So, this didn't happen to me, but I was in the game and it was just too good not to share.

We were playing an Multi-player Escalating Furball game, and Fenn Rau decided that he was going to pick on the poor Inquisitor. He zoomed across and asteroid and right into the Inquisitor's face. He's at full health...he should be okay, right? Roll for damage crossing the rock: Critical Hit -- Major Explosion. Roll for Major Explosion: Critical Hit -- Blinded Pilot. The Inquisitor added insult to injury by rolling three hits to Fenn Rau's one evade. It was amazing!

That rock had already taken two health off a Stealth Device Omega Leader when he got tractor beamed onto it. I think that asteroid was the match MVP.

Anybody else have some crazy war stories to tell?

i had a defender once that had lost 2 shields, it k turned and set up for range one on a poor little a wing. completely fluffed the shot then a Ghost at range three through a roid used its primary 2 hits and 2 crits (native) i rolled 5 defence dice, all blanks and drew a direct hit face up! (i was using the tie D title so no free evade) i was not impressed in the slightest!

There was that Dengar recently that was destroyed outright by a single set of Cluster Mines...

1 minute ago, Stay On The Leader said:

There was that Dengar recently that was destroyed outright by a single set of Cluster Mines...

Do tell...

I also manage to take out a full strength Poe using Miranda, Sabine and Cluster mines (pre fix) rocked up infront of Poe with advanced slam, dropped the mines hitting him with the right hand side one. cue him rolling 2 hits and me sabining it for 3

He then proceeded to Fly thorough the other two tokens rolling only one blank and promptly blew up.

sad, sad day for Poe but was fun to play with bombs (i love bombs, they are shiny!)

39 minutes ago, Piscopas said:

Do tell...

This happened to a friend of mine at the Barcelona Regional last weekend. A full-health Dengar went over all three cluster mine tokens and rolled 5 hits out of 6, and took an extra damage for Sabine. He also went over a debris with that maneuver, rolled a crit, and got a major explosion. He then rolled another hit for a face up direct hit, finishing off the ship.

I calculated the odds of losing Dengar to that combo and they were 1923 to 1.

Last night, I had a z95 one-shotted out from underneath me by Whisper, at Range 3, through a rock. Three hits and a crit, natural, all blank evades. Three turns later, Whisper one-shotted my Quadjumper, once again a natural three hits and a crit - Direct Hit - all blank defense dice. Next turn, Backdraft hit a Scyk for three natural crits. First took the shield, second was Major Explosion into Thrust Control Fire, final was Damaged Sensor Array. Dude one-shotted three ships in one game. If it weren't for the four turns of maneuvering at the start, would have been over in like, maybe, ten minutes? Dude's dice are either supernova hot or Plutonian cold. Frequently hot on game nights at the FLGS, went cold on him at Regionals. And that's the worst kind of luck, no?

I remember when my fat han did 0 damage to a ghost at r1 with gunner.

I had an Academy Pilot one-shot Soontir Fel at range 3. Soontir didn't have Autothrusters but he did have a Stealth Device. I Rolled a Hit and Crit and my opponent blank on all 5 greens. The Crit was a direct hit.

31 minutes ago, Black Arrow2 said:

I had an Academy Pilot one-shot Soontir Fel at range 3. Soontir didn't have Autothrusters but he did have a Stealth Device. I Rolled a Hit and Crit and my opponent blank on all 5 greens. The Crit was a direct hit.

That pilot will probably be bragging about that to his friends in the academy

1 hour ago, darthlurker said:

I calculated the odds of losing Dengar to that combo and they were 1923 to 1.

Dammit, you told me the odds!!

Due to the most incredibly bad dice rolls by a buddy more than skill or good dice rolls on my part, I managed to have a 1-health remaining Miranda survive and take out Fenn Rau and 2 Binyare Pirates.

I actually felt bad because it felt like the Dice Gods were just out and out pissed at him.

Lost Oicunn once in 3 attacks.

Fenn fired 5 dice, hit all 5 times with 1 crit. Only 4 shields so crit goes through and its bump = damage. Great, on Oicunn, and in my current situation i cant avoid bumping.
Next up i get shot by a R2 Guri, who gets lucky as hell with 3 natural crits. Explosion, rolled a hit into a double damage, a normal double damage, and all damage face up.. Awesome, im down to 5hp and im going to take more when i move whether i like it or not.
I move, bump, deal a face up to myself. Explosion again, rolled a hit again and got a double damage AGAIN . Down to 2hp.... Guri slowrolls so she doesnt hit me and finishes me off. Ive never seen a decimator die that quick and it had nothing to do with his list being an "ALL THE DICE" type list either.

Incidentally i havnt touched a deci since rofl

25 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

Dammit, you told me the odds!!

Yup. He deliberately disobeyed an order. 1 week in the Spice Mines for you, @darthlurker ! Haha.

8 minutes ago, Vineheart01 said:

Lost Oicunn once in 3 attacks.

Fenn fired 5 dice, hit all 5 times with 1 crit. Only 4 shields so crit goes through and its bump = damage. Great, on Oicunn, and in my current situation i cant avoid bumping.
Next up i get shot by a R2 Guri, who gets lucky as hell with 3 natural crits. Explosion, rolled a hit into a double damage, a normal double damage, and all damage face up.. Awesome, im down to 5hp and im going to take more when i move whether i like it or not.
I move, bump, deal a face up to myself. Explosion again, rolled a hit again and got a double damage AGAIN . Down to 2hp.... Guri slowrolls so she doesnt hit me and finishes me off. Ive never seen a decimator die that quick and it had nothing to do with his list being an "ALL THE DICE" type list either.

Incidentally i havnt touched a deci since rofl

I did manage to remove a full Deci from the table in one round of shooting - it was with a quad TIE-Bomber list, though. Missed only one die, but the crit from Proton Torpedo was a Direct Hit to compensate

1 minute ago, costi said:

I did manage to remove a full Deci from the table in one round of shooting - it was with a quad TIE-Bomber list, though. Missed only one die, but the crit from Proton Torpedo was a Direct Hit to compensate

Whenever i dodge a hit and there's a crit left in the roll, i always feel like I'm going to draw a direct hit to be my karma for dodging the shot

Just now, costi said:

I did manage to remove a full Deci from the table in one round of shooting - it was with a quad TIE-Bomber list, though. Missed only one die, but the crit from Proton Torpedo was a Direct Hit to compensate

Yeah but i would totally expect that to happen barring really bad red dice rolls. Unless you somehow never got a crit out of all that i'd be surprised if it didnt die. Thats 16 pretty dang reliable dice against 0agi. If i were to survive that i'd expect to be at 1hp lol.
My situation was against half that, 8 dice in 2 attacks brought me to 2hp by the time the 3rd attack could finish me off (his third ship was off in lala land for some reason). Thats why i was so pissed because it was ENTIRELY crit luck that killed me, not his overwhelming dice.

I was playing a match of Han-Poe (both pre-HOTR) against a TIE swarm, Han was on an asteroid for six. Freaking. Turns. In a row, and the TIEs kept shooting the falcon but chewie (Crew) and green dice saved han's bacon at one hull left when Poe had shot down all the TIEs but one, when it was one TIE left, my opponent called it because one TIE vs Poe and Han has next to no chance of victory, that match should have favored the TIE swarm, but dice will be dice

39 minutes ago, Piscopas said:

Yup. He deliberately disobeyed an order. 1 week in the Spice Mines for you, @darthlurker ! Haha.

This was multiple waves ago (pre-tlt), but my biggest what the hell, was when my Tie Fighter was killed by a Y-wing at range 3 through a rock that had a Weapon Malfunction crit. Yep 1 attack dice against 5 green dice. My tie had 1 damage card on it and he rolled a natural crit with his 1 die. I had just k-turned and did not have any tokens. Rolled 4 blanks and a focus. Of course it was direct hit. I had my 2 hull Tie vs his 2 hull Y-wing. I pretty much thought I had it in the bag since he only had primaries left and the Weapon Malfunction to boot. I still remember that loss and it was 2 something years ago.

This thread is giving me ideas for an EPT.

11 hours ago, Piscopas said:

Do tell...

Hey, I told that story last night! Maybe you weren't around to hear.

See here for more details on the OP: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/242333-escalation-furball-a-format-you-should-be-trying/ !

My first tournament ever my Stealth Device Turr Phennir at Range 3 through a rock (6 Agility dice) exploded to a natural 3-hit roll from an enemy Interceptor. Went on to win that game, but I learned the hard way how to token up!

So many akward moments... One glorious Swarm Leader moment. My first experience against this EPT. Echo supported by a Tie mini swarm. I was flying a flight of four T 70s generics. Ideal Range 1 shoot rolling 7 Reds with Focus Token. 1 Eye and 6 Blanks. Advanced Cloacking Device... A Novice T 70 fires at range 2 and 3 Hits vs only 1 Evade.

But the definitive humilliation is to see your undamaged Soontir with ATs being blasted by a Single Turbolaser from a CR 90 49 ctms away... 4 Red Dices with no mods vs 6 Greens and ATs. Two Crits. Fire plus Direct Hit. Many many laughts.

On 2/10/2017 at 8:02 PM, ObiWonka said:

Hey, I told that story last night! Maybe you weren't around to hear.

See here for more details on the OP: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/242333-escalation-furball-a-format-you-should-be-trying/ !

My first tournament ever my Stealth Device Turr Phennir at Range 3 through a rock (6 Agility dice) exploded to a natural 3-hit roll from an enemy Interceptor. Went on to win that game, but I learned the hard way how to token up!

I remembered it after he told the details. It's still crazy!

I have two story about this :

First was a old game, my friends have a hawk with a ion turret who can only shoot Dark Curse (range 3, behind rock, no focus), he roll his dice (1 hit) and I roll 5 dice for defence (3 focus ; 2 blank).

Second was Biggs against Soontir, he got 2 hit and 1 crit (without using is focus token) ; I roll 4 dices (range 2 ; 2 focus ; 1 evade) and got 1 evade, I use my evade token and draw my crit "Major Explosion" (oh great...) and roll the dice and must draw another crit and "Direct Hit" (Bye soontir...)

I'm not even mad, that amazing !