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Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Armada is a ton of fun. I've been getting into every demo I can.

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Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Poopy Palpy posted:

You're the rear end in a top hat who takes 30 minutes to set up for a simple game because he's hunting for components :mad:

My solution to that is showing up 30 minutes early.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Have they revealed what that "7" upgrade icon is?

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Strobe posted:

It's an "Illicit" upgrade, something illegal on most ships but that scum and villains have no qualms about using.

We have no current Illicit upgrade cards.

Cool, thanks. It makes S&V sound like street racers from a F&F movie.

Darksaber posted:

That's the symbol for credits, by the way.

Neat.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


pbpancho posted:

The Falcon player is one of the three that beat me all weekend. His build is SUPER tanky. I ran Chewie with Predator and Falcon title, and Lando with Predator, Gunner, and Nien Nunb. Took 12th out of 170+ :)

Nice job!

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Oh man, I almost forgot. If anyone's still at GenCon, there is a booth near WizKids that is selling Tantivs for $50. I couldn't resist that deal.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Man, I can't wait to see the squadron lists of what made it into the top 8.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


If anyone's interested, here are the squad lists for the Top 4:

Winner, Rick Sidebotham: Whisper + Advanced Cloaking Device + Veteran Instincts + Fire Control System + Gunner; Soontir Fel + Push the Limit; Captain Yorr

2nd place, Jeff Beerling: Lando + Han Solo (crew) + Nien Nunb + Draw Their Fire; Chewbacca + R2-D2 (crew) + C-3P0 + Draw Their Fire + Millennium Falcon

Paul Heaver (lost to Jeff): Han Solo + C-3P0 + Millennium Falcon + Luke Skywalker + Veteran Instincts + Engine Upgrade; Biggs; Tala Squadron Pilot

Nick Jones (lost to Rick): Howlrunner + Push the Limit; 6x Obsidian Squadron Pilot

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


alg posted:

Can't wait to run YT2400 and YT1300 together and just forget about Phantoms for an entire league.

Chewie + Dash?

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


alg posted:


Apparently WK was selling GenCon exclusive promos, but only 30 a day, and people got trampled/etc. The promos are just strictly better than other ships.

Man, I was there and it loving sucked. I tried for two days to get those promo ships for a friend, and both times it was mess of poo poo planning and communication.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Swagger Dagger posted:

Promos with gameplay impact are garbage

Yeah, and it is so frustrating watching people defend them as some kind of game enriching feature.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Today, I took:

Leebo + Determination, Chewbacca

Keyan Farlander + Advanced Sensors, Push the Limit

Jake Farrell + Push the Limit


Farlander got blown up pretty quickly, which sucked because I didn't have time to really test him out. Also, if you have no Focus icons, can you still spend his stress token?

Jake Farrell was pretty awesome though. I was able to stay at range 1 of my opponents Dash + HLC and Outlander, and just dump damage onto it. Unfortunately, I critted off the HLC early enough to end up letting Dash do enough damage to make Jake easy pickins for the two A-Wings my opponent also brought.

I'm sad that my Leebo combo never got to trigger.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrxO1t9wY10

This is the same guy who did one of the demos I played. He was super cool and put up with all my bullshit questions.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


If I've got Corran Horn with Marksman, will it be in effect for both attacks if I use his ability?

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012



Just wanna re-highlight this because it's awesome.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


zVxTeflon posted:

Googled this ship. Its pretty much howtoruinthemillenniumfalcon.jpg

I dunno, I've always wanted a Millennium Falcon that looks like it has a big metal dick in the middle of it.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


I ran a fully loaded Nera Dantels (Dead Eye, E2/Recon Specialist, 2 Proton Torpedoes, Advanced Sensors), with a HWK and X-Wing as support. It didn't win, despite Nera one shotting Wedge, but it was a lot of fun, and the support options on the HWK make it pretty versatile.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012



These are the best custom templates.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Strobe posted:

Unhinged Astromech. :stare:

Yeah, that made me laugh.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


So who were the top 8 players for Worlds?

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Oh that's right, there's a whole day left. Derp.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Oh man, just a day after I said "Imperials probably wont get a big ship."

I am wrong and dumb. Also this owns.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


As much as I love The Dukes of Hazzard, I'd probably avoid using that paint scheme outside of friends.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


I think the obvious choice is Knight Rider Falcon.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


bunnyofdoom posted:

Question. Nera Dantels, give her dead eye, b2, recon specialist, and two torps?

Yes, this is a super fun configuration, and one time I used it to one-shot Wedge.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Kai Tave posted:


X-Wing is fun as hell you guys.


Yes. Yes it is. I don't play much these days, but I loaned my stuff to a Star Wars obsessed co-worker and he's been loving it.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Orvin posted:

I played a Han Solo and Corran Horn build in a local league tonight and won three games without losing a single ship. Corcoran with fire control system and R2-D2 and engine mod was stupidly powerful. I think it really helped that no one bothered to focus him down. He is agile enough to only take 1-2 damage, and I could easily keep those shields topped off.

Also was pretty funny calling out the younger brother (16ish) of the guy running the shop for the mistakes he was making. Trying to run the Dash Rendar crew member on the Dash Rendar pilot ship. Not realising that the outrider title disables the primary weapon (even better when I pointed that out when both my ships were at range 1 of his HLC). At least the guy was good natured about his mistakes, even though his older brother kept calling him an idiot.

What was your list? I've been looking for something to mix up my Solo Horn list with.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Palpatine is neat. Looks like all that is left is Obi Wan.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Does new damage deck change the value of Determination?

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Is there a viable 3 X-Wing list? I know the old Luke Wedge Biggs squad got swept aside pretty early on, losing big to swarms, but I really want to give it another try.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Strobe posted:

Wes also works with an R5 (or maybe BB-8?) and a 3 point initiative bid (which is how I was playing this list three months ago). You have PS 9/10/10, and with this set-up you can double stress the good aces to shut them down real fuckin' hard. It eats aces, phantoms, and big ships for breakfast. It has the most trouble against swarms (which aren't exactly frequent right now) and PS 11 Vader.

Nice. I will play this and kill all the other ships.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Man, after my entire FLGS disagreed with me about there being a new Falcon on the way, I feel vindicated. This is what I was waiting for to buy back in.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Otisburg posted:

I will drop you a C3PO in the mail, Friendbesto.

Thanks, dude. I wouldn't mind getting my original back, but it don't matter one bit.

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Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Kai Tave posted:

there's no way FFG was gonna leave money on the table like that.

It's like I keep saying, if they can sell you the Falcon once, they can sell it to you twice.

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