Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27029853-20170129150901/@comment-27029853-20170206165209

So, I had the two big tournaments this week where I ran the Thugs with TLT and Unhinged, the Jakku Gunrunner with Spacetug Tractor Array, Pattern Analyzer, and Intel Agent, and Kavil with Vectored Thrusters, Autoblaster Turret, Veteran Instincts, and Unhinged. Man, these two tournaments were night and day.

My first game was against a PTL Fenn Rau (side note, I've started calling him Lucius Vorenus because the actor's in the fantastic HBO's Rome, which I highly recommend, it remains objectively one of the best 3 shows I've ever seen) with the title and Autothrusters, Unkar Plutt with the Spacetug, Intelligence Agent, and Cloaking Device, and Asajj (again, forget the upgrades, but the Gyroscopic Targeting and title were absent). I won the initiative roll which helped when Fenn moved first, but it was a close game. We wound up engaging away from the asteroids. He took a TLT away from me whereas I removed Unkar, but I got in an Autoblaster shot into Fenn and whittled away a fair bit of Asajj's health. After time was called and we finished up the round, I managed to sink a TLT into a one hull Fenn for the last damage despite his autothrusters and Kavil managed to range 3 primary into a one hull Asajj for 100-25.

Second match was against two Deltas and the Countess. The Countess had Swarm Leader and all three of them had x7 and Stealth Device. Oh man, Kavil was like a kid in a candy shop. Popped two Stealth Devices, laid damage in constantly. The Tugboat really shined here too, he Intel Agented a Defender, saw where it was going, put him on a rock and got him to bump someone to stay on the rock. Ultimately won this one before time with only the Tugboat offed.

Third game put me up against someone who's really really good, but through the chance of the pairings I had not yet ever played him, so this was our first match together which we were looking forward to. He flew Dengar with the title, painbot, Lone Wolf, and Recon Spec with IG-88b with Heavy Laser Cannon, Fire Control System, Autothrusters, and Trick Shot. I got really lucky this game. He did win the initiative roll so Kavil would move first. He excellently maneuvered at the start, forcing me to divide my shots against both of his ships. I was thinking IG was the more dangerous one in the late game and trying to get rid of him first. I managed to surprise him with Kavil, and Kavil managed to get 3 hits naturally into Dengar, and I then got a crit into him, Major Hull Breach. He managed to get the Tugboat and a TLT off the board, but kept trying to go for the attack. I TLTed into Dengar, and the damage was face up thanks to the Major Hull Breach. Direct Hit. Then I was up against IG who had some terrible luck, Autothrusters didn't trigger at multiple points because he was rolling focus results without a focus token and no blanks. Surprising win.

I was top of the Swiss at this point, and I got faced off against another well known local player, although he was slowly losing time for the game so I hadn't met him yet. He flew Miranda with Homing Missiles, C-3PO, Guidance Chips, and Extra Munitions, Shara Bey with Weapons Engineer, the title, Artoo, and Veteran Instincts, and a Bandit Squadron Pilot with Homing Missiles and Guidance Chips. When we met, it went poorly for me. I managed to get rid of Miranda, but at the cost of everyone but Kavil. The Tugboat did work though, peeking at Miranda's dial and then sending her into the asteroid. Kavil was able to finish off the Bandit Squadron, but wasn't able to do enough damage to Shara who kept regenning but who couldn't get a shot on the arc-dodging Kavil. It ended as a victory for him on time. He was mentioning it was his best game of the day, which I've been getting a lot lately, which is nice.

But I made it to my first cut ever! 3rd after Swiss. I wound up against triple Torpscouts, the player saying he was trying to bring them back. They were kitted with K4 Security Droid, Crack Shot, Guidance Chips, and Unhinged; the only difference being that one of them had Proton Torpedoes whereas the other 2 has Plasmas. This was a bad match up and I did the best I could but could only get rid of one and a half of them.

But, I got 3rd place, which was $50 of store credit and got me a Ghost for $4.18 :D

I showed it to my housemate who I've introduced it to, but is more into it for the theme and he got super excited about it. May get in more missions.

The other tournament I did.... baaaaaaaaaaaaaad.

Ran the same list, but lost all 4 games that day.

Went up against someone really really good I'd heard of in legends. I'm actually currently watching the stream of him back at Regionals (although he got hard countered, he was flying Soontir against a VI-Gunner-Vader-Chiraneau and the stream commentators kept asking why he wasn't engaging Soontir). He ran the same Soontir with PTL, Autothrusters, title, and Targeting Computer, Omega Leader with Juke and Comm Relay, and a Bounty Hunter with LRS, Slave I, Homing Missiles, and Extra Munitions. I managed an amazing blocking game, getting the Bounty Hunter tangled up on a rock and Omega Leader bumping into him. During shooting I gave him a Blinded Pilot too, whittled away Omega Leader. But then after that pass I was struggling to keep up with his ships, the Bounty Hunter and Omega Leader running away, and there was a moment where I was debating and flip flopping between a 1 straight or bank with Kavil, I went with the bank that bumped Soontir where had I banked I'd have had a 3 dice focused autoblaster turret into a 2 hull Soontir. Lost on time 25-20.

I then flew against a VIed x7 Vessery, Adaptabilitied x7 Maarek, and the Inquisitor with PTL and Autothrusters and the title. At the meetup I was just hoping the Quadjumper would live and then he'd cause some problems, but he rolled a total of 1 symbol on 7 dice and it exploded. Next shots he got Maarek to blind Kavil, who soon blew up. I did get both Maarek and the Inquisitor down to one hull, but the Defenders cleaned up and tabled me.

Flew against Paratanni where Fenn was flown very well and very cautiously. I did get him down to one hulI but couldn't finish him off, he ran away and the other two cleaned up. I got Manaroo down to one hull as well but again lost pretty badly, 100-14.

Last game I flew against quad Unhinged TLTs. He split his forces up at the beginning and I was trying to engage before they regrouped, but he got them back together for the first round of firing and made short work of the Quadjumper. A turn later I offed a TLT, but the turn after that he got rid of Kavil. His forces did split again though, so I got back into the match by keeping my two TLTs together whereas he only ever had 2, sometimes one TLT doing work. It came down to my 4 hull TLT versus his one shield TLT. I managed a beautiful Kturn to throw him off guard and get an unanswered range one shot...but I got one crit and he rolled one evade. I realized going straight against him wouldn't work, so I tried turning around to get to the asteroids, but clipped the table edge and lost 100-75.

So my best ever and worst ever tournament performances both in the same weekend, I got the Father's Day Luke and Darth (but it's awkward with how I sort my cards, do I put it in my Imperial or Rebel tray?) card that I didn't get while working the summer job as well as another Tractor Beam token (at two now) from the second tournament though, as well as a $4.18 Ghost, so still a good weekend.