any news out of the Nordic or Canadian nationals? I believe both were this weekend.

edit: Looks like Nordic was won by the following list:

Luke Skywalker; Rebel Trooper (Elite); Rebel Saboteur (Elite) x2; Mak Eshka'rey; Gideon Argus;

Still can't find any other lists or attendance numbers though

German Championship was on Saturday.

As far as I remember:

5 Rounds / Top 8 Cut

3 Rebel Players

0 Mercenary Players

2 Rebel Blast Lists Top 8

3 4x4 lists Top 8

I played 4x4 and made it to the Top 8.

My opponents had:

Vader - Incoming Transmission (won)

4x4 (made the cut, too) - Data Heist (lost)

Mixed Imperials (Officers, Elite Probe Droid, Elite E-Web, Royal Guard .../ made the cut, too) - Close to Home (lost)

Rebel Blast - Mind of ist Own (won)

Vader - Raiding Party (won)

Quarterfinal: 4x4 - Incoming Transmission (lost against the subsequent champion)

We used the new FAQ and it was good.

My dice hate me. The white die hasn't shown the X the whole day, no black die has shown his 3 blocks-side the whole day ...

I had to leave after I lost, so I can't tell who won.

It was a great event in a medieval castle, with barbeque and all that. Opponents were great. Both thumbs up!

Results from Nordics.

1st place - Jesper Nøhr 6-0 (4-0)

Luke Skywalker

Gideon Argus

Mak Eshka'rey

Elite Rebel Trooper

Elite Rebel Saboteurs

Elite Rebel Saboteurs

Balance of the Force

2nd place - ? 4-2 (3-1)

Gideon Argus

Elite Rebel Saboteurs

Elite Rebel Saboteurs

Rebel Saboteurs

Rebel Saboteurs

Rebel Saboteurs

Rebel Saboteurs

Rebel High Command

Balance of the Force

3rd/4th place - Søren Kongsgaard 3-2 (3-1)

Luke Skywalker

Gideon Argus

Mak Eshka'rey

Elite Rebel Trooper

Elite Rebel Saboteurs

Elite Rebel Saboteurs

Balance of the Force

3rd/4th place - Arkadiusz Cala 3-2 (3-1)

Darth Vader

Elite E-Web Engineer

Royal Guard

Imperial Officer

Imperial Officer

Imperial Officer

We were 12 players on the day, as we had 8 no show >.< Played 4 preliminary round with cut to Top 4 afterwards.

Working on getting hold of the results from the entire event

Thanks for the info Jesper and congrats on the win!

Thanks! Trying to magically find the money to go to Worlds >.<

German Championship was on Saturday.

As far as I remember:

5 Rounds / Top 8 Cut

3 Rebel Players

0 Mercenary Players

2 Rebel Blast Lists Top 8

3 4x4 lists Top 8

I played 4x4 and made it to the Top 8.

My opponents had:

Vader - Incoming Transmission (won)

4x4 (made the cut, too) - Data Heist (lost)

Mixed Imperials (Officers, Elite Probe Droid, Elite E-Web, Royal Guard .../ made the cut, too) - Close to Home (lost)

Rebel Blast - Mind of ist Own (won)

Vader - Raiding Party (won)

4x4 - Incoming Transmission (lost)

We used the new FAQ and it was good.

My dice hate me. The white die hasn't shown the X the whole day, no black die has shown his 3 blocks-side the whole day ...

I had to leave after I lost, so I can't tell who won.

It was a great event in a medieval castle, with barbeque and all that. Opponents were great. Both thumbs up!

I played 2 Elite Stormies, 2 Royal Guards, 3 Officiers, beat one of the 4/4 in Top 8 and lost against another 4/4 in the semi finale. The 4/4 List played in the finale against a rebel blast list (2 elite sab, 1 reg sab, 1 luke, 1 gid, 1 diala, 1 balance of force) and the 4/4 won.

Sadly there was no match between Baer and DerBaer

Sadly there was no match between Baer and DerBaer

This will happen ...

So in quarter-final, I lost against the subsequent Champion. This is OK for me.

@ German Nationals...

The other Top-4 List was mine:

2 Royal Guards

1 Elite E-Web

2 Elite Probe Droids

3 Imperial Officiers

I went 4:1 (lost game 1 against the later Champion) in swiss rounds, won Top-8 against a Rebel-Blast-List feat. Garkhan and lost Top-4 against JayCop and his Rebel-Blast-List feat. that Jedi-*****, because my E-Web died before he could make a single shot...

Greetings from Germany

Vollie

P.S.: Hopefully FFG will bring us some stuff to stop all this 4x4-Lists...

Imperial Officer fix, change Order to read as follows:

┌►Order: Choose another friendly figure within 2 spaces and within line of sight. That figure may interrupt to move up to 2 spaces.

Adding the LOS restriction will help prevent some of the hopscotching that keeps the officers out of enemy LOS, and the move 2 spaces instead of a full move action is self-explanatory.

I think this is a good house-rule. IMHO, it's either this or increasing the Regular Officer's cost to 3pts. Either one can work.

I think this is a good house-rule. IMHO, it's either this or increasing the Regular Officer's cost to 3pts. Either one can work.

Post Pass Rule and Wave 2, I actually think I disagree. If anything is OP in 4x4 these days its the RG, but they aren't much worse than say, E Sabs. or Luke or even the E Probe.

I think most lists can handle the RG spam now pretty well without much effort list-building -wise anyway. It's still annoying, but not as overpowering as it was when they had the Activation Advantage too.

Also, the other Imperial lists, like Kayn Somos, kind of need the Officer to stay as-is.

Hida,

I enjoy keeping up with the iacommand podcast and really liked your articles back in the day on the team covenant blog.

Basically, I just feel like there's not much new discussion out there lately, I hit the Boardgamegeek and FFG forums, and don't see many new skirmish list ideas or strategies yet.

Do you have any othere places you go for forums or discussions?

Was wondering if you or the guys at iacommand have any thoughts on the wave 2 stuff now that it's out and new skirmish lists - specifically with Boba Fett. I want to use him a lot, but still feel like the Scum faction doesn't support him very well with other chars that much. Maybe I'm missing something.

I did throw together a couple quick lists that might be interesting for Imperial and Rebel Boba and then a Kayn Somos - haven't really done the command decks yet

Imperial Boba

1 - Temporary Alliance

13 - Boba Fett

6 - Heavy Stormtroopers

8 - Royal Guards

8 - Royal Guards

2 - Imperial Officer

2 - Imperial Officer

Rebel Boba - My idea here was to maximize command card drawing and kind of stumbled on it when I ended up with three points left over and saw Rebel High Command

13 - Boba Fett

6 - Saska Teft

9 - Biv Bodrik

3 - R2 D2

3 - Gideon

3 - Mak

1 - Balance of the Force

2 - Rebel High Command

Kayn's Pain Train - Obviously it will all come down to the command cards (would love to hear your opinions) but I really feel the officers are needed to move Kayn around and get the most out of his command card, his firing squad and being able to hopefully attack and use his focus for troops.

10 - Kayn Somos

6 - Storm Trooper

6 - Storm Trooper

6 - Heavy Stormtrooper

6 - Heavy Stormtrooper

2 - Imperial Officer

2 - Imperial Officer

2 - Imperial Officer

Anyways would love to hear people's thoughts and if this needs to be in a different forum, just let me know. Mainly put it here after reading where this whole post went discussion wise and now that wave 2 is out want to get some discussion going about how officers have been affected/new options for lists to go against JUST officers and royal guards.

Kayn and Elite Stormtroopers =

The Elites are already strong, but their synergy with Kayn really makes them pop. However, it's 28pts just for Kayn and 2x Elite STs. So 12pts for the rest of the squad...8 for Guards and 4 for two Officers:

10 Kayn

9 Elite Stormtrooper

9 Elite Stormtrooper

8 Royal Guard

2 Officer

2 Officer

This is a squad I haven't used yet, but it's definitely near the top of my idea list.

Kayn and Elite Stormtroopers =

The Elites are already strong, but their synergy with Kayn really makes them pop. However, it's 28pts just for Kayn and 2x Elite STs. So 12pts for the rest of the squad...8 for Guards and 4 for two Officers:

10 Kayn

9 Elite Stormtrooper

9 Elite Stormtrooper

8 Royal Guard

2 Officer

2 Officer

This is a squad I haven't used yet, but it's definitely near the top of my idea list.

Instead of the royal guards I'd probably go with the elite heavy troopers for the added synergy.

Hida,

I enjoy keeping up with the iacommand podcast and really liked your articles back in the day on the team covenant blog.

Basically, I just feel like there's not much new discussion out there lately, I hit the Boardgamegeek and FFG forums, and don't see many new skirmish list ideas or strategies yet.

Do you have any othere places you go for forums or discussions?

Was wondering if you or the guys at iacommand have any thoughts on the wave 2 stuff now that it's out and new skirmish lists - specifically with Boba Fett. I want to use him a lot, but still feel like the Scum faction doesn't support him very well with other chars that much. Maybe I'm missing something.

I did throw together a couple quick lists that might be interesting for Imperial and Rebel Boba and then a Kayn Somos - haven't really done the command decks yet

Imperial Boba

1 - Temporary Alliance

13 - Boba Fett

6 - Heavy Stormtroopers

8 - Royal Guards

8 - Royal Guards

2 - Imperial Officer

2 - Imperial Officer

Rebel Boba - My idea here was to maximize command card drawing and kind of stumbled on it when I ended up with three points left over and saw Rebel High Command

13 - Boba Fett

6 - Saska Teft

9 - Biv Bodrik

3 - R2 D2

3 - Gideon

3 - Mak

1 - Balance of the Force

2 - Rebel High Command

Kayn's Pain Train - Obviously it will all come down to the command cards (would love to hear your opinions) but I really feel the officers are needed to move Kayn around and get the most out of his command card, his firing squad and being able to hopefully attack and use his focus for troops.

10 - Kayn Somos

6 - Storm Trooper

6 - Storm Trooper

6 - Heavy Stormtrooper

6 - Heavy Stormtrooper

2 - Imperial Officer

2 - Imperial Officer

2 - Imperial Officer

Anyways would love to hear people's thoughts and if this needs to be in a different forum, just let me know. Mainly put it here after reading where this whole post went discussion wise and now that wave 2 is out want to get some discussion going about how officers have been affected/new options for lists to go against JUST officers and royal guards.

Thanks! Appreciate the kind words!

Yea, it has been a bit more quiet lately... For my part I have just been busy with other things and honestly not quite sure what to write about. You mentioned all the places I look at. =)

The environment is really hard to analyze right now (which is a good thing), there are lots of lists doing well in different ways. I think post-pass the easiest way to look at a lot of it is how efficient a given unit is and finding a good mix, preferably in a way that min/max's them.

Some of the more efficient units (in no particular order):

Royal Guards

Luke Skywalker

Elite Saboteurs

Elite Probe Droids

Gideon Argus

Elite Stormies

Elite Rebel Troopers

3PO

I think Thereisnotry hit one of the lists I'm more excited to play these days, but I am not 100% sure what is "best". I think in the last show I eluded to having a big hitter given the map selection at present is probably worth it in general, and i still feel that way. I enjoy playing RGC a lot again.

Boba is also quite good. I played a list similar to your Imperial Boba list after Gencon and I enjoyed it, but it struggled a bit with higher model count lists Since killing fast enough before I lost too much was difficult. I think Imperial is the way to go with Boba because of the synergy he has with several of their units, but not sure what mix to go with. You probably want to have 2 units of RG so it comes down to the last 10 points. I like yours, is worth a shot. Just watch out for Elite Troopers/Sabs out of rebels. They can be quite obnoxious.

Kayn and Elite Stormtroopers =

The Elites are already strong, but their synergy with Kayn really makes them pop. However, it's 28pts just for Kayn and 2x Elite STs. So 12pts for the rest of the squad...8 for Guards and 4 for two Officers:

10 Kayn

9 Elite Stormtrooper

9 Elite Stormtrooper

8 Royal Guard

2 Officer

2 Officer

This is a squad I haven't used yet, but it's definitely near the top of my idea list.

Instead of the royal guards I'd probably go with the elite heavy troopers for the added synergy.

I see what you are saying but I disagree. I wouldn't recommend playing Imperial without at least one of their most efficient units, especially in a list where having 3-4 guys focused at any given moment is s real possibility.

Shouldn't we let this thread be about National results and make another thread about list building?

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/186623-list-building/

I am rather new to Imperial Assault, therefore I ask myself, what command cards were actually used for those lists. You can find all those lists what miniatures were used, but never the list of cards? Is it not necessary to write your "deck" on your list sheat for a tournament?

So far I find it hard to actually use command cards in my games. Probably because I am not experienced enough so far. But maybe also because I have bad cards not worth using...

Anyhow... does anybody know what command cards were used with these lists?

Command cards are extremely valuable and differentiate a lot between players even playing the same list. The people that run the tournaments get the list of figures and command cards to be able to make sure that they are legal lists. Usually the people that post here are players and can only report what they have seen(i.e. figures).

I made Top 4 (4-1 and 2nd place after Swiss) with this List at the German National Championship:

The Tripod Crew (Wave 1) | 40 points

Thank You for your command card list. That is definitely interesting and helpful. Especially regarding the cards from the core set that seem more useful.

Any other recent results?

Plan on releasing an update soon to the IA miniranker site so people can input their own tournament results (currently have it up and running for X-wing) but wanted to add support for attachments and including Command cards first so may be another week or two before its up and working.