I took part in a rather large game yesterday. We'd been thinking about having a huge battle for a while and decided on a 900 point game. I went with my Rebels and the fleet list was...
Admiral Ackbar
MC80 + Home One + Raymus Antillies + Engineering Team + ECM + Redundant Shields + X17 Turbolasers
Assault Frigate A + Intel Officer + ECM + Enhanced Armaments
Assault Frigate A + Intel Officer + ECM + Enhanced Armaments
MC30c Scout Frigate + Foresight + Enhanced Armaments
MC30c Torpedo Frigate + Ordinance Experts + Assault Concussion Missiles
CR90 A + Jania’s Light + Leia Organa
GR-75 Medium Transport + Extended Hanger Bays
GR-75 Medium Transport + Extended Hanger Bays
Han Solo
10 X-Wing squadron
6 B-Wing squadron
The plan was to use Home One and the Assault Frigates to pummel my opponents ships at long range with their massive broadsides. Once the range closed I could launch anti-ship strikes with my B-wings with squadron commands from my GR-75's. Han Solo and the X-Wings would blunt my opponents squadrons and leave the B-Wings the room they needed to do their job. I really wanted another Assault Frigate but I only own two so I went for a couple of MC-30's as I don't use them very much and I had plenty of points spare.
I'm not 100% sure what my opponent took so I'll provide the bare bones of what I can recall...
Grand Moff Tarkin
ISD II + NK-7 + Redundant Shields + Gunnery Team + Quad Laser Turrets
ISD II + NK-7 + Redundant Shields + Gunnery Team + Quad Laser Turrets
VSD II + Expanded Hanger Bays + Wing Commander
VSD II + Expanded Hanger Bays + Wing Commander
GSD II + Ordinance Experts + Assault Concussion Missiles
GSD II + Ordinance Experts + Assault Concussion Missiles
Raider II + SW7
Raider II + SW7
Raider II + SW7
Gozanti Assault Carrier + Jamming Field + Booster Comms
8/10 TIE Fighter squadrons
6 TIE Interceptor squadrons
6 TIE Advanced squadrons
6 TIE Bomber squadrons
I was pretty dismayed at this point due to the sheer amount of stuff that was arrayed across the table. My opponent elected to go first and chose superior position from my missions so at least I could see his deployment and try to counter some of his advantage in numbers by concentrating my fleet. By the time he'd deployed his VSD's, Raiders and TIE bombers were on his left flank with his ISD's and GSD's on his right. His other squadrons were pretty much scattered in clumps across the whole board.
I decided to go for his right side as I reasoned that the VSD's would be too slow to get into the fight. I hoped to deal with the Gladiators as quickly as possible then concentrate on focusing down the ISD's. The game didn't start very well. I keep forgetting how far you can push forward TIE fighters with a squadron order and my Torpedo frigate which was hold the left flank of my concentrated deployment ended up getting swarmed and lost a chunk of its shields. My opponent did push his GSD's forward and I hoped to cause some real damage with my huge broadsides.
The second turn started well with Han Solo and a chunk of my X-Wings moving up to try to cover the Torpedo frigate but shooting was a massive disappointment. Despite some big broadsides all I managed to do was strip some shields from the GSD's and they'd both got into range to unload next turn. The Torpedo frigate's misery was complete as it got jumped by Raiders and ended up going to a barrage of blue dice having failed to achieve anything of worth. The only bright spot was Han Solo and the X-Wings which dealt with the first wave of TIE fighters but there was literally a tidal wave of squadrons bearing down on them with plenty of Raiders in support.
Turn three opened with the GSD's tearing into Home One. All shields were knocked out and massive damage was done to the hull. Anaemic return fire from the MC-80 failed to do much damage to the GSD's despite it being in a perfect position. I was getting a bid fed up at this point as it took the combined efforts of Home One, both Assault Frigates and the B-Wings to finish the two Gladiators off. The second Assault Frigate did swat a Raider out of existence with a single massive broadside which cheered me up a bit but this was cold comfort as one of the ISD's finished off Home One and my X-Wing squadrons were quickly being overwhelmed by a tidal wave of ship activated squadrons.
With the loss of Home One and a large chunk of my squadron cover the writing was pretty much on the wall at this point. I'd managed to slip Foresight and my CR90 past the Imperial battle line but I was pretty sure that I wasn't going to be able to extricate much else. Han Solo fought a lonely battle against over whelming odds finally going down as the TIE swarms rolled over my B-Wings. One of my Assault Frigates managed to slip away as the other got focused down by the two ISD's. With nothing left to lose I threw Foresight in a gamble to try to take down the damaged ISD. It wasn't to be though as the ISD slipped away and the Foresight ended up under the turbolasers of the VSD's which pounded it into scrap.
We totted up the final score but it was pretty obvious that the Imperials had scored a massive win.
Edited by Kahadras