So I got to play an epic mission last night and I have to say, I was entirely impressed by the X-Wings with torpedos. I fought off a 300 Imperial swarm with Rogue and Gray squadron, all loaded up. Imperials had to defend a bunker protected by cannons with saber squadron waiting in the wings. In the end, most of the Imperial forces were destroyed. Salm and Janson took on Fel, and killed him. Saber Squadron mostly made it out ok. Black Black Squadron had heavy losses. Rogue and Gray had no losses. It turns out when you have the points to spare, ordanence becomes a very viable method to take out enemy ships. A pilot skill 10 Tycho was able to devestate a swarm with a single assault missile. The T-65 put on quiet the show dogfighting and escorting the bombers pretty well. Honestly it's not a bad ship really it just needs a little help. Pics to follow.

Ok how do I post pictures with this thing? Do I need my actual PC?

Sounds about right. Epic games are very prone to snowballing - the player who gets ahead by a ship or two tends to stay ahead all the way into the endgame. Mass jousting power and alpha strikes can give you that early lead you need.

I have been saying this with friends here for years now: 90% of the complaints people have comes from the meta-game.

If people would just slowdown and take a fun Saturday to play a nice EPIC Game for the whole afternoon... they would really love STAR WARS as presented by FFG. The FIX Crap would dry-up for the most-part too.

I was hoping holding back saber squadron would save the empire at a critical moment, but by the time they were deployed the Y's were already in position to start their run.

Ok how do I post pictures with this thing? Do I need my actual PC?

Just post your images by linking their tags here from where you have them hosted.

I have been saying this with friends here for years now: 90% of the complaints people have comes from the meta-game.

If people would just slowdown and take a fun Saturday to play a nice EPIC Game for the whole afternoon... they would really love STAR WARS as presented by FFG. The FIX Crap would dry-up for the most-part too.

Ok how do I post pictures with this thing? Do I need my actual PC?

Just post your images by linking their tags here from where you have them hosted.

Ok I'll post them later today then. I'm on a mobile. If people care to see that is.

Hilariously Hobbie really got up to some shenanagins during the fight. I kept thinking I had lost him, but he always scored the kill or just dodged the shot.

http://xwing-builder.co.uk/view/576239/rogues-of-brental

There's a small error there, both Grays had R5

So I got to play an epic mission last night and I have to say, I was entirely impressed by the X-Wings with torpedos.

I have been saying this with friends here for years now: 90% of the complaints people have comes from the meta-game.

Whoo Hoo!!! The X-Wing is alive and well. Even competitive and awesome. Just not in Meta?

The Imperial team

http://xwing-builder.co.uk/view/576740/imperial-team#view=cards

You can double up mods?

So I got to play an epic mission last night and I have to say, I was entirely impressed by the X-Wings with torpedos.

I have been saying this with friends here for years now: 90% of the complaints people have comes from the meta-game.

Whoo Hoo!!! The X-Wing is alive and well. Even competitive and awesome. Just not in Meta?

META:

Now... add in ALL of the ships not pictured above and you have Wonderful EPIC Games.

You can double up mods?

Royal Guard TIE Interceptor title allows for 2 mods

You can double up mods?

Only with Royal Guard Tie, and if you mean the double shield upgrade, I don't see why not, there's no limit on the card, unlike bomb upgrade.

You can double up mods?

Only with Royal Guard Tie, and if you mean the double shield upgrade, I don't see why not, there's no limit on the card, unlike bomb upgrade.

Oh, that's a good point, Royal Guard actually says "different Modification upgrades"

So no doubling up on Shield Upgrade

Sounds about right. Epic games are very prone to snowballing - the player who gets ahead by a ship or two tends to stay ahead all the way into the endgame. Mass jousting power and alpha strikes can give you that early lead you need.

Not sure I agree with snowballing, but I will say that killing ships is key--if you dink everything but don't clear things from the board, you will lose.

I have been saying this with friends here for years now: 90% of the complaints people have comes from the meta-game.

If people would just slowdown and take a fun Saturday to play a nice EPIC Game for the whole afternoon... they would really love STAR WARS as presented by FFG. The FIX Crap would dry-up for the most-part too.

Yep. I really never want to play X-Wing at 100 points.

You can double up mods?

No: one Mod per ship. That Squad Builder (which I love) does have that error.

Edit: unless a card overrules that.

You can double up mods?

Only with Royal Guard Tie, and if you mean the double shield upgrade, I don't see why not, there's no limit on the card, unlike bomb upgrade.

Oh, that's a good point, Royal Guard actually says "different Modification upgrades"

So no doubling up on Shield Upgrade

Well darn... They had a free point and can treat it as a hull upgrade. (Shrugs) Didn't matter anyway I never hit Turr before the game ended.

I have been saying this with friends here for years now: 90% of the complaints people have comes from the meta-game.

If people would just slowdown and take a fun Saturday to play a nice EPIC Game for the whole afternoon... they would really love STAR WARS as presented by FFG. The FIX Crap would dry-up for the most-part too.

Yep. I really never want to play X-Wing at 100 points.

The only time I do is when I am running a cool-ass special story-line. like hunting down a Probe in an asteroid field and so forth...

And this is sort of the problem with FFGs myopic focus on the 100/6 format to the exclusion of all else. It skews ship balance and role in larger games or missions. Y wings are the classic example of being a ship that SHOULD suck in 100/6 because it's better suited to carrying heavy ordnance and doing bombing runs, things which you really only see in Epic or larger games. But everyone wanted it to be good in the 100/6 games, so it was given the TLT abd BTL/A4 and turned into a top level dogfighter instead.

And this is sort of the problem with FFGs myopic focus on the 100/6 format to the exclusion of all else. It skews ship balance and role in larger games or missions. Y wings are the classic example of being a ship that SHOULD suck in 100/6 because it's better suited to carrying heavy ordnance and doing bombing runs, things which you really only see in Epic or larger games. But everyone wanted it to be good in the 100/6 games, so it was given the TLT abd BTL/A4 and turned into a top level dogfighter instead.

I don't know if I would go that far. It's an alright ship, but it cannot truly dogfight, unless it's an Unhinged Scum ship. I don't consider flying slow with a forward gun a real dogfighter.

It's good because it is consistent.

It's good because it is consistent.

If there were no U boats in the meta, we'd still be languishing under the chains of our evil TLT Y Wing overlords. A Y Wing should (imo) never be that effective in a dogfight, it should instead shine as a bomber carrying heavy ordnance to destroy things like Gozantis and Raiders.

I imagine it does sadly no one in my play group has one. And TLT is really their best dogfighting option... Not too great. Especially with Autothrusters existing now.