So this is an interesting lesson I had a Neb that was going to die one way or another 2 Assault Frigates and 2 Corvettes had shots on it with help from Ackbar the objective was Superior Positions .

At the start of the round the Neb had to activate before it was destroyed so fired, moved and this allowed the Corvettes to get shots into the rear of the Neb.
My opponent activated one of his Assault Frigates before it was about to be destroyed by the rest of my fleet enough dice were rolled to destroy my Neb but I Braced to keep it alive on 1 hull and 2 shields on the rear.
Next a corvette shot at the rear 3 hits with the help of TRC enough to destroy it but I spent an evade and took 1 shield. The next Corvette shot 3 hits again also with the help of TRC into the rear spent tokens and the Neb lived on 1 hull until the next Assault Frigate activated and finally took it off the board

While caught up in all the excitement of my Neb living through so many attacks I didn't see what I should have seen. The Neb was going to die and it was only through bad dice rolls it lived as long as it did. If I had of let the Neb drop from the first attack from the Assault Frigate then I would have denied my opponent 2 victory tokens the Corvettes and the other Assault Frigate had no other shots so there would have been no change to the game state

and you can now guess what those 2 victory tokens did they helped even the score making the last round of the store champs I played a 25 point draw my way. once we added up the scores for the tournament he won by 1 tournament point all because I kept my alive.

Then I luckily remembered I killed one of his HWKs that was borrowed and given back to its owner and was not counted in the MOV this was enough to give me the 6-4 and I won my first Armada tournament

the lesson however is still an important one. The Neb was dead nothing was going to stop that. the dice were bad yes but it was going to die If I had of let it be destroyed on that first attack then that would have been 30pts more to me. as it was If I had not killed that HWK then I would have lost the tournament

So I will now always remember this lesson. Let your ship be destroyed so you can win the battle.

Interesting, but I'm reluctant to abandon a ship while it can survive. You couldn't know for certain your opponent was going to actually get the rear hits you were expecting (could have been nothing more that a pair of TRC reds). Did he have any shots on other ships that he didn't take because he was trying to kill the Nebulon B?

You are absolutely right - always be thinking of the objective rules and how to make them work best in your favour.

The three Victory star destroyers I own...number 7 is always the sacrificial star destroyer.