NOVA Squadron Radio – Episode 7 “Wave 1 Review: Part 1 and Clint from the Metal Bikini”

Welcome to NOVA Squadron Radio! This week we are rejoined once again be Sean and we start our review of every ship and card in the game, from the beginning in Wave 1! We kick off the show by discussing what we have been flying lately, then moved on to some news and a topic right off the FFG forums; ‘Token Placement’. We then did the Rebel side of our Wave 1 Review, and close out the show with an interview with Clint from the Metal Bikini blog.

NOVA Squadron Radio is:
Ed Horne – Host
Kris Soehnlin – Co-Host and NOVA Squadron founding member
Ronald Brannan – Co-Host and NOVA Squadron founding member
Chad Brown – Co-Host/Editor

Sean Dorcy – Guest Host

Here are the show notes from Episode 7:

[0:00 – 1:09] Show Opening

[1:09 – 29:42] The Flightdeck – We discuss the lists we have been playing, league games, and local events

[29:42– 44:22] The News:
-Wing Store Championship Signups: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=5046

-Team Covent Open 2014: Round One Pairing are up:
http://teamcovenant.com/antigrapist/2014/09/16/team-covenant-open-round-one-pairings/

[44:22 – 1:52:10] Main Topic: Wave One Reviews: Part 1- Rebels!

-The X-Wing and all its upgrades
-The Y-Wing and all its upgrades

[1:52:10 – 2:25:50] Tactical Readouts: Clint from the Metal Bikini

[2:25:50 – 2:27:07] Show Closing

Musical Credits go out to the band ‘Insane Ride’ and their songs ‘Sound of Rock and Roll’ and ‘Wrong or Right’ found on the Free Music Archive at http://freemusicarchive.org/

Thanks for listening, and talk to you again in two weeks!

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To answer the question from the middle of the podcast, it feels like the opposing player was trying to trick his opponent into forgetting the cloak token and that seems dirty and/or cheap. In general I have to feel that every case is different. 1am is different from 1pm, casual vs competitive. I like how generally you don't see mind games happening in this game. I HATED the way that players would mess with their cards in numerous ways and drum the table to try and break your focus in magic the gathering. It's insulting to me, if you can't win without mind games, go home.

I agree. It just seemed to me a question of poor sportsmanship. Yes, I agree it is the responsibility of the player to remember his tokens, however, I would not want to win a game that way.

Thanks for listening!

I'm up to the discussion of the Y-wing and I have to say that live is much different now for the Y-wing than before. The low green dice had Y-wings die pretty fast when dealing with a lot of Tie Fighters. Back in Wave 1, you didn't have anything you faced other than a bunch of Tie Fighters. I think people used Y-wings a bit, but quickly dropped them.

I wanted to try them out after a bit of an absence from the game and found Y-wings incredibly effective. Dutch with Ion Turrent because very useful. This is due to the fact that most lists only have around 3 ships in them these days. The Y-wing doesn't die the death of a thousand cuts anymore. Ionizing a single Tie Fighter before didn't matter that much when you were facing 5-8 of them. Now, it becomes incredibly more useful.

Dutch with R7-T1 is fantastic.

I think it is interesting that pre-Wave 4 Y-Wings were failing out of favor in the meta, and poof, their back again and as good as ever!

I am a huge Y-Wing fan and never build a non Fat Han Revel list without one.

It's not fun to win because your opponent forgot a token. I found the discussion of local meta's really interesting. Where is this mythical Garven territory again?

Omaha! Yeah, I was really floored by that one too, I have never seen Garven on the board at all.