Heh. Demolisher + Expanded Missile Launchers + Admiral Piett. 2 reds, 6 blacks. After moving.

The point being: By making him Imperial Ackbar, you can intensify the forward batteries, because you don't want anything to get through.

INTENSIFY FORWARD FIREP---

TOO LATE

Nah - it simply happened because it was necessary for the plot. Don't believe anyone who tries to explain Star Wars in terms of "logic" or "physics". Stuff like that happens because a) it's cool and b) looks plausible if you don't think about it too much. It doesn't make sense in any other way (but it doesn't have to).

This exactly, I mean there is at least one secondary bridge on the Executor if not more, so what where they all doing having their Imperial doctrine Tea break or simply choose the very worst time to go on strike in order to make it so that Vader force choked them less.

it did also have a bunch of mon cals unloading on it (concentrate all firepower on that super star destroyer!)

I guess Arvel was just the straw that broke the camel's back?

The point being: By making him Imperial Ackbar, you can intensify the forward batteries, because you don't want anything to get through.

INTENSIFY FORWARD FIREP---

TOO LATE

oh dear

I guess he missed the cut for Armada

Jesus, of any color? Thats pretty powerful considering his SSD failed to shoot a singular awing down.

How was Piett supposed to know that he was a load-bearing boss and a lucky shot would bring his entire ship down?

acully they DID Shoot the A-wing down, it just happened to crash into the bridge...

Yeah that never quite made sense for me how a MASSIVE starship would suddenly drive into the Death Star because the bridge was hit. Did the dude on the steering do an evasive manoeuvre or something??

It happened because the Death Star, being the size of a moon, has a gravitational pull. Destroy the bridge, destroy the things controlling the engines, and all of a sudden your 19km dreadnought becomes little more than an exercise in gravitational physics

That's part of it. Don't forget this happened just as the Emperor is dying. He was clearly using the Force to influence the battle and the severing of that caused complications.

What engineer wouldn't have put in at least 3 or 4 backup bridges for a monstrosity of that size though? It was a friggin flying city. That's the part that gets me. "Oh, bridge goes down, everything goes haywire." No backup systems of any sort? No pre-programmed systems in the computers to keep the thing stable in space?

Nope, foiled by a bunch of teenagers wearing plot armor. >_>

What engineer wouldn't have put in at least 3 or 4 backup bridges for a monstrosity of that size though? It was a friggin flying city. That's the part that gets me. "Oh, bridge goes down, everything goes haywire." No backup systems of any sort? No pre-programmed systems in the computers to keep the thing stable in space?

Nope, foiled by a bunch of teenagers wearing plot armor. >_>

and fish people!

don't forget the fish people!

Well sometimes in real wars, something do happens out of the ordinary, some ships do get destroyed in freak accidents, even though the chance for what occurred to them is almost non-existent, its like rolling six dice, there is statistically (however slim the chance is) a possibility that you roll six on all six of them.

Airliners is supposed to be almost 100% (99,999%) foolproof, but sometimes things happen in sequence, that cause them to crash.

Same goes for an SSD crashing into to the Death Star, due to a freak accidental collision with an A-wing, its like a homage to David and Goliath, you take the almost smallest spaceship in the Star Wars Universe, and let it take out the biggest spaceship.

Call it Karma

Perfect example of this is the Bismark sinking the Hood in WWII. After less than a dozen or so long range shots from the Bismark, by luck they hit the Hoods magazine store. The Hood disintegrates and sinks in minutes.

Jesus, of any color? Thats pretty powerful considering his SSD failed to shoot a singular awing down.

How was Piett supposed to know that he was a load-bearing boss and a lucky shot would bring his entire ship down?

acully they DID Shoot the A-wing down, it just happened to crash into the bridge...

lol I actually just watched that scene and they didn't actually hit the a-wing. It looked like a kamikaze run.

If you have an old copy of ROJ movie, freeze the film just before the impact, and then advance it forward frame by frame.

you will see that it is actually an old Buick or Chevy, that crashes through the bridge window.

Conclusion: Old American cars are dangerous and can appearently kill as many people that crew an entire SSD.

Nah - it simply happened because it was necessary for the plot. Don't believe anyone who tries to explain Star Wars in terms of "logic" or "physics". Stuff like that happens because a) it's cool and b) looks plausible if you don't think about it too much. It doesn't make sense in any other way (but it doesn't have to).

This exactly, I mean there is at least one secondary bridge on the Executor if not more, so what where they all doing having their Imperial doctrine Tea break or simply choose the very worst time to go on strike in order to make it so that Vader force choked them less.

Everybody assumes that the main bridge is always taken out first before the secondary bridge.

But what happens if the secondary bridge was already taken out first, before the main bridge? Has anyone ever thought of that?

nope

adding to the die pool is completely range independent

you need to add to the battery armament for range restrictions

which is why the proposed piett is broke as ****

Which part of the rules is that?

nope

adding to the die pool is completely range independent

you need to add to the battery armament for range restrictions

which is why the proposed piett is broke as ****

Which part of the rules is that?

You only measure Range when you Gather the Dice for the attack pool.

When you Add Dice to the Pool, Range is not checked, and indeed, is irrelevant.

Thus, page 2 of the FAQ:

Q: When a ship resolves an ability that allows it to add dice to the attack pool, can it add those dice if their color is not normally appropriate for the range of the attack?

A: Yes. The range restriction on dice color applies only when dice are gathered during the “Roll Attack Dice” step of an attack.

nope

adding to the die pool is completely range independent

you need to add to the battery armament for range restrictions

which is why the proposed piett is broke as ****

Which part of the rules is that?

You only measure Range when you Gather the Dice for the attack pool.

When you Add Dice to the Pool, Range is not checked, and indeed, is irrelevant.

Thus, page 2 of the FAQ:

Q: When a ship resolves an ability that allows it to add dice to the attack pool, can it add those dice if their color is not normally appropriate for the range of the attack?

A: Yes. The range restriction on dice color applies only when dice are gathered during the “Roll Attack Dice” step of an attack.

Yep, its part of what makes Paragon and 2nd player Opening Salvo nasty.

Jesus, of any color? Thats pretty powerful considering his SSD failed to shoot a singular awing down.

How was Piett supposed to know that he was a load-bearing boss and a lucky shot would bring his entire ship down?

acully they DID Shoot the A-wing down, it just happened to crash into the bridge...

lol I actually just watched that scene and they didn't actually hit the a-wing. It looked like a kamikaze run.

If you have an old copy of ROJ movie, freeze the film just before the impact, and then advance it forward frame by frame.

you will see that it is actually an old Buick or Chevy, that crashes through the bridge window.

Conclusion: Old American cars are dangerous and can appearently kill as many people that crew an entire SSD.

As a reference to that, in Rogue Squadron 3, you could enter a code and it would turn one of the A-Wings in the hanger into a Buick. You could then fly it in any mission.

Ah, I miss the days of me and my Incom T'75 Lesabre, flying through Sonic, obliterating TIE's and Chili Dogs...