Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27029853-20170129150901/@comment-27029853-20170424164433

Having both M9-G8 and Snap Shot on 2 attack dice ships may be a little redundant I feel, especially since Tycho may wind up taking Target Locks anyway. It will mean it'll be very motivating to switch the target locks from them to Norra's target.

Something you may want to look at, generally Outmaneuver is weaker than Predator, but because you're already getting rerolls, Outmaneuver may help compound damage, and generally A-Wing's problems are that they struggle to push damage through.

I need to pack since I'm moving tomorrow, but here's a quick follow up on my tournament performance.

So at the end of the first day, I had used my Kanan-Thane list once and my Backdraft-Deathfire-Vessery list twice and was 2nd, having tabled two people and won the third handily. However, there was a bonus point awarded if you used all 3 lists, so I was resolved to getting my Attanni Jumpmasters first thing and then putting them back in the case immediately afterwards.

I faced a Fenn Dengar. It all came down to me managing to hard one and then barrel rolling without clipping a debris to get a bump on a two hull Dengar (who didn't think I had the space). If I succeeded on an Anti-Pursuit Lasers roll, I'd win the game because I could Feedback Array him. It did not happen. It was a close game however, so didn't hurt my MOV too much. Still got a matchwin point for using the third list though.

Second game on Sunday I chose my Thane-Kanan list...but my opponent took out Imperial tri-aces, which I already knew destroyed the list. I got tabled, but it really didn't help Kanan's primary shorted out on an Inquisitor at range 2 with just a focus token.

Last match I took out Deathfire-Vessery-Backdraft again, and came up against a Jan Rey list. Now, I knew from previous experience of a friend using the list to not joust Jan Rey but... I was feeling reasonably good about my chances and jousted Jan Rey. It then came down to Jan versus Deathfire and Vessery, Deathfire started to make Jan hurt my managing to get her with 4 Cluster Mine templates (because of Deathfire's ability, I dropped the Cluster Mines, she ran over them, and then I dropped the Cluster Mines when Deathfire revealed his maneuver) and then Vessery closed to range one and killed her with the doubletap.

I was calculating my chances for the top 8 cut, because I assumed one or two of the 4 and 2s would make it through and I had a good MOV, two of my wins were tablings and the other two were by 67 points whereas one of my losses was by only 34 points, although the tabling hurt. While I knew I was hovering around it, I was quite surprised and happy to hear I had come in 9th. Now the cool thing was, as a consolation prize for coming in 9th, I got one of each of the sparkly Regionals dice, which I didn't realize would look so good in person. In addition, there were some custom Toronto Prototype League (Toronto PTL) acrylic tokens for reaching the top 8, so I've got a cool aurabesh version of a C target lock as well as some acrylic critical hit markers. I'm honestly not sure if I'll use the critical markers though, while I like the material and they feel nice, I'm a tad more partial to the cardboard ones put out by FFG. I also got an amazing custom pilot card, which was a still from Rebels of Darth Vader standing on his TIE Advanced. Heading into the tournament, I kinda had a mentality of why bother with custom art cards, they aren't tournament legal and don't look that great when I see online images, but man, that Darth Vader is a real beauty and I'm happy to have him. I'll likely slip it into a double sided sleeve with the standard Darth, and that way even if I bring it to a tournament I can just flip the card to show the legit Darth if anyone has a question about the card of his legality. I even got to place higher than the Canadian national champion, who came in 10th :D

My ride though was 1st after Swiss, having gone 6-0. He then took his Rebel swarm, two Bandits with Tracers, two Rookies, one with M9-G8 and the other with Seismic Torpedoes, and a Stresshog all the way and won the tournament with it. 3 of his performances were recorded, so I can post links of them once they got uploaded.

While that was happening I got to play another round of Heroes of the Aturi Cluster which just whipped our butts, we had to disable a shuttle and take out all the escorts. I basically just aggroed an elite TIE Advanced and several TIE Fighters (which was sort of the plan so that our Y-Wings could do work on the Shuttle) before having to jump to hyperspace, and it was a similar story with our leader.

All in all a fantastic tournament that was lots of fun and got a lot of cool looking stuff. Rather looking forward to the one next year.