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Posted at Feb 5, 2015

Its been awhile since I posted a battle report here. Well, its not really a battle report but more like a summary battle report.

Last Sunday was my X-Wing Store Championship. Its been 2 years since I last played a X-Wing tournament. I will try to recall my matches, please forgive me if im unable to remember much. Here’s my Imperial list

The French Toast (99 points):

Rear-Admiral Chiraneau + Expose + Experimental Interface + Ysanne Isard + Rebel Captive

Whisper + Veteran Instincts + Fire Control System + Advanced Cloaking Device

Battrep Summary:

My first round match was against a mini TIE swarm with 2 Phantom, I believe its Echo and Whisper. This was a very bad match-up for me. He position his TIEs in the middle of the board and both his Phantoms at the corner. My Decimator and Whisper just when straight to the middle and destroyed all his TIEs and after that manages to positions both my ship behind both his Phantom and shot both of them down, secure me the win.

2nd round was against another TIE swamp and this is really a TIE swarm build consist of Howlrunner and Backstabber. This was a quick match and my dice rolls was not on my side. His TIEs took care of Whisper very easily and then he followed up by boxing up my Decimator and I had nowhere else to go. That was the end of my Decimator and ended with a loss.

Follow shortly after that was my 3rd round against Rebels 3 Aces build that had Wedge and Luke and a B-Wing. Due to bad maneuvers and bad defence dice rolls. My Whisper went down in like 5 minutes and my Decimator could not take the brutality by the Rebels and went down shortly after. At this moment, i was at 1-2 and its not looking good for me.

Back to going against Imperials in the 4th round. Its was a mirror match-up with slightly different build, he uses Echo instead. This was also a quick match, my opponent did some mistakes and I just went for the kill. Brought down the Decimator and soon enough followed by Echo. He came to close to both my ships and at range 1, rolling 5 attack dice each with all hits, there’s nothing much he could do.

Moving on to the final round which is round 5 and yet again I got paired with another Imperial player. The list was very new to me and it was the first time I saw that list being played. If I remember correctly, he was running some TIE Fighters with a couple of Bombers and a Whisper. I can remember this match as I was so tired. But I know I did do some awesome maneuver and destroyed all his leaving hos Bomber and Whisper still around. My Whisper was the first to go and then time was call, it was a very close game as my Decimator was down to 1 hull left. I won the match securing me to top 8 with 3-2 in the swiss rounds.

In the top 8, I met the same player in my 2nd round which he played TIE Swarm and I knew I need to come up with a different strategy and not to get boxed in again, but he manages to do it again but this this is on my Whisper. With so many of his TIEs still around, my Decimator tried to out manuever him but his TIEs came closer and closer and in the end taken out the Decimator. That was the end of the road for me.

Overall, it was an awesome tournament, meeting new pilots and having a blast and making top 8, I couldn’t be happier. Sorry, If I couldn’t write a better battle report. That’s all folks. Thanks. Keep on playing and May The Force Be With You. Cheers

Posted at Feb 5, 2015

Nice report!

Engine upgrade on cheerio would have helped quite a bit against the swarm. 7 Ties can do a lot of damage to 0 agility in a short amount of time.

My first X-Wing Store Championship Batrep summary