During the last game I had, my opponent and I coined a new phrase. It's somewhat of a homage to Paul Heaver and not meant to be derogative in any way.

We had both watched the video of his 2014 title match with Morgan Reid, and at 41:20 in, he tries a 4-straight manoeuvre in the midst of an asteroid field. When he placed the Falcon, there was maybe a millimetre to spare. Gasps and cheers from the assembled crowd. This isn't the first time we'd seen his remarkable skills in estimating exactly where a manoeuvre was going to end. In the 2013 title match, he did something similar, with the same sort of margin.

We had a situation come up in our game, and when a ship was manoeuvred with about a millimetre to spare, I announced "I've just done a Heaver!" and the term stuck for the rest of the game. When either of us pulled a manoeuvre that was within millimetres of an asteroid or another ship, we'd just done another Heaver.

Has anyone else got any colloquial terms for some manoeuvres or game elements that they find themselves using now?

There's the one where i boost my ship 5 forward into an asteroid field..... and land ON it by 1 mm. We call that one: "****".

I think that one might be universal.

I stepped on a Y wing two nights ago. Twice. On the way to and back from the bathroom. The wharbled scream was dashingly similar on both occasions.

Maybe you should have picked it up! Hahaha.

I stepped on a Y wing two nights ago. Twice. On the way to and back from the bathroom. The wharbled scream was dashingly similar on both occasions.

One must ask why it was on the floor.

properly it's called....I missed it by a C hair..

Or us old guys sometimes call it , I pulled a Maxwell Smart.. Missed it byyyyy that much..

Skin of your teeth

there are many ways to put it.. call it what you want, but I'll stick to the old faves.. like all of us, he got lucky in that moment, not really noteworthy to give his name to it.. I've done it a few times in a game before .. my friends have.. he wasn't the first nor will he be the last to do it either..

Also, it's not really a maneuver all to itself.. luck is, just that.. luck

"Listing lazily to the left" - any bank left.

"Koioioioi....that one..." - Koiogran turn

"Holy Sh** Token" - Stress token

"Why won't you just die you stupid, annoying, little thing?!?!?!?!?!!!" - Dark Curse*

I think the Albino Void Moose (or suitable variation) is more or less universal thanks to Sablegryphon.

* Not so much a formal designation, but remarkably consistant.

We called that one millimeter "acres of room"

I stepped on a Y wing two nights ago. Twice. On the way to and back from the bathroom. The wharbled scream was dashingly similar on both occasions.

Everyone knows you can't kill a ywing, even with a critical like that. It's still in the fight!

We called that one millimeter "acres of room"

Will nobody think of the paintwork?

We've renamed anything which causes a model to accidentally slip or move on the playing surface the "Tactical Nudge".

It happens quite a lot on the vinyl playing mats.

My buddy had 1-hull Wedge I tried to block with Alpha so he would stop in front of fully turtled Fel waiting farther. His movement ended between them 1mm to spare on front and behind, then he boosted with engine upgrade through tilted Fel just again 1mm to spare.

I would have pulled my hair away if I'd had any left after 2 almost as bad previous evades he did...

because of my constant use of Soontirs 1 evade and 2 focus, my buddy started saying what the hell, so I changed it to the "What the Fel, maneuver"

Definitely pulled a Heaver in my last game against a friend. I had a couple damaged Bombers left against most of his Rebel swarm and one was facing away from the fight but approaching the edge of known space (the board). I was going to lose anyway* so I said "What the hell" and pulled the 5-K. I wish I had taken a picture because I don't think it's physically possible to get a ship any more exactly on the edge of the board. It was glorious.

*Though I did manage to get him down to one ship while I still had both Bombers on board!

Except in the interview after he admitted that he thought he would end on the asteroid and that close a maneuver was just happy coincidence.

properly it's called....I missed it by a C hair..

Or us old guys sometimes call it , I pulled a Maxwell Smart.. Missed it byyyyy that much..

Skin of your teeth

there are many ways to put it.. call it what you want, but I'll stick to the old faves.. like all of us, he got lucky in that moment, not really noteworthy to give his name to it.. I've done it a few times in a game before .. my friends have.. he wasn't the first nor will he be the last to do it either..

Also, it's not really a maneuver all to itself.. luck is, just that.. luck

I've heard them all as well, but we both figured that because he'd done something similar in two Worlds Finals, then there must have been a little skill as well as luck involved.

Although you can't tell for sure to me if in that match he had done a straight 3 it would have been a safer manouver and still had more or less the same effect

But 'safe' doesn't necessarily equate to wins. With the 2014 match, he needed to get out of arc of the swarm, so it was a hard call to play it safe and wear some fire or go for distance and limit some shots but possibly land on a rock.

To be able to look at that table and decide it was going to fit shows some good estimation skill.

But 'safe' doesn't necessarily equate to wins. With the 2014 match, he needed to get out of arc of the swarm, so it was a hard call to play it safe and wear some fire or go for distance and limit some shots but possibly land on a rock.

To be able to look at that table and decide it was going to fit shows some good estimation skill.

I agree somewhat... I'm not trying to disrespect the guy or you, I guess I just feel it's... Pretentious.. slightly.. lol

I will ask this though.. how many times have you done the same thing though. I can tell you in my last tourney, I did it twice in each of 2 different games that day.. no one after the game said we should call that the Gunnar.. (yes that's my real name)

Hey, if you and your friends wanna call it that, knock yourself out...

My estimation skills tend to fall on the wrong side most days and I land on the rock by a millimetre.

I'm not sure how it's pretentious. It's not like he coined the term himself. THAT would be pretentious.

True enough, perhaps the wrong word..

Like I said, if you guys like it .. use it. I'm a fair estimate of distance, and I do prtty well at the same thing.. sure I hit the rock now and then.. but who doesn't

I like to play Modern with 1/285 scale tanks and when I'm estimating ranges on the table I'm normally +/-10mm at distances of 500-1500mm. I'm just not sure why I can't get the same level of accuracy with X-Wing. I guess it's 'cos I can't seem to equate the template + base sizes properly. Comes with time I suppose.

I pulled a Heaver (you could say I "Heaved") in a recent game using the Firespray. My opponent moved two X-Wings in front of my ship, and the only way I could avoid both their firing arcs was by flying between them. I banked forward and placed the Firespray within 2mm of both ships, somehow staying out of both their arcs and catching one of them in my auxiliary arc. My opponent was caught completely off guard by this -- he had thought there wasn't enough room for the Firespray to fit between the ships.

My group refers to a maneuver called "the Eric," frequently employed as part of my preferred flying style. Pulling an Eric involves aggressively flying through asteroids to get better angles on enemy ships, even if the ship takes a few scratches on the paint in the process. This is usually performed using high-HP ships like the Firespray because they have plenty of hull strength to spare. In this way, an asteroid field constrains fragile ships to safe flight paths while the beefier ships can blaze through the field with impunity. At least, that's what I tell myself when my Firespray hits an asteroid for the third time in a game.

I pulled a Heaver (you could say I "Heaved") in a recent game using the Firespray. My opponent moved two X-Wings in front of my ship, and the only way I could avoid both their firing arcs was by flying between them. I banked forward and placed the Firespray within 2mm of both ships, somehow staying out of both their arcs and catching one of them in my auxiliary arc. My opponent was caught completely off guard by this -- he had thought there wasn't enough room for the Firespray to fit between the ships.

Now that is the very definition of "pulling a Heaver". Being able to place a ship where your opponent thinks it's not going to fit, denying him an attack and still leaving you with one! I'd say your opponent was the one that got "Heaved".

OUTSTANDING!!