So this was my first regional, and I was very nervous going in. I was also flying a list I had only flown once before but had a blast flying.

My list:

The decivader had other upgrades to increase the amount of crits, I think merc co pilot and the crew that gives you an evade when you don't have shields.

I was glad I wasn't facing palp aces or uboats the first round. We started at opposite corners and he pushed his soontir flying forward, I slow rolled in along the middle of the map and was able to engage only soontir. This let me get two rounds of 2v1 fire on him and i was able to whittle him down even with all his tokens. After that I took turns with miranda and han boosting or slamming in and out of range 3 and managed to keep han above 50% and miranda alive. A good start!

100-0 Win

Game 2: vs Triple Aces

This was against the Inquisitor, Soontir and I think it was Carnor. This was an interesting build, as they had targeting computers instead of auto thrusters. This was a bloody match, we went straight for each other, which I don't think was the best thing for me to do. shields were being stripped fast on Miranda and Han , and after planting Miranda in a nasty spot of crossfire she went down in a ball of flames. That same turn though I managed to kill the inquisitor. and i was in a good position relative to Soontir and Carnor. I think Soontir had 1 damage I had somehow pushed through on him and got super lucky it was a crit that lowered his agility , but i couldn't pursue him without giving Carnor my backside.

Soontir ran to fix his crit and I turned to deal with carnor. My shots were ineffective but I managed to not get shot back , I was already at below half health and couldn't really take the hits. Finally we were facing each other and I managed to one shot carnor (after 3 re-rolls). Soontir was now coming at me after fixing the crit and we headed straight towards each other. He lit me up but luckily it was only regular hits and I was able to mitigate it with c3po and the evade token.

Again it took me getting into range one and re-rolling( shoot, han ability, missed, luke triggers and reroll that second attack with han) all the way to take soontir out. That was a close one!

Win 100-68

Game 3: vs Palp Aces (inq, omega, wampa and palpmobile)

I set up across from the palp mobile in hopes of taking it out quickly. totally didn't go as planned and as i zoomed up the side I was met with incoming crossfire as the aces came in swooping from their middle and far right deployment. I had barely managed to take a couple shield off the shuttle before Miranda bit it. Now it was Han against the world and the amount of crossfire he was in mean , poor navigation and even worse shooting. Couldn't land a hit on anything I shot. Suffice to say Han was shortly disposed of with very little in the way of return fire. Managed to get all the shields on the shuttle and

Wow did I play this badly and get my ass handed to me. No one to blame for this loss but myself and how I flew. Also my opponent was really good, and knew exactly how to play me.

Definitely would have played it differently, I think focus firing on one of the dangerous aces, omega , then inq would have been better, then go to work on wampa and the shuttle. Well. worse case scenario achieved, got that horrible loss out of the way.

Loss 14-100

Game 4: vs Han triple Z

Mirror match! Kind of. It was I believe a classic fat Han with Pred and gunner instead of VI and Luke which was very important because I got to shoot first!

He set up his Z's bunched together on one side. and Han on the other. I had Miranda and Han on the same side opposite the z's I flew in hard at the Z's and managed to take one down before his Han engaged. Luckily he shot at Miranda instead of my Han and i was able to regen the damage done. The Z's were being in effective with their fire and I blew another one up shortly. At this point i changed gears and started to focus fire on his Han, Miranda handily punching through his defenses and stripping his shields quickly. I think he realized the danger too late and started to shoot at my Han but it was too late. The third Z was dead at this point and my Han was on his tail. I slammed Miranda out of there because she was at hull points now and I didn't want an unlucky roll to kill her. My Han finally took out the doppelganger after losing my last shield. A strong win that lifted my spirits after the previous beating.

Win 100-0

Game 5: vs rage-Tycho Jake and Gemmer (triple A-Aces)

This match was probably the most fun I had my opponent was a blast to play against. I was very worried about this match because of how maneuverable the A-wings are and they all had prockets. I knew I was going to have trouble getting damage through and I had to avoid a lot of arcs to not be blasted to smithereens. our deployments had his a wings around the center and my guys off center to the left.

I slow rolled in at first to see where they were going. the came in fast turning towards me. I broke Miranda off to the right to try and come up around them and this succeeded in him breaking ranks and sending two of the A's after her. The dogfighting was intense with shields being plinked off Miranda, and her not really able to push through damage thanks to auto thrusters. I got in a bad spot where she bumped into Gemma I think and this let Tycho unleash a rage modified procket( of course everything hit) so she was hurting. At this point I had Jake at hull, Tycho untouched and Gemma at hull. I could have slammed out of there and licked my wounds with Miranda but I didnt want the remaining two prockets to be unloaded into the falcon. I used her to block Tycho the next turn and with out any tokens and combined fire I was able to wipe him out. This however left her at range one of Gemma who promptly used the prockets to wipe Miranda from the table. It was now down to Han vs Gemma and Jake, I've been sucessfuly this game in not getting Han bumped and kept that going into the final rounds dodging arcs and focusing on not getting in arc or range 1 of Jake since he still had his rockets. Meanwhile I stripped his shields. The final round round was crazy. I managed to dodge Jake again and Gemma was in a tight spot after a failed block so she had to run over a rock! He rolled the dice, a crit! flips the card over... Double damage! boom! shes gone. Shooting starts and Han then goes Ham and range one, hit hit crit crit on Jake , the dice gods betray him and hes gone. game over! victory! That was a rush. every turn felt like the match could go either way and it really came down to positioning.

This match really made the falcon feel nimble as i weaved through the A-wings.

Win 100-37

WOO 5-1 I have a chance to make the final cut! they post the up to 5th round standings and i'm 5th! can't believe how well i'm doing and that I've made it this far.

Final match to come!!!.....