300 points just isn't enough for Epic

By Crabbok, in X-Wing

Going to be doing a 400 Pt game in couple hours tonight

Rebel vs imperial

I can let ya know how it goes if you like

We like... pictures too Brah!

Can't upload pics from my phone sadly.

Was a good game but I'd say I lost.

Has to call it at 2:30am.

I had the Raider,6 ties,2 advanced,fel,Krassis,bounty hunter,shuttle

Waa against a Tantive.4bwing,2ywing,Coran,Etahn,biggs,2awing

I kind of messed up from the get go, as I had placed ties out first, opponent set bwing and ywing right across from my ties and I had the shuttle close by so I picked that side of the board for all my set up

(really wish I could show pics)

I found when setting up epic if you take one squad and set up at other end it takes 3 turns for it to get with the rest of your squad and that can be bad

I ended up in a joust position with the b pretty much.

I thought of ramming the b but eventually everything was out of the way.

In the end I had killed 2 bwings,biggs. 2ywing And Etahn I believe and had my back section crippled, lost a bounty hunter and tie. Front section was getting close 5shield two hull remaining and rest of his squad was still fresh.

400 pts definitely felt and looked epic but it definitely does take longer to clean up and set up.

I was little concerned thinking with this many ships huge ships would die fast.

Wasn't too bad, but a 400 Pt game could go sour pretty fast for someone with that many ship.

Plus 4b and 2y with biggs is a lot of hp to chew through lol.

Our next game will be 300

That way we can have little smaller fleet, and maybe start developing a some what of a meta.

Also found the more ships on the board the less effective the Emperor is.

It prevents 1 dmg but when you have 25-30 dice, that 1 prevented dmg isn't going to do much

Obviously the fewer ships on the board the more effective.

Edit

As poster few posts above mentioned

Flying a bunch of b and biggs I think is a hard contender In epic game

It's a lot of hp to chew through and they have a lot of attack dice

I am trying to come up with a imperial variation but Imps don't really have the hp and attack of a bwing at the low cost.

Scimitar with extra munations and a missle of some sort is closest I can think of

Using the Raider to give one a target lock with coordinate and another with targeting coordinator

I upload all my pictures from the phone.

All you have to do is email the pictures to yourself, upload them to imgur, and then use the [img.] tag to add it to the forums

400 pt team battle is where it is at. 2v2 with 200 pts for each player to fly. My last one ended with a lone Delta Defender trying to out fly the rear end of a corvette after the bomber wing nuked the front half. Turns out the corvette is easily able to keep a defender in arc by doing donuts.

then play 500 points