Tonight I misjudged an opponent's move and ended at R1 in front of a stressed B-Wing with wired. The M3-A had lost its shield and with 2 HP was in trouble. Ten Numb with his uncancellable crit was getting ready to paint another M3 silhouette on his hull. The B rolled a Blank and three eyeballs. The eyeballs were re-rolled and 3 blanks turn up. Seven red dice and seven blanks. Serissu lived but the cockpit needed cleaned.

Anyone else get saved from assured destruction by a lot of badly rolled reds?

no, I have the opposite story

incredibly lucky opponent doesn't know what Wampa does when he rolls the first crit of the night (the third game with him ) and only that crit

he rolls before I declare the ability. Continuing his crazy luck he gets, naturally unmodified, 3 freaking evades. Then, I explain to him what Wampa does

so there's the best defensive roll never thrown, because it technically never happened

no, I have the opposite story

incredibly lucky opponent doesn't know what Wampa does when he rolls the first crit of the night (the third game with him ) and only that crit

he rolls before I declare the ability. Continuing his crazy luck he gets, naturally unmodified, 3 freaking evades. Then, I explain to him what Wampa does

so there's the best defensive roll never thrown, because it technically never happened

How did you resolve it? Let his rolls stand or take the face down card?

take the face down, since he kinda jumped the gun (not knowing what Wampa did)

no, I have the opposite story

incredibly lucky opponent doesn't know what Wampa does when he rolls the first crit of the night (the third game with him ) and only that crit

he rolls before I declare the ability. Continuing his crazy luck he gets, naturally unmodified, 3 freaking evades. Then, I explain to him what Wampa does

so there's the best defensive roll never thrown, because it technically never happened

How did you resolve it? Let his rolls stand or take the face down card?

NEVER let the roll stand. EVER. FGD's modify dice step had not concluded, and thus, that defense roll, as far as the game is concerned, never happened. Even IF FGD didn't decide to use wampa's ability for whatever reason, he would need to have rerolled that defense roll either way as it was done outside of order.

If I'm reading this correctly, when Wampa cancels a crit there's no defensive roll? As in Attacker rolls dice, Defender modifies reds if possible, attacker modifies red, cancelling crit = deal 1 face down damage card to defender. So no defensive roll only the chance to modify the original attack dice?

basically

hence, the best defense roll never actually thrown

If a pilot painted a silloette of an M3 everytime one got shot down, there would be a paint shortage. Next time I field one, I am just going to fly it off the board in the first round and save everyone the time.

If a pilot painted a silloette of an M3 everytime one got shot down, there would be a paint shortage. Next time I field one, I am just going to fly it off the board in the first round and save everyone the time.

The M3s aren't tanky but they're not made out of paper either. The M3 is not that much different from your basic Tie but just because you can arm one with a cannon, missile or torpedo doesn't mean it's always good to do so. Treat them like Ties, fly them like they've been stolen and enjoy the game.

I think I have the exact opposite. The worst defensive result actually rolled. Tantive firing on Vader with turbolasers. Vader rolls 7 green dice.

EVERY

SINGLE

ONE

A

BLANK

I think I have the exact opposite. The worst defensive result actually rolled. Tantive firing on Vader with turbolasers. Vader rolls 7 green dice.

EVERY

SINGLE

ONE

A

BLANK

Ouch!

There was a day when I was running whisper chirp vs my friends dash horn. My whisper outfitted with FCS and gunner for maximum damage.

Managed range 1 5 dice. (Target lock from previous fire round) all blanks. Reroll to get three focus two blanks. Barrel rolled to get in to arc and range. (Horn had ptl eu not vi).

Gunner trigger four focus one hit. Reroll to three blanks one focus. Green dice. Three evades.

This topic got me wondering- What is the best defensive build possible on any ship? Competitive or not, I want to hear it.

This topic got me wondering- What is the best defensive build possible on any ship? Competitive or not, I want to hear it.

Serissu bodyguard, ion cannon

Three binary pirates with dampeners because reasons?

Range three talon gets 3+2+2+1 green dice. 3 base two from cloak two from range one from bodyguard.

For the record with wampa, since he cancels results, it probably actually happens when most of the other result canceling does in the compare result step. If that's the case the roll does technically happen, but then you can still use his ability after that (like crackshot). This would actually be helpful for Wampa because you could see if the defender blanked out and would actually take a crit instead. They recently added crackshot to the faq with the text that says "at the start of the compare result step" or w/e, but that was just a clarification of how the card already worked. Maybe wampa doesn't use that timing, but would definetly be nice for him.

This topic got me wondering- What is the best defensive build possible on any ship? Competitive or not, I want to hear it.

Talonbane determination, cloaking device, stealth device.

Serissu bodyguard, ion cannon

Three binary pirates with dampeners because reasons?

Range three talon gets 3+2+2+1 green dice. 3 base two from cloak two from range one from bodyguard.

That's really kind of scary. Seven greens. I wonder how many rolls would be needed before he blanked the greens and got chewed up?

This topic got me wondering- What is the best defensive build possible on any ship? Competitive or not, I want to hear it.

without any external influence, it's PTL sensor jammer r2-d2 corran/eathn. Even without jammers, it's basically immortal 1v1

could only be improved on an auto-thruster ship, but the combination is not possible on the T-70 since it doesn't get an evade for ptl purposes

also, don't have the math for this, but Omega L is probably up there 1v1. It's nearly impossible to luck through comms relay + focus on naked dice

Not super crazy, but one of the first times I got to successfully deploy cluster mines in a good spot, a TIE flew across all three! I rolled my 6 reds and.....all Blanks and eyes! Nooo!

Later, that same TIE flew across another CM, 2 more red dice, and yup, blanks and eyes!

Next time I fly a K, it'll be getting prox mines instead....

So I got Guri into a bit of a pickle.

2 short range Xwings and a Long range Xwing, each with some form of modification. So Guri pops Glitterstim.

This is what results:

Guri is untouched... because I killed two different (wounded) ships instead.

I've had a lot of close calls using Ibtisam and Sensor Jammer/Elusiveness, where she only lived because she kept screwing with the red dice being thrown at her, making for many irritated opponents.

In playing Tycho a lot, I've had many situations where my opponents rolled badly, then Tycho rolled some overkill in green dice. Probably the most memorable was when my opponent rolled four reds, got three blanks and a focus, then got all blanks when re-rolling from target lock turn into a blank when he rerolled (he had no focus token). Then, Tycho rolled six green dice, yielding 5 evades and a focus (from stealth device, range 3, through an asteroid). Plus Tycho had an Evade and Focus token sitting around on top of that...

I was playing a gimmick-ish list at a small store tourney last week. Whisper (VI), Echo (Decoy), Epsilon Ace.

My very first defense roll, 5 greens with a focus for Whisper (against two hits rolled by a tokenless TIE fighter): 5 blanks.

Later in the game, with Echo and a focus, rolling 4 dice: 4 blanks.

Total for the game, with 19 green dice rolled? 15 blank, 2 focus, 2 evade.

(I lost.)

So no, I've never benefited from such an improbable attack roll, but I've certainly contributed to my opponents' offense, but virtue of my ability to roll blanks on defense. And I've been on the attacking side of the OP's question before, at least twice.