Hey there, I have had the game since Feb and not had much chance to play it, then after Twin shadows and all its treats came out my LFGS had a tournament for IA, so I was well up for giving it a bash. I took this list with me:
Boba Fett,
Elite Tuskens
Elite Stormtroopers
Heavy Stormtroopers
Imperial Officer x2
Temporary Alliance
(40 pts)
Our TO used the missions from Luke, Royal Guard Champ and IG as the possible scenarios (I had never seen IG's before the tournament)
First Mission: IG88- (The laser one!)
Great, First mission one I had never seen before and seemed pretty brutal, a laser which moves every turn and creates a death zone of everything on its row and below... Ouch.
I faced a list like this:
Boba Fett
Elite Stormtroopers
Stormtroopers
Heavy Stormtroopers
Officer
Very similar list to mine, and I began by ordering Boba to the north to control a terminal. He moved his heavys to the south terminal and I kinda let him have it as my troopers would get destroyed by the laser if I moved them to contest it. Most of my dudes went north and wiped out his stormtrooper squad to bag some easy points.
Eventually after quite a stalemate, time was called and points were 13-19 (Loss)
First impressions was that we had similar lists, and great fun. Neither Boba was touched as he is quite tanky and can recover health, I wasnt going after his and he wasnt going after mine.
2nd Game: Royal Guard pack: the one with the data core in the sealed room and terminals to open the door etc.
His list:
Luke,
Dialla
3P0
Rebel sabs
Rebel troops
Nexu
Saska
Quite a different list this time. My tuskens were chilling by the closed door to pounce in when the time was right and to deliver some pain to the Rebel scum if they managed to get in too.
Boba was ordered to zoom across the map to the furthest termainal where he chilled out taking down any dudes foolish enought to get in his way (sabs and troopers!) and he was backed up with the heavys and the officers.
My Elite stormtroopers took the middle hall and quickly nailed a nexu while saska was lobbing devices left right and centre with 3P0 getting in the way.
Neither of us could control the terminals so one of my tuskens decided to get mad in the middle hallway, and pestering luke (ahh the flavour...)
Eventually (like in one turn) I opened the door, KIlled Dialla (thanks Boba!), finished off the troopers, hurt Luke really badly, killed seska and blew up 3P0, then my tusken moved into the data core and sealed the win, I think I only lost 1 of my heavy models and 1 stormtrooper.
(40-0 Win)
First win, Yay, and a wicked game, loving Boba and the Elite stormtroopers. One of my heavys used 'Ultimate Firepower' to unleash pain on a trooper much to my amusement! BOOM.
Game 3: I was on a roll, and next scenario was from the luke set, and the tusken raider one.
Opponents List:
Boba Fett
Keyan
Elite Heavys
Stormtroopers
Rule by fear.
Again, a different list and I was quietly confident as I knew what to do to keep racking up points.
He initially rushed into the middle part of the map with his heavys and I followed with my heavys to the middle while sending Boba towards the mission tuskens to start racking up kills. He sends heavys to get the terminal north of the map while I ignore that and send my army south to combat the mission tuskens and his troopers.
He sends Boba straight to the mission tuskens to kill one, then I kill one, one is left and one of his elite heavys takes 2 damage from the lone mission tusken. After that round, no tusken stayed till the end, and I dominated the camp area, racking up kills left right and centre. After a few rounds, I fancied my chances at Keyan so I summoned Boba to smack him, then my elite stormtroopers and heavys ruined him pretty quickly for more points. Eventually I took down a mission tusken to take victory.
(40-18 Win)
Wow. 2 wins and 1 loss. Not bad for a first time at skirmish. Well....
Last game, and here he is.. I was fearing him:
Vader
Elite Royal Guards
Royal Guards
Officer
Ok, only 4 activations, ok bring it.
MIssion was IG88's other one, the bounty hunter one, We nominate one of our dudes to be a bounty hunter and every kill they get is worth double points. We both get 2 points at the end of the round if our hunter is still alive.
My Bounty Hunter- Boba Fett (ofcourse!)
His Bouty Hunter- Darth Vader- Durrrr.
Well, what can I say, I got hammered. First turn somehow Vader launches himself into my dudes and causes chaos, brutality, element of surprise etc. etc. seriously weakens my guys. Boba turns around to use 'Mandalroian Tactics' to no great effect, maybe anding 1-3 damage on vader, even 'maximum firepower' did little!
My tuskens were the only real threat to vader, one of them rolling something like 6-8 damage plus the elite's inbuilt damage, only to be blocked by two beast black dice rolls.
I learned before either go all out for vader or leave him. I wanted blood so I went all out, but only managed about 11 damage on him the whole game, then he recovered 2 damage and the royal guards came in to polish my guys off. Only survivors on my side: Boba Fett, who took 3 damage total! and elite stormtroopers.
(6-40+ Loss)
Wow. What a day, great games, huge variety of lists, and only one Vader and only royal gurads were with vader. There was Weiss, Luke, Biv, R2, 3P0, Keyan, lots of Boba's. I think it was a good mix.
10 people turned up and I came 4th with 6 game points and a high SoS.
I got into this game because of Boba Fett, and he did not dissapoint. High speed, great dice, cool abilities, Mobile and just the best model to paint. Oh baby, bring on more skirmish!!!
Anyway, thanks for reading this far, just wanted to share that its not all 4x4 lists, but the powerhouse of 4 activations list with vader won every game, to be victor overall.
I walked away with the Alternate art Elite trandoshans and a nice dice bag. Cool swag for my first 4 games!
Edited by haldir140