I got 3 games in last night with Poe.... And he is a real beast!

I was running a three X-Wing Build... Just for the fun of playing actual X's in a game of X-Wing!

Poe with PtL, BB-8, and Weapon Guidance

Wedge with Draw their Fire and R2-D2

Biggs with R2-F2

List comes in at an even 100 points... And I threw it together on the fly!

Game One was vs a Dash-Jan Oars build... And let me tell you, 5 dice HLCs are no fun!

So I decide to fly my group in a fairly tight formation.... As I assume you do to keep Biggs relevant.

I go with a formation of:

Which in hind sight I don't like... And you will see why in a few seconds!

This is where we were after round two. I had simply 3 banked twice with my entire force while he meandered up! And now poor Biggs has very little option of where to go without bumping and losing his R2-F2 action.... Dang it!

Unfortunetly I lost the next round's pic...

1- Biggs goes 1 forward and plows into Poe with no Action.

2- Dash goes next and 3 straights onto the debris and barrel rolls away from me forward, which leaves his butt still in the debris, but the front open to shots without bonus.

3- Jan does a two straight and activates Lando, and gets 2 evades!

4- Poe reveals a green 2 straight, which kicks in BB-8 and he is able to Barrell Roll left around the debris right in front of him, and then 2 straight forward. Poe then grabs a focus, and decides "What the Hell!", and PtLs for a boost to get Dash in arc since Jan is sitting on 2 evade tokens.

5- Wedge rolls up with a 2 straight to avoid the debris, and grabs TL on Dash who is just within his arc!

Between all my X's shots we remove all of Dashs' 5 shields. And in return a 5 dice HLC strips off all of Biggs shields, and the Jan TLT rips off both of Poes shields.

Next round Biggs 3 banks in over Wedge to try and block Dash. Which happens by a quarter of an inch as Dash 2 banks left. Jan 2 banks as well and rolls Lando, only getting a focus this round. Poe reveals a green 1 bank right, BRs away and backward from the rest of the battle with BB8, and then does the bank releving stress, and then TLs Dash and PtL focuses. (I put the stress on right after the pic was taken) Wedge 2 turns right, just missing Poe, and TLs Dash as well.

Needless to say, Dash goes down to the (2) X-Wing Aces... And luckily for Biggs he rolls two evades the first TLT, and then Jan blanks out the second TLT to skate free this round!

With Dash down, it was mop up the next round for Jan... And she goes down to the combined firepower of the X's!!

All in all a very good showing for its first time out I think.

This shows a) that the best pilot most often wins and b) that it's a very bad idea to hamper Dash with a slow Hwk that he needs to keep at a certain distance. If he could freely move it would have been much more difficult for you to get into the Donut and delete him from space.

Game Two :

My opponent wants revenge, so I re-rack the XXX list and he busts out a TIE Swarm he wants to try out. His list was :

Omega Ace

Epsilon Leader

2 Epsillon squad Ties

Nightbeast

Black Squad with Wingman

He gets Int... And sets up like this :

And I try out a different opening with an inverted "V", which you can see at the end of round one here :

Not sure what he was trying for here with his swarm...

The next round all my guys 3 bank in, and end up taking long range shots on the closest Epsillon we can... But come up one HP shy of removing him from the board! Stupid FOs and their "shield"!

Next round both Wedge and Biggs slow roll up 1 straight, Biggs R2-F2s and Wedge TL the Omega Ace. While Poe does the old reveal a green left bank 1, and BB8 BRs right and back to allow him to get the damaged Epsillon Pilot in arc and mow him down... Which he does! Wedge hits the Omega Ace for 3... Again the stupid shield saves his life. Ties are mostly out of arc... But Biggs does lose a single shield from Omegs Aces return fire. But the. Gets his revenge and finishes him off where Wedge came up short!

After that it was a long mop up for the X's as they hunted the ties down!

Although a cowardly Black Squad Pilot decides to rob Poe of his well deserved kill by rolling a Crit on the debris field to finish the last Hp he had!

Another solid victory for the XXX list... And still not a single point of hull damage taken... But I believe all shields were gone from Biggs and Poe at the end of battle!

Reserved for game 3.

Why aren't you using Push the Limit after every green barrel roll to get 3 actions for free with no stress?

Because I am special!!!

I for some reason associated the Adv Sensor rule that says you have to forfeit your action after using it... And in my head added it to BB-8s ability and PtL!

Thank you for making me mentally walk through it and figure that out... Now he is even better!!

Great work with the X-Wings! Have you found the Tallon Roll useful? It seems like it'd be really handy

Why aren't you using Push the Limit after every green barrel roll to get 3 actions for free with no stress?

Push the limit gives stress, so how can you use it without stress?

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/188483-ptl-and-bb8/

Great write-up and amazing pictures! I always manage to forget to take photos in between rounds whenever I'm playing.

Do you happen to know what those containers are that your opponent in game #2 was using? It looks like they may stack on top of one another.

A TIE swarm without Howlrunner seems like a bad idea.

Great write-up and amazing pictures! I always manage to forget to take photos in between rounds whenever I'm playing.

Do you happen to know what those containers are that your opponent in game #2 was using? It looks like they may stack on top of one another.

A TIE swarm without Howlrunner seems like a bad idea.

Great write-up and amazing pictures! I always manage to forget to take photos in between rounds whenever I'm playing.

Do you happen to know what those containers are that your opponent in game #2 was using? It looks like they may stack on top of one another.

Those containers look like the ones basing materials come in for painting miniatures.

They sell these empty too, if i recall