I figured I should start keeping track of some of my games so I'm going to start a battle report log. I'll kick things off with a 150 point match I played last night with me on one side and a couple of guys, Josh and Ben, teamed up with 75 points each against me (Well, it ended up 76 and 74). Here are the lists:
Me
[33] Soontir Fel + Push the Limit + Stealth Device
[29] Turr Phennir + Veteran Instincts + Stealth Device
[26] Lieutenant Lorrir + Stealth Device
[20] Scimitar Squadron Pilot + Cluster Missiles
[18] Howlrunner
[12] Academy Pilot
[12] Academy Pilot
Josh & Ben
[49] Boba Fett + Veteran Instincts + Gunner + Engine Upgrade
[25] Lambda-class Shuttle + Engine Upgrade
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[50] Krassis Trellix + Heavy Laser Cannon + Proximity Mines + Engine Upgrade?
[26] Lieutenant Lorrir + Stealth Device + Royal Guard TIE (for kicks)
We set our playing area at 4.5 x 3 and deployed thusly:
With Soontir and Turr on my left flank, the two Academy TIEs flanking Howlrunner in the center of my line, my bomber, and Lt. Lorrir hanging out over on the right. I had Initiative so all of his pilots except the Lambda deployed after Lorrir so he ended up in kind of a weird position, but I figured he could make his way around. Josh dropped both the Lambda and Boba Fett way off on the right while Ben put Krassis opposite my TIEs and Lorrir opposite his clone.
I moved everyone up full speed, but held Lorrir back a little and barrel rolled him out of the path of the asteroid. Krassis banked toward my Interceptors, Boba and the Lambda made their way across the board, and clone Lorrir went a lot farther than I expected him to with one of his crazy barrel rolls, putting him in shooting distance of my Lorrir. The TIE Fighters and Krassis traded long rage shots with a single damage being dealt to a TIE Fighter and one shield getting burned off the Firespray. My Lorrir rolled two hits that he easily evaded with five dice, but when he rolled two hits back at me, I only managed to dodge one of them, peeling off my Stealth Device. I really didn't anticipate his Lorrir making it to mine turn one or I would have banked to avoid the asteroid and taken an evade token for the initial volley, but oh well.
At this point I had my first real decisions to make of the game. The angle on the picture is off a bit, but Soontir on the far left should be set to clear Krassis if both ships went straight where Turr is dead in his path. I chose a 2 straight for Soontir and decided to go with a 3 right bank for Turr, figuring Trellix a lost cause if he goes straight and guessing I might have a shot at one of the other ships moving in from the right. With Lorrir, I considered sending him off to the right to try to jam things up for Boba and maybe distract him into chasing after me, but in the end I brought him left with the rest of the TIEs to focus fire on Krassis.
Everything ended up working out quite well for me with the TIEs moving up, the bomber barely not hitting one of them and getting a lock on Krassis, and Krassis surprising me with a left 3 turn! Both Interceptors on my left got into beautiful positions out of Krassis' arc and with range 1 shots on him. You can't tell in the picture, but Lorrir does have an arc on Krassis as well. His Lambda moved up too far to do much other than shoot Lorrir while Boba Fett miscalculated a bank and ended up on a rock. Rather than flip the bank and end up way out of position, he opted to take the rock for this turn. Clone Lorrir did manage to get where he wanted though and was breathing down the one true Lorrir's neck lining up a range 1 shot. My combined volley of fire tore Krassis to pieces, while my Lorrir suffered a similar fate at the hands of clone Lorrir and the Lambda.
Asking Ben about it after the game, his goal in making the swerve left was to get Krassis in position to drop his Proximity Mine in my face, but my TIEs getting in his way thwarted that plan nicely.
I flipped my Bomber and turned my TIEs to the right while rocks continued to pose a problem for Josh with his Lambda barely landing on an asteroid with a 3 bank. To make matters worse, this move caused clone Lorrir to run right into the shuttle. Meanwhile, Boba got off the rock and turned his back arc to face the firefight, but found he was out of range. This combat phase marked a second turn in a row of nearly all of my ships having shots on a single target and making excellent use of focusing fire to turn it into scrap. The beached bison burned brightly.
I shifted my forces around, turning the Fighters back down, bringing the Bomber in, and turning my Interceptors around at weird angles. Clone Lorrir opted against facing the oncoming horde and took a 3 left turn through the rock, taking a damage in the process. Unfortunately for him, he didn't run far enough and a blaze of laser fire turned him to dust. Boba was in a weird position at this point, having ended up too close to the edge to K-turn or turn left so Josh went ahead and conceded the game rather than let me hunt him down.
Though fairly one-sided, this game was a lot of fun with some tight maneuvers on my part and lots of blowing stuff up. It was my first time doing a 1vs2 team game and in retrospect as the more experienced player I probably should have put myself on the team rather than stood alone as being on a team really presents more challenges than advantages with not always being aware of what the other person is up to. I also felt like I was at an advantage early on just based on lists as I don't think heavily upgraded Firesprays are a very good points investment, preferring to put my points into smaller more maneuverable ships like Interceptors. I would have liked to get more mileage out of Lorrir, but he did keep Clone Lorrir tied up and contributed a bit of fire to the Krassis killing before being blasted so it's all good.
I'll try to keep more battle reports rolling in so watch out for that! Thanks for the reads 