Minnesota regional at FFG today. Think I'm running

Kath with VI, hlc, engine, tactician

IG88B with lone wolf, jammer, at, mangler

I think it makes Kath the primary target, so I will have to arc dodge some to keep her alive longer. But when she dies, B becomes even more of a monster. Guess we will see how it does.

I've had so much trouble with Chiraneau nuking my IG's that I'm tempted to run that build.

Minnesota regional at FFG today. Think I'm running

Kath with VI, hlc, engine, tactician

IG88B with lone wolf, jammer, at, mangler

I think it makes Kath the primary target, so I will have to arc dodge some to keep her alive longer. But when she dies, B becomes even more of a monster. Guess we will see how it does.

Good luck

Thanks. First game was on the feature table vs Ryan Brown. He was running a palob, Kavil, and drea build.

Kath was my damage doer in that game. I hit drea hard first round, taking no damage in return. Then teamed up on palob and took him off the board before he could shoot. He managed to take down my B, but Kath with 3 hull left finished off his drea and Kavil for the win. 1-0.

Round 2 vs Nathan Bier, the man with the distinction of handing me my first loss at Worlds, 2013 round 4. He was flying superdash with mangler instead of hlc and 3 prototypes.

I knew I had to take dash out first, so we traded Dash for Kath. But then the defensiveness of B kicked in vs his Awings. Jammer was huge, and I killed the last one with 2 hull left on B. 2-0. Close game, and a good one vs a good opponent.

Round 3 was against Ryan hatzenballer, who made top 8 in Omaha. He was running his sane list of chewie and 4 bandits.

Unfortunately, the rounds were 70 minutes, because I got chewie down to 1 hull left when time was called. He killed Kath, but B still had a shield left. He won on points 52-36. 5 more minutes and I get chewie, but I didn't, so 2-1.

Then fourth round vs Tate running 35 point Fel and 5 obsidians. Kaths green dice failed, and she went down from 2 shields to dead in one round, with one of his ties dead. B managed to kill 1 more, with the other 3 damaged. But he finally succumbed to green dice fail, too. 2-2.

Oh, and we started with 80 people.

Sorry to hear about the last two matches. Hope you had a great time.

How do you feel about HLC Kath now?

Round 5 vs David Scherr running wedge, Ten, and Etahn. I split my ships up well, and he went after Kath, so B was flanking and laying down some pain. I took Etahn out first, then managed to burn wedge down in one round, then got ten Nunb a few rounds later for the 100-0 win. His greens were pretty bad this game, and my dice were better than average, I think. 3-2

Last game vs Phil Wiese running oicunn, soontir and an Ap. This one of was such a close game. I took out the AP and soontir, and I made one mistake slooping B barely on a rock. Had 2 hull left, rolled a crit: console fire, then rolled the hit to kill him. Kath got oicunn down to 1 hull at the end of the game, (crit pulled was Damaged Engine, not Direct hit), then he shot back and killed kath for the win. It was such a close game.

So I ended the day 3-3, with 2 very, very close losses. So the squad did ok. It was a long and fun day.

Atlanta next week. Looking forward to it.

Unfortunately, the rounds were 70 minutes,

Really?

FFG is dictating that everyone else play their Regionals with 75 min games but they don't do so themselves...

What ever happened to "practice what you preach"?

Also, I believe the squad you ran is pretty strong but Firesprays are way more susceptible to green dice than Autothrusting IGs. In the build you need to make the IG your enemy's prime target.

Yeah, in most of the games, my opponent went after Kath first, which is why I considered predator and flight instructor on her. That allows offense and defense rerolls that aren't action dependent.

And yeah, I was thinking the same thing with the 70 min rounds, but apparently it's highly recommended but not mandated.

I talked to a few people about the event changes that know more about what's going on than I do. The 70 min thing is about the over all length of the event. It shortened the entire day by a half hour. I don't know if this was good or bad.

They also did random pairings instead of pairing by mov. The reason for this was to help stop people from manipulating their mov so that they can't start picking their opponent. This change I see the merit of.

Kath is a juicy target with little to no defence; B has too much invested in defence so his damage output won't be sufficient to push damage through with Mangler. That's why the list struggled to kill large ships in 70 minutes.

Try running Lone Wolf and Recon Specialist on Kath. This should help her last a little longer and provide more fire power. Not sure if having her at PS 9 helps her survive any longer then Lone Wolf would.

I talked to a few people about the event changes that know more about what's going on than I do. The 70 min thing is about the over all length of the event. It shortened the entire day by a half hour. I don't know if this was good or bad.

They also did random pairings instead of pairing by mov. The reason for this was to help stop people from manipulating their mov so that they can't start picking their opponent. This change I see the merit of.

Random pairing within the point group is OK. But FFG really need to make these official before they use them themselves.

That way those with Byes from winning a store Championship won't automatically play each other in the second round.

Kath is a juicy target with little to no defence; B has too much invested in defence so his damage output won't be sufficient to push damage through with Mangler. That's why the list struggled to kill large ships in 70 minutes.

This, I noticed that all of the non filler ships in the top 4 either had crazy damage mitigation or rolled 4 attack dice. Ive been playing around with a Kath IG build for a while and I'm cutting points to get a heavy laser cannon in there.

Honestly the meta right now is "If you are not rolling four dice you better be tokened up."

I'm actually really happy to say that I played against Sean esser tonight on the table. He is doing better. He played his Worlds squad of 3 B's with AdvS and 2 Z's. last weeekend I was asked why I'm not running a swarm, so I think I'm going to revert back to swarm in Atlanta. So tonight I played a 4Obs and 4 AP squad. First engagement I had an AP take a direct hit first attack, then managed to evade all of the rest of the incoming fire. We traded lots of fire in a bloody battle, but 4 ties survived the fight, so i won.

It just feels good to be able to play against Sean again. I have definitely missed him.

Also played a vassal game vs a garven/dutch/kyle/Airen list with my world's list. The dice were brutal to my opponent big time. I took 2 damage, and one of that was my own hitting of a rock, and I took out kyle, put Airen down to 1 hull, took garven's shields, and got dutch down to 3 hull when he called it. It was a brutal game, and glad to see the shark can still bite.

I'm actually really happy to say that I played against Sean esser tonight on the table. He is doing better. He played his Worlds squad of 3 B's with AdvS and 2 Z's. last weeekend I was asked why I'm not running a swarm, so I think I'm going to revert back to swarm in Atlanta. So tonight I played a 4Obs and 4 AP squad. First engagement I had an AP take a direct hit first attack, then managed to evade all of the rest of the incoming fire. We traded lots of fire in a bloody battle, but 4 ties survived the fight, so i won.

It just feels good to be able to play against Sean again. I have definitely missed him.

Also played a vassal game vs a garven/dutch/kyle/Airen list with my world's list. The dice were brutal to my opponent big time. I took 2 damage, and one of that was my own hitting of a rock, and I took out kyle, put Airen down to 1 hull, took garven's shields, and got dutch down to 3 hull when he called it. It was a brutal game, and glad to see the shark can still bite.

I can't hit the "like" button enough for this post. Cue the Jaws theme.

last weeekend I was asked why I'm not running a swarm, so I think I'm going to revert back to swarm in Atlanta.

I'm actually really sad now, I was registered for Atlanta and was all set to go, but had to cancel due to conflicting events. Wish I could be there, good luck!

last weeekend I was asked why I'm not running a swarm, so I think I'm going to revert back to swarm in Atlanta.

I'm actually really sad now, I was registered for Atlanta and was all set to go, but had to cancel due to conflicting events. Wish I could be there, good luck!

I'm sad too! I was looking forward to seeing you again.

Just finished a game with pcgamerpirate. He ran a BBAAY squad, and I tried out a variation of my swarm:

Mauler with VI
Howl
BS

APX4

His PS2 list made me wish i was running my world's build. The dice and crits were definitely in his favor (I pulled I think 4 direct hits).

http://sozin.pythonanywhere.com/game?id=2664

I was blocking his PS2's well, so that they didn't have actions for most of the game. So the dice results there are mostly without actions I still managed to take down his Y and 2 B's, but it was down to 1 AP vs his 2 healthy Awings, so i conceded there. I wasn't flying well, running into myself more than I should have been. Oh well. I tried out mauler and he didn't work, so I think back to world's squad for me.

Yeah, those dice were so ridiculous I don't think that game was a fair assessment of either squad. But it did give me some insight and tweaks I want to try.

Thanks for the game!

Just wanted to wish you the best of luck in Atlanta.

Thanks Sable. Sad I wasn't able to get to Tulsa to see you.

Game tonight against Ed Horne from the NOVA podcast. He was running a Chirpy/Fel squad vs my World's list.

Yeah, that was kind of a brutal game. He brought Chirpy into the mouth of the Shark, and the shark bit him hard. Took Chirpy down to 3 hull left (swarm with Howl and focus vs 0 defense, yikes.) Next round I blocked him onto an asteroid, and I blocked Fel as well, so I had focused shots on Fel, Chirpy was on a rock with now 2 hull left and 2 howl+focused shots coming at him, so we called it there. him having done I think 2 damage to me. Man, that was just brutal, but it felt good knowing that I can fly it against a top tier squad and come out with an easy win like that.