Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27029853-20170703223814/@comment-27221056-20170716083203

Yesterday I was at the first of three Store Championships that I'm attending and I didn't really know what to play. I had tried Rey+Poe, but it's a very punishing list, if I make even one mistake. So one of the regulars, who always play two firesprays (it's a standing joke, and we all love it) had me promised to bring two firesprays for one of the SCs (I had to borrow one from him, though). So I did just that:

Boba Fett - VI, Engine Upgrade, Tactician and Glitterstim

Kath Scarlett - HLC, Expertise and Dengar

As it turned out, 4 of the 20 players had brought 2 firesprays! Great fun!

In the first round I met a newer player, who defeated me at a previous tournament, because I screwed up with Rey+Poe. He had a PS3 Ghost with Finn and Baze Malbus and other stuff and Braylen Stramm with Jyn Erso. In the first engagement, Boba only managed to deal two damage in range one to the Ghost and Kath dealt four. My opponents dice where hot. He naturally rolled hits an crits, and Kath was down to four hull. Luckily he hit Boba with one damage, so he couldn't use Baze to kill of Kath. I then focused on Braylen (I should have done that from the beginning) and had him down to three hull and then lost Kath. Boba now had to clean up and luckily my opponent flew his 9 hp Ghost off the table, just after deploying the shuttle. The rest was a test of patience and maneuvering to bring the win home.

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Second round was almost a mirror match. He had the same Kath with BSMT and I can't remember his Boba, but had Fearlessness and Homing Missiles. Long story short: we chipped off of eachother until both Kaths were at 1 hull, facing backwards to eachother and everything else bumbed. He had initiative, and gave my Kath a Blinded Pilot so I couldn't kill his Kath. Boba was on clean-up duty again. In a range one battle between the Bobas, my four hull Boba landed two crits on his three hull Boba, with one being Direct Hit, making up for the Blinded Pilot earlier. My Boba could then easily dispose of his Kath.

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The third was the dreaded Death Sandwich, which is one of the veteran players with his goofy, but effective Decimator and Upsilon list, which makes Oicunn deal two bump damage each turn and then IA and BoShek makes things really difficult for you. I managed to kill Oicunn rahter quickly, but then I screwed up my positioning and took too much damage from the shuttle. I managed to keep both ships alive though.

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Fourth round was against tanky Chewie and Miranda. And my dice where really hot this round. My attacks were potent and besides the first two, when I had to roll for mines, I hit blanks, which totally saved Boba, who could finish off Miranda. Then it was a battle of attrition which my two ships won. Luckily he still managed to reach the top cut with his MOV, but I had to win.

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Semifinal (this was my first top cut) was against two mindlinked u-boats and Fenn. He was really tired and screwed up a lot, which handed me the easiest win. I only lost half Boba.

Final. This was against Parattanni, which is probably the worst match-up. And it was a patient and veteran player. I screwed up in the second activation and had Boba too close to his ships, where I had to use Glitters to no effect. He won rather quickly, but I had reached top 4, which was more than I had expected from bringing a list, that I had never played before. Range ruler, Kallus token, worlds Rey, AA Engine Upgrade and Anniversary R2-D2+Integrated Astromech was the loot I got to bring home. Good times.