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kingcom posted:Isn't that just the Most Wanted? Well, it doesn't come with dice, range markers, movement markers or enough tokens, so you still need a core set to play.
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This is way too many points in an agility 1 ship but it would be so much fun to fly I think I'll do it anyway. Zuckuss (28) Veteran Instincts (1) 4-LOM (1) Advanced Sensors (3) Cloaking Device (2) Tractor Beam (1) Mist Hunter (0) Engine Upgrade (4) Total: 40 Decloaking to the side followed by an AdvS barrel roll let's you effectively do a 4 speed barrel roll with twice the normal forward or backward translation all pre manoeuvre. You should be extremely unpredictable and can attack from a ton of weird vectors which should cause your opponent headaches. Another option is to decloak forward, AdvS barrel roll and then 4 k-turn. If you are on the edge of range 3 you should be able to get behind your opponent in the first engagement because it is effectively a 7.5 speed k-turn (.5 from barrel rolling forward). I've made a diagram using vassal of just a couple of places you can end up, it is of course mirrored on the other side too. The X-Wing moves as slow as possible to try to keep its arc as wide as it can. If they called the right direction for your decloak and did a 1 bank towards you, then there is always the option of barrel rolling or boosting in the opposite direction to bug out. I doubt they will pull a k-turn going into the joust though so your own k-turn should be fairly safe for you. Please excuse the Starviper art, there are no art assets for the Mist Hunter yet in vassal.  The barrel roll before the k-turn is only necessary if the enemy is moving after you and that should be rare at PS9 so you could actually take a focus or target lock instead. You could also boost forward or left instead of rolling depending on where the rocks are. You have so many options your opponent will have to be psychic. You use your tractor beam and 4-LOM only when it's going to make a big difference, say you have arc on soontir and you can make him drive through a rock next turn or it is going to set up a kill shot from someone else etc. Just thought of this too for more flexibility and being able to hand off that stress at the end of the turn: 4-LOM (27) Stay On Target (2) Zuckuss (1) Advanced Sensors (3) Cloaking Device (2) Tractor Beam (1) Engine Upgrade (4) Mist Hunter (0) Total: 40 All the same movement shenanigans except you can change your maneuver to get into range one, get a stress and then hand it off at the end of the turn. Helps if you need to abort because the enemy predicted your move too. Unfortunately you lose the PS advantage which kind of negates stay on targets viability. Still could be fun to test. KongGeorgeVII fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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e: ^^^^^^^^^ goddamn Here, I made you nerds a classically styled report on the metagame (instructions to make your own through the link) General Battuta fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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Oh, this is a better intro scroll creator than on starwars.com, the music doesn't cut out suddenly. Edit: Also, that was a good intro scroll.
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General Battuta posted:
This is awesome and it kept me waiting for a badly superimposed M3A on a translucent peg to fly past the Death Star 2.
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Foolster41 posted:Oh, this is a better intro scroll creator than on starwars.com, the music doesn't cut out suddenly. God that was the most infuriating thing when I found that. I just wanted to make an intro my rpg campaign and ended up having to make my own. General Battuta posted:Here, I made you nerds a classically styled report on the metagame This is both good and accurate. kingcom fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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kingcom posted:God that was the most infuriating thing when I found that. I just wanted to make an intro my rpg campaign and ended up having to make my own. Get the Mac only one off softpedia  I've never seen a better one. I run it in a Mac VM.
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Ten Numb + Calculation + Tractor Beam Uh oh...
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Chemmy posted:That's a shitload of points to not do any damage. Pair him with some heavy-hitters or a miniswarm and you've got a Tractor Beam that (if you roll at least one crit or focus) will always hit, allowing you to drag high-PS aces into your other arcs with an agility penalty.
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Ten Numb (31) Calculation (1) Advanced Sensors (3) Tractor Beam (1) Wes Janson (29) Wired (1) R3-A2 (2) Integrated Astromech (0) Wedge Antilles (29) Adaptability (-1) (0) BB-8 (2) Integrated Astromech (0) Total: 99 
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Endman posted:Ten Numb (31) This, right fuckin' here, is why Adaptability exists.
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Soo a bunch of KOTOR ships showed up in a trailer for the next episode of Rebels. Fingers crossed this means we see Old Republic/Sith Empire ships showing up in x-wing/Armada
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I think I'd rather put Adaptability on Wes in order to save a point over VI.
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kingcom posted:Soo a bunch of KOTOR ships showed up in a trailer for the next episode of Rebels. Fingers crossed this means we see Old Republic/Sith Empire ships showing up in x-wing/Armada It's one thing to have 50 year old Y-Wings flying against TIE/fos, but KOTOR era ships are four thousand years old.
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Well, I requested a replacement Royal Guard TIE title from FFG. ...they sent me 4 Royal Guard Pilots.
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Poopy Palpy posted:It's one thing to have 50 year old Y-Wings flying against TIE/fos, but KOTOR era ships are four thousand years old. That's nothing; if you play Space Marines in 40k, you have to come to terms with your tanks often being over ten thousand years old.
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A....valid use for Decoy? At long last? Ten Numb (31) Calculation (1) Advanced Sensors (3) Tractor Beam (1) Wedge Antilles (29) Decoy (2) R2 Astromech (1) Integrated Astromech (0) Bandit Squadron Pilot (12) Cluster Missiles (4) Bandit Squadron Pilot (12) Cluster Missiles (4) Total: 100 View in Yet Another Squad Builder
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kingcom posted:Soo a bunch of KOTOR ships showed up in a trailer for the next episode of Rebels. Fingers crossed this means we see Old Republic/Sith Empire ships showing up in x-wing/Armada I'd be down to see TOR ships show up in XWING  
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The top one is okay, but the bottom one is loving ugly. That aside, I'm reasonably sure that there's not going to be anything older than is already in the game.
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It looks like the Lambda and a B-Wing had a baby.
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What are the currently most competitive two-ship lists? I know from some research that two-ship isn't common beyond brobots, and that the game is currently VSP vs 3-4 ship rebel stresshogs, but I WANT TO BELIEVE in  I haven't played since wave two, and would like to dip my toe back into wangs without suffering a total mental breakdown from my old TIE swarms (it'll be easier to learn all the new fiddly widgets and mechanics if I'm only touching two dials a round)
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Numismancer posted:What are the currently most competitive two-ship lists? I know from some research that two-ship isn't common beyond brobots, and that the game is currently VSP vs 3-4 ship rebel stresshogs, but I WANT TO BELIEVE in Han + Escort is still reasonably strong. Decimator + Whisper made it to top 8 at Worlds this year, although I'm still not 100% convinced it wasn't a fluke. Brobots are probably the best two-ship builds though.
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ConfusedUs posted:Han + Escort is still reasonably strong. Thanks - I have Han, no Decimator yet. Is there a consensus on the better escorts for Han?
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Numismancer posted:Thanks - I have Han, no Decimator yet. Is there a consensus on the better escorts for Han? Poe (T70 Xwing) is good, Corran (EWing) is good, 3 Z-95s are good...really just pick something that you like. If you want to be competitive in a tournament sense you probably won't be flying a two-ship list, but if you just wanna have fun? Play whatever.
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"does anyone want to sell me a stack of the binder pages out of their 100 box? They're sold out" "lol just buy the 9 pocket ultra pro binder. nevermind that it's not expandable, costs a ton more per page, and holds only just above half as many cards. durr" loving hate the facebook groups for this game
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Mist Hunter can't come out soon enough. Do we have any idea when it will be "off the boat"? EDIT: Crew Zuckuss seems like he'd be amazing on something with a turret and a decent set of whites. hooman fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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My FLGS says 1/31. I'd guess somewhere around there.
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Poopy Palpy posted:It's one thing to have 50 year old Y-Wings flying against TIE/fos, but KOTOR era ships are four thousand years old. She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've made a lot of special modifications myself.
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hooman posted:Mist Hunter can't come out soon enough. Do we have any idea when it will be "off the boat"? Everyone seems to be in love with all the upgrade cards but I can't wait to actually fly the ship itself. I reckon it could pair really nicely with Dengar depending on what the Jumpmaster dial looks like.
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KongGeorgeVII posted:Everyone seems to be in love with all the upgrade cards but I can't wait to actually fly the ship itself. I reckon it could pair really nicely with Dengar depending on what the Jumpmaster dial looks like. Yeah I really really want it to be able to fly a scum 3 1 4 4.
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KongGeorgeVII posted:Everyone seems to be in love with all the upgrade cards but I can't wait to actually fly the ship itself. I reckon it could pair really nicely with Dengar depending on what the Jumpmaster dial looks like. I pre-ordered 2 Mist Hunters because I wanted to fly Zuckass alongside 4-LOM, I didn't even care what the upgrades were at the time. I just want to try an epic game with all the bounty hunters (but first I have to play an epic game, which no one rightfully does).
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Numismancer posted:What are the currently most competitive two-ship lists? I know from some research that two-ship isn't common beyond brobots, and that the game is currently VSP vs 3-4 ship rebel stresshogs, but I WANT TO BELIEVE in In addition to the above, Dash + Corran or Poe is very good.
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So I found a local store (The Gaming Goat in Joliet, IL) that has a chill owner. I picked up another core set, this time the old trilogy one, and a TIE Phantom and a soon-to-be-coming B-Wing for 50 flat. I was going to go home after picking it up but there was a guy there that was interested in it. I haven't officially played yet but we did just a basic match with no skill cards and uses nameless pilots. We had a blast! The owner had a TFA core set and another fighter, and the guy I played was most likely going to nab those. It's very real I could start a gathering there to play games and have tourneys. Is there anything I should be wary about if I get more involved? Also, was 50 a good deal for a core set and two fighters?
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Ringo Star Get posted:So I found a local store (The Gaming Goat in Joliet, IL) that has a chill owner. I picked up another core set, this time the old trilogy one, and a TIE Phantom and a soon-to-be-coming B-Wing for 50 flat. I was going to go home after picking it up but there was a guy there that was interested in it. I haven't officially played yet but we did just a basic match with no skill cards and uses nameless pilots. We had a blast! The owner had a TFA core set and another fighter, and the guy I played was most likely going to nab those. It's very real I could start a gathering there to play games and have tourneys. Is there anything I should be wary about if I get more involved? Also, was 50 a good deal for a core set and two fighters? You should be worried about buying all the x-wings and I dont know about currency conversions but that seems like a solid deal just checking online, would normally be about 35 + 15 +15? Make sure unless its a tournament (even then unless its official who cares) or something that everyone is always cool with using proxies of cards. It makes getting into the game and trying stuff out to see if you should buy something a really good idea.
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Foolster41 posted:Well, it doesn't come with dice, range markers, movement markers or enough tokens, so you still need a core set to play. I don't see there ever being a proper "scum starter," where you take on the thrilling role of "some guy who flies for Jabba the Hutt and appeared as a minor character in a novel in the 90's" against "two guys who fly for that date rape lizard acrylic press on nail gangster from the N64 game" in "spacefighters you've probably never seen or heard of." Not really the marquee introductory product with big-box retailer shelf appeal that the other two are.
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When they make the Dengar and Bossk movie, which will just be a rip off of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, there'll be one.
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Otisburg posted:I don't see there ever being a proper "scum starter," where you take on the thrilling role of "some guy who flies for Jabba the Hutt and appeared as a minor character in a novel in the 90's" against "two guys who fly for that date rape lizard acrylic press on nail gangster from the N64 game" in "spacefighters you've probably never seen or heard of." I agree, also there should be two factions in a starter really, and rebel vs. imp makes sense, but who do you put against scum? They are a little bit of a third wheel in this respect,. (a cool third wheel, but still) ... I got excited and already bought 1,000 points of ships for the fleet for the empire for this galactic campaign i'm running. (That can buy you a lot of ships!). I'm sitting in the center of the galaxy, ready to get squashed.
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