Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27029853-20170129150901/@comment-27029853-20170303144906

So casual night last night...it was less than spectacular. I think I've figured out that I really don't like to mix jousters and arc dodgers together though. I'd prefer to keep all my jousters together or to keep all my arc dodgers apart, not a mix of the two.

My Kir Kanos list came up against Darth with Lone Wolf, title, Advanced Targeting Computer, and EU, a Gamma Squadron Pilot with Kylo Ren and Systems Officer, Colzet with the title and Advanced Targeting Computer and an Imperial Trainee with the Adaptive Ailerons.

We set up the asteroids and debris reasonably sparsely, kinda in a diagonal line from my bottom right to the top left. He set up in the top left with his low PS ships heading to the right whereas Darth set up in the same square, but pointed towards me. I set up all my ships on the right, pointed towards him. He sent his ships down, prepared to enter the asteroid gap that opened up on his side of the table in the middle whereas I moved towards him but banked into the asteroid field. Darth went down the corridor on the right. I was expecting him to try to sandwich me, giving Darth his LW rolls while managing maximum firepower. I had a chance then to light a couple lower PS ships up or go after what I thought was the biggest threat. I went after Darth, but he turned away. It meant my flank was exposed to his ships. Echo fared poorly, having been Shown the Dark Side. My opponent rolled 3 crits naturally on his 7 dice in addition to an Advanced Targeting Computer crit. While Echo managed to survive the Gamma Squadron attack after spending tokens, she took a hit and two crits from Colzet, meaning she lost a shield from the hit, took a blinded pilot from I'll Show You the Dark Side, and then lost her other shield. She did survive the shot from the Imperial Trainee however. He moved his forces in to try to box mine, but that meant Deathrain was able to drop an Ion Bomb to Ion all three of them while he and Kir moved in to try to cage Darth. Echo was just trying to stay alive, so disengaged to try to live and catch some LW rerolls (that I had forgotten about so didn't position her to exploit). After seeing where Darth landed though, he recalled that I didn't have to use the front guides of my ship. He did use Colzet to flip "a random facedown damage card" on Echo though, meaning she remained blinded. Not a whole ton of damage I recall from this round, Deathrain may have been hurt. His ships were all ioned, so drifted forward, but the Striker with its ailerons and barrel roll tried to block Deathrain. It didn't work however, and I banked to fishtail Darth with the Connor Net. After dropping the Connor Net I got to barrel roll out of the Striker's arc too! After Darth revealed his one bank it was clear that he'd land on the debris after the ionization. His Gamma Squadron and Colzet kinda maneuvered out of the battle, and the Striker k-turned. Deathrain dropped an Ion Bomb though to ensure he'd catch Darth again, Kir moved in to fire on Darth. Darth failed to roll any evades though (0 on 14 over the course of 3 rolls), so Deathrain and Kir took out Darth. A shot of his managed to kill off Echo though. It was kinda clean up by him at that point, Deathrain did manage to Connor Net a ship, but otherwise couldn't serve much purpose and Kir was having trouble being effective. Never used Kir's ability, mainly because it was always more important for me to reposition rather than pick up the evade. I managed to hit 6 ships with Deathrain's 4 bombs though, so that made me happy.

The local's best player came though to practice for the Naboo open, but was still picking between a half dozen lists. The list he decided to try was Old Teroch and Lucius Vorenus, both with the title, Autothrusters, and mindlinked to Manaroo who had a K-4 Security Droid, Black Market Slicer Tools, and R5-P8. I used that talentless hack Tetran Cowall's list.

He had a 3 point initiative bid, so chose to have Terry move after all of mine. I kinda set up for a joust, knowing Tetran's ability had been relatively neutralized. Backdraft and Maarek laid into Lucius though, he died on the first turn. Despite that though, Terry did a good job for the rest of the game dodging shots coming in at him, although I did a poor job, misjudging some space and having that talentless hack Tetran Cowall 5k off the edge. Backdraft's Sensor Jammer didn't do a whole ton against a Mindlink list and he went down slowly, and Maarek joined soon afterwards. I don't recall the details of this match as well. He seemed pretty down on the list though with how Lucius had imploded. He also had difficulty recalling R5-P8 over the course of the game and generally found himself just out of range for the Black Market Slicer Tools. I brought up that I generally tend to do that when he's practicing for a big tournament, last time was Regionals where my Lucky 7s, particularly Vessery's Tractor Beam made life tough for his Miranda and Esege list.

We played again, with him using the same list. I brought out my Carnor list. I tried jousting, but trying to keep Tomax and Carnor back in the first engagement, but his range control with his boost brought Fenn into range one a turn sooner than I'd like. Whereas there wasn't too much damage traded between either of us, on the reengagement where I k-turned he took out Carnor. Tomax tried to get his missiles off against Terry, but happened to get a blinded pilot. Next turn Terry was in range 1 to prevent the missiles going off and Tomax was focused fired. Rexler tried his best, but Terry's token stripping left him relatively weak defensively and hurt his offense without Juke (although Juke wasn't of too much use against the mindlink list).

First match was a poor judgment on my part and the other two matches were against someone playing super seriously (but still super friendly) so my more casual lists were going to struggle.