Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27029853-20170703223814/@comment-454133-20170706045508

The Salt Lake Gaming Con is coming up and I'll be playing in the tournament on Saturday. I still haven't decided on the ships I'll bring. Even though I'd lose hard against the serious top-meta fleets people will bring, I'm really tempted to play this one:

Wes + Adaptability + R2 Astromech + IA

Wedge + Expertise + R4-D6 + IA

Horton + TLT + M9-G8 + Vectored Thrusters

...just to see how far I'd get. :D

Sadly I can feel the X-Wing's underpowered role in the meta; it just lacks the maneuvering options or cost balancing etc that other newer ships have enjoyed. And yet... I still love them. I played it twice today but against relatively new opponents, so my victories may not be a great test of its abilities. I am doing better at remembering Horton's pilot ability though.

And I just found two Y-Wings on sale at the local game store. The stores in my area didn't have them before but there they were... for a ship that's impossible to find, they were a surprising find. I snatched them up and now I have 3 R2 Astromechs total, when I was previously having to make do with one during tournaments. And now I can fly some rebel Y-Wing Munitions jank just for fun. :D

In the fleet above I may replace R4-D6, since I seem to get more use out of R2 Astro's wide green range (e.g. green 2 turns); it's been rare to have 3+ uncancelled hits (not crits). Though perhaps I'll be hit with 5 hits on the very day I replace R4. :D  I benefitted a lot today from Wes' ability to strip locks and deny munitions ships their good attack. And stripping defensive tokens lines up the foe for Wedge's violence. So it's fun to play... which may be more important in the end than playing something that competes with the big dogs.

The other fleets I'm considering are Dragoon's Vessery + Deathfire + Backdraft combo (which is pretty solid), my Jan + Nera + Biggs fleet (also solid, though it struggles a lot against certain top meta evils), and maybe this one:

Norra + Alliance Overhaul   +  PTL + R2-D2 + C-3PO + Vectored Thrusters   + maybe Plasma Torps

Dash + Expertise + HLC + Outrider + Smuggling Compartment + Rigged Cargo Chute + "Leebo"

Though I haven't flown this Dash + Norra nonsense so I'd be going into a tournament kinda blind. That may be a bad idea; it takes me a game or two to learn the ropes of a fleet unless I've played it recently.