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Played my first game against a friend. Both of us have picked up Rebels. He's been playing for a while and has everything up to the Tantive IV so far, I have a starter and what I played which was all I could find (less a HWK-290) locally. I played: Airen Cracken + Ion Pulse Missile + Munitions Failsafe Biggs Darklighter + R2-D2 Blackmoon Squadron Green Squadron He played Luke Skywalker + R2 Unit + Proton Torpedoes Blue Squadron Gold Squadron Green Squadron I nearly tabled him. Took a few scattered hits on my shields but never took a hit to hull, drove through his line and split into two mutually supportive groups. Focused down his A, then his B then his Y. The Ion Pulse Missile missed with every shot, I'm not sure it was worth the cost. MVP was easily Biggs who soaked most of the damage. Airen consistently performed well, matching mobility with Biggs. If I'd only remembered to use his ability once. The E-Wing was solid too, the A-wing was fast and managed to pick off his B-Wing but I'm not sure it was worth the cost when I could have a tooled up Z-95 for the same cost. Really enjoyed it and looking forward to playing again.
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Sep 5, 2014 23:03
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Tekopo posted:The A-wings are going to be worth it with rebel aces and the A-wing has pretty much the best dial in the game. Yeah, the manoeuvrability was fantastic it just seemed to be too much for what I got. The Chaardin Refit will help, I'm sure.
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Sep 5, 2014 23:46
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Lemon Curdistan posted:The fact that test pilot costs 0 points when there's a 1 point astromech that gives you an EPT slot is completely baffling. Clearly it's a rebalancing of the A-wing. I also didn't think of pairing Blount with the Ion Pulse Missile until too late...
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Sep 6, 2014 12:20
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Guys I'm after some advice for where to go from here. I've currently been focusing on Rebels and have -Core set -A-Wing -E-Wing -Z-95 I've about £35 that's come back to me as a refund for something and I'm thinking about expanding. Not sure where to go though. I'd love to pick up a Y-Wing but they're sold out everywhere, as we all know, or ridiculously inflated on the secondary market. A B-wing seems like it would be useful and would round out my secondary weapons. A second Z-95 or A-wing would be nice as more cheap filler and fun pilots. Rebel Aces seems like good value but its not out yet. I could also pick up a HWK-290 locally which I hear isn't great but looks like it could be a cheap control/support ship with an ion cannon turret. Or I could grab Imperial Aces and something else and bump up that force to something playable. Any tips for what's fun, available in the UK and not totally ineffective? If it helps the guys playing locally aren't proxying anything.
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Sep 10, 2014 11:10
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Tekopo posted:Where abouts in the UK are you? In London you should be able to go to Orc's Nest or Leisure Games and they have most stuff there. I would strongly suggest getting another X-Wing expansion if you don't have one already since it opens up the options in terms of X-wing pilots, including Wedge, probably the best x-wing pilot in the game. B-wings are also nice and I would take one over a Y-wing but it really depends on what style of list you like flying. East Midlands, Derby specifically. Will check their website. Forgot about another X-wing!
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Der Waffle Mous posted:Everytime I find a Falcon or Firespray someplace (in english at least) I don't have the cash to spare and decide to go back next week. There are a few places in the UK that seen to have the Slave I set at least.
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Had my second game last night. First time as an imperial. I ran. Echo with Veteran Instincts and Advanced Cloaking Device Bounty Hunter with Heavy Laser Cannon Academy Pilot Academy Pilot He ran Luke Skywalker with R2D2 and proton torpedoes Etahn with Flechette Torpedoes Prototype pilot with Chaardan Refit Prototype pilot with Chaardan Refit Really fun game, we both made some (lots) of silly mistakes. Rereading the rules we were playing the attack phase wrong in many ways but in a spirit of fair play. The bounty hunt was great, soaked damage, destroyed both A-wings abs was closing in on Etahn when I misdialled and flew it off the board. We had a cloaked Echo on one hull and Luke Skywalker on one hull at knife fighting range when we called it. The Phantom was boss too, so many dice... Really happy with the list, need to learn how to fly the drat ships now!
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Oct 26, 2014 20:29
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Tekopo posted:I'm really interested in taking part in some tourneys in the UK once I get a bit (a lot) more practice in, is there a site that keeps track of what's happening or is it mostly on facebook? Seems to be mostly on https://www.facebook.com/groups/xwingukirl/ but then again I'm not that involved in the wider community/
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I followed the advice of someone on here and had a cheap square PVC banner printed with a cool background from the hubble images. I've really enjoyed playing imperials so far, kinda had my hand forced when my usual opponent bought me a phantom for my birthday. He also exclusively plays rebels. Don't know how to expand, only have 3 TIEs, a Phantom and a Firespray. Might be able to afford something end of the month, Decimator is tempting me as is the Lambda but I also think I should get another TIE or maybe even two to make a small swarm. On the other hand I finally picked up a Y-wing. I'm sure there's a good XXY list to be made but I can't quite get my head around it.
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Nov 19, 2014 11:04
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Thanks for the opinions guys, nice to talk about these things. I've a fair few sets, actually. A-wing, B-wing, X-wing, E-wing, Y-wing, Rebel Aces and the aforementioned imperial forces. Another TIE is a given, I love the idea of a small swarm of TIE fighters supporting a bigger imperial ship. Imperial Aces looks fun but yeah not essential. Not made a tournament but the guys I play with include a chap who is definitely on the autistic spectrum and between him and the guy who cheats everyone is insisting on exact cards at the moment.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:17
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Wildey posted:As for mats go, my playgroup and I split the cost of a double-wide yoga mat and cut 2 36x36 squares from it. Now that it doesn't have any bend in it from being rolled for packing, it has pretty much completely stopped model bumps entirely from our games. I love it, and it only cost me $11 after we shared the costs. Couple of ion cannons on the Defenders? Spit-balling here but you could ionise turn one, white K behind and either follow behind ionising or if you miss you'd be out of arc for the next turn and can try again.
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Sadsack posted:Speaking of TIE Advanced, I bought one yesterday. Looking at its stat card, it seems like it's a poor mans Defender/ rich mans TIE. Someone tell me how I should run this thing. My initial thoughts are Vader+Cluster missiles. I haven't tried mine yet but yeah, Vader looks like the go to. Proton Rockets or Cluster Missiles look like the best choice to give him some oomph to me, or maybe an Assault Missile if you're facing a swarm. FFG and the general consensus seem to agree the Advanced is a little overpriced and underpowered. They're releasing a new title as a fix for this with the Imperial Raider huge ship set, it'l get a Systems Upgrade slot and a 4 point reduction (down to 0) on said upgrade. Oh, and a new Systems Upgrade with a free crit when you hit someone you have a target lock on is going to be in the same pack. This should be a huge boost to the Advanced. On an unrelated topic, I managed to get a Millenium Falcon in the UK at below RRP. I don't play rebels very often but thought this sounded fun and punchy: Chewbacca + Millenium Falcon + Jan Ors + Gunner (50) Blue Squadron Pilot + Advanced Sensors (25) Blue Squadron Pilot + Advanced Sensors (25) 29 hit points (15 of which are shields), 9 red dice (12 at range 1) with two nimble knife fighters and a turret. Jan allows the Blues the option to tank up with evade tokens and Chewie is free to try and tank with an evade with the Gunner backing up his attack. Another option I thought if was to swap Jan and the Falcon title for Recon Specialist and let Chewie rove independently as a flanker. Edit: Beaten to the above and thought tere was a range limit on the new Systems Upgrade, which there isn't. Ouch.
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Jan 25, 2015 12:15
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Chill la Chill posted:I wonder why they went with a whole new ship class for the Imp epic ship when empire at war already had a tartan class. Maybe they'll add that later? Reading between the lines of the preview I think they wanted something small enough to fit on the table with the classic Star Drestroyer wedge shape, hence the Raider.
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Jan 25, 2015 15:40
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Lemon Curdistan posted:If it's not the wedge pattern, it's the TIE solar panels/cockpit being jammed into everything. If there's anything we've learnt from playing Star Wars games is that no one who's ever worked on them has any sense of design. Oh you are going to love the Raider.
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I can see your point, Chill, but this is a clear oversight and I hope that the community is above this level of rules lawyering. Hopefully we can get a swift ruling from FFG to sort this out.
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FFG have been pretty quick with the FAQs so we shouldn't have to wait too long in any case. I bought my brother the core set for his last birthday. He's already started buying scum and villainy. I'm either the best or worst brother in the world.
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Mar 8, 2015 22:11
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susan posted:So now that it's at the beginning of rounds, does that mean that Cloaked ships with Ion tokens now have the option to decloak? They could always decloak as it's not an action or a manoeuvre but they couldn't cloak again.
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Mar 27, 2015 00:56
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enigmahfc posted:Before: Just before you reveal your Phantom's dial, you can decloak, do the 2 speed decloak move, then reveal the dial and do that. This is a real pain for me to remember now I've gotten used to the old system. Completely blank on it half the time I'm cloaked and then find myself accounting for the extra move when I'm not cloaked. I suck at this game but at least I'm getting better at flying TIEs. They are great fun, think I need to get myself some Interceptors soon so I can enjoy having some more bite in a TIE package. Is it just me or do rebels sometimes feel like easy mode? B-wings running with a Falcon is brutal for a beginner.
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Apr 13, 2015 23:21
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Chill la Chill posted:https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/6/29/slam-and-bomb/ Both the named pilots look fun, I'm far more interested in this wave now. Really looks solid and fun.
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Jun 29, 2015 20:21
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Chill la Chill posted:Anyone know where I can go for French and German models? Or even just the cards? Friends and I could read and/or speak those languages and it would be p sweet to use them. I noticed that Chaos Cards have a single copy of Imperial Aces in German.
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Jul 13, 2015 22:46
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Shockeh posted:I'm in Manchester, and we play (whenever we get chance) in Rochdale, but there are quite a few goons in Leeds. I miss Leeds, great city. I'm pretty sure there's an X-wing scene in the city, have you tried looking on Facebook? There are a tonne of groups.
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Jul 17, 2015 13:03
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I've never seen Rebels but the Gozanti carrier looks like pretty great fun, as does the new TIE Advance prototype. My bank account is going to be glad they're probably not going to hit until next year.
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I was a bit confused and thought they'd introduced a new type of upgrade then I realised they have apparently started putting the modification icon on the upgrade bars. The T70 looks pretty excellent even as a generic, the TIE/FO generics less so. I think it'll come down to preference and pilot ability which is best in a given list. Which is pretty much as it should be.
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Aug 23, 2015 23:33
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Strobe posted:That's not the modification icon. Huh, guess I was right the first time then. Never believe my terrible eyes and then they turn out to tl be right. Any leaks suggest what it is?
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Played a game against my brothers Scrum today, 100 point dogfight. I thought I'd give my rebels a run out for a change. Ran Wedge+Push the Limit+R2 unit Coran Horn + Fire Control System + R2D2 Biggs He had Binyare Pirate Cartel Spacer Kavill + Autoblaster Turret + Unhinged Astromech Bossk+ Nashtar Pup I immediately cocked up and by turn 3 Coran was in the middle of the joust. Biggs was deleted as planned then Coran got wiped out in a turn of shooting, though he did manage to destroy the Cartel Spacer and strip the shields from Kavill. My stupidity continued when the Binyare Pirate had an illegal manoeuvre and I used my free choice of his move to put him in position for Wedge to bump him. By now all I had was Wedge and I thought that was it. My green dice held and I ended up bouncing off the back of Bossk with two solid turns of range two shots on Kavill without any real return fire. Y-wings are tough but couldn't repel firepower of that magnitude. He then made his next mistake and I managed 4 turns of unanswered shooting at the back of Bossk, who promtly disintegrated. Came down to an exciting joust against the two Z-95s which Wedge just couldn't keep up with. Wedge was MVP and Coran was solid (just used very badly), Biggs was a wasted opportunity and 2 Z-95s would have been much more useful. My brother is in love with that Kavill build but its a little too restricted with range 1 for my taste, even with the Unhinged astromech after the first pass its easy to stay at range 2-3 and burn it down. The Hound's Tooth is a tank and was certainly strong but the dial was quite predictable.
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Ringo Star Get posted:TFA Core Set, OT Core Set, Xwing, YWing, BWing expansion, TIE Phantom and Defender expansion, Imperial Aces. I'm not great at this but my black imperial heart says Whisper or Echo and a mini swarm sort.
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Tekopo posted:Sure thing. Anyone else going to the UK open? I'd be mighty tempted even as a first tourny as its not far and rugby season means I can't make any of the tournaments in Derby. Unfortunately its the weekend of my first wedding anniversary so I'll be making other plans.
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I think I'm finally getting the hang of manoeuvring the Lambda shuttle, ran a classic buzz saw shuttle against a friend yesterday. I actually feel a bit bad, he's a good guy and good at manoeuvring but hs list building is terrible. I ran The Inquisitor + Title + VI + Autothrusters Omicron Group Pilot+ FCS + Gunner Patrol Leader + Darth Vader I wanted to try out The Inquisitor and get some shuttle practice in. The Decimator was to get some experience moving it, give some reliable damage output and a little bit to give him a better target. He ran Wedge + R2D2 Poe + BB8 + Plasma Torpedoes Tycho + Title + PTL + Wiired + autothrusters + chardan refit I set the Inquisitor on my left flank, lambda at range 2 inside it and the Decimator on the right flank. He put Tycho and Poe right in front of the Lambda and Wedge just inside of the Decimator. Turn 1, I slow roll the lambda and the Inquisitor, slam the Decimator forwards as fast as it will go. He sends everything forwards as fast as he can which puts Tycho in front of the Lambda, loses shields for nothing in return. Next turn he slows Poe and Tycho, I red stop the Lambda and crawl the Inquisitor in field at 1 (target locking Tycho). Decimator crawls forward to edge round an asteroid and Wedge 2 turns in towards it. I had a target locked Tycho sat at range 1 of the shuttle but he melted to the Inquisitor first, shuttle managed to strip a shield off Poe. Wedge missed the Decimator and lost his shields. My mate fell apart. Wedge slowly followed the Decimator which I crept round in field. Took 3 rounds of firing but I vadered down Wedge leaving the Decimator on 9 hull. The lambda slow turned towards the Decimator. Poe Talon rolled , ran forwards out of arc and the K-turned back in field. I ran the Inquisitor across the field towards Wedge and K-rolled back in field after he exploded, trying to hold distance on Poe. The only bit I was even remotely proud of in this massacre was managing to run my Decimator and Shuttle to either side of Poe in the dying turns. I'm pretty bad at manoeuvring, especially large ships, but judged it perfectly. Poe was in contact with Decimator at an angle with Lambda just behind but not in contact. Lambda starts to turn roundtowards the Decimator, Decimator sets a 1 straight which can't clear Poe so stays stationary. Then he sets a 2 bank that can't clear the Decimator which gives me another turn to bring the Lambda round and the Inquisitor in. Poe finally clears the Decimator and the Inquisitor finishes him off. Feel a bit guilty about this one, to be honest, he really didn't play well even with his odd deployement. TLDR: I think I'm getting better at manoeuvring large base ships, my friend played really badly.
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Fat Samurai posted:I have some extra money coming and I'm shopping around for Wave 8. Imperial Veterans isn't out yet, right? From a couple of pages back. Not sure about continental Europe but in the UK Chaos Cards are alright and have free shipping at about £30.
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Thinking about ordnance alphas made me have a play with building an imperial ordnance list and this looks like a fun one-trick pony Scimitar Squadron Pilot (22) x 2 TIE Bomber (16), Extra Munitions (2), Cluster Missiles (4), Guidance Chips (0) Colonel Vessery (37) TIE Defender (35), Tractor beam (1), Adaptability (0), TIE/D (0), Twin Ion Engine Mk. II (1) Scimitar Squadron Pilot (19) TIE Bomber (16), Extra Munitions (2), XX-23 S-thread Tracers (1), Guidance Chips (0) 100 points exactly. Something is exploding turn 1. Probably you but hey.
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I had the weirdest game of x-wing last night. 150 a side, 3 players each side. My team was rebels and the opposition scum who had inexplicably decided to bring a TIE phantom. Needless to say it was a casual game. I'm not good at x-wing. The friend who invited me to the game is probably better than me at positioning but only plays canonical x-wing loaded as per the movies. He's not great at list building. His brother was the rest of our team and built a loaded Key an B wing to go with a BB8 Poe. I brought my favourite AdS blue squadron B wing pair and we rounded off with a Chardan Green Squadron pilot. The opposition had 3 z95s (N'Dru in one), a firespray, a scimitar squadron TIE phantom with Stygium particle generator and a naked generic StarViper. The next 2 hours were spent misinterpreting rules and making bizarre choices. The TIE Phantom never cloaked and got eaten in a joust with B wing. The other B wing and the A wing ate the StarViper. The Firespray flew off the board and was allowed to barrel roll back on turn 2 and spent the rest of the game creeping around the edge of the board. The Z95s bumped turn one then spent the next 2 turns in a beautiful formation advance entirely negating N'Dru's ability and nearly took out Keyan at the cost of one Z95 which made the scum player flip his poo poo and spend the rest of the match trying to keep the rest alive at the expense of shooting. In the end they had the Firespray left and we had all but one A and Poe (who bit it in the last turn). This is the first game I've not really learnt anything, other than getting more practice eyeballing distances. It was so strange, apparently these guys play most weeks but none of them really know the rules. I guess you could call this a beer and pretzels game except for how seriously they took it all. So very strange.
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bunnyofdoom posted:So you were playing with MWG crew? One of them did have a camera now you come to mention it...
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One of our local stores has just announced they get Imperial Veterans on Thursday, hoping I can pick one up.
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I picked up Imperial Veterans and found an oddity, my copy has a proximity mine card but no token. I checked the frames of the punch outs and all 3 there and definitely no token. Seems very strange.
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Jun 23, 2016 23:36
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Devlan Mud posted:The punchboard should all be numbered, did you get a duplicate instead of all unique sheets? Had that happen with an Imperial Raider one of the LGSs had parted out as additional prize support for their store champs. I found it, fallen under the couch. Looks like our local store broke the street date. Nice little set, no surprises really. The bundled mission looks fun - A Rebel squaddron with a stolen Defender being hunted down by an Imperial squadron.
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I picked up Tabletop Simulator in the Steam Summer sale so if anyone fancies a game one evening UK time I should be set up and ready to go.
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I tried out the new defender titles and my punisher yesterday I ran Redline, FCS, autothrusters, plasma torpedoes, cluster missiles, extra munitions Delta squadron, TIE/X7, TIE mark 2 Onyx squadron, TIE/X7, TIE mark 2 He ran Contracted Scout with some gubbins I forget 4-LOM, adaptability, cloaking device, auto blaster Mandolin(?), adaptability, Nashtah pup, tractor beam, unhinged and K4 Neither of us had ran any of these ships before. I tabled him without loss. I didn't fly brilliantly but the Scout was dead in 3 turns without firing to any effect and the rest followed. The defenders were incredibly hard to hit and intimidating as hell do he ignored the Punisher far too long. Neither of us are really experienced or skilled but this was brutal for him. I'm going to have to run this again to see how it holds up. It went against all my instincts to load up the Punisher that much, I usually like to have at least a mini swarm of something on the table and unless it's a tooled up falcon that much on one ship seems very fragile but still. The TIE mark 2 did help open up the dial a bit but the defenders still felt predictable. Almost every time I didn't focus I felt like I would have been better doing that. Keeping the speed up felt...odd. My shots were longer ranged but with the low PS often had at least a focus behind them. Stress wasn't a big factor for either side either. Interesting game. But less high powered than you guys tend to play but fun.
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thespaceinvader posted:No Guidance Chips on Redline?! Thought with the double target lock and usually a focus I had enough dice mods so went more defensive with autothrusters. Worked out OK but he only got shot at once so could change it. Let the record state that autothrusters negated that shot though.
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Finster Dexter posted:I think mathematically, autothrusters is just not as valuable on low-agility ships. On a single die you get a 5/8 chance that your autothrusters are useless (because you rolled an evade or eyeball) and as your agility increases that chance goes down with each die (24% chance of uselessness at agility 3). I can see why you would be happy with the one time it turned a 0 evade defense into a 1 evade defense, but that's doubly less of a big deal on a 9 HP ship. I think I would take Chimps every time. thespaceinvader posted:Yep. Insurance against poo poo attacks is better than insurance against poo poo evade. Good points and well made. Will look at that next time.
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