div>
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The 186<sup>th</sup>
Squadron have a motto, “our overconfidence is our weakness”. Yep,
you guessed it, I lost against Joel! Made a silly mistake because I
was so sure of victory.</div>
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Anyway, I won my
last game, went 3-1 and came 3<sup>rd</sup> in the rankings,
certainly not awful! Joel came one place above me. Awesome!</div>
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Lesson learnt –
don’t take matchups for granted. Idiot!</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Conquest / Shoreham
/ 29-10-16</span></b></div>
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Here we go again.
Raulob Roolink for the win! Oh, wait, actually, no. I came 13<sup>th</sup>
of 15 players in this one.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Why? Was it the
list? Nope, I hadn’t changed a thing since last tournament. (Even
though, when I told fellow X-Winger Simran how I was doing he asked,
and I quote “Are you running that Quickdraw bullshit again?”)
Did I make any silly mistakes? Not really. Was it just not my day? I
guess not.</div>
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Lesson learnt –
sometimes it’s just not your day. Possibly the most important
lesson that you can learn in X-Wing!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">About 30 seconds before Palob went pop!</td></tr>
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<i>Which brings us up
to date!</i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Marquee Models /
Harlow / 20-11-16</span></b></div>
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So three important
things have happened in the run up to this tournament.</div>
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1) The FAQ. Triple
Jumpmaster U-Boats have effectively been nerfed so hard that they are
(almost) dead. A few people are still running them and making them
work but they are not half as much of a “meta concern” now as
they were.</div>
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2) Heroes Of The
Resistance has dropped. Ever since Rey and Finn were spoiled, she has
been seen all over the Vassal community. Especially VI’d up to
PS10. Many things die to this! Also HOTR brings us a new, PS9 version
of Poe. Now he’s PS9, he can use his EPT for things like PTL or
predator. This expansion is pretty big for the meta!</div>
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3) SPARKLE MOTION
SQUADRON IS BORN! Yep, we got us a squadron! It was only a matter of
time as a load of us play together at Dark Sphere on Tuesdays (and
the 186<sup>th</sup> Squadron name was already taken). Four of us
were in attendance for this tournament. Myself, Joel North, Lloyd
Boman and Full-On Paul (henceforth to be referred to as FO) and
(spoilers!) we put on a pretty good show!</div>
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What was I flying?
I’ll tell you</div>
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<i>Marrek Stele – x/7
title / Juke</i></div>
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<i><br />
</i></div>
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<i>RAC – VI / Hot
Shot Co-pilot / Gunner / Rebel Captive / Engine Upgrade</i></div>
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What’s that all
about then?</div>
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So ideally, Marrek
gets his focus and evade from a 3 speed move and the title. RAC moves
last and takes a target lock on something in range 1 or 2 (to proc his ability) which is also in
Marrek’s arc.</div>
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RAC fires and uses
no modification; the best result here is that the first attack is
completely evaded. The beauty of this is that no matter what the
defence dice are, the defender must use his focus to modify his dice,
even if he rolls no eye results and modifies zero defence dice.</div>
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For this example,
RAC rolls hit, eye, blank. The Defender he is shooting at rolls 2
evades. More than safe BUT he loses his focus because he MUST spend
it.</div>
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Then gunner kicks in
and RAC uses his target lock and (if possible) his ability to gain as
many hits as possible, the defender has already spent his focus so is
much more vulnerable!
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Finally, Marrek
shots (ideally, he still has his focus and evade tokens) and jukes
away an evade result the defender rolls. Much hurt!</div>
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Also, rebel captive
pisses everyone off (PTL my ass) and engine upgrade allows me to
boost out of people’s arc, continuing to deliver the campaign of
“maximum-screw-you” to my opponents.</div>
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So how did it work
out on the day? Well, I’ll tell you.</div>
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<b>Match 1 vs Joel
North!</b></div>
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<i>Rey – VI / Finn /
Hot Shot Copilot / Homing Missile / S-loop title</i></div>
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<i>Jake – VI /
Autothrusters / title / PTL / Prockets</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first engagement</td></tr>
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A SPARKLE MOTION
FACE OFF!!!</div>
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Joel had been
speaking to me earlier about whether to run Fangaroo or Jake/Rey. We
had discussed it and he had gone with Jake/Rey. He had no previous
experience flying Rey but is a seasoned A-Wing pilot.</div>
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Both our lists are
98 points (which is bad for me). My list is 98 points because I have
hated facing PS10 Rey on Vassal and wanted the initiative so I could
strip her Focus token with Hot Shot before she fires. My initiative
bid was not enough, we rolled, Joel won the roll off. This was a bad
start!
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Joel gave me
initiative. I jumped for joy inside!</div>
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Jake looked like he
was coming in fast but then broke off and flanked. The problem Joel
faced here was that RAC was never going to allow Jake to keep his
focus long enough to fire his Prockets. I managed to take Jake off
the board in the first few turns of combat without taking too much
damage myself and then it was just a slug fest to get Rey off the
board. I lost half points on the Deci and it was all over</div>
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<i>Win 100-32</i></div>
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<b>Match 2 vs Federicco
Ciccotti</b></div>
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<i>Poe – Sensor
Cluster / PTL / Black One / Autothrusters / R2-D2</i></div>
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<i>Rey – s-loop title
/ Kanan / Finn / VI</i></div>
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Another PS10 Rey
list, this time, at 100 points. I took initiative and began the
onslaught. We set up to joust and I did a 5 forward with Marrek. To
get out of taking a range one shot from Marrek, Poe had to boost on
past my list giving him no shot that turn. I went all out on Rey and
managed to make quite a dent in her health. For the next few turns,
Poe was turning round so Marrek was on blocking Rey duties and RAC
just stayed out of Rey’s arc and kept shooting until she was dead.
By this time Poe had turned around. Unfortunately for Poe, VI RAC
with Hot Shot is about as much of a hard counter as Poe can get. He
did not last very long.</div>
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<i>Win 100-0</i></div>
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<b>Match 3 vs Terry
Mitchell</b></div>
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<i>Ryad – x/7 /
Crackshot</i></div>
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<i>Vessary – x/7</i></div>
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<i>Galive – x/7 /
Juke</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's not the best place to sit Marrek!</td></tr>
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This is it! Final
round and I’m 2-0. If I get this right I go undefeated! I wasn’t
too worried about seeing triple Defenders, my list has about a 50/50
chance against triple Defenders.</div>
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The first engagement
did not go too well for Marrek, 3 Defenders lined up in front of him.
I barrel rolled to get out of the front one’s arc… and it wasn’t
enough, he was still in. It wasn’t as bad as it could have been
though, he lost his shields but was still alive.</div>
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After this, Marrek
refused to die. A combination of RAC deleting focus tokens and Marrek
juking through evade dice resulted in a turn where Marrek killed the
Glaive and then Vessary killed Marrek.</div>
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Now it was my full
health Deci vs Ryad (who has spent her Crackshot) and Vessary. We had
a quick chat about points, I was currently up by one point! From then
on I knew that if I killed either one of his Defenders and he got
half points on my Deci, we would be tied and it would go down to a
final salvo!</div>
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For some reason, I
didn’t focus fire. I ended up at time with half points on the Deci
and having done 4 damage on Vessary and 3 damage on Ryad. I really
should have focus fired on either one of them, at least then there
would have been an even chance for the final salvo.</div>
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<i>Loss 34-67</i></div>
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So there we go, not
a bad showing. Here are the rankings for the Sparklers</div>
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1<sup>st</sup> –
FO (Go Sparkle Motion!)</div>
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3<sup>rd</sup> –
Lloyd</div>
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5<sup>th</sup> –
me</div>
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7<sup>th</sup> –
Joel</div>
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Sparkle Motion
Squadron; we came, we saw, we ranked in every available odd numbered
place up to 9<sup>th</sup>. Boom!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413585448346634288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112285641061526979.post-57470398713842566272016-08-31T13:50:00.000-07:002016-08-31T13:56:52.939-07:00Battle report - 29-08-16 - Warboar - Bromley - Defend Alderaan format<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white;">29-08-16 – Warboar
– Bromley – Defend Alderaan</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">If nothing else,
this tournament has solidified my love for this store. It’s so
good! The staff are friendly, the shop is always well stocked, the
events are well run (and run to time!!!) and the addition of
different formats is always fun!</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Speaking of which...</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: white;">The Format</span></b></div>
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Initially, all we were told is that there would be some list
limitations, these were as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">ALL
FACTIONS:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">-
Up to 100pts cap per squad</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">-
No more than 50pts to be spent on a single ship</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">-
No more than 1 'Twin Laser Turrets' allowed in a list</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">-
No more than 2 'Crackshot' Elite Pilot Talents in a list </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">IMPERIALS:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">-
No 'Palpatine' crew card allowed</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">SCUM:</span></span></span></div>
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No more than 1 Jumpmaster 5000 in a list</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">REBELS:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">-
No 'R2-D2' astromech card allowed</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">So
what does that mean? No Palp Aces, no triple Jumps, no Dengaroo, no
Fat Han, no Rebel regen, no 4 TLT Ys and no crack swarms (TIE or A-Wing). In
short, it means variety!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">It
turns out that the format was actually a bit more in depth than that,
which we found out on the day! More about that later…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">The
List</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Here’s
the thing… I can’t wait for Fenn Rau to get here, I’m looking
out to sea every morning just in case I catch a glimpse of that boat.
One day... one day soon! Essentially, the effect of this is that I
have been playing lots of games with my Fenn list on Vassal </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">and
have completely forgotten how to construct lists without him!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">In
the week leading up to this tourney I had been playing around with
some hastily put together Scum stuff. Palob, Manaroo, Kavil slowly
morphed into N’dru, Manaroo, Kavil which somehow, the night before
the tourney, morphed into a double Ghost list! (not sure how that
happened!)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Anyway,
so this was the list:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Lothal
Rebel A (50)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">FCS
/ Autoblaster turret / Extra munitions / Plasma Torps / Ezra / Hera /
Anti-Pursuit lasers</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Lothal
Rebel B (50)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">FCS
/ Autoblaster turret / Extra munitions / Conner Net / Han / Sabine /
Tactical Jammer</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">And
the thinking behind it? Well, the basics are obvious aren’t they?
36 hit points, 8 attack dice and a 5 K-turn for good measure. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Getting
more in depth, we have Lothal Rebel A who shall henceforth be known
as the Stressboat. </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">She</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">
gets stressed then can </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">modify
an eye into a crit and has her whole dial open… it’s brilliant,
especially when you have a target lock on someone from FCS. Just
awesome! The addition of plasmas is because of that blind spot out of
the back of the Ghost, the Plasmas cover that in this list at range
2-3 (if you have a lock on that ship, anyway) and Autoblaster covers
range 1. That’s the idea anyway! Also, she is sporting Anti-pursuit
lasers, which proc’d once or twice during the day. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Lothal
Rebel B has Han, Sabine, Conner Net and Tactical Jammer on board. Han
and FCS is also great, roll four dice and if you get more blanks, use
the TL to reroll, if you get more eyes, use the TL with Hans ability
to change them all to hits. Then get a new TL from FCS, rinse and
repeat! Conner Net; I’ve never used bombs before, but I hear these
things are quite good, especially with Sabine; 2 damage and 2 ions
and no actions. I managed to get them off a few times too! Tactical
Jammer? I had a point free soo….. yea, it never proc’d!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">I should also say that the inspiration for the list came from a casual match I'd had with a Dark </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;">Sphere player, Lloyd Boman, a few weeks back. He played a slightly different variation of the double Ghost list, but it got me thinking. By pure coincidence, he turned up to this tournament as well!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">So then, that’s the list. Onto the day!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">As
we set up for our first round, Jason, the TO for the day, talked us
through the extra bits of the Defend Alderaan format. Essentially,
the battles were taking place near the Death Star (which was in the
process of powering up to destroy Alderaan) and so occasionally, the
Death Star would fire at one of our tables and potentially one-shot
one of our ships! Jason would chose a table at random the</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">
use a d6 to determine which ship was being shot at, then the owner of
that ship would be given a number of green dice, (ranging from 5 in
the first round to 1 in the last round) they would roll these dice
and as long as they got at least one evade, the ship would remain in
play, if not… BOOM!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><b>Game
1</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Vs
Will Hasslewood</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Countess
Ryad – PTL / TIE/x7 / Twin Ion Engine Mk. II</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Colonel
Vessary – Juke / TIE/x7</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Sigma
Phantom – Intel Agent / Enhanced Scopes / Stygium Particle
Accelerator</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">The first engagement of the day</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">So,
as Will arrived at the table, I noticed two things; 1) he was wearing
a 186</span><sup><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">
Squadron T-shirt and 2) he was running two Defenders. Both of these
things filled me with ambivalence (two conflicting emotions about the
same thing!) I have had some seriously good experiences with members
of the 186; in my experience, they are always really friendly, good
natured and full of helpful advice HOWEVER I have never beaten any of
them. Defenders with /x7, they are great ships and quite fun to fly
against </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">HOWEVER that /x7
title is hard to break through.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">So,
(spoiler!) I lost this one but it was super close and there was one
roll which could have made a huge difference. We’ll get onto that
in a short while.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">As
we converged, I decided to concentrate all my firepower on the
Defenders and leave the PS3 Phantom until then end, after all, it’s
only PS3, what can a PS3 ship do. Oh... my mistake! A PS3 Phantom can do a
hell of a lot, when it’s not blocking me (which it did a lot, by
the way) it’s throwing four or five dice at me. Ouch!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anyway,
I ended up killing of Vessary without too much trouble, Autoblaster
was my friend. Then Ryad got herself into a lovely position to drop my Conner Net
on top of but Will was one step ahead and super blocked me for a few
turns so I couldn’t drop it, bad times. It was around this time
where the fateful roll happened, Lothal Rebel A was stressed and had
the uncloaked, un-tokened Phantom at range 2, I rolled 3 crits and an
eye, with Ezra, I turned the eye to a </span>crit. Four <span style="font-size: small;">crits! Literally, a perfect
result! </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;">A</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;">nything
other than two evades would have been lovely but </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;">W</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;">ill
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;">rolled well and there
were those two evades. Shields down! Soon after this Rebel A died. I
did manage to take down Ryad before that pesky Phantom brought down
my second Ghost.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">This
was a really good game and required some serious thinking on both
sides. Will also did not tarnish the 186</span><sup><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">
rep, a great player and a very friendly chap. I’ll go after the
Phantom first next time!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Loss
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">71</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">-</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">100</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Game
2</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Vs
Andy Harris</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Chewbacca
– Predator / C-3PO / Evade title</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Green
Squadron Pilot – PTL / Prockets / Chips</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Green
Squadron Pilot – PTL / Prockets / Chips</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">All hail the Mini Ghost that Lloyd Boman lent me to help with my size issues!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Andy
is a new player!! He had played a few games before coming and had
even brought his 10 year old son along (I think I overheard him
saying he had been playing for about a year)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">I’ve
played Chewie a fair bit before and as much as I love that ship, it’s
strength lies in being defensive, rather than offensive (although
Predator does help that a bit) so I decided to leave him alone for a
bit whilst I dealt </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">with
what I believed to be the bigger threat, Procket A-wings! If those
things got into range one, they would seriously hurt! I managed to
set up a joust and took both A-wings out before they got their
Prockets off. Thank goodness for that.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">I
have to say that I pulled some great moves in this game, I was trying
to have a nice casual game but I just kept ending up exactly where I
needed to be. Often by accident.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">For
example, I managed to Conner Net Chewie, this then resulted in him
landing on a rock the next turn, I then moved my other Rebel in and
blocked him so he ended up staying on the rock! If only I could play
like this on purpose!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Anyway,
Chewie did manage to take on Rebel B but then died a turn later.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Win
100-50</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Game
3</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Vs
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Henry Westcott</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Wes
– VI / R3-A2 / Integrated Astromech</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Poe
– BB8 / PTL / Autothrusters</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Sabine
– PTL / Autoblaster / Kanan</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">This is actually all the ships in this game in one photo, <br />most of Henry's list, however, is obscured by my massive Ghosts!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Henry
was the third opponent in a row who was friendly and welcoming. I am
having a very good day :)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Henry’s
list needed serious brainpower to fly due to all the repositioning,
order of movement and intricacies of the list. For example, you have
to perform Sabine’s pilot ability before you revel the dial,
whereas Poe with BB8 works after you reveal your dial, even though
both repositioning actions happen before you perform the maneuver. It
makes sense because you have to reveal a green maneuver to proc BB8
but it’s the sort of thing that after a few games, is easy to
forget!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
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<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">So,
we ended up Jousting and in the first round of shooting, I got all of
Poe’s shields down. Good start! </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">N</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">ext
turn, Wes ended up at range 1 of Rebel B and range 2 of Rebel A. </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Wes
lost his shields that time. I then 2 turned Rebel B to drop a Conner
Net on Wes (poor Wes) who ended up at range 1 of Rebel A and got
Autoblastered to hell. Soon after, I got a lucky 5 dice Target Locked
shot on Poe who died. Then it was Sabine vs two Rebels, she quickly
dealt the last few damage to Rebel B. Sabine and Rebel A had a bit of
a tussle BUT THEN THE DEATH STAR TARGETED OUR TABLE!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Jason
rolled a dice to see whether it was Sabine or the Rebel being
targeted, it was Sabine… Henry rolled an evade! I’m glad. It
would have been a hollow victory if Sabine had died like that.
However, she did land herself on debris the next turn and roll a crit
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">to take her last hull
off.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Win
100-50</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Game
4</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Vs
James Dowdall</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Miranda
– TLT</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Lothal
Rebel – Autoblaster / FCS / Chopper</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Biggs
– R4-D6 / Integrated Astromech </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>***
Interulde </i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">one</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">
***</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Jason
– The Death Star is totally unopposed and WILL destroy Alderaan at
the end of this game. Only one thing can stop it! There are two Rebel
players in the top 8. James and Tom, if EITHER of you are willing to
sacrifice one of your ships you will be able to do a trench run at
the end of this game and have a 50% chance of one-shotting the Death
Star. Are either of you willing to do this?</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Tom
- …</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">James
- … Biggs will do it!</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">***
End of Interlude </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">one </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">***</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">So,
this looked quite good </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">for
me, my 100 point list against James’ 74 point list (pretty good
initiative bid though). As I was thinking that, Jason brought a ship
over to our table… Biggs was being replaced… by Shara Bey in her
Arc-170!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">I
remembered reading on facebook that someone had brought back an Arc
from Gen Con and had donated it to Jason but seeing it in the “flesh”
for the first time, it was pretty special. So now James’ list
looked like this.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Miranda
– TLT</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Lothal
Rebel – Autoblaster / FCS / Chopper</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Shara
– Alliance Overhaul</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlHmfifCNfiEG3rWmtnKU2h_-lzfjq-AMutnDwith31VOyVqpp1ooOj_16hgK3W-yE-8azgENMvICNM8GyLo5JEhg3l7GiQwGYhOItp8vegprbn-muiFqL3_EmHU9dfTjgJ3_twiyYROQ/s1600/vs+James+Dowdall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: white;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlHmfifCNfiEG3rWmtnKU2h_-lzfjq-AMutnDwith31VOyVqpp1ooOj_16hgK3W-yE-8azgENMvICNM8GyLo5JEhg3l7GiQwGYhOItp8vegprbn-muiFqL3_EmHU9dfTjgJ3_twiyYROQ/s400/vs+James+Dowdall.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">Screw Epic play, three Ghosts in close quarters, that's just awesome!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">James' list was now actually 102 points (which was definitely why he beat me.
Spoilers!) So we set up and came towards each other, my plan was to go
all guns on the Lothal Rebel and as much as possible, avoid the
others until it was dead. I realise now that I set up wrong, with
Rebel A on the outside and B on the inside, when I banked into the
middle of the board, I ended up stressing Rebel B and keeping Rebel A
unstressed. No actions on B and no Ezra modification on A. Badness. </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">I
did actually manage to Conner Net Shara before A died though
(although I had no shots on her post ion maneuver so it was slightly
pointless but still).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Then something happened.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><i>***
Interlude two ***</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><i>Jason
- The Death Star is targeting table 7 (Myself and James were on table
5)</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><i>After
a roll on the d6, it is decided that the Mist Hunter is being
targeted. The Owner of the Mist Hunter fails to roll any evades.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><i>Everyone
in the room – Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh nooooooooooooo!!!</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><i>The
Mist Hunter is taken off the board, Jason then presents the owner of
the Mist Hunter with the ‘booby prise’, a brand new, sealed
Tantive IV</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><i>Everyone
in the room - *claps*</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><i>James
– Right. Where were we?</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><i>Me
– Erm… not sure...</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><i>***
End of Interlude two ***</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Really
now, come on! How often have you seen £60 worth of prize support at
any of these type of events? I’m talking even for the winners.
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><i>Especially with the
entry fee only being £5! </i></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Warboar,
you have out done yourselves!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Anyhoo,
back to the game! (for a few minutes, anyway)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Shortly
after this, Rebel B died, then James’ Ghost died, the Shara bit the
dust. </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">***
Interlude three ***</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Jason
– It’s time for Biggs to do his trench run! He is currently
unopposed and all James has to do to destroy the Death Star is roll a
hit or crit on a single red dice HOWEVER if any Imperial players want
to sacrifice a ship from their game to intercept Biggs, now is your
chance.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Someone
from table 3 raises their hand, removes Countess Ryad from the board
and shakes his opponent’s hand. He has just thrown the game… what
a guy!</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Biggs
and Ryad </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">set up to
destroy/defend the Death Star, James and the owner of Ryad must each
roll one die; if Ryad rolls a hit, she destroys Biggs but if Biggs
rolls a hit, he destroys the Death Star. If both ships get the same
result, the will continue to roll until one comes out on top.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Ryad
rolls, it’s an eye.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Biggs
rolls, it’s a hit.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">The
Death Star is vanquished and Jason starts playing the music from the
end of Episode VI.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">James
– Right. Where were we?</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Me
– Erm… not sure…</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">***
End of Interlude three ***</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br /></span></i></span></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><i><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br /></span></i></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">One
Damaged Rebel vs a full health TLT Miranda… I got a few shields off
her but realistically, I was never going to win that one. Still, it
was actually a really good game!</span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">T</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">rue
to 186</span><sup><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">
form, James was, once again, a really friendly and fantastic opponent
and (for avid readers of the blog) I think I had a better showing
this time than the last time we played. (please see the Warboar
regionals post <a href="http://midtablexwing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/regionals-warboar-bromley-21-05-16.html" target="_blank">here</a> where James did bad things to my Chewie!) </span></span></span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">W</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">hat
I have realised is that I need a plan for dealing with Miranda, I’m
not sure I’ve ever actually won a game against her. That’s one
for the think tank.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">So
I ended up placing 11</span><sup><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">
of 29 players. Again, mid table but I’d say top of the mid table
(clawing my way up the ranks!)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">What
did I learn? Well, I like the list, I’m not sure how it would do
against the more "meta" lists but I enjoyed playing it anyway. I think
the torps on Rebel A were a mistake though. I actually put them on
there because I knew I wouldn’t have any actions with which to drop
bombs. (otherwise I would have put Prox Mines on there) I had
dismissed reveal bombs because of my PS but I think they would still
have been more useful that the torps (seeing as I didn’t actually
get any of them off the whole day!)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">A
few special mentions go out to Lloyd Boman for allowing me the use
of the Mini Ghost for when mine were too close to each other (have a
look at the picture from my second game to see what I mean) and Jason
Grimw</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">oo</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">d
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">from Warboar for
organising and TO-ing such a great event. I believe Ben Lee from the
186</span><sup><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">
had a fair bit to do with the organisation of the day as well. Thanks
to everyone!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "liberation" serif , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Redd
XIII signing off for another day. Laters!</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413585448346634288noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112285641061526979.post-53344603621087906752016-08-03T10:53:00.000-07:002016-08-04T00:38:16.357-07:00Battle Report - 31-07-16 – LvlUp – Bournemouth – Deal or no deal format<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I just paid £50 for
a ticket to an X-Wing event! It wasn’t Worlds, or Nationals. It
wasn’t a Regional or even a Store Championship. It was a four round
swiss (with a cut to top four) event at a store I’ve never heard of
in a place that is over two hours away from my house. Am I mad?</div>
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No! Because this is
a new format that LvlUp have come up with themselves. Each player
payed £50 and when they arrived at the store on the day of the
event, they were given a blind box containing around £60 worth of
(relatively) random ships. These ships (and pilot / upgrade cards)
were all you could use for the whole event. A few weeks before the
event, the store put up a poll on facebook to ask each player which
faction they wanted. How cool does this sound???</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
So I chose Rebel,
why? Because I think they have the least amount of variable and the
least amount of ‘bad’ expansion packs. It’s quite interesting
to look at some builds and see if they are possible in this format.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Imperial builds</span></b></div>
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Soontir – NO! The average Soontir build is – title / PTL /
Autothruster / Stealth Device (or targeting computer) Soontir himself
comes from the Interceptor pack, the title, PTL and targeting
computer comes from the Aces pack, Autothrusters from the Starviper,
Stealth Device from Slave 1 or M3-A. So even if you were REALLY lucky
and got an Interceptor pack, Imperial Aces and a Slave 1, you still
wouldn’t have Autothrusters.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Whisper – This is possible. The Phantom pack comes with ACD, Rec
Spec, Tactician and FCS. The only thing that you are missing from a
great Whisper build is VI (which is in the Slave 1 and Falcon packs)</div>
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<br /></div>
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The Inquisitor – Not likely… the only way an Imperial player can
get PTL is through Imperial Aces and there is no way to get
Autothrusters. Pretty nerfed really.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Scum builds</span></b></div>
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BroBots – Well, first of all you would have to be lucky enough to
get two Aggressor packs. And a Starviper for at least one copy of
Autothrusters. The Aggressor DOES come with Mangler cannon but there
is no way to get HLC for this build (it comes with the Hound’s
Tooth but then 2 x Aggressors and 1 x Hounds Tooth is WAY over £60)
Also, there is no way to get Advanced Sensors (Lambda or E-wing), PTL
(A-wing or Imperial Aces) or FCS (B-wing or Phantom) Once again, this
build will be nerfed.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Y Wing shenanigans – Forget this, the only turret that is native to
Scum is the Autoblaster Turret. Not being able to pull any post
movement repositioning actions, it’s pretty much not worth it.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Dengar / Party Bus – These are pretty viable I think, you won’t
be able to get the full crew compliment (unless you get a Jumpmaster
and Mist Hunter) but you’ll still be able to get some good
combinations and tricks (R5-P8, Lone Wolf, Feedback Array, K4, Outlaw
Tech) etc.</div>
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<br /></div>
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So far it looks like Scum are pretty reliant on upgrades found in
other factions and Imperials need to be pretty lucky with the
combinations within their boxes to construct their aces.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Rebel builds</span></b></div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i>Full disclosure, I chose Rebels so this will probably be pretty
biased. It is however why I made my decision so I'll fill you in anyway.</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Miranda – I find Miranda needs as
little as just a TLT to be really useful. The K-wing expansion pack
comes with two copies of TLT. Winner!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Ghost – My favourite </span><span style="font-style: normal;">Ghost</span><span style="font-style: normal;">
build is </span><span style="font-style: normal;">with Hera and Ezra,
unlimited red moves plus a built in dice modification on each attack
(all that comes in the Ghost expansion). It is unfortunate that the
Ghost doesn’t come with FCS but it’s still pretty good.</span></div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">Dash – OK, you would have to be
pretty lucky with your boxes to get a full on Super Dash (YT-2400 +
A-wing for PTL and Falcon for Engine Upgrade) but even with just what
is in the box, you can come up with a 50 point HLC /Outrider / Lone
Wolf Dash build.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">All this is well and good but I
think what clinched it for me was the power of low PS Rebel ships.
Low PS X-wings, A-wings, B-wings, T-70s and Z-95s are all well costed
and pretty good even naked (or at least with what is in the
individual boxes, anyway)</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Here’s what
I got in my box:</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">2 x A-wing</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">1 x B-wing</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">1 x Rebel Aces</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">When I opened my box, I was actually
pretty disappointed. I really wanted a K-wing! But I set about making
the best of what I had.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">I wanted a blocker so I knew I
wanted a Prototype A-wing in there. Put that in with the Chardaan
Refit and I have the first 15 points of my list. I also wanted Jake.
With the only two EPTs in the box being PTL and Deadeye, I decided to
just go with a cut down Jake with just PTL and the refit on, another
25 points.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">I have tried out Keyan a few times
before when I was new to the game (with not much success) and thought
that he was probably the best bet for a B-wing “Ace”. I wan’t
sure what to put on him yet though so I thought I’d fill out the
rest of my list first then come back to Keyan.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">A Blue B-wing with FCS comes in at
24 points. A pretty good bet I reckon.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">So, with my Proto A-wing, Blue
B-wing and Jake, I had </span><span style="font-style: normal;">36
points in which to make Keyan work. I knew I wanted PTL on there to
proc his ability but the only actions the B-wing has are focus,
target lock and barrel roll. Keyan’s ability is, in effect, a focus
so there is no point PTLing for a focus. This means that you will
target lock and push for a barrel roll. The problem is barrel rolling
is not always desirable… I need another action. Jan Ors!!! With
Keyan, PTL and Jan (crew) I can get a target lock, evade and stress
(which can be spent and used as a focus) every turn lovely stuff!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">So my list was this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Prototype A-wing – Chardaan Refit
(15 points)</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Blue B-wing – FCS (24 points)</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Jake Farrell – Chardaan Refit /
PTL (25 points)</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Keyan Farlander – PTL / B-wing/E2
/ Jan Ors (35 points)</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wave 3 boys!</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The
matches</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Round
one vs Don Shields</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">In the box: Decimator / Imperial
Veterans</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Maarek Stele – Crack Shot / Tie/D
/ Tractor Beam</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Rear Admiral Chiraneau – Systems
Officer / Ion Torps / Proton Bombs / Ruthlessness</span></div>
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I should not have won this!
(Spoilers: I did) I constantly put Keyan in danger and pretty much relied on Don's bad dice to win me the game :( </div>
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<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I was conscious of Ruthlessness so I set up in a
line across my edge of the board with about range 2 between each
ship, Don set up to joust Keyan. The first engagement went alright
for me, all my ships had shots on at least one ship. I began by
trying to take out Maarek but decided very early on that I should be
focusing on the Deci, so I did, with everything! After a round or
two, Keyan was on 2 hull and had the Agility – 1 crit. Bad times!
However, there were about three times where RAC had range one shots
on Keyan and almost totally blanked out. I had my evade from Jan so
could soak up at least one shot per turn. Can I just take a minute to
thank Jan? She saved my ass MANY times through this whole day. She is
just awesome!</div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">Anyway, I took out the deci, never
bothered with Maarek. Don took out both my generics.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That pesky Decimator is off it's stand</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Win 61-39.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Round
two vs Gary </span><span style="font-style: normal;">Brailsford</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">In the box: Ghost / T-70 X-wing</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Kanan – Reinforced Deflectors /
Hera / Chopper / Dorsal Turret / Ghost</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Sabine – Phantom / Zeb</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Ello – Integrated Astromech /
Targeting Astromech / Cool Hand</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">The first thing I noticed about
Gary’s list was that he didn’t have Ezra on the Ghost. We
discussed this and he said that he couldn’t make the points work. I
also realised that if he was going to stress himself with Hera,
Kanan’s ability would not proc. What I didn’t expect was how good
Reinforced Deflectors are. I kept getting 3 or 4 hits (B-wings </span><span style="font-style: normal;">at
rage 1!) and regenning shields for Kanan! </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">Anyway, the Ghost went down fairly
quickly (although he did take out my Blue B-wing first) and then Gary
flew Sabine off the table (it w</span><span style="font-style: normal;">as
a</span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><span style="font-style: normal;">very</span><span style="font-style: normal;">
close thing).</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">It was about this time when my
inexperience with flying A-wings reared it’s ugly head. I kept
doing 3Ks where a 5k would have been better, judging distances badly,
etc. This came to a head in the last round when I flew </span><span style="font-style: normal;">what
ended up being a naked Jake with no shields into a range one
engagement with naked Ello. Ello killed Jake, Jake damaged Ello
(simultaneous fire) then Keyan killed Ello.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, that's right Ello - follow that Prototype Pilot</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Win 100-49</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Round
three vs Andrew Wall</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">In the box: Tie F/O / Imperial
Veterans / </span><span style="font-style: normal;">Tie Bomber</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Omega Leader – Juke / Comm Relay</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Tomax Bren – Crack Shot / Assault
Missiles / Long-Range Scanners / Proton Bomb</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Countess Ryad – Tie/D / Tractor
Beam / Adrenaline Rush</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">This was a matchup I was dreading
for two reasons, 1) Omeaga Leader, it’s the perfect build straight
out of the box for the best 26 points in the game! And 2) Andrew
Wall. I’ve seen this name (well, Andrew ‘Hazard’ Wall to be
specific) all over various facebook groups so I was pretty sure he
was going to be a good player!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">So my opening was awful, I flew
Keyan over the same bit of debris twice in two turns!!! Andrew was
being cautious with his approach though which allowed me some time to
try and sort out my rubbish start. I was attempting to go for Omega
Leader but Andrew did the </span><span style="font-style: normal;">bait
and switch technique and I couldn’t get a shot. Not long into this,
my Blue B-wing died, however, I did manage to take Ryad down with a
few well placed range 1 shots! So Proto, Jake and Keyan vs Omega
Leader and Tomax! Keyan died soon after.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">Time was called and we were down to
the last roll. My Prototype vs a one hull Tomax. Proto rolled one
hit. If Tomax rolled no evade, he was dead and I have won the game.
Tomax rolled no evades!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well done mate, that's exactly how you play this game. All ships facing the wrong way with one on debris!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Win 71-59</span></div>
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<i>Interlude 1</i></div>
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<i>Tom – I’m 3 and 0. What is going on?</i></div>
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<i>Joel – I think you are second as well…</i></div>
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<i>Tom – WHAT???</i></div>
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<i>End of Interlude</i></div>
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<b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Round
four vs Stephen Ashton</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">In the box: 4 x Tie F/O / Tie
Advanced Prototype</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">The Inquisitor – Deadeye / Tie/v1
/ Homing Missiles / Guidance Chips</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Omega Leader – Juke / Comm Relay</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Zeta Leader – Juke / Comm Relay</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Epsilon Ace – Juke Comm Relay</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Stephen was a great opponent, the
most friendly of the day and this was a great game, a real dogfight!
Fantastic!</span></div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">The funny thing was that there ended
up being two distinct battles. The B-wings vs The Inquisitor and the
A-wings vs the F/Os. I took serious risks with Jake and the Prototype
and flew them straight at the three F/Os in the hope of taking one
out and then steaming on past them without taking too much damage.
Amazingly, that is exactly what happened and I took out Zeta Leader.
I took heavy fire though and both A-wings were on one hull by the end
of the battle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Whilst this was going on, </span><span style="font-style: normal;">the
B-wings and The Inquisitor were facing off. From what I remember, The
Inquisitor went down before firing the Homing Missiles but did cause
me a fair bit of hurt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">After that it was a bit of a furball
between all the remaining ships, I did manage to take out Epsilon Ace
but Omega Leader was just too much of a stretch. When time was
called, I still had all my ships and Stephen had Omega Leader left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2 B-wings vs The Inquisitor and 2 A-wings vs 3 Tie F/Os</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">Win – 74-0</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">So, ummmm, if you’ve been keeping
up, that means… I went undefeated. I went undefeated. I went
undefeated. (had to write it a few times, just to make sure it was
real) I WENT UNDEFEATED!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></div>
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<i>Interlude 2</i></div>
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<i>Joel - Dude! You've made the cut!</i></div>
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<i>Tom – I think I'm going to have to drop</i></div>
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<i>Joel – WHAT???</i></div>
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<i>End of Interlude</i></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">I came second in swiss (of twenty
two players) and was into the top four cut! I did however have to
drop due to various time related issues (letting my third round
opponent, Andrew Wall, into the cut).</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">So, that was an amazing day. I loved
playing my list, it’s such a shame that it’s not competitive in
the current meta (I wish we could go back to wave 3 days) otherwise
I’d run it non stop!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">I have also learned that the next
time I go to a tournament with a top cut, I should definitely not
organise anything for that evening. Don’t get me wrong, I’m soooo
happy with ending second in swiss but the possibility of winning the
whole thing (or even coming in the top 4) would have been lovely.
Anyway, next time, eh?</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thanks! I couldn't have done it without you.</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413585448346634288noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112285641061526979.post-58071941873104384412016-07-05T03:59:00.001-07:002016-07-05T03:59:59.566-07:00Let's Compare Decks! - A discussion on the two different damage decks for the X-Wing Miniatures game<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Question: when was
the last time you saw someone using the original core set damage
deck? I’d hazard a guess that it was just before the new core set
came out, right?</div>
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Why? Because newer
is better? Because of the large amount of people that claim it’s
better?</div>
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Because you’ve sat
down with both damage decks and critically gone through them with
reference to your list and worked out that the new deck is better?
Nah, me neither… until very recently.</div>
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<b>My new list</b></div>
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</div>
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I’ve gone Defender
mad and I’m about to run this list:</div>
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</div>
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2 x Deltas –
TIE/x7 / Stealth Device</div>
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Vessary –
TIE/x7 / Stealth Device / Juke</div>
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I’d heard someone
say something about the old damage deck being better for generic
pilots so I thought I’d have a look… now I’m going to have to
dig it out and see if I still actually own all the cards!</div>
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<br /></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Both full decks side by side</td></tr>
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Note: from now on,
I’ll refer to the deck that you get in the original core set as the
“old deck” and the deck that comes in the TFA core set as the
“new deck”</div>
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The first thing to
look at when comparing new and old decks is the cards that have no
change to them like <i>Direct Hit!</i> and the cards that only have
slight changes in the wording of the cards, for example, <i>Thurst
Control Fire</i> which has had a one word alteration to clarify some
timing issues.</div>
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Old deck - Direct
Hit!: (Ship) This card counts as 2 damage against your hull.</div>
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New deck - Direct
Hit!: (Ship) This card counts as 2 damage against your hull.</div>
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Old deck - Thrust
Control Fire: (Ship) Immediately receive 1 stress token. Then flip
this card facedown.</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
New deck - Thrust
Control Fire: (Ship) Receive 1 stress token. Then flip this card
facedown.</div>
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</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
As the slight change
is only going to affect anything in a very small amount of cases, for
the purpose of this, article, I will count them as being the same
thing.
</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
So then, these cards
have stayed the same:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Console Fire</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Damaged Engine</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQE5Qmei9Mg-RiQZ4e6AcrVzgcFUWvzBtGrX72Uwfgq7LBZtRI0zTeeroSJdYjCBE6t_18kQnSPah5OcpMwIsbjjDii03AtS41uiBmJaZxX20jezaxi-vx3Emc1LK-WFTcIi-Fyk3Ubns/s1600/Direct+Hit%2521.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQE5Qmei9Mg-RiQZ4e6AcrVzgcFUWvzBtGrX72Uwfgq7LBZtRI0zTeeroSJdYjCBE6t_18kQnSPah5OcpMwIsbjjDii03AtS41uiBmJaZxX20jezaxi-vx3Emc1LK-WFTcIi-Fyk3Ubns/s400/Direct+Hit%2521.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Direct Hit!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2MRN5I0ycGPfyVEoXbN4iPO9UE81cVmmiZPaqr5JbVnXNX0lEzVqPUKNuLS5RMT_9U1d4g9lM6kH7EFdFJvWx1lRhbhnbpJDHhgyXTf0Dxz-xTNcq3eyTp5Q-nZeG7S2Pw88u0HXJ3LU/s1600/Thrust+Control+Fire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2MRN5I0ycGPfyVEoXbN4iPO9UE81cVmmiZPaqr5JbVnXNX0lEzVqPUKNuLS5RMT_9U1d4g9lM6kH7EFdFJvWx1lRhbhnbpJDHhgyXTf0Dxz-xTNcq3eyTp5Q-nZeG7S2Pw88u0HXJ3LU/s400/Thrust+Control+Fire.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thrust Control Fire</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKCK5s7BwkUnh4g3JFQ9jqPSynl5LDs27uzwH8Rt_UaWlkCg0asH5vWoInz5mIo4B1-Hj222STomiaWDIuQgnioPS65Gob5Zt3UzU2Gu4m3EAtLiaZAgcf5FVHJsMPd0LLL1IDUOE1KTg/s1600/Damaged+Cockpit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKCK5s7BwkUnh4g3JFQ9jqPSynl5LDs27uzwH8Rt_UaWlkCg0asH5vWoInz5mIo4B1-Hj222STomiaWDIuQgnioPS65Gob5Zt3UzU2Gu4m3EAtLiaZAgcf5FVHJsMPd0LLL1IDUOE1KTg/s400/Damaged+Cockpit.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Damaged Cockpit</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkXEjMzXKGYDqyvpbg3YC44isjjKNaPYoaWO7i9fX7TZMzXq7Lgiln07AlLajtQHoK2HqTuObJbNyKX1zlMpZKlxRPaF97YiL0k6gP6zKB8PDFy1s-OoWrJ0247atb785WnH4MA-DQj4o/s1600/Stunned+Pilot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkXEjMzXKGYDqyvpbg3YC44isjjKNaPYoaWO7i9fX7TZMzXq7Lgiln07AlLajtQHoK2HqTuObJbNyKX1zlMpZKlxRPaF97YiL0k6gP6zKB8PDFy1s-OoWrJ0247atb785WnH4MA-DQj4o/s400/Stunned+Pilot.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stunned Pilot</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
So 6 out of the full
14 different cards in the deck are (near enough) exactly the same.
This is a good start.</div>
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</div>
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<br />
</div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Clearing the
crits with dice</b></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
There seems to be a trend in the new damage deck for making crits
easier to cancel.
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Damaged Sensor Array and Structural Damage can both be cancelled by
rolling an attack dice, if you roll a hit, the crits are cancelled.
The difference comes when that dice roll comes up as a crit. If you
are playing with the old deck, the crit stays, if you are playing
with the new deck, flip that crit down!</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Essentially that means if you are playing with the new deck, you have
a 50% chance of clearing the crit, however if you are playing with
the old deck, you only have a 37.5% chance of clearing the crit.</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
This is just a fact of the decks and doesn’t really come down to
what list you are playing.</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Score one for the new deck!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Damaged Sensor Array</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Structural Damage</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Minors into
Majors (shit got real!)</b></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Two cards have been “upgraded” from minor effects in the old deck
to major effects in the new deck. These are Minor Explosion and Minor
Hull Breach (in the old deck) which changed to Major Explosion and
Major Hull Breach (in the new deck). Let’s have a look at the
difference.</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Minor Explosion / Major Explosion</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Straight up, this is a score for the old deck, obviously you would
prefer to take a normal damage, over another crit, right?
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Pretty much, but if you are playing certain lists, this makes no
difference at all. A-wings, Z95s, Attack Shuttles, M3-As, TIE Adv.
Prototypes, Phantoms and E-wings have 2 hull so if you take a crit
and it comes up Minor/Major Explosion, it doesn’t matter if the
subsequent damage is a hit or a crit, you roll a red dice and if it
comes up a hit, dat ship go boom! This is an important consideration
if you are playing a list where ALL your ships only have two hull,
for example a Z swarm or an A-wing swarm.</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdPEWW9FmlQHlihgiFx1ZrNQVgdKKCenDc9v1tk3yrTadePOaCmLU4RnuZQjxwQ6ME8DGNLBB2_kTnL6Ww0lrd003rKCybmyaeMp1-BKUo4dOWovl61DAhokxyfx_1kI-LxYVVJ6ABdc/s1600/minor-major+hull+breach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgdPEWW9FmlQHlihgiFx1ZrNQVgdKKCenDc9v1tk3yrTadePOaCmLU4RnuZQjxwQ6ME8DGNLBB2_kTnL6Ww0lrd003rKCybmyaeMp1-BKUo4dOWovl61DAhokxyfx_1kI-LxYVVJ6ABdc/s400/minor-major+hull+breach.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Minor Hull Breach / Major Hull Breach</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<br /></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Well… these are different, maybe they deserved a more different
name? Who knows, anyway, you can’t really compare them. This really
IS list dependent.
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
If you are running an A-wing swarm, you really don’t care about
Major Hull Breach because the next hit you get is going to kill you
anyway, whether it’s a crit or not HOWEVER these swarm type lists
tend to K-turn a lot so you don’t really want Minor Hull Breach.</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
If you are running Defenders, you can pretty much go whole games
without ever doing a red maneuver (love those white K-turns) so Minor
Hull Breach is a “good” crit for this ship BUT if you’ve still
got three hull left, get Major Hull Breach then the next damage turns
out to be a Direct Hit! that is bad times.</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Two different lists, two different preferences.</div>
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<br />
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<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Cards that have
been replaced</b></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Some cards from the old deck have been completely replaced by new,
different cards in the new deck.</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Munitions Failure is replaced by Loose Stabilizer</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87ZUKBDkss596_Mq_V0Mu38dmld3wA1G0OYfbjFdoeh_ryMkEsFjn4hTTh8UDyQ0Ug1d5_5StykA3s8DgJJWuwcXBHV5UNgdpcvNs4cXc4FWqneaaS71Q1tQpTdYNUT0hGwZHv2PbyeA/s1600/Injured-Shaken+Pilot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87ZUKBDkss596_Mq_V0Mu38dmld3wA1G0OYfbjFdoeh_ryMkEsFjn4hTTh8UDyQ0Ug1d5_5StykA3s8DgJJWuwcXBHV5UNgdpcvNs4cXc4FWqneaaS71Q1tQpTdYNUT0hGwZHv2PbyeA/s400/Injured-Shaken+Pilot.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Injured Pilot is replaced by Shaken Pilot</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Well, you can kind of see the reason for these. Imagine PTL Soontir
getting Injured Pilot! No more PTL AND no more stress/focus
shenanigans… that’s a well dead Soontir.</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Now imagine a Delta Defender getting Injured Pilot… no change
whatsoever.</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
So it’s a balance thing, the new damage deck was brought in to
level the playing field, in that previous example, using the new deck
instead would have got both ships a Shaken Pilot crit, more rough for
the Defender and less rough for Soontir.</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
You could extrapolate similar findings with the Munitions Failure /
Loose Stabilizer crit if you looked at a HWK with TLT and a base
X-wing. With Munitions Failure, your HWK would be totally useless for
the rest of the game but the X-wing would be unchanged, whereas with
Loose stabilizer, both ships are equally inconvenienced.</div>
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I think it’s worth stating that this part of the new deck benefits
the game, as a whole, massively. (who wants to win against a nerfed
Soontir, anyway!) BUT it doesn’t mean that if you are working on a
list by list basis, the new deck is unquestionably better. Do some
thinking!</div>
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<b>Other honorable
mentions</b></div>
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So there are two other crits which deserve a mention.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blinded Pilot</td></tr>
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Blinded pilot went through a change, whereby in the old deck, you had
to wait for the opportunity to attack another ship (ie. have another
ship in range and in arc and then declare that ship as the target of
your blinded attack) before the crit would clear. In the new deck,
the player just has to wait for the next time it would be that ship’s
turn to attack, then the crit clears.</div>
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The old deck is fine if you are a turret but what if you are an arc
dodger, you effectively have to come around for another pass JUST to
clear the crit. Bad times!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Weapon Malfunction and Weapons Failure</td></tr>
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This change was due to ships carrying cannons or turrets not being
affected by Weapons Malfunction as it only nerfs your PRIMARY weapon
value. (Dash’s favourite crit). Weapons failure effects all ships
equally.</div>
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So, if you have a squad that uses just secondary weapon turrets, you would chose the
old deck, right? Nope, because what happens if you get the Munitions
Failure crit? One of your scary 3 dice TLT Y-wings becomes a 2 dice
ship that only gets to fire once AND has to have his target in arc!
MEGA NERF!</div>
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<b>That was
interesting... Now stop rambling and tell me which deck to use!</b></div>
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So that’s all the crits discussed, let’s look at a few lists and
see what which would be the best for that list.</div>
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I have analyzed the effectiveness of each damage deck over three
lists. I’ve tried to use lists that I have a fair amount of
experience playing with or playing against. To that end, I’ll look
at my old Imperial list with Vader, Omega Leader and Redline, my new
Defender list with Vessary and two Deltas and finally the 5 A-wing
crack swarm that Joel has been playing for a while (and consequently,
I have played against a lot!)</div>
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As some things will benefit or handicap a list more than other, I
have tried to set up a scoring system ranging from -3 (Soontir
getting an <i>Injured Pilot</i> crit. ie. useless Soontir) to +3
(Delta Defender getting an <i>Injured Pilot</i> crit. ie. no change
whatsoever) It’s obviously VERY subjective so only here as a
general guideline and to help you make your own decisions.</div>
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Also, I’m going to completely disregard <i>Console Fire, Damaged
Engine, Direct Hit!, Thrust Control Fire, Damaged Cockpit</i> and
<i>Stunned Pilot</i> as they are exactly the same in the old and new
decks (as stated before).</div>
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<b>A-wing crack
swarm</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joel's A-wing crack swarm</td></tr>
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5 x Green Squadron Pilot – A-wing test pilot / Chardan /
Adaptibility / Autothrusters / Crackshot</div>
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So let’s go down the list.</div>
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<i>Damaged Sensor Array and Structural Damage</i> – the new deck
wins on both of these because of it’s slightly easier method of
clearing these crits. As there is only a 12.5% difference I’ve only
awarded the new deck +1 for each crit and the old deck -1 for each.</div>
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Old deck: - 2 points</div>
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New deck: + 2 points</div>
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<i>Minor/Major Explosion –</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> it
matters not! Having only 2 hit points means that whether that next
incoming damage is a hit or a crit, that ship = dead! No points for
either deck here then.</span></div>
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Old deck: - 2 points</div>
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New deck: + 2 points</div>
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<i>Minor/Major Hull Breach – Major Hull Breach</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
is negated (once again) by the 2 hull points. Who cares if the next
hit is a crit or not when it will kill you regardless. I shall award
the new deck + 3 for that! </span>
</div>
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<i>Minor Hull Breach</i> however, will inconvenience this list a fair
bit. The swarm likes to K-turn a fair bit in my experience and having
to roll an attack dice every time you do that and possibly blow the
ship up is not so good! Therefore, I will award the old deck a – 2</div>
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Old deck: - 4 points</div>
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New deck: + 5 points</div>
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<i>Munitions Failure </i><span style="font-style: normal;">and </span><i>Loose
Stabilizer – Munitions failure</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
is a dream crit for these A-wings. They have nothing to discard. + 3
for the old deck there!</span></div>
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<i>Loose Stabilizer</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> is a bit of
an arse for the A-wings though, </span><span style="font-style: normal;">they
really rely on their agility to get out of tight situations. - 2 for
the new deck.</span></div>
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Old deck: - 1 point</div>
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New deck: + 3 points</div>
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<i>Weapon Malfunction </i><span style="font-style: normal;">and
</span><i>Weapons Failure – </i><span style="font-style: normal;">No
difference here as the A-wings only use the</span><span style="font-style: normal;">i</span><span style="font-style: normal;">r
primary weapons. No points!</span></div>
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Old deck: - 1 point</div>
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New deck: + 3 points</div>
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<i>Blinded Pilot –</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> the new
deck is always going to get my vote on this, often it doesn’t make
too much difference though, especially to a swarm so I give the old
deck – 1 and the new deck + 1.</span></div>
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Old deck: - 2 points</div>
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New deck: + 4 points</div>
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<i>Injured Pilot </i><span style="font-style: normal;">and </span><i>Shaken
Pilot – Injured Pilot</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> will
pretty much do nothing to the A-Wings as they don’t have an
in-built pilot ability, Adaptibility is set at the beginning of the
game and they will almost always have spent their Crackshot by the
time they get down to hull. + 2 points (not the full </span><span style="font-style: normal;">+
</span><span style="font-style: normal;">3 in case they haven’t
spent Crackshot)</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i>Shaken Pilot</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> could cause a
bit of an annoyance, depending on the situation. Not being </span><span style="font-style: normal;">able
to do a straight maneuver for the one turn where you expect to get a
block can be frustrating. - 1</span></div>
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Old deck: 0 points</div>
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New deck: 3 points</div>
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So the new deck comes out on top for this list. Let’s see about
those Defenders!</div>
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<b>Defenders of The
Universe</b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Be afraid! Here come the Defenders of the Universe!</td></tr>
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Vessary – TIE/x7 / Stealth Device / Juke</div>
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2 x Delta Squadron Pilots – TIE/x7 / Stealth Device</div>
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<i>Damaged Sensor Array and Structural Damage</i> – same as with
all lists, the new deck wins this (but not by much).</div>
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Old deck: - 2 points</div>
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New deck: + 2 points</div>
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<i>Minor/Major Explosion –</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span><span style="font-style: normal;">Well, getting a </span><i>Major
Explosion</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, then rolling a hit
and pulling a </span><i>Direct Hit!</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
is the worst thing in the world on a three hull ship (well, maybe not, but still…) The
old deck definitely wins this one! Old deck + 2, new deck – 2.</span></div>
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Old deck: 0 points</div>
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New deck: 0 points</div>
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<i>Minor/Major Hull Breach – </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Any
mechanic that will net you extra crits (such as </span><i>Major Hull
Breach</i><span style="font-style: normal;">) is bad. Not the worst
thing because the Defenders only have 3 hull so as long as you don’t
get this crit on the very first point of hull damage, it isn’t
worth anything. Not terrible but could be bad! - 1 for the new deck.</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">T</span><span style="font-style: normal;">he
maneuvers I tend to use on my /x7 Defenders are straights (all
greens), 3 turns and banks (all whites) and that lovely, white 4
K-turn. Losing the ability to safely do any red maneuvers </span><span style="font-style: normal;">because
of </span><i>Minor Hull Breach</i><span style="font-style: normal;">…
not much of a bother at all! + 2 to the old deck!</span></div>
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Old deck: + 2</div>
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New deck: - 1</div>
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<i>Munitions Failure</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> and </span><i>Loose
Stabilizer</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> – </span><i>Munitions
Failure</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, I wish all (my) crits
were like this! Nothing to discard so no change here. The full + 3
points for the old deck!</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i>Loose Stabilizer</i>? I spent 3 extra points getting my agility to
4 and now it’s gone all the way down to 2??? Not what I’d want. -
2 for the new deck.</div>
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Old deck: + 5</div>
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New deck: - 3</div>
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<i>Weapon Malfunction</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> and
</span><i>Weapons Failure – </i><span style="font-style: normal;">And
again, no difference here, us modern Defenders don’t use any
secondary weapons! Nil points for either side!</span></div>
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Old deck: + 5</div>
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New deck: -3</div>
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<i>Blinded Pilot –</i><span style="font-style: normal;">bad times
for the old deck here. Not being able to clear this crit by running
away, then coming back again would be very annoying! Old deck – 1,
new deck + 1.</span></div>
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Old deck: + 4</div>
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New deck: - 2</div>
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<i>Injured Pilot</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> and </span><i>Shaken
Pilot – </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Well, this is actually
a pretty difficult one. </span><i>Injured Pilot</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
won’t have any effect on my Deltas but on Vessary it will strip his
ability AND Juke. Bad times. That
said, it does only have the potential to affect a third of my list.
Old deck gets a – 1.</span></div>
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<i>Shaken pilot</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> is also awkward
to analyse for this list. </span><span style="font-style: normal;">I
don’t often do straight maneuvers when in the thick of a dogfight
(it’s worth mentioning that the 4-K is NOT treated as a straight)
I’m usually either turning or K-ing. It could still be annoying
though. I think the new deck gets a – 1 for this as well.</span></div>
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Old deck: + 3</div>
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New deck: - 3</div>
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So by a rather large margin of 6 points the old deck wins!</div>
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<b>Lots ‘O’
Locks</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots 'O' Locks</td></tr>
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The previous two have been fairly easy to analyse because they
comprise the same ships. This one is going to be awkward but let’s
see how we go...</div>
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Vader – VI / Engine / Title / ATC</div>
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Omega Leader – Juke / Comms Relay</div>
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Redline – Plasmas / Clusters / FCS / Guidance Chips / Extra
Munitions</div>
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<i>Damaged Sensor Array and Structural Damage</i> – same as with
all lists, the new deck wins this again.</div>
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Old deck: - 2 points</div>
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New deck: + 2 points</div>
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<i>Minor/Major Explosion –</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><span style="font-style: normal;">And
again</span><span style="font-style: normal;">, getting a </span><i>Major
Explosion</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, then rolling a hit
and pulling a Direct Hit! </span><span style="font-style: normal;">=
bad! </span><span style="font-style: normal;">The old deck definitely
wins this one! Old deck + 2, new deck – 2.</span></div>
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Old deck: 0 points</div>
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New deck: 0 points</div>
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<i>Minor/Major Hull Breach – A</i><span style="font-style: normal;">s
with the last list, more crits is bad, but Vader and Omega Leader
only having three hull each makes this not so bad. Redline, however,
could end up with 6 crits from the new deck!!! Fairly bad, - 2 for
the new deck.</span></div>
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Minor Hull Breach however, will also have a fair bit of an impact on
all the ships in this list. I K-turn with all these ships, Redline
included! Who needs actions when you’ve got target locks AND
guidance chips? More badness – 2 for the old deck.</div>
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Old deck: - 2 points</div>
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New deck: - 2 points</div>
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<i>Munitions Failure</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> and </span><i>Loose
Stabilizer – Munitions Failure</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
on Redline is a bit rubbish as you have to discard a missile or torp
BUT it’s not as bad as something like Dash losing his HLC. It
doesn’t have any effect on Vader or Omega Leader, so that’s good.
- 1 for the old deck.</span></div>
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<i>Loose Stabilizer</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> is a bit
more of a kicker for any of these ships, Omega and Vader because they
rely on those greens to keep them alive and going down to no green
dice on Redline </span><span style="font-style: normal;">just feels
wrong!</span><span style="font-style: normal;"> - 2 for the new deck.</span></div>
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Old deck: - 3 points</div>
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New deck: - 4 points</div>
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<i>Weapon Malfunction</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> and
</span><i>Weapons Failure – </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Well,
the only difference is that if you are using the old deck and Redline
gets this crit, his torp and missile shots aren’t nerfed. Not much
change, I know but it still edges the old damage deck in front for
this one. - 2 for the old and – 3 for the new.</span></div>
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Old deck: - 5 points</div>
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New deck: - 7 points</div>
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<i>Blinded Pilot</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> – </span><span style="font-style: normal;">B</span><span style="font-style: normal;">ad
times for the old deck here. </span><span style="font-style: normal;">These
ships are arc dodgers (well, two of them, anyway) and won’t have
shots every turn. This makes the old damage deck worse for this list
than most.</span><span style="font-style: normal;"> Old deck – </span><span style="font-style: normal;">2</span><span style="font-style: normal;">,
new deck + 1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">O</span><span style="font-style: normal;">ld
deck: - 7 points</span></div>
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New deck: - 6 points</div>
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<i>Injured Pilot</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> and </span><i>Shaken
Pilot – </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Injured Pilot is awful
for this list! Redline’s tactics hinge on getting 2 target locks,
Vader is great with his 2 actions and Omega Leader without Juke and
her ability is just a high PS TIE F/O. Very bad times! - 3 for the
old deck!</span></div>
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Shaken pilot could be bad but then again, it’s only one turn and
then it gets flipped. Not great but not terrible. - 1 for the new
deck.</div>
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Old deck: - 10</div>
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New deck: - 7</div>
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The new deck, once again comes out on top here but the way my scoring
has turned out, it really shows how much crits in general hurt named
pilots more than generics.</div>
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So those are my findings, they are obviously subjective but the point
I’m trying to get across is that you should try and do a bit of
critical analysis on which deck is best for your list.</div>
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I’m going to dig out my old deck and give it a try on my Defenders
of the Universe list!</div>
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Redd XIII signing off.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413585448346634288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112285641061526979.post-56480345786004106272016-07-04T09:41:00.000-07:002016-07-04T09:42:51.261-07:00Battle Report - Lost Ark Games, Stevenage - 03-07-16<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Wow, it feels like a long time
since I’ve played X-Wing competitively! It’s actually only been
just over a month since Warboar regionals and it’s not like I
haven’t been practicing on Vassal and at Dark Sphere Tuesdays, but
walking into Lost Ark this morning, I actually felt really nervous.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">So, what did I run? Well, I’ve
gone Defender mad! I’ve been practicing with the following list for
the past few weeks:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Vessary – TIE/x7 / Stealth
Device / Juke (38 points)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Delta Squadron Pilot –
TIE/x7 / Stealth Device (31 points)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Delta Squadron Pilot –
TIE/x7 / Stealth Device (31 points)</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I’ve been doing pretty well
with it, between Vassal and “in person”, I’ve got in 12 games
and out of those 12 games, I’ve only lost 2! Both of those losses
were against lists with Zuckass crew. Stating the obvious, that means
I have a 100% success rate against Rebel and Imperial lists!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">As this was one of the “I Am
Your Father’s Day” events FFG have been running, Lost Ark decided
to only let Rebel and Imperial lists play (because Luke was a Rebel
and Darth was an Imperial)… I’ve got a 100% success rate against
those lists so I should definitely take this list, right? I didn’t.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The day before, I came upon
the amazing realisation that a fully kitted out Inquisitor comes in
at exactly the same points as one of my Deltas. I should definitely
swap them, right? Because the Inquisitor is incredible, right?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, I did swap them out and
I ended up taking this list:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Inquisitor – TIE/v1 /
Autothrusters / PTL (31)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Vessary – TIE/x7 / Stealth
Device / Juke (38)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Delta – TIE/x7 / Stealth
Device (31)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I like the idea of this list,
the one thing that always frustrated me about Vess and 2 Deltas list
was when to try and acquire the target locks with the Deltas to
trigger Vessary’s ability. I get my free evade from the title but
then do I focus or target lock. Difficult. Not so much with this list
as the Inquisitor with the title always wants to acquire a target
lock.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">So in essence, I took this
list to a tournament when I’d only flown The Inquisitor once
before. Potentially, a mistake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Let’s see how the games
went.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Match
1 vs John Kane</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Jake – title / Autothrusters
/ PTL / Adaptibility / Proton Rockets</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Miranda – TLT</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sabine – TLT / Lone Wolf /
Chewbacca</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I recognised John from a
previous game, I asked him whether we’d played before and he said
he thought we had played at the Dark Sphere winter kit. That was a
long time ago and before the blog so I have no idea how that matchup
went down.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So, first game of the day.
Unfortunately, my brain was not logged in. I was playing badly, I
forgot a few actions, made some bad decisions. Sorry John!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I lost the initiative roll and
John game me initiative so my Inquisitor was moving before Jake and
Miranda. Bad start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The one thing I seem to keep
coming back to in these blogs is initial engagement. This was the
first of many times, I screwed up with The Inquisitor. I went in too
fast so on the first round of combat, most of John’s ships had
shots on him and both my Defenders were out of range. Bad times. He
died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Special mention goes out to
Vessary, Jake got his prockets off and Vess, now on one hull, pulled
a console fire crit. He hung around for another two turns after that
(without clearing the crit). He died to a TLT shot ( blank blank hit)
where he totally blanked out. Boooo!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Delta stayed on the board.
I took none of John’s ships off :(</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Loss 0 – 69</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don't put your Inquisitor in the middle of the board... it's a dumb idea!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Match
2 vs Ian Kafka</b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Maarek Stele (Defender) –
Adaptibility / Twin Ion Engine MK II / Tractor Beam / TIE/D</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Vader – Adaptibility /
TIE/x1 / ATC / Engine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Omega Leader – Juke / Comm
Relay / Stealth Device</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I’d played Ian before when I
went to an event in Harlow. Unfortunately, that was before I’d
started blogging so I couldn’t tell you the result of that one,
either.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">We ended up meeting in the
middle of the board with pretty good shots from both sides. I managed
to take down Vader but lost The Inquisitor (going down first is his
speciality). A few turns later and Ian reveled his dial for Maarek –
a 1 left bank, he meant to do a 1 right bank. Assuming the dice
didn’t sway particularly in anyone’s favour, it was possible that
Maarek could have tractored my Delta onto a rock, bringing it into
Omega Leader’s arc and preventing my shot. What happened is that
after the 1 left bank, Maarek barrel rolled to get my Delta in arc,
leaving himself with no tokens. The tractor missed, I think the
primary did as well, I shot back and took a few health from Maarek.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">A few turns later and Maarek
is dead. Now it’s the showdown between a fairly beaten up Vessary
and Delta against a full health Omega Leader. This took an age and by
the time the match was called, Omega was on 2 health. On a side not,
from a movement perspective, it was quite liberating going against
Omega Leader, seeing as my evade token would do nothing, it freed me
up to take the odd 1 or 2 speed maneuver when needed.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Win 71 – 31</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maarek is in the middle (with no tokens). I had nice shots this round!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Match
3 vs Hadrian Tulk</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dash – title / HLC / PTL /
Kanan / Engine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Corran – VI / FCS / R2-D2</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My initial thoughts on this
matchup was that I really needed to take Dash down before my
Inquisitor went down. Having that PS advantage over Dash would be
invaluable.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately, the Inquisitor
went down really early here again. My problem is definitely range
control, if I want to continue playing with him, I need to get that
down.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I ended up managing to take
down Corran with quite a nice killbox (Delta and Vess had range 1
shots), then Dash killed the Delta. A half health Dash, vs a two
health Vess. Dash get’s the PS0 crit and time is called, this is
the final round. If Vess died, I had lost but if I killed Dash OR no one died, I had won. Vess 4Ks and ends up looking at Dash. He’s close,
it’s not range one but, maybe, just maybe if I’d barrel rolled as
far forwards as possible, it <i>might </i><span style="font-style: normal;">
have been range 1. I didn’t I took a focus. I needed to get all 3
shots through and Dash to get 2 blanks. I ended up getting him down
to 2 hull and then got blasted in the face with HLC… Dead Vessary…
Deddary!</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Soooooo close!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Loss 71-100</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a tense game. So this is the only photo I got of it!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Match
4 vs Alex Vickers</b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Omicron Group Pilot – Palp /
FCS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Inquisitor – title /
Prockets / Autothrusters / PTL</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Soontir – title /
Autothrusters / Stealth Device / PTL</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Right,
so for the fourth time in four games I put the Inquisitor in the
thick of things too early. All shots on him, with the Defenders still
out of range. To </span><span style="font-style: normal;">sum up –
dead Inquisitor and a few shields off the shuttle.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I did manage to set up another
nice killbox again. Alex’s Inquisitor in range 1 of both Vess and
the Delta. Vess did take a procket to the face and suffered a minus
one agility crit but was still just alive enough to strip tokens from
the Inquisitor so the Delta could finish him off.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Soon after I made short work
of the shuttle then it was a full health Delta and a badly damaged
Vessary against Soontir. I managed to get a few nice blocks in and
Soontir took a crit (Direct Hit!) which meant no more Stealth Device
and then it was just a matter of time.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Win 100 – 31</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was the turn the shuttle died. If I remember correctly, my Delta also took a Soontir shaped hammering!</td></tr>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">So
I came 13</span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;">
of 28 players, not awful. But honestly, I really wonder how it would
have gone if I’d bought the triple Defenders list. The Inquisitor
is a great ship but I really think he needs practice to fly well. I
definitely hadn’t had enough practice. </span></span>
</div>
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<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’m
going to return to the triple Defenders and try and make the most of
them for a while. One of the
best things about this list is my PS1 Delta blocker. He did great, so
I’ll have another one please :)</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413585448346634288noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112285641061526979.post-50220404991811484552016-05-23T13:57:00.001-07:002016-05-26T15:45:32.861-07:00Battle Report - Regionals! Warboar, Bromley 21-05-16<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Regionals!</div>
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<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I’ve been playing
X-Wing seriously since around the beginning of this year. I bought
the core set over a year ago but it sat on the shelf for months, then
found a bit of (very) casual play over last summer. Between summer
and New Years, I started buying up expansions but at that point I
didn’t really have anyone to play with. Then, during a fairly quiet
new year’s eve I gave Joel a game, he loved it and we were off!
With a few months of Tuesday night X-Wing (at Dark Sphere in
Waterloo) and six or seven tournaments under our belt, we booked our
tickets to play at regionals. This was big! it would be our
equivalent to Worlds. The biggest event in our X-Wing calendar and we
were excited!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Warboar! With some Imperial intruders</td></tr>
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<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
I’ve been getting
quite a bit of practice in on Vassal and I was pretty set on my list.
It’s the same as the last tourney I wrote a report on. Here it is
again:</div>
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Chewie – Lone Wolf
/ C-3PO / Luke Skywalker / title – 55 points</div>
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Chopper –
Autoblaster turret / Fire Control System / Zeb / Han Solo</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
For a more detailed
explanation of why I chose this list, read my last post, <a href="http://midtablexwing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/battle-report-marquee-models-harlow-24.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
So the day rolled
round and I arrived at Warboar in Bromley just before 8am (bleary
eyed because, of course, I had been up late on Vassal… practicing!)
Joel had got there a while before and had been the first to register!</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
The turnout, I
believe, was 96 players and after a bit of pre-battle banter with the
lovely Mark Radford (from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Marquee-Models-102624373121998/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Marquee Models</a> in Harlow), the first round
pairings were put up and we all headed off to our tables:</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Round 1 vs Sam Page</span></b></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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Carnor – PTL / title / Stealth Device / Autothrusters</div>
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Omega Leader – Juke / Comm Relay / Twin Ion Engine Mk. 2</div>
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<br /></div>
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Kagi – Palp / Sensor Jammer</div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Die Omega Leader! Die!</td></tr>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
This was a great
start to the day, Sam was a very friendly opponent and the pre-game
chat was forthcoming. It turns out, Sam runs a gaming club called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1448151542066186/" target="_blank">Mid Sussex War Gamers</a> in Grinstead, unfortunately, due to being Hertford
based, I can’t really get to Grinstead but if it’s near, why
don’t you pop down and give it a look? If they are all as friendly
as Sam, you’ll have a good laugh!</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Anyway, the match; I
set up with both my ships buddying up in the left bottom corner. It
was either this, or Chopper in the left corner and Chewie towards the
middle of the board (so as to proc Lone Wolf from the start). I
really didn’t know whether this was a good choice (this would be a
recurring theme) but I did it, so I had to live with it.</div>
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The start of the
match wasn’t so good really. Chopper went down pretty early and the
only damage to Sam’s list was 2 shields autoblasted off his Omega
Leader… bad times. However, the tide was soon to turn. Chewie took
down Omega Leader next turn, I was back in it. I’m really proud of
this next bit... I proceeded to block Carnor every turn whilst taking
pot shots at Kagi (who was currently in the long process of turning
to face me)... Kagi died. Then followed the standard Chewie vs
<insert ship name> endgame; many evade actions and 3PO guesses.
This was a bit more difficult as I had to stay out of range 1 of
Carnor to make use of my evade, I managed this most turns. In the end
it was just a case of hoping Sam whiffed his green rolls before
Carnor got too many shots into Chewie. Sam did whiff a green roll in
the end and with Carnor on 2 health and 3 greens, it was only a
matter of time.</div>
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Win 100-72</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Game 2 vs James
Dowdall</span></b></div>
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2 x Scout –
Deadeye / Plasma torps / Extra Munitions / Overclocked R4 / Guidance
Chips</div>
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N’dru Suhlak –
Cluster Missiles / Crackshot / Glitterstim / Guidance Chips</div>
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Binary Pirate</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A good place to put a Chewie? Not so much!</td></tr>
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Round 2 and here I
am playing James Dowdall from the 186<sup>th</sup> Squadron podcast!
Maybe this is it? Maybe I’ve reached the big X-Wing leagues? Maybe
if I impress James, I would get invited into the coveted 186<sup>th</sup>
squadron? Maybe I could even get a 186<sup>th</sup> Squadron
t-shirt??? (not star struck, honest)</div>
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<br /></div>
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Well Red, keep
dreaming because what followed was not a smooth sophisticated
demonstration of my prowess on the mat but an absolute schooling on
how not to position my ships.</div>
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I decided that my
setup for the last match was one of the reasons it was so close so I
decided to go with my other option, Chopper on one side of the mat
(this time, on the right) and Chewie in the middle.
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No combat in round
1. Round 2 rolls around and after movement, I had realised that my
Chewie was not long for this world. He was within range 2 of N’Dru
and range 3 of both scouts. This is what went down…</div>
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N’dru, Cluster
Missles at Chewie. N’dru was far from his allies so that was 2 four
dice attacks against Chewie. Oh, yea and also, James had
Glitterstimmed N’dru. Long story short, 8 damage on Chewie…
because crackshot and bad greens.</div>
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Chewie and Chopper
vs Binarye; dead binarye (well, I thought I’d take out something…
yes, I know it was bait!)</div>
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Scout one; plasmas
on Chewie, another 3 hits (yay green!). Scout two; plasmas on Chewie…
dead Chewie… <span style="font-weight: normal;">* sad face *</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">M</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">an!
Chewie dead in one round. That is </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">not
</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">impressive
flying!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Well,
not to be too downhearted, I ploughed on with Chopper. And what a
trooper he was, before going down, he killed a jumpmaster and took
all the shields off the other one. In the end, it wasn’t </span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">quite</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
the trouncing I thought it was going to be. </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Still
pretty shoddy though.</span></span></div>
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Loss 44-100</div>
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*** bonus ***</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
now get to tick off James’ name from my
People-I’ve-Played-From-The-186</span></span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">-Squadron-Podcast
scorecard. So far, I’ve got Mike Dennis and James Dowdall… I’ll
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">get</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
you Alex Birt, one day!</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">
Game 3 vs Nathan Phillips</span></b></div>
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Manaroo – Punishing One / Unhinged Astromech / Engine Upgrade /
Push The Limit / K4 Security Droid</div>
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Latts Razzi – Feedback Array / Engine Upgrade / K4 Security Droid /
4-LOM / Dengar / Mangler Cannon</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ghost is off it's base again... silly Chopper!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I’d
met Nathan earlier in the day. Whilst waiting for my game with Sam
Page to begin, Nathan and I had been talking about my list, he said
he’d read about the Lone Wolf / 3PO synergy </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">on
a blog somewhere… turned out it was </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">this</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
blog (I have a reader!!!) We also chatted about his list that he was
running today.</span></span></div>
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When we faced each other we knew what we were up against. My list
relies on Chewie using his evade token and rolling his one dice
(because you need to roll a green to use 3PO or Lone Wolf) so
Nathan’s Latts build seems like the perfect counter to my Chewie,
effectively negating 6 points of my list straight away!
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We both knew what had to happen. From my perspective, Latts had to
die. From Nathan’s perspective, Chewie had to die. We set up
opposite each other and got to business!</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
was so desperate to take out Latts that I was actually taking target
locks with Chewie! (I never do that). </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Our
ships met in the middle of the map in a place called Bump City! </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
managed to get Chewie behind Latts and take her out… Relief! No
more decreasing agility or stopping me spending tokens and in
addition to that, I’d negated Manaroo’s ability as well. She
can’t hand tokens off to anyone if there’s no one else left
alive!</span></span></div>
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Then it came down to, the old 3PO evade malarky again until Manaroo
was dead. During this point, I got into a position where I had shot
Manaroo and Nathan would have either taken one hit OR could have used
his focus token to evade it (triggering Luke). I warned him about
this (because of what happened at my last tournament) and he said he
had remembered about Luke but was trying to avoid as much damage as
possible. He also said he’d remembered reading about <i>that</i> on
the blog as well.</div>
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Win 100-44</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">
Game 4 vs Stephen Donn</span></b></div>
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IG88B – Crack Shot / Advanced Sensors / Tractor Beam / Mangler
Cannon / Glitterstim / title / Autothrusters</div>
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IG88C - Crack Shot / Advanced Sensors / Tractor Beam / Mangler Cannon
/ Glitterstim / title / Autothrusters</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Chewie about to get hurt!</td></tr>
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Well, I’ve never played against Bro Bots in a competitive setting
until today so I didn’t really know what to expect, I knew they
were maneuverable and that in theory, I should go for IG88B first to
shut down the gunner ability.</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Well,
as is the usual occurrence in these games, Chopper </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">faired
pretty badly</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
early </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">on</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.
I had </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">only</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
taken out 2 of IGCs shields </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and
was poised to do some more damage</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">when…
Blinded Pilot!!! So annoying. Then Chopper died. * more sad face *</span></span></div>
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Proud moment of the day number two: I managed to block IGB with
Chewie every turn until I finally killed IGC. This meant I was only
taking shots from one and most turns I was taking a damage but when
your opponent has a gunner ability, that’s the best you can hope
for.</div>
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<br /></div>
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So a pretty much full health IGB against a half health Chewie. Cue,
autothrusters, 3PO, evade, Lone Wolf shinanigans. It could have gone
either way but a few turns later, IGB got a Loose Stabilizer crit and
when, on the last turn of combat IGB misjudged a sloop and Chewie (on
one hull) was just out of arc, I rolled well and killed IGB.</div>
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Damn, that was one hell of a nail-biter!!!</div>
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Win 100-72</div>
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<i><span style="font-weight: normal;">***
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Interlude 1 ***</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tom:
You know what? I’m 3-1. If I win my next two games, I’m in the
cut. If I win one of my next two games I </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">could</span></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">
be in the cut.</span></i></div>
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<i>Joel: Wow!</i></div>
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<i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Both:
</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">bu</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">r</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">st
out laughing</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-weight: normal;">***
End of interlude 1 ***</span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">
Game 5 vs Dan Rodwell</span></b></div>
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4 x Black Squadron Pilot – Crack Shot</div>
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Zeta Leader – Crack Shot</div>
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Howlrunner – Crack Shot</div>
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A TIE swarm! I’ve never played against one of these either!
(Although I did use one in a Vassal game against Joel a few days
before this… the exact same list actually)</div>
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<i>Fun fact: This is the same list Dallas Parker is flying at the
moment according to Mynock Squadron Podcast.</i></div>
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I got initiative and gummed up the middle of the board with
asteroids. Mission one completed!</div>
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I then set Chopper up in the bottom right hand corner. After a bit of
deliberation, Sam set up his swarm opposite Chopper (jousting time!)
Here follows my first mistake. I set Chewie up next to Chopper.
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I really should have known better than that. Chewie doesn’t joust!
Especially not with multiple ships!!!</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Anyhoo,
we went forward. Ramming speed, unfortunately, my ramming speed was
not quite enough and everyone landed within range one of each other
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">but
no one bumped into Chopper. Dan Knew he had to kill Chewie and I knew
I had to kill Howlrunner.</span></span></div>
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I killed Howl in that first round. Yessssssss!!!! Then Dan killed
Chewie. Noooooooo!!!!</div>
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You know how sometimes, something happens in a game and it completely
changes the atmosphere? This was that point in this game. Previous to
this point, Dan had been very much, head down, concentrating, no
small talk. (not at all unpleasant though) As soon as Chewie went
down, he seemed to relax massively. To sum up the rest of this game,
I took out a Black Squadron and then he took out Chopper.</div>
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Loss 34 -100</div>
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</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Interlude
2 ***</span></span></div>
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<i>It was getting late, I was getting all hazy and, to quote myself
on the day, getting all “leg-hurty”. For my next opponent, I
would love something I knew how to beat. Another win would be
fantastic.</i></div>
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<i>The final swiss pairings are up. I trace down looking for my name,
I find it “Tom Tattersall”. I trace right to see who my opponent
is, would I recognise his name? Then I saw it:</i></div>
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<i>All hail our national champion and UK X-Wing darling: Jesper
Hills!</i></div>
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<i>Bollocks</i></div>
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*** End of Interlude 2 ***</div>
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Game 6 vs Jesper Hills</span></b></div>
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IG-88B – PTL / Advanced Sensors / Mangler Cannon / Autothrusters /
title</div>
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IG-88C – PTL / Advanced Sensors / Heavy Laser Cannon / Tractor Beam
/ Autothrusters / title</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">The
</span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">other </span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">thing
I really hoped about my last round was that my opponent would be
nice, friendly, chatty, etc. As I sat down, Jesper offered me a
sweet… we were going to be OK.</span></div>
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So, Advanced Sensor, Push The Limit Brobots… man, they are good!</div>
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Honestly, there isn’t much narrative to this one, it was a slugfest
really, Chopper barreled in, took a few shields off and then promptly
died.</div>
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Then another 3PO evade blah blah session. It did take him a while but
Jesper took my Chewie down before I did any more than half points on
one of his IGs.</div>
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The problem was, both IGs had shots on Chewie almost every round. I
was taking real evasive maneuvers to get out of arc of at least one
of them but with the IGs moving after Cheiwe and the added
effectiveness of boosting knowing where Chewie was ending up, plus
Jesper’s experience and instincts, it proved impossible <i>this</i>
time.</div>
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The score at the end of the game was 26-100</div>
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I nearly got half points on his other IG which would have meant the
score would have been 50-100.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Jesper
squeeked into the top 16 cut by 3 MoV (I think it was 3, a very small
amount, anyway) and then went on to win the entire regional. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
could have prevented Jesper from winning the regional if I had flow
even just slightly better in that last game, potentially, the
difference between me taking a focus instead of an evade in one of
those last few rounds of shooting could have made all the difference.</span></div>
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You know what? I’m really glad the game played out the way it did!
Well done on the win Jesper!</div>
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Loss 26-100</div>
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So, with a 3-3 result, I didn’t make the cut, (I didn’t come here
thinking I would, but it would have been nice) I came 58<sup>th</sup>
of 96 players. Still not changing the blog name! I do think I’ve
improved quite a bit over the time I’ve been flying this list. OK,
I lost against three players but man, what players!</div>
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James Dowdall finished 8<sup>th</sup> in swiss with a 5-1 record.</div>
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Dan Rodwell finished 6<sup>th</sup> in swiss with another 5-1 record.</div>
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Jesper Hills, despite finishing 16<sup>th</sup> in swiss with a 4-2
record, went on to win the day.<br />
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(It's also worth mentioning that Stephen Donn ended 13th in swiss too so I actually won against someone who made the cut!!!)</div>
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I would be <i>super </i>proud of myself if I managed to beat any of
those guys and if we are going purely on Strength of Schedule, I had
115 and there were only 7 people in the whole tournament (including
myself) who had 115 or above. So yes, today is a good day :)</div>
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On a different note, it's worth mentioning that this regionals event was also raising money for the Chartwell Cancer Trust - Tiger Children's Ward and managed to reach a staggering £2,000 in donations, raffle many, etc. What an amazing community to be a part of!</div>
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What did I learn? Engagement, engagement, engagements!</div>
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I talked to James after he trounced me about what I should have done
differently in my game, he said setting Chewie up in the middle of
the board without his buddy, Chopper, was a bad plan. It allowed
James’ list the ranges it needed, not only to engage me with his
jumps, but also to keep N’dru far enough away from his buddies to
proc his ability and throw a total of 8 red dice at my Falcon. If I’d
set up together, Chop might have been a more inviting target AND I
would have been able to fight back with both of my ships instead of,
effectively, just Chewie.</div>
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After being kicked to the curb by Dan, he said again that my setup
was my biggest mistake. I set up my Chopper first and then Dan chose
to joust me. What I <i>should </i>have done was to set up Chewie in
the middle, joust with Chopper, take pot shots with Chewie, then fly
away and drag his swarm through the rocks in the middle.</div>
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I’m learning all the time with this list so I’m not going to
change it, the only thing I think I may do is try out dropping
Chopper out for this.</div>
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Lothal Rebel – Autoblaster turret / FCS / Ezra / Hera (43 points)</div>
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This gives me either 2 points to play with OR a 2 point initiative
bid… which I don’t <i>really </i>need. Maybe I’ll put
Anti-pursuit lasers on to add to the blocking potential of a PS3
large base ship capable of doing hard one turns until the end of days
OR Flechette torps so I can shoot out of that rear arc at all ranges
(Autoblaster takes care of range 1) that everyone forgets about!</div>
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Unfortunately, that’s about it for my competitive X-Wing flying for
a while (the cons of working Saturdays over the Summer unfortunately)
I’ll still be on Vassal as much as I can be so message me on there
if you want a game (Red XIII) and you can usually find me and Joel
pew pewing at Dark Sphere on Tuesday evenings (we’re often down a
player so always ask, if you want a game)</div>
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Thanks to everyone who has read any of my blog posts and thanks to
all of my opponents, I think this feels like the end of chapter one
of my X-Wing career… bring on chapter two!</div>
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Red XIII standing by.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413585448346634288noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112285641061526979.post-86443155206202480462016-05-09T15:43:00.000-07:002016-05-09T15:43:15.419-07:00Battle report - ibuywargames, Woking - 08-05-16<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here we go again! Me and wingman Joel, off on another road
trip to push bits of plastic round tables for six hours… we love it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The list this time was pretty similar to last time, still
Chewie but this time Chopper piloting the Ghost. Here’s the full build:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chopper – Autoblaster turret / Han Solo / Zeb / Fire Control
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From my previous build I had decided gunner was great but
often a little under powered, with the addition of Luke, I gave my offence a
bit of a buff which played out quite nicely once or twice during the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ghost has changed quite a few times over the last few
weeks. I have been wary of adding in autoblaster turret because, I figure that
any ace with a higher PS than the Ghost (which is all of them) would just boost
or barrel roll out of range 1 but I convinced myself that actually, even if
that was the case, I was still making them use their action in a defensive way.
Han crew works well on the Ghost, these things are always stressed so the fact
that Han works even then (with FCS) is great. Zeb? I used Zeb’s ability once or
twice throughout the day with mixed results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tournament was five rounds of swiss with a break for
lunch, we started at 9.30 and finished at 6.00, I think the format is great, I
payed my money and I think 5 games is definitely worth it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I sat down and we engaged in our pre game chat,
Christopher told me that his list was built to chew through large, low agility
ships. He then proceeded to show me how it was done. As usual, the Ghost went
down first. By that time I had taken out the Warden so it was Roark and Miranda
vs Chewie. I managed to kill Roark and in the end it came down the Chewie on
one hull and Miranda on 3 hull. One more TLT shot and it was a dead Chewie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the window when faced with things that can attack twice. A list containing 3
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Chopper to one side of the board and Chewie in the middle (so as to proc Lone
Wolf). Jamie set up his forces in such a way as to attack Chopper with The
Inquisitor and Chewie with the other two. Well, Chopper started off blocking
The Inquisitor and (because of Zeb) throwing 5 modified red dice at his 3
unmodified greens, suffice to say that within two turns, The Inquisitor was
dead! Meanwhile in Chewie-land, my plan was to whether shots from Omega and
Soontir until the Ghost was done with the Inquisitor. I managed pretty well by
keeping Soontir at range 3 and Omega just out of range, all the while throwing
rocks at Soontir in the vein hope of a green dice fluff. No luck there yet! A
few turns later and Omega had given up and gone after The Ghost, it took a few
turns of scrapping but finally, Chopper managed to land a few well placed
Autoblaster shots and Omega went down. Around this time, on the other side of
the board Soontir’s greens finally whiffed and down went the stealth device…
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(spoiler!) can be you favorite match of the day!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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went after him first. One mistake here possibly caused me to throw away a win.
I had Palob at range 1 with Chopper and took a focus with Chopper (as soon as I
had done it I realised my mistake... WHY DIDN'T I TARGET LOCK?) anyway so that
played out as you would expect and I got a bit of damage through, a few turns
later and I had exchanged Chopper for Palob (a rough trade for me really) BUT,
the Scouts had only one torp left between them and were both nearly down to
hull... it could go either way. I did my best to keep one at range 2 or 3 and
one out of range whilst throwing pot shots at whomever I could and to cut a
long story short, managed to kill one and on the last turn, I had one hull left
and the last scout had two... then I made the fatal mistake of being in range
1... FEEDBACK ARRAY!!! Graham was pretty happy with that win and to be fair to
him, he flew really well and, quite honestly, I was pretty happy with the loss!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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so I had a long think about engagements and what I could do to negate the
stress mechanics. Ideally, I would leave the task of killing Chirpy up to
Chopper (he doesn't need actions) and only use Chewie to attack him if I knew I
wasn't going to get double stressed and I knew I could clear the Rebel Captive
stress easily the next turn. The Falcon is such a sitting duck without it's
evade! How it ended up playing out was that Echo was out of the fight for a lot
of the first engagement and Chewie and Chopper were hammering RAC. Mara Jade
and Tactician never triggered and I was able to clear Captive stress with
little effort. RAC was on 1 hull, Chopper was on 7 but in arc of Echo and at
range 3 of RAC... the possibility of a dead Chopper before he could get his target
locked attack off was worrying. RAC fired, getting 2 hits. YES!!! That means,
barring a direct hit, Chopper could whether Echo's attack and kill Chirpy. Echo
fires, 2 hits, 2 crits... yep, one was a Direct Hit!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Echo is chasing Chewie and makes a mistake whilst de-cloaking and ends up
flying over debris into range 1 of Chewie. After a bit of a tussle, Echo goes
down, we then spend a few turns getting back into range of each other where I
promptly get a hit through on RAC and finish the game.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sensors / Push The Limit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dengar – Punishing One / Adaptability / K4
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well then, here we go! My first ever X-Wing
controversy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I won't bore you with the details up to this
point in the game but we could probably say the game was still anyone's.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the cold facts of what happened,
I'll go into what I was thinking after:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I rolled to attack Dengar (out of arc so now
return fire) with Chewie and got 1 hit, Dengar was at range 3 so rolled 3
greens and got one eyeball. Sam said something along the lines of 'Damnit!'
(sorry I can't be more accurate) I said 'You DO have a focus' he used that
focus to evade and so I rolled my Luke shot, 2 hits and a crit. Sam said
something like 'Oh, I forgot about Luke!' and then rolled his three greens and
blanked out taking the full 2 hits and 1 crit (which I believe was the one
where you can't do straight maneuvers)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I rolled the 1 hit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought, fine, he'll evade that and I'll
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He rolled one eye and I thought "Balls,
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He used the focus to cancel the damage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought, "Wow! That's ballsy, he's
going to try his luck against Luke!" To be fair, it was 3, pretty much,
unmodified reds (other than Luke's small mod) against 3 unmodified greens.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the event, I didn’t know what to say
or do. I felt bad!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know what happened was well within the
rules of the game but was what I did honourable? Did I Fly Casual? The question
is, should I have let Sam take back the focus after I realised he had forgotten
about Luke and wasn't taking the focus to be "ballsy"?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just don't know.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How will I prevent this from happening again
in the future? Stop running Luke? (or Gunner) No, I like the card too much for
that! I think faced with a situation where someone is cancelling hits to
completely evade an attack that would be followed by a gunner-type effect, I
will try to always warn them, just in case they have forgotten (although when I
raised this idea with Joel, he stated that it might come across as
patronising... arghhhh! This is a minefield!)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When did pushing plastic around a table turn
into a quagmire of guilt, morals and honour?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, in the end, that was a win 100-77<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, after the tallying of scores I managed 7<sup>th</sup>
place out of 21 players. I’m slowly climbing up the ranks. I got an alt art
Gunner and Poe for my troubles!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, what did I learn? Well there was the
whole Luke, focus issue (but the less said about that, the better) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But list wise, I wonder whether to drop
Chopper to a Lothal Rebel and use the points saved to put an Ion Projector on
the Ghost… supper blocker much? The thing is, even though I managed to block
with Chopper a few times, I forgot to use his stress giving ability every time!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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flying this list and what with Regionals coming up in two weeks I’m not
changing much, if anything!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Picture the scene: you've barrel rolled and
boosted Jake Farrell into a perfect range 1 Procket shot on that pesky shuttle (bye,
bye Palp!) Fantastic! You win! Although... wait... through all that excitement
you failed to notice the presence of a rather large rock that is now a bit too
close for comfort and with Soontir looming into view you need all the actions
(and remaining hull) possible to make your escape!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">You could do a hard one left and most likely
stay out of Soontir's arc BUT, will you end up on the rock?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Decisions like this make or break a match of
X-Wing and to be able to confidently say "Hard one left! Out of arc!"
will more often that not win you that engagement, if not the whole game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I'm pretty sure I can’t be the 1st person to
put together something like this. However, I've tried throwing a few search
terms into Google and never had much luck so for everyone else in my boat here
it is:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Red XIII’s X-Wing Maneuver Guide</b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">A special thanks goes out to Vassal (where I spent ages getting the screenshots). I couldn't have done it without you buddy!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Well, to be fair, if you are here, you
probably already know your way around straights but here are a few screen shots
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1 straight = 2 base lengths of movement</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Please note, throughout all the large ship
diagrams, I have related everything to a large base. Where the movement of a
small ship doing a 1 forward would be 2 small base lengths (referred to as 2
base lengths in the pics), a large ship doing a 1 forward would move 1.5 large
bases (referred to as 1.5 base lengths in the pics) The reason for this decision was to help with eyeballing moves within the game. If you're moving a large base ship, it makes sense to use that base as a reference point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Turns are the second easiest maneuver to
visualise. All turn maneuvers, regardless on speed, will turn your ship 90
degrees. There are, obviously, some intricacies (it would be a pretty boring
game otherwise, eh?) for example, a one hard turn doesn’t move you one base
forward and one to the side, we are now getting into the realms of half-base,
quarter-base and third-base movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">If you go 0.9 base lengths left, you will
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">One very interesting thing I came across
whilst doing this is the one hard turn for large base ships. Everybody says
that when you one hard turn with a large ship your base ends up still inside
the corner of where it was previously. Have a look at the screen shot that
depicts that. Yes, agreed, it does overlap itself BUT not half as much as I had
imagined it would.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Previous to doing this post I would never
have done a one hard turn when next to an asteroid or other ship but armed with
this knowledge, I am much more likely to do something like that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1 turn = 1.2 base lengths of lateral and forward movement</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2 turn = 2.1 base lengths of lateral and forward movement</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3 turn = 2.8 base lengths of lateral and forward movement</td></tr>
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Large Base Ships</h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1 turn = 0.9 base lengths of lateral and forward movement</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2 turn = 1.25 base lengths of lateral and forward movement</td></tr>
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regardless of speed will turn your ship 45 degrees. The difference is how far
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Almost all of them… the 3 bank on a small
ship doesn’t follow this rule. According to my calculations (and you can see
them on the pic below) a small ship doing a left 3 bank will go 4.2 base
lengths forward and 1.9 base lengths left… my question to you all is this:
WHY???<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I have been sitting here staring at these
screenshots for what feels like hours. I can’t work it out. Am I being blind?
The large base 3 bank follows the formula so why doesn’t the small base one?
Please somebody put me out of my misery with this and tell me where I’ve gone
wrong (or tell me I haven’t gone wrong and this is just a crazy quirk in the
maths of the game)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1 bank = 1.2 base lengths of lateral movement and <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2 bank = 1.6 base lengths of lateral movement and<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3 bank = 1.9 base lengths of lateral movement and<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p>I've been asking myself this question: Is the knowledge we are gaining from this experiment/article/blog post worth it? How am I going to use it to "fly better"?</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">The answer to the first question is (for me) yes, it's definitely worth it. During the time I've been working on this stuff (a few weeks maybe) I have noticed a difference in my flying, I know where a 5K is going to get me and I will do it in the full knowledge that I'm not going off the table. Asteroids and debris have been much less of a worry for me now I can make and educated guess where a 3 bank will put me. As for how to use this info, I think there are 2 schools of thought, either, approximate the whole shebang (i.e. round up the numbers and remember the formulas - lots of "just over a base length" or "just under a base length") OR print out little tables like the ones above and use those for reference. I usually fly all small ships or two big ships so you would only need one set of tables if you are doing the same... </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Marquee-Models-102624373121998/" target="_blank">Marquee Models</a> in Harlow! The good thing about going to
tournaments is that you get to scope out lots of different shops and venues.
The big bonus of today was that I’ve actually discovered my most local FLGS. At
a paltry 20 minute drive away, it’s closer than all the other shops I’ve been
visiting, plus the stock of X-Wing products was great. Thoroughly recommended!<o:p></o:p></div>
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So anyway, this was another trip for me and my best mate and
wingman, Joel (who’s blog you can find <a href="https://itsgettinghothinhere.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">here</a>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was running Chewie with a Lothal Rebel and Joel was running DenBot
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Chewie – Lone Wolf / C3PO / Gunner / title<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lothal Rebel – FCS / TLT / Hera / Ezra<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chewie is fairly self explanatory, I have been running him
with predator for a while but due to points being at a premium, I’ve had to
relegate that down to Lone Wolf… which I actually love! Lone wolf does require
you have to give a bit more thought to deployment, however it also makes Chewie
a great endgame ship for a few reasons.<o:p></o:p></div>
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you get a blank (and let’s be honest, with 3 dice, you almost always get at
least one blank!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->there is some great synergy with 3PO. When you
roll a single die, you call 0 for 3PO, if you get an evade on the dice, you
have your evade, well done! However, if you get a blank, you get your evade
from 3PO, THEN you can lone wolf reroll potentially getting another evade!
That’s 2 evades from one dice, an impossibility made possible!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Lothal Rebel, otherwise known as the stress-boat. Get
yourself stressed and you can turn an eye to a crit with Ezra AND you can still
have access to your entire dial due to Hera! Fantastic! An odd side effect of
this is that I have actually had to AVOID green moves once or twice because I
only have one stress token and doing the green move would bump me and clear my
stress resulting in one less modified eyeball. TLT and FCS are obvious
inclusions really.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, onto the matchups…<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Match 1 aka Lucky Crits!</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Kyle – Rec Spec / TLT<o:p></o:p></div>
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Miranda – TLT<o:p></o:p></div>
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Poe – R2D2 / Integrated Astromech<o:p></o:p></div>
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I had a fair amount of trouble at the start with ranges and
arcs etc. and the Ghost took a bit of a battering. I managed to get Kyle off
the board after a few rounds of shooting. Kyle’s inclusion in this squad allows Poe to do red manoeuvres or take Target Locks and still be assigned
his customary focus… pretty cool! Fast forward a few rounds and Poe is in
pretty good shape; 1 shield left. He takes a face full of red from the Chewie
(the Ghost is well gone by now!) and suffers a hit and crit. The hit kills the
shield and then the crit comes up as major explosion, the red from major
explosion comes up as a hit and the crit taken from that? You guessed it,
Direct Hit! Dead Poe! I couldn’t believe my luck! (We later realised that Poe
had Integrated Astromech so could have saved himself but as we were both so
into the engagement, we had both forgotten!) Miranda vs. Chewie. Could be
anyone’s game. In the end I snatched it… just! (With another lucky Direct Hit!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Paul probably flew better than me in this match but because
this is (partially) a game of luck I got the win in the end!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Win 100 – 47<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Match 2 aka Triple Jumpmasters <span style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span></span></span></u></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p>3 x Contracted Scout – Deadeye / R4 Agromech / Plasma Torps / Extra Muns / Guidance Chips</o:p></div>
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The most dreaded list in X-Wing currently! Half the reason I
took the Ghost and Chewie was the fact that 29HP is enough to eat a fair few
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I actually think, flying wise, this was my best game of the
day. I couldn’t pull off the victory though. There’s just too much damage
output for a player of my calibre to weather. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Probably the most interesting moment in the match came about
the quarters of the way through the match. I had taken out a Jumpmaster and my
Ghost had bitten the dust. I was faced with the decision of rolling to destroy
the second Jumpmaster OR rolling to cause one damage against the third
Jumpmaster, giving me half points on it. I went for the kill shot, destroyed
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Answer: freaking awesome!</div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Match 3 aka "Oh yea! I’ve got gunner!"</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Soontir – Autothrusters / Stealth Device / Royal Guard / PTL<o:p></o:p></div>
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Omicron – Palp / FCS<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, I must have got lucky! The first part of the match was
me dealing with the shuttle. By the time that had been destroyed the Ghost was
on one hull… then it died (I’m beginning to see a pattern here!) So, full
health Chewie vs. full health Soontir and Carnor. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I got a lucky crit on Carnor. Major explosion again! Then a
hit again! Console fire… it’s not a direct hit but it’s good enough! Next turn,
console fire procs a hit and Carnor goes down in flames. Then it was Chewie vs.
Soontir and we went round and round and round 3PO-ing, Lone Wolfing, Stealth
Device-ing and Autothrusting basically resulting in no damage whatsoever! About
5 minutes before time was called I glanced down at my cards and noticed one
that I didn’t recognise… I picked it up and blew a thick layer of dust off it.
Underneath, it read G.U.N.N.E.R… OH FOR F&*K SAKE! Yes, I’d for gotten to
use Gunner this entire match, all those times when Soontir’s green dice had
whiffed and he’s had to use his stack of tokens to get out of trouble… I could
have shot at an untokened Soontir…<o:p></o:p></div>
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We flew on and eventually time was called. A win, but it
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“Joel, have you got a marker?” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yea, why?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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5 x Green Squadron Pilot – Adaptability / Crackshot /
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I’d only ever played against one A-wing swarm before… I’d
got royally mullered by it so when I saw this I wasn’t too hopeful really. I
messed up the initial engagement and got many crackshot-ed hits landed on my
Ghost (good job there was that debris field in the way that allowed me to roll
the one green dice that prompted the crackshot spend) So… round about turn 4 or
5, the ghost had died and so had 2 A-wings. <o:p></o:p></div>
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3 A-wings vs. Chewie! It. Was. On.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Actually, it wasn’t really on that much, lots of flying
around not much focused fire. I got the odd shield off An A-wing here and there
and pretty much deflected everything that was thrown at me. We ended with
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Before I wrap up this match, what of my Gunner problem? Yea,
still forgot to use it a fair few times. Better than last match though. Also,
I’ve realised that writing things on your hands doesn’t work… because, erm, you
don’t look at your hands that much… at one point I whiffed a roll and
facepalmed myself with my ‘gunner-ed’ hand prompting my opponent (very
generously) to say ‘Gunner?’<o:p></o:p></div>
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A modified loss for me (do they exist? Well, a modified win
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40 – 47<o:p></o:p></div>
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So I went 2 – 2 for my troubles and came 6<sup>th</sup> of
14 players (don’t have to change the name of the blog just yet. lol) and got a
lady rebel VI (badass!) and some acrylic ion tokens. Happy with that!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Did I learn anything? Yes, study initial engagements! Also,
REMEMBER .TO. USE. GUNNER! I have another tourney in early May at ibuywargames
and I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">think</i> I’m going to keep the
same list! Just got to get some more practice in with it beforehand
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Ok well, this is Red XIII signing off. (I made myself a
callsign, squeee!) Until next time, fly casual!<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03413585448346634288noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112285641061526979.post-35569824388618101182016-04-08T11:52:00.000-07:002016-04-08T11:52:40.361-07:00The Fleet Has Arrived! - Imperial RepaintHello everyone,<br />
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just a quick one to show off the new fleet!<br />
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I can't take any credit for these repaints, my good friend and fellow X-Winger Liam Scully is responsible for these gorgeous creations.<br />
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The Royal Guard TIE Interceptor was the inspiration for the colour scheme and so that one didn't need painting but I think it fits in pretty well.<br />
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At some point I hope to include a TIE mini swarm, TIE Defender and TIE Bomber in there just to round it off but as they are the ships I fly least, they are bottom of the priority list.<br />
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I'm really happy with them What do you guys think?<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/vault14/">Vault 14</a> – Doncaster – 03-04-16<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, my first post then… <o:p></o:p></div>
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*** Disclaimer *** <o:p></o:p></div>
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I am the epitome of a mid table player! I have only played
in 4 tournaments so far, in my first, I placed 7<sup>th</sup> out of 16. My
second; 14<sup>th</sup> of 18. Third; 17<sup>th</sup> of 34 and fourth; 9<sup>th</sup>
of 18.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In case you missed that, 75% of the tourney’s I’ve played
in, I have ended up directly in the middle of the table. Therefore, I am not
professing to be any kind of authority on this game (or very good at it for
that matter!) but these posts might be interesting to players in a similar
position to myself or people just getting into the game.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, with that out of the way, on to my list!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Vader<o:p></o:p></div>
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VI / Engine / ATC / Title<o:p></o:p></div>
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Omega Leader<o:p></o:p></div>
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Juke / Comm Relay<o:p></o:p></div>
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Redline<o:p></o:p></div>
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FCS / Guidance Chips / Extra Munitions / Cluster Missiles /
Plasma Torpedoes<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most of that is fairly self-explanatory, Vader to arc dodge
at PS11 (it’s worth noting that the list comes in at 99 points so there’s a
little initiative bid in the to make sure Vader is moving almost all the time)
and Omega Leader to make all my opponents say “Argghhh! I hate Omega Leader!!!”
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Where the list is a bit different from the usual Imp lists
you see is the inclusion of Redline.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Redline has obviously improved with Guidance Chips, for
those that don’t know, the order of hurt goes thus:<o:p></o:p></div>
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of his ability means 2 target locks)<o:p></o:p></div>
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lock<o:p></o:p></div>
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results, Redline uses Guidance Chips to make one of them a hit!<o:p></o:p></div>
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… IF Redline has his target in arc… and that’s the
challenge! Many people would say that spending 38 points on a ship with 1 AGI
and a mediocre dial which really relies on getting and using target locks is
too much! I, however, am sticking with it because, along with the pain it
brings, it has 9 hit points and whilst everyone is zerging the Punisher down,
it leaves the other two to flank. (that’s the idea, anyway)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wake up at 6:30, feel bad. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Arrive in Doncaster at 9.30, feel better.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Realise that the start time was not 10am (as I originally
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So <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vault14/">Vault 14</a> is a nice place, friendly staff, quite small but (from what I
could tell) well laid out with an excellent selection of X-Wing ships. I think
the Tantive was the only thing missing from stock! The shop is pretty new as well so hopefully we'll see more good stuff happening here.<o:p></o:p><br />
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*** Round One aka God Damn Gary the TIE ***<br />
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Vs. John McGinty<o:p></o:p></div>
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Vader (or cosplay Kylo Ren)<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Inquisitor<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 x Academy TIEs<o:p></o:p><br />
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You know people say “You should never underestimate the
lowly TIE fighter.” and you always think, yea yea yea, what can a tiny TIE
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I’d like to introduce you to Gary, he’s currently only an
academy pilot (although I think he is getting promoted after this match) he’s
the TIE fighter on the right in the picture with a number 3. I hate Gary!<o:p></o:p></div>
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After a few combat rounds, Omega Leader is off the board,
two TIEs are off the board and I’m thinking, this game seems to be going my
way, I’ll take out that last TIE and then move onto the rest… <o:p></o:p></div>
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30 minutes later<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s carnage! All my ships are bleeding health badly and
Gary is still skipping around the board, rolling triple evades and double hits.
I guess fair mention should go to Vader and The Inquisitor who also got some
hits in but Gary… Gary was man of the match. I hate Gary!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyway, I took out his Inquisitor before I lost!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Loss! 53-100<o:p></o:p></div>
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debris field, rolled a crit, got a Major Explosion, rolled a hit then got a
Direct Hit… good riddance!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Redline<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bounty Hunter<o:p></o:p><br />
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I was quite excited to see what someone else would do with
Redline (as you don’t see him very often) and there was at least one point
where there was an actual ‘Punisher-off’. It was at range one and my Punisher
has ordinance covered from 1-3 and Phil’s had accuracy corrector to make his
primary attacks hit that bit harder. I THINK my Redline came out on top that time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyway, many pew pews later, time was called. I had Redline
still alive, Phil had Colzet still alive. Colzet was worth 24 points against my
38 point Redline. Redline had 4 hull left so I was feeling pretty good, just
had to stay out of arc, or at least range one. So after we’d both moved,
Redline was in his arc at range 1… not good! To be fair though, he’d have to
roll 3 hits, then use his ATC to add a crit and I would have to roll a blank,
or an eye… So he proceeded to roll 3 hits, add a crit with ATC and I rolled an
eye… bye bye Redline.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This was a great game and although the last result was
totally down to dice, Phil flew the rest of the match really well. I can
honestly say that was one of my favourite games of X-Wing I’ve ever played!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Loss! 76-100<o:p></o:p></div>
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Juno<o:p></o:p></div>
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Echo<o:p></o:p></div>
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Great! A Juno list! I’ve wanted to see Juno played by
someone else for ages! See, the thing is, I think Juno’s ability is one of the
best in the game, I’m just too ham-fisted to be able to leverage it properly.</div>
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Unfortunately though, this was not Hayden’s day and I took
Juno off the board three turns in so he didn’t get a chance to show me how she
worked properly. Aiden’s dice were cold. I flew fairly well but he rolled many
triple blanks. This resulted in a 100-0 win to me. I felt slightly bad but I
guess that’s the luck of the dice!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Win! 100-0<o:p></o:p></div>
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The results were called and true to form, I came 9<sup>th</sup>
out of 16 (pretty much slap, bang in the middle). The frustrating thing about
all these mid table results is that I always seem to just miss out on the next
prize tier… oh well, those acrylic ion tokens will be mine one day (when I buy
them off eBay in a few months!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, off I set on the two and a half hour drive home during
which I came up with a fantastic list idea centred around a TIE swarm with
Attani Mindlink… <o:p></o:p></div>
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Wow, literally, I’m going to wipe the floor with this list!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bye bye mid table, hello first place! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m finally going get that elusive Store Championship win!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m going to beat Paul Heaver with it! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’M GOING TO WIN WORLDS!!! <o:p></o:p></div>
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…of course, I latter realised that Attani Mindlink is Scum
only. Damn!<o:p></o:p><br />
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