Official tournament rules will be strictlly followed except for the following:

-No unique items allowed

-No large ships allowed

-55 points is the limit

Goal is to lure new people into the game and prep them for the main event one month later.

Today a humble 7 players gathered; 4x Rebel Scum and 3 awesome superior Imperial loyalists.

(bias? no clue why you seem to think I am biased!)

Alas a 4th Imp player cancelled a few days earlier so this was it.

We played 4 rounds with each round one rebel having a bye.

End-result:

No. 1:

Soontir Fel (ptl and targetting computer) + Lt. Lorrir won convincingly; 4 rounds they literally destroyed all opposition. Once Lt. Lorrir got blown out of space. Soontir evaded all that was thrown (shot/fired/blasted) at him.

No. 2:

B-Wing+heavy laser cannon + y-wing with blaster turret (missing a few points here; think it was an additional shield or somesuch)

Only lost to No.1 and had 2 convincing wins. (plus the bye counting as win)

No.3

2x B-Wings (one blue and a dagger), both with sensor jammers

VERY nasty squadron at this point level.

Only lost to no.1, Had 2 convincing wins. (plus the bye counting as win)

Got relegated to no.3 due to having just a tiny amount of points 'extra' destroyed in his won games.

No. 4/5

Lorrir plus Kir Kanos (both stealth, one targetting comp) were tied 4/5 with a Saber squadron Interceptor, Dark Curse and an Academy pilot (upgrades a bit fuzzy but IIRC a stealth device and ptl)

No. 6;

Biggs+R2 astromech plus Luke the R5 version

No. 7:

Luke+Y-wing with Ion cannon turret (upgrades fuzzy again)

All things considered it went really well and only after a few hours of buzz it seems that the next event on may 31st will have a few more people attending. (at least 3/4 extra so far!)

Next time I am likely to bring me some rebels but for this event I was extremely happy with the Interceptor performance.