The amount of sloppiness by the XXB player is painful. Not steadying the template, bumping the template everywhere, pushing the ship back past where it should have been, and picking up the ship and placing it forward without using a template on a straight bump -- at the top tables, you shouldn't be seeing stuff like this.
The amount of sloppiness by the XXB player is painful. Not steadying the template, bumping the template everywhere, pushing the ship back past where it should have been, and picking up the ship and placing it forward without using a template on a straight bump -- at the top tables, you shouldn't be seeing stuff like this.
I agree. Maybe locally they don't sweat precise movement.
The amount of sloppiness by the XXB player is painful. Not steadying the template, bumping the template everywhere, pushing the ship back past where it should have been, and picking up the ship and placing it forward without using a template on a straight bump -- at the top tables, you shouldn't be seeing stuff like this.
Then on turn three the strategist in me cringed when the Falcon player decided to spend all of his evades on the shot from Wes (thus losing his focus to Wes' ability) to open up the way for an opportunistic Keyan, when he could have saved a token and avoided eating that extra attack die and Keyan's stress-focus. Even though the Falcon player jousted with a list that was made for jousting, I think he would have had a decent chance at winning had he not spent that second evade token.
Edited by darthlurkerYeah, I think he does it twice. Two turns in a row.
Agreed. Though I found that the rules mistakes were more painful to watch. While it doesn't make much of a practical difference on the first turn, the Falcon player should have only had a focus and two evades with Chewie after moving (recon specialist and Jan Ors, then PtL for evade action) as he was stressed when Lando gave him the free action (the target lock). I would have overlooked this as he could have simply activated PtL from Lando's action and gotten the same result, but on the second turn Chewie got another free TL even though he did a 4-straight while stressed, so apparently these players haven't realized that free actions cannot be performed while stressed...The amount of sloppiness by the XXB player is painful. Not steadying the template, bumping the template everywhere, pushing the ship back past where it should have been, and picking up the ship and placing it forward without using a template on a straight bump -- at the top tables, you shouldn't be seeing stuff like this.
Then on turn three the strategist in me cringed when the Falcon player decided to spend all of his evades on the shot from Wes (thus losing his focus to Wes' ability) to open up the way for an opportunistic Keyan, when he could have saved a token and avoided eating that extra attack die and Keyan's stress-focus. Even though the Falcon player jousted with a list that was made for jousting, I think he would have had a decent chance at winning had he not spent that second evade token.
Not to defend the sloppy play on either side of the table - this was at the tail end of the largest event in regional history, and both parties were tired. Though it does seem after reviewing more footage that he simply did not realize that his play was illegal, as he did it over and over again.
The XXB player I've been speaking to regularly, and he was just tired and didn't enjoy the game he had to play twice in a row, which led to an apathy about the whole thing.
This doesn't excuse the illegal play or the sloppiness, but it does explain them somewhat.
Hopefully we'll see better out of Jon in the top 4!