Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27029853-20170129150901/@comment-27221056-20170129191028

Yesterday our local community held a 4 years birthday tournament (based on the creation of the facebook page) and a Q1 kit was in the prizepool along with a lot of other goodies. Our resident TO (Vince Kingston) is marshalling many of the bigger tournaments in Europe, so he gets to bring home many different, hard to get prizes. He doesn't play anymore himself (Guild Ball won him over), so he usually throws them in the prize pool for our bigger, non-premium events. And then there's always a wooden spoon prize (yesterday he got the orange templates from the 2017 regionals and a gift card, I think).

Everyone got an AA Bossk and there was a random draw for a plastic Biggs card (which I couldn't participate in, because I'd already won the first random draw of a Ghost Expansion) and there were some Paul LaRue AA and I think some Polish AA with Kylo Rage, Chicken Boba and so on.

Anyways, it was a very casual event, so I didn't expect a lot of top-meta lists. Boy, was I wrong. I brought the following

https://geordanr.github.io/xwing/?f=Scum%20and%20Villainy&d=v4!s!116:188,35,137,184,-1,128:-1:3:;131:170,110,-1,173,174,178,108:-1:-1:&sn=Unnamed%20Squadron

and hoped to meet a lot of small ships. Which I did in the first round. 3 Defenders. Vessery with Swarm Leader and Ryad and Delta with x7. I haven't tried my list against Defenders before, but I had a pretty good idea it would fare well. My opponent played defensively and had me closing in. Bossk sniped two shields in the first engagement, while the Defenders were facing the other direction. I had a bad approach with Boba and was forced to go on a detour. Then k-turns, no engagement and then I figured he would go 5 straight with Vessery and Ryad. He did and I flew Boba straight over a rock to get in range 1. Popped Glitters, had two re-rolls = 3 hits + 1 from Fearlessness. Unavoidable due to autoblaster. Vessery didn't get to shoot. Bossk had bumped Ryad, so a primary attack against the Delta, which removed a couple of shields. A couple of rounds later Ryad was in Boba's frond arc at range 1. Four unavoidable hits and Bossk had already removed two shields. It took a while to take down the Delta, but Boba got him in the end. My opponent got half point for both ships.

1-0

Next match: Paratininni. It was an inexperienced player, but last time I played him he had hot dice and mine were zub-zero. This time was no different. I managed to ionize Manaroo of the board, but I rolled 1 evade if any during the entire match and he had 4 shots of natural hits and one with natural crits. So that was what I got. I also forgot to use Glitters at the right time, which would have killed Fenn Rau. Big mistake.

1-1

Next round: Kanan-Biggs. One of four, I think. Of 31 players, there were ten Ghosts. I had won against him once with a Dengar-Ventress list, but my dice were still cold from the previous match and it all came down to a final maneuver were Biggs with two hull, focus and target lock in my rear arc at range 1 and Kanan with one hull, target lock and focus at range 3. Boba had one hull left. Knowing I didn't stand a chance against tlt I took my chances with Biggs and hoped my evade token could save me. Kanan dead, Biggs rolled 4 hits. He had M9-G8 on Biggs which saved Kanan from 6-7 hits. All my re-rolls were blank or eyes and I never had focus.

1-2

Round 4: Kanan-Chewie. I don't know what happened, but the otherwise experienced player flew Kanan over debris three times in a row and never got to use his ability. I ionized Chewie on a rock once, which kept Bossk alive for a few more rounds. Chewie ran away for a bit and Boba finished Kanan after losing Bossk. Then Boba could almost comfortably take Chewie down. In this and my previous match, Bossk recieved the red turns crit and Boba did in this one as well. I almost flew him off the board due to Glitters, but managed to turn sharply enough to finish Chewie.

2-2

Last round: Scum Boba-Kath. This guy ALWAYS plays Boba and Kath. He's a lot of fun to play against and I was 2-0 against him so far. He was ps 9 with both ships, so he had a serious advantage, but I managed to get Boba in range 1 front. That meant I also was in his range 1. And in Kath's rear arc. Everyone who could, popped Glitters and my Boba lost 5 HP and his lost 7. A fine trade off. Then a lot of bumping, both his firesprays stressed and I managed to ionize my own two ships. Boba had bumped Boba, and Kath had turned to not have anyone in arc, so Bossk lost three shields. My Bossk at range one only managed to roll 1 hit 1 crit and Boba evaded once. One hull left. Then my ships didn't move because of ion and bumping, his Boba flew past in ranged one rear arc and Kath closed in at range one as well. Which got my Boba down to 1 hull. My Boba then overkilled his Boba and then Bossk could fire at Kath. After losing my Boba in the next firing, Bossk could easily finish the job.

3-2 and finished at 13th. And sadly only went against 6 small ships out of 13 total.