I knew I’d get beat up for my poorly thought-out rant.
I did start after the early waves. I tried flying Aces in Interceptors and the Phantom. I sucked at it, being new. Then, the Decimator came out. Fell in love with it, played all kinds of lists with it, took it to Nationals last summer. Did pretty well with it, even have a bit of a local rep as being The Decimator Pilot.
Even when I’ve won with it in Store Champs the last two weekends, it was Fickle Dice that won it for me. Frustrating and Boring games, and a Store Championship shouldn’t be boring, right?
So, before the Championships started up, I tried Triple Ints. I tried Triple Advanced with the Raider upgrades. Went 0-10 in my recent games with that list (Even with ATC, they just don’t put out enough consistent damage). Tried a few versions of the Palmobile/Sith Lords. Kind of a boring list, IMO, and people are figuring out to Alpha Strike the Emperor, so a pretty big glass cannon. So, I still suck with Aces, can’t fly a swarm to save my life (plus I don’t want to buy 6 of the same whatever ship just to be ‘competitive’.) And, now I get to suck with my favorite ship, or simply not fly it. What a choice. I just feel like the Large Ships were taken from a very good list to Don't Even Consider Them.
As an Empire Loyalist (I wear my TIE Pilot uniform to big matches), I just don't enjoy swarms. Sacrilege, I know. My gamestyle is probably better suited to rebels, or even Scum, but...I like the Imps. Always have, ever since Vader boarded the Corvette in '77 and scared the everloving crap out of a 5 year old me.
So, yeah it IS me. That’s why I’m going to take a break, play some Pathfinder and Battletech. Work on my massive backlog of video games. It’ll be a short break, I can’t stay away from the game that long. I'll not do any more SC this season. I’ll hit up some casual nights with silly lists this summer, practice more with the Phantoms and Aces. Set up more Epic games, get my Large Ship fix by running over those Y-Wings with my Raider!, TLT that, and watch me regen the shields, *******. The meta will change, again, as it always does, and eventually I can field my beloved Decimator again some day.
(Maybe I'll start a Recovering Large Ship Pilot support thread)