Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27029853-20170129150901/@comment-27029853-20170219005516

So, tournament today. 6 people showed, 3 of them with TIE Fighers. I wound up going with Zeb, Rex, Sabine (with PTL, Hot Shot Blaster, her Masterpiece , Jan Ors , and TIE Mk. II), Ahsoka with VI and Captured TIE, and Biggs with Artoo and Integrated.

First match was against someone reasonably fresh. He brought a Rey Poe list.

Rey had Expertise, Finn, sloop Falcon, Kanan, Engine Upgrade. Poe had VI, R5-P9, and Autothrusters.

Biggs really didn't want to roll defense evades. He went down after two turns, Rey managed to mostly evade everything that went at her. Rex went down shortly afterwards and Sabine followed. Time was called, and what bugs me is I was told there was 3 minutes left by a spectator, but rather than verifying for myself, I believed him. In order to win the game, I required a kill on Poe and to reduce Rey to half health. So I went for the long shot and tried killing Poe. Then time was called. Had I known it was closer to time than what was mentioned, I would have just gone for half points on Rey.

Second match was against the employee, so not too experienced, but I wanted a purely casual match since it was unlikely we ever played again.

He flew 3 Crack Blacks, Howl with Crack, and Soontir with PTL, Autothrusters, and Stealth Device.

He set himself up in a joust with me, and trying to give Biggs the range 3, I kept him a tad further back. It meant on the first engagement he couldn't shoot at Biggs. He had the better dice and downed Biggs. I did manage to damage Howlrunner however. The next turn I managed to get a block on a couple of his Blacks, which led to a block on Howlrunner. Unfortunately, the dice were once again not on my side and Biggs went down after a turn of shooting. Worst of all, Biggs and Rex going down only required him to spend 2 of 4 Crack Shots. I did wind up have Ahsoka pointing at Soontir range 1 though, so I did manage to squeeze a damage through and get rid of his Stealth Device. He disengaged at this point and took a bit to get back into the match, but I was just not punching through anything for the most part. I finally managed to down Howlrunner with an Ahsoka range 3 shot since Howl spent her focus to eliminate Zeb. At time, Sabine managed to down Soontir, but the 3 leftover Blacks killed Sabine and Ahsoka.

Last match was against two Jakku Gunrunners with the Tugboat modification and Pattern Analyzer, Zuvio with a Proximity Mine, Scavenger Crane, and VI, and Zuckuss with the title, Tractor Beam, FCS, and VII tried and mostly succeeded in keeping the obstacles to straight lines at range 2 of the vertical board edges. He set up his Gunrunners on the left of the column of asteroids, so I set up to the right of them. He then places Zuvio and Zuckuss on the far left corner, which pleased me. I started rushing towards him, trying to engage him before Z&Z got into the match. This time however, I screwed up the first engagement by having Biggs outside of range 1 of my ships. I did lay 4 damage into the one Quadjumper. Redundantly, Rex actually blinded the Gunrunner he shot at. I moved in for the next engagement, but screwed this one up as well as he went faster than I was expecting, so Rex got no shot. Sabine also got wasted by Zuckuss and poor defense dice. Knowing that Ahsoka's Captured TIE title was going to be useless soon, she also took a range one shot into the nearly dead Quad. 1 hit, 1 natural evade. The Quadjumpers were forced to shoot at Biggs though, who only took two damage. Next turn Biggs blocked Zuckuss, which resulted in Zuvio being blocked. Ahsoka hurt Zuckuss somewhat, but the real stars here were Biggs and Rex who killed Zuvio in their two shots, Zuvio having done nothing. Ahsoka got a crit from Zuckuss though and took Structural Damage, so lower agility. Next turn Ahsoka got 3 hits through on Zuckuss, but then Zuckuss killed Ahsoka. Biggs managed to fortunately kill Zuckuss however. 2 damaged Quadjumpers versus a full health Biggs who'd recovered 4 shields, undamaged Rex, and near death Zeb. Zeb died, albeit while taking that near death Quadjumper. Trying to shake stress off of Rex and reengage Biggs, I separated them, and Rex died from a range 1 shot from the Quadjumper. Biggs managed to close it from there though, although that Quadjumper dial made it quite tough for the X-Wing.

Lessons for the day, Rebel TIEs are support ships, Rex needs to support ships that can actually lay in damage during his brief existence, Ahsoka needs to support ships that can actually use actions effectively, I need to learn to fly Biggs better.

Got a second Ketsu card though, now I need to offload that somehow, and 4 Epsilons and Huxed Stridan took 2nd.