Hey all, Dragontalon 486 here with my second battle report. If anyone read my first tournament report it wasn't a good one. It was my first local tournament and I got leveled every match, and placing last with no points what so ever. Well my second report is of my first Store Championship that took place yesterday and it was a little better. When I first arrived I had to choose between two fleets to fly. They were as follows;

Fleet 1:

Han Solo (46)

Veteran Instincts (1)

C-3P0 (3)

Millenniuum Falcon (1)

Dash Rendar (36)

Veteran Instincts (1)

Heavy Laser Cannon (7)

Outrider (5)

Total: 100 points

Fleet 2:

Rear Admiral Chiraneau (46)

Veteran Instincts (1)

Darth Vader (3)

Navigator (3)

Ysanne Isard (4)

Engine Upgrade (4)

"Whisper"

Veteran Instincts (1)

Fire-Control System (2)

Advance Cloaking Device (4)

Total: 100 points.

It was hard to say with one I wanted to fly because I thought both lists were good (If you think otherwise let me know down below) and eventually I decided to flip a coin to see which I would fly, heads being the first fleet and tails being my second. the coin landed on heads.

Then came time for my first match. My opponent had;

Dash Rendar (36)

Veteran Instincts (1)

Heavy Laser Cannon (7)

Outrider (5)

Corran Horn (35)

Push the Limit (3)

Advanced Sensors (3)

R2-D2 (4)

Engine Upgrade (4)

Total: 98 points.

I was given initiative. My opponent used advanced sensors to focus and evade through push the limit and then would reveal a slow green maneuver to clear the stress in the first opening turns. my first thought was to go after Corran for a couple of turns but my dice rolls were only taking one shield off at a time that he quickly gained back by R2's ability, so I turned my attention to dash instead. On the opponent's Dash I aquired target locks with both ships and started hitting him hard. By the end of the first match, I had taken down Dash but lost Han because of Corran coming in from behind and using his double attack ability. I had lost by two points. Before then I had never been that close to a victory, so I looked forward to the next round.

My second opponent's list was a little interesting to say the least. he had;

Han Solo (46)

Expose (4)

Milleniuum Falcon (1)

Anti-Pursuit Lasers (2)

Gunner (5)

Luke Skywalker (7)

Biggs Darklighter (25)

Flechette Torpedoes (2)

R2-D2 (4)

Stealth Device (3)

Total: 99 points.

(In his defense, he doesn't have many expansions and doesn't play the game that much.)

My opponent gave himself initiative. At the start of the match, I had noticed that Biggs was well beyond the range to help Han so I looked to take out Biggs first. The first time I fired on him was with Dash he was at range 3 behind an asteroid so he was rolling four defense dice against my four and rolled two evades against my three attack. One hit went through, and he lost the SD. the next round both Han and Dash were in range of Biggs, had TL and were rolling four dice (Han was at range 1). Biggs was blown away before he even knew what hit him. Turning to Han, I slowly shot down his health which proved to be easy since he kept running into or landing on asteroids and taking damage until the last turn he decided to Expose (?) and he blew up. I asked him why he did that and he told me that if he was going to die, he wanted to go down in a "Blaze of Glory". My first win since starting last May.

My third battle was where things took a turn for the bad. His fleet was;

Rear Admiral Chiraneau (46)

Predator (3)

Gunner (5)

Ysanne Isard (4)

Rebel Captive (3)

Engine Upgrade (4)

Soontir Fel (27)

Push the Limit (3)

Royal Guard Tie (0)

Stealth Device (3)

Targeting Computer (2)

Total:100 points.

After a dice roll off, I gave myself initiative. At the start of the match it was hard to know who to go after first because Soontir is good and the Rebel Captive was a good scare from having me shoot at Chiraneau. Eventually I went after Soontir and dropped him fast with the help of Dash. After that, Dash received a double crit attack and both were direct hit after he had lost his shields. Dash fell but not before doing some damage himself. after that it was Han and Chiraneau. I chased him around the board for most of the match because he was too fast with that Engine Upgrade. Eventually time ran out and I had bumped him, so no attack and he only had two hull left. I lost more points in the end. It the end it was hard to know how to feel. I had many emotions; Anger, depress, etc. I felt pathetic because I couldn't get him after how close it was.

The last match was where everything went down quick. My final opponent's fleet was

Lando Calrissian (44)

Veteran Instincts (1)

Leebo (2)

Dash Rendar (36)

Veteran Instincts (1)

Chewbacca (4)

Heavy Laser Cannon (7)

Outrider (5)

Total: 100 points.

My opponent won initiative in the dice roll off. I don't really remember what happened during that match, my emotions were against me and I was tired at that point. The only thing I remember was that it was a 180 from my second match, I lost my fleet and he only had no shields on Dash.

The final result was I was ninth out of twelve with one victory and three defeats. The tournament continued to top 4 and the other were allowed to leave. As I was saying my good-byes to everyone. My first opponent, who scored first by the time I was leaving, came up to me and told me that out of all the people he had faced that day, I was his toughest opponent. Considering my track record up to the Championship and that he was a person from out of town, that came as a real shock, and I ended up leaving proud and happy. This really wasn't half bad for my first Store Championship, though I wanted to be in the top 8 at least, but I got ninth so it wasn't that far off. I can't wait to see how I'll improve next time, but for now I plan on "taking a well-earned and well-deserved vacation" from X Wing for a while but I plan to return soon. See ya next time

Thanks for posting this. I think victories are over-reported in battle reports, because people like posting about how they won, and it's hard to muster the energy to do it after some tough losses. The Dash/Corran loss you had is tough because it's a result of not having played against Corran before, I'm guessing. You discovered in game that Dash was the better first target. If you had known that beforehand, you probably could have won that game, it sounds like. Losing a couple turns of fire can be a big disadvantage. The third battle against Soontir/Chiraneau sounded pretty close, too. Sometimes the dice fall that way, though. Can you think of any instances where you could have made better decisions? After my losses (especially close ones where it felt like luck went against me), I try and ask myself what I could have done better. Sometimes I can't identify anything (I didn't catch a poor decision). Sometimes there's something (I could have moved to a safer place and gotten the same shot, for example).

Anyway, you weren't that far from 3-1, so that's something.

Thanks for posting this. I think victories are over-reported in battle reports, because people like posting about how they won, and it's hard to muster the energy to do it after some tough losses. The Dash/Corran loss you had is tough because it's a result of not having played against Corran before, I'm guessing.

Thank you for taking the time to read and reply. I tried writing the battle report in as much detail as possible regardless of whether they were victory or defeat, so that way if someone reads them, they can figure out what they would do if they were in my situation for the battle. You would be correct in your guess that I hadn't faced many E-Wings. I really don't see very many expensive small ships like the E-Wing or the Tie Defender in my area, so that kinda threw me for a loop. In my previous battles leading up to the Championship, the only thing I faced was really Phantom/Decimator builds or dual YT's (mainly Chewie/Leebo) so I was expecting to see many of that Meta in that tournament so I geared my list to be able to at least do some damage.

After the third match I asked the same thing myself, but I couldn't really come up with something unless I could of found some way to put the boost icon on Han or at least held back with Dash.

Thanks for posting this. I think victories are over-reported in battle reports, because people like posting about how they won, and it's hard to muster the energy to do it after some tough losses. The Dash/Corran loss you had is tough because it's a result of not having played against Corran before, I'm guessing.

Thank you for taking the time to read and reply. I tried writing the battle report in as much detail as possible regardless of whether they were victory or defeat, so that way if someone reads them, they can figure out what they would do if they were in my situation for the battle. You would be correct in your guess that I hadn't faced many E-Wings. I really don't see very many expensive small ships like the E-Wing or the Tie Defender in my area, so that kinda threw me for a loop. In my previous battles leading up to the Championship, the only thing I faced was really Phantom/Decimator builds or dual YT's (mainly Chewie/Leebo) so I was expecting to see many of that Meta in that tournament so I geared my list to be able to at least do some damage.

After the third match I asked the same thing myself, but I couldn't really come up with something unless I could of found some way to put the boost icon on Han or at least held back with Dash.

Yeah, it's hard to remember every detail, and sometimes one doesn't even realize when a key decision is made. It's a good mental exercise to try and go through, though.

Yeah, it's hard to remember every detail, and sometimes one doesn't even realize when a key decision is made. It's a good mental exercise to try and go through, though.

That's true, but with Dash Like I stated above, he received 2 Direct Hit crits in a row so I couldn't really do that much after that, but I'll try to keep this in mind. Thanks for the idea.

Yeah, it's hard to remember every detail, and sometimes one doesn't even realize when a key decision is made. It's a good mental exercise to try and go through, though.

That's true, but with Dash Like I stated above, he received 2 Direct Hit crits in a row so I couldn't really do that much after that, but I'll try to keep this in mind. Thanks for the idea.

Yeah, it's tough to get past that