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Nordics is over. And it was a blast! I was judging the first day (meeting up 7.30 to set up the event, loooong day) and it was fun to walk around and watching games and chatting with players. Most of the locals played this day, many of them really great players, but only two of them managed to get to the top 8 of the first day, with many 4-2's being decided on MoV.

Anyways, on to the second day, where I participated. First to get everyone up to speed, here's my list:

Captain Nym (42): VI, Bomblet Generator, "Genius", Havoc, Cruise Missiles, Advanced Sensors, Guidance Chips and Autoblaster Turret

Fenn Rau (34): PTL, Autothrusters and Concord Dawn Protector

N'Dru Suhlak (23): VI, Cruise Missiles, Guidance Chips and Glitterstim

I ended up not playing any Danes in the swiss rounds, but two Swedes, 2 Norwegians, a Finn and a Canadian (!?!). In general there weren't many Danes of the 62 participants and none of the veterans. But I'd heard that some of the foreign participants were heavyweights, so I didn't expect much my participation, although those top 16 target locks looked sweet and I really wanted to get them. I will try and write the lists of my opponents as far as I remember them, but I'm sure I'll miss some.

Round One

Queen of the Ball, I think it's being called. It's the new top meta and FSR derivative:

Miranda Doni: TLT, Concussion Missiles, Long Range Scanners, Bomblet Generator, Sabine Wren

Lowhhrick: Selflessness, Wookiee Commandos

Biggs Darklighter: R2-D6, Integrated Astromech

He placed his ships in the upper right corner and I placed N'Dru to my left, Fenn in the middle and Nym to the right, so if he turned and had me chase him, he'd meet 6 attack dice from N'Dru. He moved his ships forward as to engage Feen and Nym, Miranda putting a target lock on Fenn. In the second round I had Fenn at range three of Lowhhrick and Nym targeting him. In total, he lost all shields, because his evades where cold. Nym finished Low in the following round. He then turned in to towards the middle to face Fenn which caused N'dru to be at range one of Miranda and two of Biggs. Really a brilliant move, as I'd rather fire the missiles at Miranda. With the re-rolls, chips and glitters, N'Dru landed 6 hits on Biggs, where he cancelled 4 of them meaning he was stressed for the rest of the match. N'Dru blanked his defense dice and subsequently died from a cluster mine and Sabine. Miranda had focused her TLT shots at Nym, but I can't remember how much he lost at this turn. Biggs only made white maneuvers from this point on and I managed to kills him rather easily. I think Fenn ate a bomb at some point, but I can't remember much of the remaing match, but there were two instances that was quite interesting. Nym and Miranda was back to back at range 1 and Nym with 2 hull and no agility and Miranda at five hull left and a focus. Nym's turret did no damage (I think I rolled a crit which he evaded) and my opponent really wanted to kill Nym, so he didn't regen a shield to fire three primary dice. Luckily he blanked two dice and did one damage. Then he banked three with Miranda, but Nym used advanced sensors to barrel roll closer and drop a bomb and move 4 straight to get out of  TLT range. That bomblet generator, advanced sensors and ps10 is a really strong and broken combo. Miranda took one damage from the bomb. In the final confrontation, both Fenn and Nym was at range 1 one of Miranda and killed her befre she fired.

1-0

Round Two

Miranda Doni: Concussion Missiles, Guidance Chips, some crew, maybe Rey and Autoblaster Turret

Airen Cracken: Adaptability, Homing Missiles, Chips

Norra Wexley: Proton Torpedoes, R2-D2, VI and some crew I can't remember (going forward I should probably take a picture of my opponents' lists :D )

A list of my heart. I like how Airen can grant an action to a friend who then gets to take a target lock and fire a focused munition. I managed to win the initiative roll, which I gave to my opponent. He sat his ships up in the upper left corner and I placed N'Dru directly opposite of them. The other two was placed in the other corner. N'Dru and his ships moved forwards while the other two turned in to flank. Since he moved first, he couldn't target lock N'Dru who moved 4 straight and target locked Airen, who I saw as the backbone of the list. He shot first with Airen, who missed a glittered N'Dru and the Miranda burned a shield to fire a powered missile, which ended with two hits and two crits. I rolled two natural evades and only lost shields since Norra also missed. N'Dru suprisingly survived, so I didn't know what to do with him. But in the next engagement he turned his ships to face Fenn and Nym. Focused Miranda tried to kill N'Dru with a powered autoblaster turret shot, but only rolled one hit and blanks. Lucky again! In the following round, N'Dru rolled a natural two hits and a crit on Miranda to kill her and Norra was at two hull left. In the following round Nym rolled a crit, re-rolled to another crit. Norra evaded ona and took a Direct Hit!

2-0

At this point I knew my opponents were going to get harder and my luck wouldn't continue, so still low hopes for top 16.

Round Three

However I knew I could win this match up:

Hera Syndulla: Accuracy Corrector, TLT, C-3PO, Ghost, Engine Upgrade and another crew

"Zeb" Orrelios: "Chopper", Phantom

Ahsoka Tano: VI, Captured TIE, Sabine's Masterpiece, Rey

He won the initiative roll and took it, which was a bit wierd, but it didn't matter in the end. He placed Hera in the upper right corner in an 45 degree angle and Ahsoka facing him for some fortressing. I placed Fenn and Nym straight ahead and N'Dru somewhat to the left of the middle. In the second turn he chose to bank boost, meaning Nym bumped into him and dropped a bomb, which hit Ahsoka. A hit and crit turned to a Direct Hit so Ahsoka was dead. Then a couple of rounds chipping off health of n the big ship I won with Nym left. I actually killed my own Fenn with a bomb. Fun times.

3-0

Round Four

So the judge table made a blunder and put in my next opponent as a winner, when he actually lost, giving me en easier opponent and him a harder one. On paper. He had the exact same list as before, so I was pretty confident. I proved to be a pretty tough match though, but my dice were still hot, so I managed to pull through. He had me chase his Ghost, so Nym died from TLT fire, whihc was basically just four damage per round. In the end it was Fenn vs a Phantom, but k-turned just off the edge, but Fenn would probably have won anyway.

Round Five

4-0

I feared meeting cruising aces, as they could really cripple my lists, so my heart sunk when I discovered my next opponent was flying just that. At least a variation of it.

Quickdraw: Intensity, Lightweight Frame, FCS, Special Ops Training, Cruise Missiles, Pattern Analyzer

Backdraft with exaclty the same

Scimitar Squadron Pilot: TIE Shuttle, Fleet Officer, Intelligence Agent, Twin Ion Engine mk II

A pretty cool list that I've gotta try out sometime. PS9 as the highest, so I should be able to win. I also got to give my opponent the initiative, which kinda gave me the advantage. He placed his forces in the upper left corner and I placed N'Dru facing them and then the other two a little right of the middle. I moved as far as possible with all ships and he moved his two TIEs 4 straight and then barrel roll forward. So I knew I couldn't move the fastest with N'Dru as he would end up in range on of QD, which wouldn't help me. So by moving 3 straight I'd be in range 2 with a five dice missile. He did manage to get a target lock and focus, so he killed N'Dru, but he would fire due to the simultanous fire rule, as long as the crit he received wasn't a Blinded Pilot. It was "just" a Direct Hit, that didn't matter. He then rolled 3 hits and two crits in return and removed QD's shields and made her turns red. None of my other ships were in arc, so QD didn't get any revenge shots. Fenn and Nym was piling hits on Backdraft who had 3 hull left. It wasn't difficult to PS kill him after this and my opponent succeded with only the ps bomber left. Usually when you conced before time, you don't get any of the points you kill, but I liked his list so much I wanted to give him a better chance of reaching the cut, so I gave the 23 point from N'Dru.

5-0

Round Six

I was in the cut. All the locals were rooting for me as I had gone undefeated so far. Same went for my next opponent.

Miranda Doni: TLT, Cluster Mines, Extra Munitions, Advanced Slam, Sabine, Ion Bombs

Dash Rendar: Heavy Laser Cannon, Outrider, Rey, Lone Wolf

Ugh, not my favorite match up. He was a sport though, and we were both pretty relaxed as we'd both made the cut, so it was fun and games. He also brought some custom loot along with his buddies from England which they gave to every opponent they met. Any ways, in round three I had all my ship at range one of Dash, N'Dru having a tl at Miranda after a 4 straight. I forgot to pop glitters, though, fatigue starting to kick in. I killed Dash here, and my opponent said I read his Dash a an open book. Little did he know that I basically just gambles. But from here on my dice just flunked and his defense dice on Miranda was crazy. He evaded 10 or eleven hits naturally, slowly picking my ships apart. But at this point I couldn't really complain that my dice had chosen to abandon me. I was in the cut, far over my expectations.

5-1

Next day wa elimination. Sadly I had to face another Dane and it was the guy who defeated me in a store championship final. He flew a Parattanni variant with a scout with IA instead of Manaroo. I will make this short. I was really tired and made many dumb mistakes, which cost me the victory even in the first engagement, when I had his Fenn at range one of my Fenn and range 2 of Nym, facing away from them. I totally forgot my Cruise Missile wich would have put a crit into his Fenn and maybe have my Fenn kill him. After time was called I killed his Ventress with Fenn but had lost the rest of my ships and no other kill. I was out of the top 16.

But 4 of the losers from the cut got together in a round robin hangar bay with their tournament, where I managed to win all three games, netting me a spot gloss Lothal Rebel/Baron of the Empire.

Their lists were: 2 Deadeye, Cruise Missiles scurrgs and a partybus, Biggs+Kanan (he flew his Ghost on a rock three times) and a zzxxx, which was pretty cool. I might post a report of those fights later. So out of 10 matches I had 8 wins during the weekend, 4 wins against top 16 opponents.

I really like my list and I probably will fly it again for regionals. Many opponents thinks that Fenn is the main threat, which is a mistake. Nym can really clean up a table.