Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27029853-20170703223814/@comment-454133-20171221061701

I got my butt handed to me today and it really hurt. My opponent was skilled, and I met that skill with clinical retardation. I completely forgot how to fly today. I could not pilot properly to save my life, and nearly every maneuver I made put me in a different place than how I'd imagined it. :(

So this was definitely me, not my ships. I wasn't impressed at all with the Alpha-Class Star Wing, its poor turnaround ability was really difficult to handle without a turret. I can't treat it like a K-Wing. I'm going to have to ruminate for a while on how to fly it properly. Flying away and turning back in was an uncomfortably slow process, but that may be because of my bad flying. And I forgot to fire its HLC during the first round of combat, out of idiocy, which may have severely hurt me every round thereafter. We just sped right past its turn.

I did excessively poorly with Kylo. That ship had worlds more potential than I could put into it.

Due to rotten positioning, Kestal never got a turret shot off or used his ability. He never had a focus token while in range, because he kept getting bumped, stressed, or otherwise wrecked. He made one lethal primary weapon attack on Roark due to dice luck.

It really hurts being in this bad of a funk. I don't know how I can fly so competently one day and then lose all capacity for thought half a week later. :(

I failed this list's potential:

Kylo Ren with PTL + Advanced Sensors + Primed Thrusters + Autothrusters + First Order Vanguard

Lieutenant Kestal with Deadeye + Synced Turret

Nu Squadron Pilot with HLC + LRS + XG-1 Assault Configuration

I flew it against Poe with VI + R2-D2 + Advanced Optics + Autothrusters + Black One, Roark Garnet with TLT (and maybe something else?), and Ezra (Sheathipede) with Swarm Tactics + R3-A2 + Gunner.

I did manage to kill Roark early, to stop him from putting himself and Ezra to PS 12 each round, and stop the TLT threat. And I avoided Ezra's arc for a long while, which is the only reason I didn't do much, much worse. But I lost Kestal the round after killing Roark, just taking far too much damage. After then my team collapsed under my bad planning on each of the following rounds.

I need to do some serious thinking about what went wrong, and what pieces to cut out of my brain to correct it. One lobotomy may not be enough. :/

Only one person showed up today because everyone was afraid of a tiny bit of snow on the road (roads were already basically dry by then...), and my opponent could only stay for one battle so I wasn't able to try again. Nor did I get to try my scum list with my Kimogila. I'm not sure I'll be able to go next Wednesday because of schedule conflicts, so I don't know how soon I'll get to play X-Wing again. Kind of a cruddy way to end the year. Maybe I can get a game in somewhere though.