Talk:Drea Renthal/@comment-454133-20161108225107/@comment-27029853-20161113235817

So Lucky 7s did pretty well on the weekend, however not against super top competitive squads, and they lived up to their name.

First game I played was against someone who wanted to play Vader since he hadn't done so since he got the TIE Advanced way back in wave 3 (he got into the game in wave 3, it was released in wave 1). The list was Darth Vader and Juno both with Engine Upgrade, TIE/X1, Advanced Targeting Computer, and Predator alonside Tomax Bren with TIE Shuttle, Tactician, and Crack Shot.

We wound up jousting at the start, something that I thought favoured me...which it did. I wound up having Backdraft separating to lure Darth away from the rest, so it was Tomax and Juno firing off against Maarek and Vessery and Darth facing Backdraft. Maarek was deshielded and I think Backdraft took a hit, but Tomax Bren went down in that turn of shooting (took 7 damage from 6 dice) despite Maarek not being able to pick up a target lock for Vessery and Backdraft took the shields off of Vader. After that initial joust the higher pilot skill made it difficult to outmaneuver them and Maarek did fall, but when I did get them in arc it was rough for Juno and Vader. Juno eventually succumbed to a crit that gave her stress on white maneuvers, which prevented her from running away as fast as she needed to and Vader was outdone by Backdraft and Vessery. Funnily enough, Tomax took a Direct Hit, Juno took a Direct Hit, and Vader took 2 Direct Hits.

We were teaching someone new (playing his 2nd and 3rd games ever), so my 2nd opponent was expecting to be playing him and decided to take more of a fun list: 4 Green Squadron Pilots, all with PTL, Crackshot, and one had Prockets and one had Tracer Missiles. This guy is however typically regarded as the top pilot in the region however. He went for the joust as well.

After the alpha strike no ships had been taken down, however Vessery and the A-Wing with the Prockets were hurting badly. We were pretty close range however (just barely outside range 2) so he tried bumping his A-Wings into each other to keep them from going too far and also blocking the 4K. Vessery decided to go straight 5, avoiding the block altogether, which forced them to focus fire on Maarek. The next couple turns saw 2 A-Wings go down and he folded. 

Backdraft was a lot of fun because a lot of times either hard turn will work to get the enemy in arc so you can keep them guessing which way he's going to go. Not exactly top notch competition, but I'll be sure to use the list more frequently in the future.