Round One will be played over two weeks, from August 22 to September 5. You may schedule and play at any time during that time period. Post your scheduled times in this thread, as well as results. A new thread will be started for replays.

Some pre-emptive rulings...

Although I don't forsee it coming up, Bomber Command Center will stack.

Jamming Field is an always on upgrade.

G-8 Experimental Projectors can affect an Engine Tech move.

Grav Shift Reroute will move the tokens along with the obstacles in Dangerous Territory.

More to follow as needed or asked for...

Now, on to the pairings for round one!

CNinja vs. PartyPotato 6-5 0 mov PartyPotato

Maturin 8-3 70 mov bye

Ransburger vs. BrobaFett

Ginkapo vs. DabDarklighter 7-4 30 mov Ginkapo

Lyraeus vs. moodswing 8-3 78 mov Lyraeus

Lord Preyer vs. MattShadowlord

EmFrank vs. Captain ICT 6-5 EmFrank

JJs Juggernaut vs. miferr

Fleet Thread: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/226819-deal-or-no-deal-fleet-thread/

Original Thread: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/226678-armada-vassal-deal-or-no-deal-tm-pending/

Replay Thread: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/228585-deal-or-no-deal-replay-thread/

Nooooooooooooo!!!

Byes are the worst... I normally have the *best luck drawing byes, so I am happy to see I get to play. However, there is always next round!

*(worst)

I dont know, is a bye worse than flying one ship against three.....?

Depends on the ship, I guess.

Depends on the ship, I guess.

Hmmph. An ISD would be nice

Depends on the ship, I guess.

Hmmph. An ISD would be nice

NO ISD for you, Mister!

You will take you Victories and Interdictors, and you will like them, young man!

The match between emfrank72 and Captain ICT is scheduled for 8AM PDT on Tuesday August 23rd.

Depends on the ship, I guess.

Hmmph. An ISD would be nice

NO ISD for you, Mister!

You will take you Victories and Interdictors, and you will like them, young man!

I wish I had Interdictors. . .

Depends on the ship, I guess.

Hmmph. An ISD would be nice

NO ISD for you, Mister!

You will take you Victories and Interdictors, and you will like them, young man!

I wish I had Interdictors. . .

Why? I'm gonna be flying at one the whole time anyway...lol...

(But really, I would like them too.... )

Good news for JJs Juggernaut! Miferr hasjoined late and will be taking WGNF's spot in the tourney! No more byes! JJs will be playing Miferr, all other first round matchups will remain the same.

Depends on the ship, I guess.

Hmmph. An ISD would be nice

NO ISD for you, Mister!

You will take you Victories and Interdictors, and you will like them, young man!

I wish I had Interdictors. . .

Why? I'm gonna be flying at one the whole time anyway...lol...

(But really, I would like them too.... )

You too!?

Good news for JJs Juggernaut! Miferr hasjoined late and will be taking WGNF's spot in the tourney! No more byes! JJs will be playing Miferr, all other first round matchups will remain the same.

Hooray! Now to make a fleet...

This is probably a stupid question but how do you pick a 3x3 map in Vassal?

I believe that there is a map pack add-on, though the last time I was on was a couple of versions ago.

I'm pretty sure 3x3 is one of the vanilla options, you might have to scroll a bit when selecting a map to use.

yes, there are a couple options for 3x3, then you just use the entire 6x3 setup area that goes along the bottom and top for deployment. fleet ambush will be harder though, since the ambush area is shifted......

Dab vs Gink

7am UTC-4 this saturday

Hopefully I will work out exactly when this is my time before then. UTC confuses me

Hmmm Dab might be right with 11am BST

Edit, nope its noon for me

EmFrank vs. Captain ICT

Durability and bad choices vs speedy and cloaked.

I chose first player, and there was no way at all I was giving Advanced gunnery to Salvation, so I picked Firelanes, which proved nasty. We setup, and I was thinking of it as a like a 400 point game where the objectives can't in one turn account for 1/4 of the fleet's cost. Emfrank did an amazing job the first couple of rounds of keeping the tokens, I also had deployed to go after Salvation from the sides. We advance, I'm planning to hit Salvation from two sides, and realize Rutroh, those tokens are worth a lot. So I realized I could only make it as competitive as I could by killing Salvation. Salvation started in the upper left, his zombie master in the upper right. I deployed with Jaina's light on the left, and Craken and Bright Hope in the middle with the fighters, intending to break left. I broke left with Craken (to avoid the B-Wings and Dutch) and sent Bright Hope right. I started pounding on Salvation. Unfortunately without TRCs CR90s don't seem that nasty. I beat on Salvation, but didn't kill it. Luke got in a hit, and one of the generic X-wings hit it with a double without BCC! Which never seems to happen. Cracken ended up living up to his ship's name, as I overshot, and tried to chase down the wounded Salvation, while my X-wings seemed to be rookies, and slowed down the B-Wings. His Neb-Bs could not hit ships at all it seemed. Partially because of Craken making them lose a die each turn, partially by bad luck. Bright hope went through and looped to avoid the side, which is when she got her only damage from running into Cracken. Luke flubbed a shot against Salvation, and on Turn 6, Jaina's Light finally got in the hits on Salvation, yet she still didn't die until she fired again, with some AA helping Dutch take out Luke. If there'd been more turns, I think his Keyan and Dutch would have eaten my fleet.

The star of the game on my side was Bright Hope. Only damage despite at least 3 front shots from Neb-Bs, was when it hit another ship. That thing is insanely good defensively.

Tokens won the game it was 81+75 from tokens to 46+165. 211 to 156. 55 MOV not sure the points.

EmFrank vs. Captain ICT

Tokens won the game it was 81+75 from tokens to 46+165. 211 to 156. 55 MOV not sure the points.

Half points for objectives....

EmFrank vs. Captain ICT

Tokens won the game it was 81+75 from tokens to 46+165. 211 to 156. 55 MOV not sure the points.

Half points for objectives....

Heh, I'd commented that we should scale objectives during the game.

If that's the case, that would make it. 118.5 vs 128.5, so a MoV of 10 points. Which I'm betting is a 6-5 to emfrank

Still darn close game... well played.

Still waiting on these scheduled games:

Lord Preyer vs. MattShadowlord

EmFrank and Captain ICT have already played, 6-5 mov 10 to EmFrank

Ginkapo vs. DabDarklighter 7-4 30 mov to Ginkapo.

CNinja vs. PartyPotato 6-5 0 mov to PartyPotato.

JJs Juggernaut vs. Miferr 10-1 161.5 mov to JJs

Ransburger vs BrobaFett 9-2 149 mov to Ransburger

Lyraeus vs. moodswing5537 8-3 78 mov to Lyraeus.

Vipcard dropped for a 8-3 70 mov bye to Maturin