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Posted at 2014-05-05 01:33:10+00:00

What an Amazing day. We played 8 rounds in less than 13 hours with two 45 minute meal breaks. We saw 1 Draw and only 1 modified match which may be a first for the fewest modified results.

We had 46 players in attendance playing 28 rebel builds, and 18 empire builds. The top 16 consisted of 13 rebel builds and 3 empire builds. Top 8 was 7 rebel to 1 Empire with and Imperial Swarm beating down a Rebel Swarm for the trophy.

The competition was fierce and very strong. We had the former World Champion, 4 from the top 16 of Worlds 2013, and numerous top 8 finishers in various Vassal tournaments.

In the end, only one player could be crowned as the regional champion and that honor goes to Gavin Norman who beat Jim Blakley for the trophy after a long day of brutal battles.

I am honored to have run this tournament in the company of such great players. I hope the rest of the regionals produce as good a time as this one did.

Below is the list of the top 16 which will expand to all 46 players and their lists.

Bellevue Nebraska Regional lists.

(46 players)

1 ^st Place: Gavin Norman – Empire (100 Points)

Howlrunner (20)

Swarm Tactics

Black Squadron Pilot (15)

Draw Their Fire

Obsidian Squadron Pilot (13)

2 ^nd Place: Jim Blakley – Rebels (100 Points)

Blue Squadron pilot (22)

Gold Squadron pilot (18)

Rookie Pilot (21)

3 ^rd Place: Evan Claassen – Rebels (99 Points)

Garvin Dreis (26)

Biggs Darklighter (25)

Blue Squadron pilot (24)

Fire Control System

Blue Squadron pilot (24)

Fire Control System

4 ^th Place: Aaron Bonar – Rebels (100 Points)

Chewbacca (49)

Expert Handling

Gunner

Lando(51)

Expert Handling

Gunner

5 ^th Place: Shayn Lavender – Rebels (100 Points)

Chewbacca (52)

Push the Limit

Nien Nunb

Gunner

Millennium Falcon

Blue Squadron Pilot (24)

Fire Control System

Blue Squadron Pilot (24)

Fire Control System

6 ^th Place: Brant Seymoure – Rebels (99 Points)

Blue Squadron Pilot (24)

Fire Control System

Blue Squadron Pilot (24)

Fire Control System

Blue Squadron Pilot (24)

Fire Control System

Outer Rim Smuggler (27)

7 ^th Place: Tony Staub –Rebels (100 Points)

Dagger Squadron Pilot (27)

Ion Cannon

Dagger Squadron Pilot (27)

Ion Cannon

Red Squadron pilot (23)

8 ^th Place: Sean Esser – Rebel (100 points)

Blue Squadron pilot (22)

Gold Squadron pilot (18)

Rookie Pilot (21)

9 ^th Place: Jonathan Reinig – Empire (100 Points)

Soontir Fel (36)

Royal Guard TIE

Push the Limit

Hull Upgrade

Stealth Device

Black Squadron Pilot (16)

Swarm Tactics

Omicron Group Pilot (24)

Darth Vader

Academy Pilot (12)

10 ^th Place: Greg Duncan – Rebels (99 Points)

Blue Squadron Pilot (22)

Outer Rim Smuggler (33)

Gunner

Millennium Falcon

11 ^th Place: Ryan Weissinger – Empire (99 Points)

Howlrunner (18)

Mauler Mithel (17)

Backstabber (16)

Academy Pilot (12)

12 ^th Place: Matt Holland – Rebels (100 Points)

Dagger Squadron Pilot (27)

Advanced Sensors

Dagger Squadron Pilot (27)

Advanced Sensors

Red Squadron pilot (23)

13 ^th Place: Marv Cole – Rebels (100 Points)

Biggs (28)

R2-F2

Blue Squadron pilot (24)

Fire-Control System

Blue Squadron pilot (24)

Fire-Control System

Blue Squadron pilot (24)

Fire-Control System

14 ^th Place: Chris Miller Rebels (100 Points)

Garvin Dreis (27)

R2 Astromech

Biggs Darklighter (25)

Red Squadron Pilot (24)

R2 Astromech

Red Squadron Pilot (24)

R2 Astromech

15 ^th Place: Landon Otis – Rebels (100 Points)

Blue Squadron pilot (22)

Gold Squadron Pilot (23)

Ion Cannon Turret

Rookie Pilot (21)

Prototype Pilot (17)

16 ^th Place: Leighton Eash –Rebels (100 Points)

Han Solo (58)

Marksmanship

Gunner

Chewbacca

Rookie Pilot (21)

Edited May 5, 2014 by Xwingtoman

Posted at 2014-05-05 03:47:17+00:00

Here is 17th thru 46th

17 ^th Place: Devon Hein – Empire (98 Points)

Omicron group Pilot (38)

Advanced Sensors

Heavy Laser Cannon

Rebel Captive

Engine Upgrade

Academy Pilot (12)

18 ^th Place: Joe Hensen – Empire (100 Points)

Backstabber (16)

Bounty Hunter (36)

Recon Specialist

Bounty hunter (36)

Recon Specialist

Academy Pilot (12)

19 ^th Place: Mike Russell – Rebels (100 Points)

Chewbacca (49)

Expert Handling

Gunner

Lando (51)

Expert Handling

Gunner

20 ^th Place: Richard White – Empire (100 Points)

Royal guard Pilot (29)

Push the Limit

Shield Upgrade

Omicron Group pilot (35)

Advanced Sensors

Heavy Laser Cannon

Engine Upgrade

Academy Pilot (12)

21 ^st Place: Brandon Barthel – Rebel (100 Points)

Wedge Antilles (31)

Swarm Tactics

Biggs Darklighter (25)

Red Squadron Pilot (23)

Rookie Pilot (21)

22 ^nd Place: Patrick Wilcox – Empire (100 Points)

Howlrunner (23)

Swarm Tactics

Stealth Device

Night Beast (15)

Obsidian Squadron Pilot (13)

Academy pilot (12)

23 ^rd Place: Kent Campos – Empire (100 points)

Dark Curse (16)

Night Beast (15)

Bounty Hunter (43)

Proton bombs

Gunner

Omicron Group Pilot (26)

Fire-Control System

Darth vader

24 ^th Place: Nathan Martin – Rebel (100 Points)

Kyle Katarn (31)

Blaster turret

Recon Specialist

Moldy Crow

Chewbacca (47)

Push the Limit

Nien Nunb

Millennium Falcon

Gold Squadron Pilot (22)

Blaster Turret

25 ^th Place: Dustin Poskochil – Empire ( 98 Points)

Howlrunner (18)

Scimitar Squadron Pilot (16)

26 ^th Place: Patrick McDonald – Rebels (99 Points

Blue Squadron Pilot (24)

Fire Control System

Blue Squadron Pilot (24)

Fire Control System

Blue Squadron Pilot (24)

Fire Control System

Outer Rim Smuggler (27)

27 ^th Place: Nathan Miller – Rebel (100 Points)

Wedge Antilles (34)

Swarm Tactics

Hull Upgrade

Roark Garnet (24)

Ion Cannon Turret

Rookie Pilot (21)

28 ^th Place: James Hobbs – Rebel (100 Points)

Biggs Darklighter (31)

R2-F2

Stealth Device

Gold Squadron Pilot (23)

Ion Cannon Turret

Gold Squadron Pilot (23)

Ion Cannon Turret

Rookie Pilot(23)

29 ^th Place: Nickie Bonar – Rebels (100 Points)

Chewbacca (49)

Expert Handling

Gunner

Lando (51)

Expert Handling

Gunner

30 ^th Place: Ian Shaffer – Rebels (99 Points)

Han Solo (58)

Swarm Tactics

Gunner

Chewbacca

Rookie Pilot (21)

31 ^st Place: Lloyd Wood – Rebel (100 Points)

Lando Calrissian (50)

Draw Their Fire

Gunner

Chewbacca (50)

Push the Limit

Gunner

32 ^nd Place: Scott Fish – Rebel (100 Points)

Dagger Squadron Pilot (26)

Fire –Control System

Dagger Squadron Pilot (26)

Fire –Control System

Blue Squadron Pilot (24)

Fire Control System

Blue Squadron Pilot (24)

Fire Control System

33 ^rd Place: Matt Baxter – Rebel (100 Points)

Dagger Squadron Pilot (26)

Advanced Sensors

Dagger Squadron Pilot (26)

Advanced Sensors

Red Squadron pilot (23)

34 ^th Place: Troy Perry- rebel (100 Points)

Wedge Antilles (31)

Swarm Tactics

Biggs Darklighter (25)

Blue Squadron Pilot (22)

35 ^th Place: Doug Kinney – Empire (100 Points)

Kath Scarlet (47)

Seismic Charges

Expert Handling

Gunner

Backstabber (16)

Bounty Hunter (37)

Flight Instructor

36 ^th Place: Colin McMahon –Empire (100 Points)

Kath Scarlet (45)

Seismic Charges

Expert Handling

Rebel Captive

Backstabber (16)

Nightbeast (15)

Academy Pilot (12)

37 ^th Place: Nate Collins – Empire (100 Points)

Boba Fett (49)

Push the Limit

Recon Specialist

Engine Upgrade

Night Beast(15)

Alpha Squadron pilot (18)

38 ^th Place: Jacob Payne- Rebel (100 Points)

Blue Squadron pilot (22)

Gold Squadron pilot (18)

Rookie Pilot (21)

39 ^th Place: Caleb Bailey – Empire (100 points

Royal Guard Pilot (28)

Push the Limit

Hull Upgrade

Royal Guard Pilot (28)

Push the Limit

Hull Upgrade

Omicron Group Pilot (32)

Gunner

Engine upgrade

Academy Pilot (12)

40 ^th Place: Jason Summers - Empire (100 Points)

Soontir Fel (36)

Royal Guard Tie

Push the Limit

Hull Upgrade

Staelth Device

Black Squadron Pilot (16)

Swarm Tactics

Omicron Group Pilot (24)

Darth Vader

Academy Pilot (12)

41 ^st Place: Claire Chamley – Rebels (100 Points)

Chewbacca (46)

Shield Upgrade

Gold Squadron Pilot (27)

R5 Astromech

Ion Cannon Turret

Hull Upgrade

Gold Squadron Pilot (27)

R5 Astromech

Ion Cannon Turret

Hull Upgrade

42 ^nd Place: Shaun VanConett – Empire (100 Points)

Carnor Jax (28)

Swarm tactics

Scimitar Squadron pilot (16)

Scimitar Squadron pilot (18)

Seismic Charge

Scimitar Squadron pilot (18)

Seismic Charge

Scimitar Squadron pilot (20)

Cluster Missiles

43 ^rd Place: Mike Buell – Rebels (100 Points)

Han Solo (46)

Ten Numb (31 Points)

Gold Squadron Pilot (23)

Ion Turret

44 ^th Place: Rob Davis – Empire (99 Points)

Bounty Hunter (33)

45 ^th Place: Michael Beddes – Empire (100 Points)

Darth Vader (31)

Swarm Tactics

Black Squadron Pilot (14)

Obsidian Squadron Pilot (13)

46 ^th Place: Chris Brown – Empire (97 Points)

Howlrunner (20)

Swarm Tactics

Mauler Mithel (19)

Swarm Tactics

Winged Gundark (15)

Black Squadron Pilot (19)

Draw Their Fire

Shield Upgrade

Academy Pilot (12)

Edited May 5, 2014 by Xwingtoman

Posted at 2014-05-05 04:09:04+00:00

I went into this day stressed, knowing that the field was full of talented players. That feeling stayed with me the whole day, Every game was tense and I felt like the entire day rested on the outcome of each match. I managed to make it into the semi finals and count myself lucky to have gone this far. As a disclaimer several points of the day are a blur to me so please if I mess something up correct me.

This is what I ran:

Garven Dreis

Biggs Darklighter

Blue Squadron + FCS

Heres the recap of the days events from my side of things. Overall this was an incredibly run event and extremely fun to play in. Sean as always ran a flowing event that wasted no time and kept all the players invested throughout.

The day kicked off with the first round starting 5 minutes tops behind schedule. I don't think Ive seen an event start off that close to scheduled time before.

I went into this with a Bye from a store championship so round one was a win against an opponent with a SoS of 20. Having that first round off was great, it let me sit back and get a feel for the flow of the tournament and see what others were running. Overall I was impressed with the wide variety of squads that were brought to this event. Everything from swarms to three ship rebel builds.

My second game was against Nate Collins. I believe that he was running a Firespray, 2 alpha interceptors and night beast. I started in a 2X2 block all day, this time dead center of my side. B wings up front, Biggs and Garven in the rear. Nate set up with The firespray, alpha and night beast on my left and a single interceptor on my right. Seeing his split I pushed forward hard. I was able to engage the firespray and an interceptor on the first round of shooting with just my B wings. This netted me TL's and set up the next round. Things quickly started to skew in my favor as Biggs drew fire and the B wings killed with efficiency. I was able to kill his squad with only the loss of Biggs. First real test of the day and I was happy with how the squad was running.

100-25 Victory

Game three, my nightmare, a swarm. This one was under the command of Ryan Weissinger a great guy from Oklahoma. It was Howl, Mauler, Backstabber and 4 AP's. I set up centered again and he set up on my right hand side. I went forward slowly and worked my way into the pocket of asteroids. He formed up and turned in to meet me. The opener left him with one AP on a rock dying and lots of damage spread out. I had split one B wing off to deal with backstabber and his next turn he hard turned right to try and get the early kill and cause the rest of my fleet to bump. I came up just shy of his ships who were facing away from me. I lost the B wing I had split off but got behind his ships and over the next few turns killed off his remaining ties.

99-24 Victory

Feature table time and I look forward to watching the video from this one to learn a thing or two. This game was against Chris Miller, one of the Lincoln players. He was running 2 Reds, Biggs and Garven. This would come down to dice and if I could keep my B wings alive till the end. he wet up Biggs in the back and 3 X in front on my right. I was center-left. I went 3 forward and then two right banked next turn. Chris pulled off consecutive right banks that put him into a beautiful entry. The first exchange of fire was 1 B against 1 Red. Not much damage. The next round I one forwarded and so did he. This turn was all about the Biggs shots. Both our Biggs scraped through this round. I pushed up 2 forward with my B wings to block, brought Garven in behind the B's and Biggs in back, still in Range 1 of all my boys. Both our biggs died on this round. After this things went south for me. I wound up with a single B wing with 3 shields left against his Garven with 2 Hull left and a full Red. Over the next 6 rounds and with 2 Hull and 5 minutes left the last man standing was the B wing! This one was a nail biter and Chris played it well.

99-75 Victory

This was it, round 5 and I was playing another 4-0. He was second and I was third in SoS so no matter what I was pretty sure we were both in. I played Aaron who was running Chewie, Lando dancing falcons. Well this one was a blow out, Aaron had a rough game and his mind was wandering a bit. Chewie got blocked onto a rock and blown up quick. Lando finished off Biggs and Garven and got gunned down by the two full HP B wings. So with that I went into eliminations 5-0.

100-51 Victory

My top 8 match was against Tony. I haven't played him before even though hes an Omaha guy. He said hes only played around 10 matches but he has definitely done his research and knows how to play. He ran 2 Reds and 2 Daggers with ions. He had a very nice opener worked out that set him up in a tight aperture formation. He had me impressed from the start. I banked right into him before he expected it and I got a range three with my B wings. The only return shot was in the from of an ion shot that hit my lead B wing. The entire formation did 1 forwards the next turn anyway so it wasn't a big deal. The B wings did what they always do and blew up ships. Biggs took the fire. And Garven passed his focus around. I wound up with my two B's against one of his. He did the only thing left to him and tried to ion a B off the map. I managed to get the kill before that happened. On to semi finals.

VICTORY!

And here is where it all fell apart. I played Jim with his Rebel Swarm. I felt good about this match. I set up centered and he set up on the right side in an H pattern. The opening round of fire saw me kill one of his Y-wings and only lose a single shield off a B wing. After that I felt really good about this. I honestly don't remember much of the rest of the map. I was exhausted and out of juice. I remember a point where I saw one of my B wings disappear in a cloud of debris, full HP to dead in a turn. At the end of the day He had a dead X and a dead Y, his B wing and remaining X wing had one HP each and his last Y had three. A close game, honestly closer than I deserved with how I played.

DEFEATED!

Jim went on to play Gavin in the finals. He put up a good fight but ultimately lost with three ties remaining. This was a great day and I couldn't have been happier with the way it went and the caliber of players that were here.

Edited May 5, 2014 by LegionThree

Posted at 2014-05-05 04:10:28+00:00

Give me time for the videos. The lincoln Players will be doing the commentary.

Edited May 5, 2014 by Xwingtoman

Posted at 2014-05-05 15:21:26+00:00

Sean, tell them that they can skip commenting on my game vs Matt Holland! I can pretty much sum it up: "Matt rolls lots of hits; Rob rolls lots of blanks." To anyone who spends time watching our game, I apologize that you'll never get those 20 minutes back. :lol:

Now that I'm done bragging about myself, I'd like to thank Sean for running an amazing tournament. Props also go to his son (who's name I should know but escapes me at the moment) who helped run things and ran the video camera at the "premier" table, and to Norm, the owner of The Game Shoppe, for making us feel so welcome and giving us all of his gaming space. We've had smaller tournaments there where I've felt much more crowded than I did on Saturday. Even with the huge number of players there, I never felt cramped or trapped once all day.

BTW, I'm Rob Davis, of the 44th place finishing 3x BH squadron. Not the final ranking I would have preferred, but I had to make an early exit after the 4th round so I only finished 2-2. I guess I owe Matt and Sean Esser apologies for hurting their SoS, but I couldn't pass up a once in a lifetime opportunity to see Itzhak Perlman and top off the wife-happiness meter.

Round 1: Scott Fish
2x Dagger, 2x Blue, all w/FCS

This was Scott's first tournament, and I could tell that he was nervous. He started out well, but in the middle rounds there were a few turns where if he had been more aggressive he might have pulled out the win. I gave him a huge boost on turn 4 when I misjudged my moves w/two of my BH's. I tried to pull two K-turns in an X formation and misjudged the angle. The 2nd ship bumped the first, which left it facing outside in a corner. If I'd been playing someone w/more experience I could have left the two ships there to keep bumping each other and shoot (they both had plenty of targets to choose from) but instead I let the one fly off of the map. I'd still done enough damage before hand that the odds were in my favor and I ended up winning 100-33.

I talked to Scott afterwards about being more aggressive w/those K-turns and I know that he won his next 2 games, so I hoped that helped him out a little bit. I also pushed him to join our league on Tuesdays and hope to see him this week.

Round Two: Matt Holland
2x Dagger w/Adv Sensors, 2x Red Xs

As I've already mentioned, Matt and I got put up at the table of shame to record my ineptness for all to see! But honestly, I really didn't play so badly as there just wasn't any way around my die rolling. We started at opposite corners of the map and I felt that my approach was OK until we rolled dice. He had 2 B's and one X with shots at one BH. 9 attack dice and he rolls 9 hits/eyeballs, while I roll zero evades. I manage to remove 1 whole shield with my return fire, so after the first round of shooting I'm essentially already down 1 ship b/c I know that he's going to finish off that BH before it can even shoot next round. At this point I felt like I should have just conceded the game, which I know effected my mindset the rest of the match.

I did end up making a game out of it, taking down one B and one X, but I can think of one move where I really screwed myself, and then another time where I took an Evade Action, but then never spent the stupid token. In the end it ended up with his 2 remaining ships chasing my BH across the table and simply wearing it down. It was a great game by Matt. I honestly can't remember if I ended up killing his second X-Wing or not, so I can't post a score, but he got a full victory either way.

Round 3: Sean Esser
2x Blue, 2x Rookie, Gold Squadron Y

Sean was running Jim Blakely's squadron for Worlds, but even tho Jim and I play in league together, I'd never faced this one before. I thought I had a sound strategy going in though: ignore the Y's and burn down an X or B first, to reduce his firepower. Von Moltke had something to say about that though.... I was still mentally dazed from my previous performance and hosed myself on the first round of shooting. I bumped both of my rear two ships into the front one, which left me with 1 decent shot on his B, one range 3 shot at the B, and a 3rd ship that could only shoot at a Y, which was exactly what I didn't want to do. The actual shooting didn't go horribly on my end, considering the amount of dice he got to roll.

I wasn't going to let that prevent me from losing though, so on the next turn I decided to park one of my ships on an asteroid. <_< On the next turn my parked ship had two choices: turn right or K-turn past his block. I expected him to do all 1 Straights but was worried that he might turn one ship towards my guy on the asteroid and block me from turning right, so I picked the K-Turn. Sean made the perfect move though and totally caught me off guard by moving everyone 1 Straight except for his B-Wing, which he moved last and banked into the back of his X-Wing. I was crossing his formation at an angle, and that left the B-Wing exactly where I wanted to go, which left me parked on the rock for another turn. My other guys eventually finished off his B-Wing and I got my guy off the asteroid the next turn, but by then he'd killed one BH and stripped all of the shields off of another and most of the shields off the one on the rock. It only lasted 2 more turns, with him burning down a BH each round.

Sean was an extremely gracious winner. I know that he felt bad for me (I didn't roll a single evade the whole game) and he won with class. I lost: 22-99.

Intermission - between rounds I was talking w/Dustin Poskochil and he was saying that the reason he quit flying 3xBH was b/c you couldn't keep them tight enough for all 3 to get good shots at the same target. One would have a good shot, the second would have a range 3 shot, and the third would have to shoot at some other target or have no shot. So going into my next game I decided to quit worrying about formation and split them up.

Right after that conversation, I walked over to the spotlight table where Aaron Bonar was running Dancing Falcons against Jonathan Reinig (IIRC). After they finished they were talking about which YT to take out first: Lando or Chewie and I said that I go after Lando first, hoping to get lucky w/a Crit and either take him out fast w/Direct Hits or get a Damaged Cockpit or Injured Pilot and screw up their synergy. Jonathan said that he preferred to take out Chewie first, while you can focus all of your firepower on him, then Lando's ability becomes useless anyways. I took that to heart.

Round 4: Nickie Bonar
Dancing Falcons

This was the squad that frightened me the most. I won 4th place at the 4-Plus Store Championship earlier this year, and Dancing Falcons gave me my only 2 losses that day (both times piloted by Evan Claassen). I know Nickie from the shop, but I'd never played her before though, so I wasn't sure what to expect of her. I know that the falcons could turn inside of me and don't have to worry about facing, so my plan was to spread out and try to keep 2 BHs pointing towards her most logical move, while the 3rd maneuvered to be in a good spot in case they turned the opposite direction.

I placed 1 BH on my far left edge, and the other two just inside of the left-most asteroid, so that those two would end up flying a column and raced the solo guy down the edge as fast as possible. He was going to cross the board as quickly as possible and then K-turn so that he could hit the Falcons head-on while my other two slow-rolled across the map. It worked almost as I expected too. Nickie started slow, then banked in fast with Chewie in the lead. Both of her ships were parallel at my rear BH's 3 o'clock, but she only managed to get 1 hit. That BH didn't have any shots, but the one in front of it got a hit or two in on Chewie.

The next turn she surprised me by turning away from my ships instead of following them, so we didn't get any shots in. Then on the turn after that she made a mistake by turning away again, towards my right, instead of going to my and coming back at my ships head on. This put Chewie behind Lando, so when he moved first he bumped into Lando and lost his action, then after Lando moved they were too far apart to give Chewie an action. On the other hand I actually performed my plan to perfection and when she tried to race up the right edge of the map, I had my BH's spaced out so that she had to pass in front of them all. I burned down Chewie in 2 turns and got a couple hits in on Lando too, before he managed to get some distance between us after taking out one of my ships. I got lucky w/a range 3 crit tho and "Blinded" Lando, and could finish him off before he could shoot again.

I won, 100-33.

At that point, I had to bow out. I guess it was fitting b/c that left me at .500 which is par for me at tournaments. This'll also be the last time I run 3 BHs for quite a while. I shouldn't be too upset with them though, considering this was only the 3rd time I've ever run them.

Edited May 6, 2014 by Chrome

Posted at 2014-05-05 20:59:57+00:00

Round Two: Matt Holland

2x Dagger w/Adv Sensors, 2x Red Xs

As I've already mentioned, Matt and I got put up at the table of shame to record my ineptness for all to see! But honestly, I really didn't play so badly as there just wasn't any way around my die rolling. We started at opposite corners of the map and I felt that my approach was OK until we rolled dice. He had 2 B's and one X with shots at one BH. 9 attack dice and he rolls 9 hits/eyeballs, while I roll zero evades. I manage to remove 1 whole shield with my return fire, so after the first round of shooting I'm essentially already down 1 ship b/c I know that he's going to finish off that BH before it can even shoot next round. At this point I felt like I should have just conceded the game, which I know effected my mindset the rest of the match.

I did end up making a game out of it, taking down one B and one X, but I can think of one move where I really screwed myself, and then another time where I took an Evade Action, but then never spent the stupid token. In the end it ended up with his 2 remaining ships chasing my BH across the table and simply wearing it down. It was a great game by Matt. I honestly can't remember if I ended up killing his second X-Wing or not, so I can't post a score, but he got a full victory either way.

We ended with with the B and X alive, if I remember correctly. It was a good game, but yeah, the dice were not in your favor!

Posted at 2014-05-06 15:27:04+00:00

I'm actually kinda interested in watching our game again, just to watch the die rolls and see if they were as bad as I felt like they were or not. I know that the first round of shooting was absolutely brutal - you scored a hit w/every die - but I want to examine the psychological effects of that turn on the rest of the game. I felt like the dice were against me the rest of the time, but I'm curious to see if it was actually as bad as it felt.

Posted at 2014-05-06 18:12:54+00:00

If you would like, then after the video gets posted (and when I have some time) I can do some MathWing using my scripts to see just how bad the dice rolls were.

Posted at 2014-05-06 22:00:47+00:00

They sound really bad! LOL

Bellevue Nebraska Regional Recap