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Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



I went to my FLGS to grab some comics, and ended up getting the starter of this and doing the demo. It was so much loving fun I bought the Millennium Falcon, Slave 1, a Tie Interceptor and a Tie Advanced. I'm hoping I can figure out an army list and get the models in by Saturday for a tournament they are having.

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Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



After looking around at various list I've narrowed it down to two options for Saturday. I have all the stuff for the first list, and I can get the last 2 TIEs I need in time if I order them tomorrow, so I have to decide quick. Any thoughts/comments?


Han Shot First

Han Solo + Marksmanship + Gunner + Chewbacca (58)
Red Squadron Pilot (23)
Green Squadron Pilot (19)


Elite TIEs

Darth Vader + Cluster Missles (33)
Mauler Mithel (17)
Night Beast (15)
Howlrunner (18)
Dark Curse (16)

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



Gonna buy the gently caress out of Wave 3

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



I really hope they re-print wave 1 around the same time. I WANT TO GIVE YOU ALL MY MONEY FFG!

Oh, and Wave 5 should be a Star Destroyer and a MonCal Cruiser or Corvette Cruiser

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



smashthedean posted:

I just watched this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J-R2-u7Na4

It was pretty good. Showed a TIE Swarm against a 3 X-Wing list with some good piloting going on. I'm trying to find a good match showing a Falcon being taken down as that's currently my greatest bane, but haven't seen anything yet.

This is a really good video, and has me excited to go play again.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



Are there any good list utilizing the Falcon? I think the last time I played I ran a heavily upgraded Falcon with a Red Squadron X-Wing and a Green Squadron A-Wing.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



I've been reading around looking for a fun list and found one that looks fun.

Bounty Hunter w/ Recon x2
Shuttle w/ Vader

Anyone have any experience playing with or against this list? I'd like to know if it's worth it to buy the second Firespray and a Shuttle.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



I just ordered a ton of crap to finish off my collection until W4 hits. With this order I have 2 of every ship except the YT-1300

x2 TIE Bomber (Hopefully good against capitals)
Firespray (makes 2)
x2 Shuttle
x2 HWK
x2 B-Wing
x1 Core (gives me TIE 5&6, X-Wing 3)
x1 A-Wing (gives me 2)

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



So there is a big tournament coming up on the 22nd. I think it's the Regional Championship, so I want to pick a list and practice my rear end off. I've narrowed it down to 3 choices but I could use some help deciding. List 1 is obviously a proven winner, but I think that it might be beyond my skill level, much for the same reason I'm not going to try to run a swarm list. List 2 is easy to play, but is weak to swarms, and List 3 is well, also hard to pilot I imagine. I'll be able to get lots of practice in but I need to decide what to run now.

List 1:

2x Dagger Squadron Pilots w/ Advanced Sensors
Biggs Darklighter
Rookie Squadron Pilot

(Variant is 2x Red Squadron Pilots instead of Biggs/Rookie)

List 2:

Hans Solo w/ Chewie, Elusivness, Nien Numb, Falcon,
2x Red Squadron Pilot

List 3:

Bounty Hunter w/ Recon Specialist
Soontir Fel w/ Push the Limit, Stealth Device
Backstabber
Night Beast

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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I want bombers just in case they end up being awesome against capital ships (they better)

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



jivjov posted:

Sadly, I don't think there's any precedent for same-pilot-different-ship yet. Closest we've got is having Luke as both an X-Wing pilot and a crew card.

That said, if they slap Tycho on an X-Wing card, I will never run any list ever again that isn't Wedge, Tycho, Hobbie, and Wes. Forever.

This forever.

I'm getting extremely excited about the inevitable Star Destroyer.

Arrgytehpirate fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Mar 7, 2014

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



Swagger Dagger posted:

Does anyone know what happened to those starfield tiles that were announced to come out with Wave 3 and then just... disappeared?

If I had to guess I'd say there will be some kind of Trench Run scenario box set at some point.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



I am getting so excited for Horton with Expose.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=4685

My store has applied. FFG is really cranking the news and spoilers out lately. I'm loving it.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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That is some sweet loot you got.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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7thBatallion posted:

Right. Since my Tyranids are all but useless, time to get in a new game. Cool.

You'll have fun with this game. You also won't cry at the prices after coming from GW.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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Can you post pictures of the inside of your box?

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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pbpancho posted:

It's just open space. Nothing fancy or anything to divide the cards.

That's a shame.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



Played some games tonight and did pretty well. I think I'm going to run some version of HSF during the Store Championship since I'm most familiar with it.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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Shockeh posted:

Ah well, time to find another way to spend 2 points. Does the combo in general work though? Kyle Focus -> Garven -> Garven spend passes it to someone else? (Including back to Kyle)

It might be good, but you're super dependent on Kyle not dying.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



pbpancho posted:

Took another store championship yesterday with the following:

2x Blue with Ion and FCS
2x Golds with Ion

Against B-wing heavy lists I just ioned them repeatedly until they died or flew off the board, and against a swarm the other guy just couldn't roll any evades. That much ion goodness is a killer!

Did you face any large ships?

What prizes did you get this time?

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



Keyan Farlander is going to be insane. Chardaan Refit might make for some interesting list too.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



I went 2-2 at our store championship playing 7 TIE yesterday. I lost to a double falcon build and another swarm list. Both my losses ended up 1st and 2nd place respectively. I walked away with a nifty range ruler anyways because 2nd place was awesome and said I earned it! (He had 2 1 HP ships left, I had 1, and we finished with about 30 seconds left on the round). Double falcon is super loving annoying to play against though.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



shalcar posted:

I'm in a similar boat to Tiny so I thought I would throw in my thoughts.

I picked up the starter and one each of the tie fighter and x wing expansions and I've played it a half dozen times so far and it's been really enjoyable. Imperial player arguably has a steeper leaning curve and the fact that is harder to concentrate fire but is rewarded by having a slight edge for good play over the rebels. 3 ties to 2 xwings at 50 points seems to be quite well balanced, especially with an asteroid field. The rebel player found just the starter set a bit limited as only having one ship to control feels a bit too simple.

So goons, given that I have 2 x wings and 3 ties, what should I grab next? Should I just proceed in release order and go for a y wing and tie advanced?

If you want to play in tournaments and the like I'd focus on getting what you need for a list that looks interesting. If you just want to play for fun get whatever you think is cool.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



My playgroup has been messing around with 4x Royal Guards w/ PTL and it's not nearly as bad as it sounds. It's pretty skill intensive to play but man does it do some work.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



quote:

X-Wing™ Escalation Tournament

Launch your fleet, and engage the enemy! This X-Wing event challenges you to build and pilot squads of increasing size. The Escalation Tournament follows the standard dogfight tournament rules, with the following exceptions and changes:

Players will submit 4 squad lists upon registering:

A 60 point list
A 90 point list. At least 30 points must be the same as the 60 point list
A 120 point list. At least 50 Points must be the same as the 90 point list
A 150 point list. At least 75 points must be the same as the 120 point list
Tournament Structure will feature Swiss-style pairing, with a number of preliminary rounds and round time as follows:

Round 1, 45 minutes 4/3
Round 2, 60 minutes 4/10
Round 3, 75 minutes 4/17
Round 4, 90 minutes 4/24

The elimination rounds will include the top four players from the Swiss. Each player will use the 150 point list. The top four round will be 90 minutes, and the final table will be not be timed. Prizes will be awarded to the top players.

Ugh, I have no idea what to run and it starts Thursday.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



If you want to learn to move better, throw down a 'roid field using some paper to make sure there are a good 20 of them or so, and place targets in the field. Move your exact list around with the goals of hitting no asteroids and getting at least one shot per model every two movements. It'll help a ton.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



I'm looking to start back up. What's the standard Echo loadout, and standard Ebretch or whatever loadout?

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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Echo - VI, Adv. Cloaking

Turr Phennir - Predator, Stealth Device

Back Stabber - Stealth Device

Academy Pilot

How does this look? I also have 3 points to play with.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



I feel like playing Rebels tomorrow. What are some go-to Rebel list now?

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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Lemon Curdistan posted:




Tekopo's "let's try out the YT-1300" list
Chewbacca C3PO crew
Tycho Celchu Push the Limit, Proton Rocket, Munitions Failsafe
Arvel Crynyd



I really like the look of this list, but it comes out at 101 points for me.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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Tekopo posted:

Arvel had chaardan refit.

This also allowed me to get munition fail safes on tycho.

Edit: errr I mean draw their fire on chewie.

Is that card not out yet?

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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Tekopo posted:

I'm really liking Tycho with push the limit by the way: if you aren't worried about k-turns you can just build up stress tokens. You can more or less k-turn with a sharp 1 turn and a banked boost anyway. With proton rockets he also has the punch that he needs to do damage as well (or chaardan refit to make him cheaper). Can't wait for rebel aces.

This is good to hear. The A-Wing is my favorite ship so I'm really hoping I can use them with Rebel Aces

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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I love the A-Wing but man that blue version is ugly.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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I ordered 2 more A-Wings so that I'll have 4 once I grab Rebel Aces. I have a problem.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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Are there any crew/upgrade type cards in the Rebel Transport and whatever the other capital ship is that make them worth the buy if I have no interested in epic play?

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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Well, there doesn't seem to be a reason for me to buy them for now. I guess if I ever have extra money floating around I'll grab them for the sake of having them but it's good to know they didn't pack some ultra great upgrade or something in there.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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This is just anecdotal but I have never lost a game against a list using the HWK. Granted I've only ever faced them using Interceptors and Fighters. They die too fast and 1 shot against 3/4 agility is laughable.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

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After all the C-3PO hype in this thread and a desire to turn traitor and try a Han/Corran list I checked eBay and lo and behold everywhere is sold out. Urrrrgh.

Arrgytehpirate fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Aug 5, 2014

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Arrgytehpirate
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:

I just bought Corran through Amazon just fine. If you don't mind going through them.

No, not Corran the C-3PO card. I really don't want to buy a Tantive just for 1 card. Sorry I should have been clearer in my first post.

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