Well lads I'm pleased to report having just come home with a brand new I.S.D. model for taking first place in my FLGS tournie.

Here was my tournie list:

Swiss Pairings List:

Flagship: Vic 1 (73), Admiral Motti (24), Dominator Title (12) = 109

Ship 2: Vic 1 (73), Enhanced Arms (10) =83

Ship 3: Vic 1 (73), Enhanced Arms (10) =83

Squadrons: 2x Tie Fighters = 16

Total: 291

Objectives: Advanced Gunnery, Contested Outpost, Minefields.

Finals List:

Flagship: MC80 Assault (114), Intel Off (7), Adv Projectors (6), Redundant Shields (8), Garm (25) = 160

Ship 2: Neb-B Escort (57) = 57

Ship 3: MC30 Torpedo (63), Foresight Title (8), Ordnance Experts (4), Assault Conc Missiles (7) = 82

Squadrons: 3x X-Wings (39), 2x Y-Wings (20, 1x B-Wing (14), Mill Falcon (26) = 99

Total: 398

Objectives: Precision Strike, Fleet Ambush, Dangerous Territory.

Game 1: Minor Loss: 4 VP (opponent: 6)

Game 2: Big Win: 9 VP (opponent: 1)

Game 3: Big Win: 9 VP (opponent: 1)

Top 4 Scores going into finals:

Me: 22

2nd: 19

3rd: 17

4th: 16

Final Game: Minor Win: 6 VP (opponent: 4)

Putting me at 28 and my opponent at 23.

What did you lose to?

Right. My first game was against:

Vic 2: Grand Moff Tarkin

Glad 2, Demolisher

Squadrons, I think, were: 1 Tie Adv, 2 Int, 2 Bombers, 1 Tie F, and Howlie

There were some upgrades in there that I don't remember.

The scenario was minefields. I deployed all 3 of my vics in a corner and slow rolled them out at a nice 45 degree angle roughly in line with each other. On turn 3 or 4 (can't remember), I parked the middle vic on the Space Station and reduced him to speed 0 (he was at full health). I knew it was a risky move but I wanted to keep things slow and make him come at me. Demolisher activated twice (at the "end" of round and then 1st in next round. Between his 2 activations, he rolled 9 black dice (4/4 + conc firepower token). In those 9 dice, (I kid you not), he managed to do 12 damage, including crits. He rolled no blanks at any point. I was at speed 0 so no defense tokens. I had taken a very small bit of shield damage previously from red guns...either the glad or his vic, i can't remember.

It was the only thing I lost that game, so 83 points, and I managed to shoot down about 45is points of squadrons, so it actually wasn't a horrible loss for me....but man...those black dice.

Yeesh, yeah... that hurts. Speed 0 is definitely a risk.