Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27029853-20170703223814/@comment-454133-20171117212327

I don't remember what I flew last week, but this Wednesday I flew a single round of speculative silliness.

PS9 Poe with Daredevil + Flight-Assist Astromech (unreleased) + Autothrusters  + Advanced Optics (unreleased, appears to be Comm Relay for focus tokens) + Black One

Jake with title + VI + Deadeye + Cruise Missiles + Guidance Chips

Kyle with TLT + Trick Shot

I fought four Kihraxz:

4x Black Sun Ace + Vaksai + Fearlessness + Inertial Dampeners + Pulsed Ray Shield

One had missiles as well I think, maybe Harpoons. He didn't have Fearlessness cards out (proxying) so I forgot about it and paid the price later.

Poe behaved as expected and Jake helped to deliver a lethal alpha strike, but I still lost badly. My opponent told me to not discard my list though, pointing out that after all the green dice I'd rolled all game, I'd gotten a total of two evades, and Poe never rolled focuses. I really need to stop insulting lady luck to her face, the curses are becoming a problem. ;)

IMO Kyle + Jake is a cool combo because Jake can get extra repositioning at the start of combat. Jake's missile would have been scarier, since I wiped one K-Fighter off the table in a single round (left it with 1 HP which Kyle was able to finish off), but there were 3 more K-Fighters and they did a really good job of reversing things fast.

TLT + Trick Shot is pretty cool too.

I really like how dynamically Poe can move with this combo, though Advanced Optics was a tough trade for Primed Thrusters because Primed Thrusters allows Poe to be a lot more aggressive with debris clouds and the stress from Daredevil.

I forgot Black One but it should have been amazing with all that boosting and rolling.

I loved how well he used Fearlessness against me. I could have saved Jake longer, but I foolishly passed on the Kyle-based reposition that would have saved him because I'd forgotten he had Fearlessness. ;)  K-Fighters seem like a stronger way to spam Fearlessness than Scyks, unless those Scyks have Autoblasters.

I'd have flown more, but there weren't a lot of people there this week, and people went home early because they weren't feeling well or they had family obligations.

Hopefully my Saturdays open up soon so I can start playing the regular Saturday tournaments, and get more practice in (especially with my triple tucks, which I'll need to practice a lot again).