RAC + 2 Shuttles

By Elkerlyc, in X-Wing Battle Reports

Just a rather brief recap:

I brought to the table;

Rear Admiral Chiraneau; Veteran Instincts, gunner, Ysanne Isard, Moff Jerjerodd

2 x lamba Shuttles

Round 1:

Etahn A'baht, Tycho Celchu, Tala and a B-wing

Pushed both Shuttles the face of his less manoeuvrable ships while RAC fired away at the more elusive ones.

Result; Lost a Shuttle. Killed all Rebel Scum.

Round 2:

2x Y-wings with Ion turrets, one stressbot, 2x B-wings with tactician, one with FCS on top.

He flew in formation and met my Shuttles head on; piling on stress and ion with gusto. I could kill a B-wing in the first round of focus fire. Then we had 2 rounds in which my Shuttles could bump/action deny his ships most splendidly. In these two rounds an Y-wing and a Shuttle were destroyed. But my remaining Shuttle was in decent enough shape (about 50%) and RAC was hardly touched. In the end he could kill that second shuttle but lost all his remaining ships.

Result; Lost both Shuttles. Killed all Rebel Scum.

Round 3:

Chewbacca, MF Title, PTL, Kyle Katarn, Gunner, Tala & 2x Prototype A-wings (refit)

(missing 3 points of some upgrade(s) but if I cannot remember it it must have made zero impact)

I knew I had to take out Chewie before I lost RAC. He ignore my Shuttles for the most part, ony shooting them when no other target was present, and tried to focus on RAC. His problem was that I was able to get my Shuttle red dice far, far better on Chewie than he could target RAC with his smaller ships. After a couple of rounds RAC was pretty banged up but I destroyed the Tala and Chewie. Both my Shuttles were in fairly good shape and with PS1 his A-wings could not really hurt RAC (Ysanne!) with their feeble 2 red dice. RAc always had a shot while they had to steer away from the Shuttle firing arcs

Result; No losses. Killed all Rebel Scum.

Round 4:

Alpha Sqd Interceptor, Dark Curse, Sigma Sqd Phantom, Echo

RAC with VI, always picking target lock plus his 'eye goes to crit' ability made short work of the Phantoms, then the Interceptor and only Dark Curse struggled a bit before dying but never able to deal much hurt in return.

Result; No losses. Killed all Imperial traitors. ;)

Verdict; RAC is tough but not much fun to fly. (for me)

Will not repeat this experiment. His dial is good and taking his turret into account he has amazing manoeuvrability.

Shuttles are always a blast. The combo of these ships with the shuttles always rammed straight into the enemy face and RAC just a bit behind them worked like a charm.

A post always is better with a pretty picture so:

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(from my second game vs the Rebel 'panic attack' as he called it.)

Was this a Store Championship or just a regular tournament?

It was just a regular tournament. But at the same time it was preparation for a store championship in 2 weeks.