Premier events always have a top cut.

Premier events always have a top cut.

I do think events that have 8 or less should have a top 4 cut or four rounds but not both. If you do four rounds people will be paired down. A top four cut works pretty well with 8 but not so much with six because there is a very good chance 4th is 1-2.

I know what the rules say but I really think it needs to come down to what the TO wants to do before the event starts and common sense. This is what seems to be happening so far at the regional events.

Raleigh, NC: 14 players, 4 rounds, cut to top 4.

Winning list (Damien, not sure of his forum name): Royal Guard, Elite Trandoshan Hunter, Trandoshan Hunter, Officer, Probe Droid, Elite Stormtrooper, Temporary Alliance

I lost to this list in the first round of top cut after going 4-0 in Swiss and being the 1 Seed. I was running 4 Officer, 3 Royal Guard, 1 Elite E-Web Engineer and it had just demolished during Swiss. The match in top cut against Damien's list had him pull out at 40-37 win against me. It was well fought and he was a great opponent.

Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but what about command cards? I don't think the lists are complete without them, after all command cards win games.

Main issue is actually getting the data. It's hard enough to get the lists sometimes and that's usually information from opponents or spectators. Unless the TO is keeping and supplying the command card deck sheets then it's hard to get.

Main issue is actually getting the data. It's hard enough to get the lists sometimes and that's usually information from opponents or spectators. Unless the TO is keeping and supplying the command card deck sheets then it's hard to get.

Totally understand the difficulty getting competitive lists. But from my perspective what separates this from X-Wing and Armada is the command cards. A Vader RG squad can totally change the strategy and tactics depending on the cards people use.

Please understand my question is out of curiosity, not out of a place that these lists aren't good enough.

Regional Germany West

Der Baer with 4x4

Congrats on your win!

(But not congrats that 4x4 won it...not happy about that. Don't like 4x4.)

Vader could have won the tournament as well... It was close, but DerBaer was clever enough to split up and hide his last three Royal Guard Figures (each of them with 1-2 HP left), so Vader couldn't track all of them down... One more round and everything could have been different, so we timed out and he won by objectives...

It was a really nice game.

Some data about the tournament:

6 players (all imperial), 3 swiss rounds, corebox only.

Last week a Rebel List (played by JayCop) won the Regional Germany Noth:

Luke

Diala

Gideon

4x regular Rebel Saboteurs

12 players, 4 swiss rounds, cut to Top-4, corebox only.

Poland National Championships ran yesterday, 16 players overall. I've managed to win with the following:

Krzysztof Kowalczyk
Royal Guard Champion
Royal Guard x2
Imperial Officer x4
Rule by Fear

My command deck was:

New Orders

Flurry of Blades

Inspiring Speech

Parting Blow x2

Bodyguard x2

Pummel x2

Celebration

Fleet Footed

Planning

Rally

Take Initiative

Hard to Hit

The other Top 4 lists were:

Kamil Bajor
Luke Skywalker
Gideon Argus
C3-PO
R2-D2
Elite Rebel Saboteurs x2
Rebel Saboteurs
Balance of the Force
Rebel High Command

Karol Grzymała
Royal Guard Champion
Elite Royal Guard
Royal Guard
Imperial Officer x2

Piotr Ludwiniak
Luke Skywalker
Jyn Odan
Gideon Argus
C3-PO
R2-D2
Mak Eshka'Rey
Elite Rebel Saboteurs x2

I played Karol, the only other RGC player on the day, in Top 4, on the Most Dangerous Game mission. Usurprisingly, both Champions were our bounty hunters, so the match was pretty much decided by which of them got the jump on the other first. In the first round I baited Karol with a Royal Guard moving to the southern terminal, whom he promptly killed with his regular Royal Guards, but that resulted in him having to split his forces - the Elite Guards and the Champion went around the northrn corner. I managed to place my remaining Royal Guards and OffOrder the Champion engaging his Elite Guards, which blocked the corridor in a huge mosh pit just outside the door. I've managed to position in a way that meant his Champion didn't have enough movement to reach my Champion. I managed to get back-to-back activations with my RGC, running in against his RGC, triggering Brutality (killing his officer by the northern terminal), and the doing a Flurry of Blades against his RGC, which brought him to 3-4HP AFAIR. He responded by playing Flurry himself, but I Bodyguarded the first attack into a wounded Royal Guard, which killed him and allowed me to Executor his RGC before the other two attacks resolved. That meant a total of 36 pints for me by that point so I just mopped up the second Officer and cashed in the last two points at the end of the round.

I played Kamil Bajor in the final, on the Mind of it's Own mission. I deployed aggresively to the north, but then feinted by OffOrdering a Royal Guard round south to the terminal there. Kamil opened the door and tried fragging him with his regular Sabs, but failed to finish him off. OffOrders allowed me to win the positional war by setting up the RGC by the northern terminal and boxing the Rebels in by the door with both my Royal Guard groups. I've managed to frag Threepio pretty early on which was a big help with getting damage through later. For his last move of the first round, Kamil moved Luke into the melee, in a way that blocked my RGC from engaging his forces by the door. But since I still had an Officer and the RGC for my last two activations, I ran around the other side of his deployment zone and went on a beastly rampage. I fragged an entire Elite Sab group with Brutality, then Flurried beginning of second round to kill Luke. I think I then had Executor trigger to kill another Sab, and then I fragged Gideon with Parting Blow. It was just mop up from there.

At this point I owe it to Kamil to point out that virtually all of my RGC attack rolls in the final game were above average. The Champion, though an awesome piece that I adore (and consider the best piece in the entire game alongside the Officer) and a beast in combat, in my experience does not usually frag 6-health Elite Sabs in one go - and that was happening regularly in the final match of the day.

Also, I'd like to point out that Piotr, who lost to Kamil the the Top 4 match, actually beat me in the swiss rounds. As a matter of fact, Piotr is a local player who I regularly play against at local tournaments, and I have literally never won against him (though on thue day I got closest I ever was, it was 29-28 in VPs when time was called!). I feel that had I been matched up against him in the Top 4 the outcome of the tournament might have been very different. Especially since, with all resepct to Kamil, I consider Jyn to be a MUCH more threatening counter to my list than a group of regular Saboteurs, what with the ability to easily stunlock the RGC on my own turn.

Vienna regional 3 Royal Guards, 3 Imperial officers and 2 Elite drones won...basically just a variant of 4/4

8 players 3 rounds