Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27666888-20170109125804/@comment-27029853-20170123210029

Yikes, bad luck, Bloodlord. It happens.

The motherboard of my laptop is shot, so I'm panicking, would have posted before now. I'll try to recall all the upgrades I can.

So bear in mind, I had a bad night's sleep and this was my first regionals tournament.

First game was against a Bodhi (with Rey Rey and title) -Thane (with Weapons Engineer and title) and Poe (with R5-P9). I buggered up movement, Maarek and Vess were stressed heading into the first round of firing. First round of firing left Vessery slightly damaged, Poe however got tractored onto a rock, rolled crits going on and off of it, he took some hurt from the primary afterwards. Mildly hurt Thane as well. Had to move past Poe at that point. Tried lighting Thane up, but the bugger survived with one hull left. Vessery went down here. I was super worried here. Thankfully, the dice Gods were on my side and Backdraft managed to end Poe (without spending Crack Shot too). Maarek finished up Thane too. At that point it was basically full health Backdraft and Maarek vs full health Bodhi, I don't think he managed a shot at me after that. I lost a purple peg here, only reason I had them was because I won a door prize 2 months ago, otherwise my budget doesn't let me get them.

Second game was against someone who claimed to be rusty and not bringing a super thematic list but homaging Shadows of the Empire, Jedi Knight/Dark Forces, and X-Wing. It was Keyan (with B-wing E2, Kyle Katarn, and some Proton Torpedoes with Extra Munitions) and Dash (with Lone Wolf, Outrider , HLC, and Leebo). He also brought asteroids despite bringing Dash. I destroyed Keyan in a single turn. He was a great sport though, and when I critted Dash with Maarek and chose the old Weapons Munition Failure, forcing him to discard his HLC, he thought it was hilarious. Ultimately tabled him however.

Third game was against someone who really knew what they were doing and someone I've faced in the past. At my stomping grounds store championship 2016, he brought triple torpscouts the day the weekend they were released. Stomped me in the first round and won the tourney. Today he brought Dengaroo. Dengar had Lone Wolf, Plasma Torps , Zuckuss , title while Manaroo also had the plasma torps, PTL , K4 Security Droid , EU, and Unhinged Astromech. Now I knew I could trade dice with Dengar and win, but in the practice matches with Dangeroo it just wasn't happening. At one point someone told me if I go up against Dengaroo I was going to lose. Well here I managed to surprise him and stay out of arc for the first round of firing. Then I blocked the 2 sloop preventing the revenge shot and kept laying on damage. I had poor luck and should have ended him here, getting Maarek to choose a crit with only 2 hull on Dengar. Buuuuuuuuuuuut there was no Direct Hit. Tried a Major Explosion, he rolled a focus. Next round Dengar did go down, but he did manage the sloop there and his revenge shot ended Maarek. Fully shielded Backdraft and damaged Vess vs Manaroo. Layed the damage on well, but Vess started hurting. Tried running with Vess. Checked range between him and Manaroo. It was close to range 2/3, I bumped Vess though because of shaky hands, and so gave him the range 2. Manaroo rolls one hit, Vess blanks out. Rolled an extra die just to see if it would have meant anything. Nope, another blank. Backdraft finished the job the next turn. Really should have had better MOV, but it didn't happen.

Now here's where I collapsed. I was 3-0, but started feeling sleepy from the 5 hours of sleep.

I got to table 2 here. The big leagues. I played a  Norra (with title, Threepio, Artoo, and Expertise) and Dash (with HLC, Outrider, PTL, and Kanan list). Just went in for the joust, Backdraft died first round, Vess went shortly afterwards, Maarek tried holding out but couldn't manage to even lay the crits on Norra. My green dice luck was abysmal and my red dice worked like half the time, giving Norra the chance to recover shields. It was the opponent who really said that, it took time for me to think before I realized how abysmally bad they were.

Played a Chiraneau (with Palpatine and Veteran Instincts) and The Inquisitor (with Autothrusters, PTL, Prockets , and the title). I was expecting to have to finish off the Decimator last and deal with hell from the Inquisitor later on, but the Inquistor came straight at me. I did manage to get the Inquisitor down, but he did unleash the Prockets into Maarek, I rolled 3 blanks, Maarek was done. Backdraft also went down with the Inquisitor. It came down to a 3 hull Vess vs a 4 hull Decimator. He sank a crit into me, Console Fire, which required an action to flip facedown. I didn't want to engage the Decimator without a focus, so I disengaged. I clipped a debris, taking stress. Rolled a crit. Decimator got me the next turn.

Last round, I saw the opposing list and knew it had the more favourable matchup. Nevertheless, it was the most enjoyable match of the day. Vessery (with Veteran Instincts, x7, and Stealth Device), Omega Leader (with Comm Relay, Stealth Device, and Juke), and the Inquistor (built identically to the last one). This match really shouldn't have been as close as it was, and the only reason it was was because (and the opponent brought this up as well) was that I played my ass off. First round of fire was iffish, I took the heavier brunt of damage. However I had two amazing turns here. Maarek had space for the K-Turn, so did so, Vessery didn't so hard 3ed  to block the Inquisitor, and lastly Backdraft hard 2ed and barrel rolled to block his Vessery's k-turn, also blocked Omega Leader's k-turn, which he praised me for. Another block on the Inquistor, and I managed to take him down. Unfortunately, both my Vessery and Backdraft went down. It was a fully shielded Maarek against Omega Leader and Vessery. I saw the time left on the round, and knew that even though Omega Leader was down to one hull, the only way to win was taking down Vessery due to MOV. It just didn't happen. Round went to time. It was the most fun round of the day though, so enjoyable we got each other's name to add on Facebook, he may drive over to my stomping ground for some weekly play.

I won my first three and crashed and lost the last 3. Swiss and eventual winner was the Norra-Dash list I had faced. Makes me feel better.

Finalist was a Mindlink(?) Guri-Manaroo-Fenn list.

Over 100 people (before drop outs), managed to earn myself a Red Ace thank God. FFG really need to up the # of participation prizes. I hope you got one Bloodlord.

Also found my purple peg afterwards, one of the best parts of the day, I had assumed it was gone for good.