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Today's theme was "You can't fly the highest-PS or lowest-PS pilots". I foolishly didn't check the invite so I showed up with an illegal list and had to make some sudden adjustments.

Sol Sixxa + VI + Autoblaster Turret + Bomblet Generator + Long-Range Scanners + Havoc + Accuracy Corrector + "Genius"

Emon Azzameen + Tractor Beam + Proximity Mines + Proximity Mines + Extra Munitions + Counter-Measures + Cad Bane + Slave I

Inaldra + Trick Shot + "Light Scyk" Interceptor

Unfortunately I did terrible on the first match. I fought Expertise Rey + Finn etc (who is amazing in this format since most of her natural predators are missing) and Lowhhrick. I kept thinking Sol was able to ignore bombs (because he'd originally been Nym ). Plowed through a lot of my own bombs that way, and my bomb rolls liked hurting me more than my opponent. Still a fun game and I was fighting a cool guy who was pretty good natured. I drew 3 or 4 Direct Hits that game, insta-killing Inaldra and finishing Sol early. It was a brutal round of learning.

~31 or 33 to 100

Next round I did quite a bit better. I faced a scum mindlink fleet with cruise missiles on Inaldra and Kaa'to Leeachos. Plus Palob & Old Teroch. I actually demolished Old Teroch thanks to bombs and some good shots. I still don't know how it would have ended because my opponent scooped near the end, because he had to rush home for an appointment. I kinda feel like I didn't earn those points. :)  Cool opponent and I would have loved to finish the match and let him pull a reversal.  He figured he'd solidly lost but it's quite possible he could have scored some points.

100-0

Final round I rocked. I fought Maarek Stele with TIE/x7 and I forget what else (Expertise again?), and Commander Kenkirk with Lone Wolf, Emperor Palps , and Ysanne Isard among other stuff. Bombs and an autoblaster shot actually finished off Maarek prematurely, including a direct hit as the final damage, killing him way earlier than we expected; man what a gift that was! This left my team up against a healthy but outnumbered decimator. After that it was a slow grind, lots of bomb dropping and shooting to slowly whittle him down. He killed Inaldra pretty quickly, and she never managed to block anything (her main role in the fleet), but I think she got some damage in so it's all good. Sol started taking heavy damage and had to flee from the decimator's turret, but by then it was too late -- Emon managed a shot that finished off the decimator and handed me the victory.

That thing was beefy with both Ysanne and Kenkirk defending it, plus Palpatine modifying bomb rolls and blocking Cad from rerolling the die. It didn't care about bombs like little fighters do; it could take the beating. It felt pretty good to take it down.

100-13

I got third place, scoring me another alt-art Crack Shot and the strange-looking oval focus tokens. I'm really pleased with Emon and Sol. Their abilities are fun and they were fairly effective once I got used to handling them. That first match was a brutal but critical learning experience.

Hopefully someone else will have a game to share here. I'm starting to feel like I've chased everyone away with long paragraphs. :)