Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-454133-20171102205841/@comment-454133-20180114050840

Ugh, I ended up getting only 3-3 today at Regionals. I made some bad choices, and a couple of times my dice crapped out on me at the worst possible moments. Most memorably, on my first match I killboxed a stressed and tokenless Darth Vader, and then completely blanked out. Had I done at least some damage to him, it would have been a very different game. I lost by only 2 points! I really needed to remove a ship sooner than I did.

Harpoons were tough to deal with. I did really well against one gunship fleet, staying on his gunships' butts and mowing them down one by one, and he couldn't shake me. His Kylo killed one of my tucks, but I otherwise did well that game. But the other two Harpoon-heavy fleets just threw my wookies over the table and did unspeakable things to them. I even came so, so close to turning one around, but he ran away with Kylo all game and time was called before I could finish him.

I think there were two other Triple Wookie fleets today, one which did well (I think?  I never found out) and the other said he did poorly.

Out of 57 players I came in 22nd. Soo... very mediocre.

But I was so, so tired, I'm glad I didn't have to stay for finals. :)  In fact, I'm home, relaxed and showered, and they're probably still playing.   I felt sick all day today with digestive complaints (oh it's good to be home, near my own restroom), s o I can swallow my pride and accept the silver lining.  Yea... that's what I'll tell myself.  ;)

The fleet that surprised me? A Ghost (plus Phantom) and Scurrg that both had Accuracy Corrector + Autoblaster Turret, and he started that game by completely wrecking me. I lost Lowhhrick very quickly, and another wookie soon after. Six guaranteed damage every time I misplanned a wookie's maneuver was brutal. I just struggled and struggled to shake that ghost's maneuver dial and large base, and couldn't stay out of range one. And their primary attacks were frightening too. But once the ghost was dead (and his phantom, which died soon after), I did much better, and eventually killed his Scurrg with my remaining tuck. It was a tough match but I'm really pleased I worked it out. IMO it was a clever fleet and he flew really, infuriatingly well. ;)

Worst match by far was my last one. I started the match by realizing I was missing two damage cards -- apparently LOTS of people were missing damage cards and there was a scramble to figure out who had what. Someone at our Regionals had sticky fingers! I suspect Kylo players kept scooping them up with the condition... but everyone was explicitly told by the TO to count their damage decks and only a fraction of the lost cards were returned, so it could also have been malicious... or extremely stupid/lazy. Grr....

So after a few minutes of panicking, I got a temp deck from the TO, Caleb (who is frick'n awesome, by the way), and started my game. I then started the match and got wrecked violently and slowly by Harpoons, and my opponent was slow at every single dial placement so it was a miserable grind as I was inexorably destroyed. Bad rolls and bad strategy on my part left me with only 22 points (got only one of his 3 gunboats, shed some shields off the others, and never managed to touch Quickdraw). It was just a terrible match for me, and I couldn't wait for it to be over. I was so relieved to just finish losing and start packing up.

Eventually the TO just bought a new core set and handed out damage cards to people who had lost theirs. That was *really* cool of him, and it's taken a huge load off my mind. Really uncool though that so many cards disappeared. I wanna know who to crowbar in the testicles to correct the problem, but I guess that wouldn't be legal. And people wouldn't agree to play against me in the future, if I committed umm... aggravated assault... the crazy rules these days. But ultimately the real problem is that FFG refuses to sell damage decks separately like they do dice; otherwise this would be an easy fix, instead of a $40 problem. So really they deserve the crowbar.

...I'm going to stop being salty and play something wholesome to get my mind off of murder. You all have a nice night!