So last saturday was my first x-wing tournament. There were ten of us, and at least half had never been to a tournament before.

I decided to try out my new Decimator. At first I was looking at all the crazy range 1/ramming synergy cards, but I kept having this feeling that if I used it at a battering ram, it would die by turn 3. So instead, I took Kenkirk, Ysard, Gunner and Mercenary Co-pilot. I had stealth device on it as well, but in the end I put that on the Alpha TIE/IN instead, and finished off the list with two academies.

My plan was to have Kenkirk patrol the edges and snipe from range 3 while the TIE's swarmed the enemy, blocking and flanking.

Ironically, the list I was most worried about, that I ended up almost beating, was Fat Han. The only reason I didn't was because I made the mistake of targeting Han for the first two turns, when I should have focused on the other ships. Han struggled to do anything against my TIES's which evaded every turn. If I'd just killed the other two ships, I'd have won even if I lost all three TIE's.

As for meta, we had ten players, 1 fat han, and no phantoms.

I'll post the lists later - I can't remember them all atm.

usually the only way to reliably beat Han is to kill him first. i would say you did the right thing.

I'd love to hear the report.

I played in an event that I wrote about last week. I tried to bump Han in the 2nd turn (of shooting) and he managed to zip past with a 4. Anything else and he would've bumped and been destroyed. Next, I should've red turned with the Shuttle to bump his Z-95's and gotten more shots at him, but I banked and the turn was ruined.

Han's not invincible, I took him to from full health to 2 hull in 1 turn of shooting (3 ships), everyone tries clever stuff against him, I just closed to range 1 and ruined his day haha

I had closed to range 1 and stripped his shields, but it was the next turn that I wanted to trap him.. He would've been dead on Turn 3 in the game. My opponent is quite good, though, and saw the trap. Oh, well.

I don't think you made a mistake targeting Han-he's often worth enough to win you the game by his points loss alone. A bigger mistake would be spreading your fire amongst multiple targets and not taking any out vs concentrating on removing a more limited number of targets and accepting the remaining guys will have free reign to screw you over as much as they are able in the meantime...

Just played a local club tourney (120pt) myself and beat a fat dash & fat Han combo with a 2 firespray and 2 interceptor list by concentrating on and taking Han out first (loosing a firespray in return)