The list:

Miranda - TLT, Jan Ors

Norra - Title, PTL, Kyle Katarn, BB8

Rebel Op. HWK - TLT, Chewbacca

The setting: A late Summer Kit Tournament, 20 players, tuesday night, we finished so late and top 4 is next week.. O: crazy stuff.

First opponent:

Scum!

Party Moralo Bus

Assajj tricked out to the fullest

Can't say much about this match up honestly, 100-0. I deployed in the middle-ish, his YV was also center and his Shadowcaster in a corner.
He went way too forward as I also went full straight ahead (all 3... not wanting to stress my HWK or ARC.. lol) which made the first round of shooting on turn 2 and then I was behind the YV and it died and then I chased the Shadowcaster and it died. The End. I only offered him a single ship as a good target to follow/attack: Miranda, of course she played her role as a regen tank. Never worried about losing her. My HWK had gone into bump mode right away with his YV and shadowcaster both going the same direction so it wasnt hard to stay behind after that and Norra followed the Shadowcaster after finishing off the YV. Opponent's mistake was to go way too fast right away.

Second opponent:
Scum!

Fenn Rau - Stealth Device, Title and Fearlessness

Old Turok (or is it Teroch) - Stealth Device, Title, Fearlessness

Manaroo - Whatever it was to give lots of tokens out

I hadn't noticed he had Stealth Device instead of Autothrusters.. it was an odd decision and I think he'll get autothrusters next time.

First up I went too slow with Miranda so the first round of shooting went like this:

Fenn at range 1 of Miranda, no fearlessness but still hurt :[

Old Teroch at range 1 of Miranda, both ships in arc of each other, oh boy. I regen'd a shield and did no dmg I got heavily dmg'd by Old Teroch

Norra range 2 of Old Teroch, failed to put any damage through

Manaroo kills Miranda

HWK deals 2 DMG to Old Teroch

Well ****. What a start!

However after that my Norra went HAM and outmaneuvered Fenn Rau (I think mostly because of no PTL for boost/barrel combos but even then, my BB8 shenanigans are hard to cover entirely and its easy to get behind Fenn that way, plus the Talon Roll is easy to block when you expect it) while my HWK drifted slowly and did its TLT business as normal completely untouched for the entire game except on last turn where I finished Fenn with it and took a point or two of dmg? was at range 2 ;D . At one point I almost managed to block Fenn from staying on the board with a Hard 2 since we had both maneuvered close to the corner of the map. Wish that had happened but anyway Norra + TLT HWK killed the entire list. RIP Miranda.

100-37

Third Opponent:

Empire!

Palpshuttle

Vessery - Juke, X7

Ryad - PTL, X7, MkII engine

Oh boy, but oh yea: 2 of my ships are above his PS

I decided to go for the joust, or at least, that's what I told my opponent. He setup on his right, I setup on my left, I went forward quite a bit and managed to block and confound his Defenders a lot, he played very well but I made it so his Defenders either couldn't Kturn as he wanted or knew where he was going and just avoided them. The first engagement was against defenders, I removed one shield on Ryad and he daamged the HWK, but then I started my shenanigans to skip him ahead since he wasn't gonna Kturn right away and went for the shuttle immediately. I did one mistake with my Norra which bumped the shuttle on the turn I should've killed it, which cost me to have Miranda at 2 hulls left - I lost the HWK previously which I was ok with. So Shuttle at 1 hull, Norra behind the shuttle but not the right way - thank you back arc, and the HWK dead. Defenders are both in great condition and going to try to finish Miranda. I wish I'd take the time to show you the exact positions but lets just say that the Shuttle did a straight 1, allowing Miranda to hop in FRONT of the shuttle with a Hard 2 toward where I started and both defenders were now facing their own starting side but had no arc on Miranda, perfectly executed on my part, Miranda shot down the shuttle and Norra now had to turn around to chase the Defenders. He took the bait, or I guess it was a no brainer to Kturn to take down Miranda on 2 hulls so I 3-slammed far away then proceeded to elude him with hard 2s going back toward his defenders so that his arcs would go passed my position, allowing me to regen here and there while Norra was coming back and when she did, oh boy. Vessery went down hard at range 1 to a nice roll resulting in 4 hits 1 crit from Norra, always nice to see it happen, lil 2 attack ship going up to 5 dice.,..

After that Miranda stayed alive and I believe time was called before I could kill Ryad and it finished something like 65-26.

That was hard work with Miranda to juke him at his own game ;D but it paid off.

So far in 3 games I lost 2 ships.. Pretty good stuff!

4th opponent:

Empire!

Vader - Title/ATC, Engine Upgrade, VI

Ryad - x7, PTL, MkII engine

Deathfire - Conners, Homing, Extra Munitions, LRS .. I think that was it?

Oh ****, that was going to be dangerous especially if I faced all 3 in front. I have to say my BB8 pulled its weight in maneuvring myself as safely as I could away from the bomber, as I got TL'd right off the bat on turn 1 by that bomber, had to play it safe and safe I played it. I'll say right now that Norra finished the game on 1 hull, having 3 crits on her as well. It was scary! Those conner nets also caused a lot of trouble but one of those actually turned out to take Ryad out of the game entirely, not by dropping it on her, but because he dropped it on my HWK, Ryad k-turned to take down the HWK, dealing a lot of dmg to it while the bomber + vader were trying to take down Norra (and Miranda got ignored entirely, ). So Ryad k-turned, dealt dmg to my HWK but then I seriously blocked Ryad for 6 straight turns with that HWK he wanted to finish off. At one point he was considering disengaging and going elsewhere but committed in the end because otherwise that TLT would've done damage.

Vader was taken down by a lucky Range 1 shot by Norra - no modifiers, -1 Red from crit, so 3 dice: hit hit crit (thank you lucky roll) and he blanked his greens, only an evade token to help him and having received 3 dmg from Miranda TLT or Primary turret attack in previous turns. Bomber had died or was to die right after that on 1 hull, I forget which died first.

Ryad stayed alive due to time being called when Miranda got in range of her and my HWK was almost going to attack too haha.

MVP HWK for keeping Ryad completely confounded.

While it was a critical mistake on his part, it was also because I had guessed his maneuvers on the spot and was going the right direction.

65-0 I think?

4, only lost 2 ships out of 12 possible ships to lose

Destroyed 9 out of 11 ships.

So the standings came out:

Me 1st (the only 4-0 out of the 20 players, but we have to do Top 4, oh well! )

2nd is someone I didnt play against (2 Z95s with slicers, Torkhil Mux with TLT and not sure what else, Asajj tricked out as usual to be annoying)

3rd is my last opponent: Vader, Ryad, Deathfire

4th is the one with Palpshuttle + 2 defenders

This means that they only lost to me and won big against everyone else they played.

So next week I'm facing Palpshuttle + defenders again. It will be interesting to see how we both adapt to this rematch - I might have a much harder time coming out on top, but I hope I win it and then win the final!
Wish me luck!

I must ask, why use Rebel Op. HWK - TLT, Chewbacca, when you can use Gold squadron Pilot - TLT and R4-D6 or R2 Astromech?

The cost is the same and you get 1 more hit point with the y-wing.

Congratulations! Just 2 questions for you:

1. Did any of your opponents try to focus Norra right from the start? I know that's what I'd do. Her offensive power is by far the greatest in your list and even with evade token it doesn't seem like she would survive more than 2 turns of hard focus.

2. Why didn't you take LRS on Miranda? It's free TL that you can bank for later use whenever you're out of range for combat. I thought it's a no-brainer pick for any Miranda that takes neither guidance chips nor advanced SLAM.

Congratulations! Just 2 questions for you:

1. Did any of your opponents try to focus Norra right from the start? I know that's what I'd do. Her offensive power is by far the greatest in your list and even with evade token it doesn't seem like she would survive more than 2 turns of hard focus.

2. Why didn't you take LRS on Miranda? It's free TL that you can bank for later use whenever you're out of range for combat. I thought it's a no-brainer pick for any Miranda that takes neither guidance chips nor advanced SLAM.

1. I think the stacking of Focus + Evade + TL, often being used as a Defensive one because I know he has the option to shoot her (like against the last guy, I kept my TL + Focus as defensive because of the Homing Missile and it made me 2 evades, taking only 2 shields away out of the 4 hits he dealt me) and also the BB8 allows me to outmaneuver my opponent quite a bit.

2. Good idea. I think I will from now on, though sometimes I do like taking a TL when im at range 1 and can spend a shield to go 4 dice turret~ but its also good for the "alpha" strike so taking it right away could help me have TL+ focus or maybe even make my opponent make a mistake to avoid Miranda

I must ask, why use Rebel Op. HWK - TLT, Chewbacca, when you can use Gold squadron Pilot - TLT and R4-D6 or R2 Astromech?

2 Greens, 4 Hulls, 1 Shield and Chewbacca and neutralize a nasty crit - which happened twice in the 4 games, one for a direct hit, making it actually tank more than the Y Wing - as a Y-Wing with a Direct Hit is worth 7 HP total while the Chewbacca HWK is worth a full 8 HP when you stop that Direct Hit (unless you get another one later but eh, lets not dive more into "what ifs" ;p ) Since my action is almost always to Focus, that makes those 2 green dice much better and also more resilient at range 3 and/or through an obstacle.

Plus it made my list look like some Pokémon Evolution - HWK to K-Wing to ARC ;P

I really do prefer my HWK

I like that Norra build. Very slick.