(EDIT: Apparently still so excited: the venue name is Faraos Cigarer, not Faroas (though the guy running the event is from the Faroe Islands))
YAY!!!
I just won a postponed Assault at Imdaar Alpha event at a FLGS. A small venue (6 players) with all well known faces:
I played 4 x Royal TIE Guard Interceptors w/PTL (and Royal TIE Guard titles "just because") and made it to the final where I met a guy I played in the Swiss rounds. He chose Imperial so I had to think up some Rebel Mojo....
My choice fell on:
Wedge Antilles (PS9) w/Outmaneuver and R7
Coran Horn (PS8) w/PTL and R7-T1
and
Airen Cracken (PS8) w/Wingman and Ion Pulse Torpedo
I was facing
Rexler Brath (PS8) w/Predator
Dark Curse (PS6)
Night Beast (PS5)
and
Sigma Sq. Pilot (PS3) w/Advenced Cloaking Device
(Warning/disclaimer: the following is mostly focused on my experience/thoughts and isn't an objective retelling of all the aspects/nuances of the very intense game)
After an fairly mediocre 1st firing round my 3 Rebel Ace/Star pilots kicked it up and killed off the fully cloaked Phantom while only loosing a shield on Cracken I think.
I forgot to use my Wingman and then started bumping/blocking myself, but thanks to the very intimidating look/combo on Wedge, my opponent fortunately (had to?) chose to focus on killing him off and that worked nicely for Horn and Cracken.
After taking a looooong turn around with the -Wing and Z-95 I finally managed to line them up, and then the synergy between Crackens Free Action ability and Wingman combined with Horns PTL, and R7-T1 Astromech REALLY kicked in and I managed to kill the Defender with some very intense Range 1 fire from Cracken and Horn.
A couple of rounds prior to the end of the game I koiograned with Crackn and lined Horn up next to him and took a shot at Night Beast with TL Focus and Horns double attack but my opponent dodged EVERYTHING.
We had time for 1 more round and since Horn wasn't allowed to attack I pulled him off in safety outside Night Beast and Dark Curse (and Focus Evaded just to make 100 % sure
) and for Cracken I was a bit lucky to bump in to Dark Curse so only Night Beast had a Range 1 shot: He made 2 hits, I evaded 1 and lost my last shield and could FINALLY (!!!!) after a really looooooong drought find myself as a (small) tournament......
For my 1st place finish I pcked up the Phantom, since a VERY VERY friendly guy from my group (who finished 3rd in a previous AaIA event) had passed a Defender on to me for TO'ing that event.
So currently my Wave 4 fleet counts a Defender (consolation prize) and a Phantom (actual prize).
Can't wait to play with them. **** those new EPT and Droids are fun to play around with.
Well, that's it for now.
Take care and Fly Casual-
Edited by Forensicus