Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1

By StupidPanic, in X-Wing

Yeah,
200pts 6x3 Asteroids Field Game.

Nurglez - Empire - 199pts
Soontir Fel + Royal Guard TIE + Push the Limit + Targeting Computer + Shield Upgrade (36)
Whisper + Fire-Control System + Veteran Instincts + Advanced Cloaking Device + Gunner (44)
Delta Squadron Pilot (30)
Delta Squadron Pilot (30)
Howlrunner + Hull Upgrade + Swarm tactics (24)
Academy Pilot (12)
Academy Pilot (12)
Academy Pilot (12)

Panics - Rebels - 200pts
Leebo + Push the Limit + Heavy Laser Cannon + Lando Calrissian + Tactical Jammer (48)
Keyan Farlander + Fire-Control System + Heavy Laser Cannon + Opportunist (42)
Green Squadron Pilot + Proton Rockets + Push the Limit (25)
Green Squadron Pilot + Proton Rockets + Push the Limit (25)
Prototype Pilot + Chardaan Refit (15)
Prototype Pilot + Chardaan Refit (15)
Prototype Pilot + Chardaan Refit (15)
Prototype Pilot + Chardaan Refit (15)



Deployment.
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Opening moves.
In the middle of the board the early exchange is pretty even with 1 Tie fighter and 1 A-wing exploding.
Defender 4 is reduced to one hull, Farlanders shields are stripped away and his primary weapon malfunctions and his sensor array is damaged!
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Soontir flanks and pulls 3 A-wings away from the fight and with some nice flying he cuts back and barrel rolls to avoid their arcs.



The middle game.
Farlander reaches out with his HLC and strips soontir down to 1 hull
The Empire brings it's full force down on the rebel heavy ships both Leebo and Farlander are destroyed.
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A-wings return to the fight to take revenge, Killing Fel and Defender 4



The end game.
Imperials are scattered as the A-wings swoop in.
Whisper decloaks within range one of Green squadron 4 removes her sheilds and lands a crit (-1 agility)
Green 4 fires her proton rocket back at the phantom and removes his shields and scores a crit.
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In the final turn Green 4 dies at the hands of an Acadameny pilot.
The phantom bumps A-Wing 8 and lands on asteroid (rolls a blank - ****!)
Green 3 hits the defender with her pocket rocket and reduces it to 1 hull remaining.
My last shots with the prototypes each hit once but the Defender pilot easily evades them.
Time is called.




Nurglez - Empire
Soontir Fel + Royal Guard TIE + Push the Limit + Targeting Computer + Shield Upgrade (36)
Whisper + Fire-Control System + Veteran Instincts + Advanced Cloaking Device + Gunner (44)
Delta Squadron Pilot (30)
Delta Squadron Pilot (30)
Howlrunner + Hull Upgrade + Swarm tactics (24)
Academy Pilot (12)
Academy Pilot (12)
Academy Pilot (12)


Panic - Rebels
Leebo + Push the Limit + Heavy Laser Cannon + Lando Calrissian + Tactical Jammer (48)
Keyan Farlander + Fire-Control System + Heavy Laser Cannon + Opportunist (42)
Green Squadron Pilot + Proton Rockets + Push the Limit (25)

Green Squadron Pilot + Proton Rockets + Push the Limit (25)
Prototype Pilot + Chardaan Refit (15)
Prototype Pilot + Chardaan Refit (15)
Prototype Pilot + Chardaan Refit (15)
Prototype Pilot + Chardaan Refit (15)



Empire 130 - 78 Rebels
Remarkably only two ships hit asteroids and no damage was caused!
Panic...

Edited by Panic

Looks like a fun game, I would have run Ions to make my opponents run into those rocks!

That's a lot of rocks.

Haha! That looks like a lot of fun. I might have to try that some time.

This post rocks!

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:mellow: i'm so sorry.

Seems like a crime not to run Dash in this game :)

All that space and you chose to be so close.

I did suggest that panic should use dash...

Was a good laugh. So many asteroids and we only hit 2, I was shocked!

Im loving those asteroids.

Are those the corsec bases??

Now this looks like a fun time! Thanks for sharing.

One of the groups I play with are working on coming up with rules for a similar game with asteroids that move. The premise is after you set your dial facedown, a directional dice will be rolled to determine direction and a 2nd dice for speed and the asteroids have a chance to drift (there is also a change they won't). Should be fun though.

Edited by JESIV

Wow! Thank you for sharing the pics!

Where did you get the clear bases for the 'roids?

Yeah,

The asteroids are from egg box terrains kickstarter.

I think they will be available soon once he completes his pledges.

I'll let him know there is interest in this thread.

The bases were included with the asteroids.

Panic...

yeah,
I posted a guide to painting asteroids in the repaint section.
-> painting an asteroid field <-

Panic...

Edited by Panic

Fantastic report Panic. Great to see your A-Wings in action! ;)

200 points worth of asteroids!

Yeah,

It's twice a epic games asteroid quota,

so I guess it was 600pts of asteroids?

Panic...

Moving asteroids are great fun. We assign a D6 to each and that becomes its pilot skill i.e. when the asteroid moves. A directional dice is rolled and the asteroid moves in that direction by 1. If a dead hit is rolled it moves 2.

It is great fun but annoying when you hide behind an asteroid at range 3 from your opponent with both of you on 1 hull point and then the asteroid moves 2 and hits you full in the face. game over, curses.