26 minutes ago, Xerandar said:

Ahh my sweet summer child. You have yet to feel the fun of missing 3 focus + TL shots in a row in a game.

Homing missile on a shieldless Defender with focus evade. All blanks. Dead Defender sad day for the home team.

36 minutes ago, 4fox100 said:

Homing missile on a shieldless Defender with focus evade. All blanks. Dead Defender sad day for the home team.

I've 1-shot a defender with Fenn Rau. R1 on Vessery (?) after he did a 1-hard turn, 4 hits 1 crit, crit was a direct hit and boom.

Those particular cases are totally reasonable (and should be expected by any good tactician), but should occur rarely on an individual player basis. If you're having that kind of crap every game there are other factors involved than luck (poorly weighted dice, for instance) that are causing the perception of bad luck.

On 28/05/2017 at 6:19 PM, Alekzanter said:

I've lost every match for the last eight weeks. Nothing has even come within a pube of close, I get absolutely clobbered every time. The most "fun" I've had was at the end of a 2v2 game where my lone, lowly Epsilon on 2 Hull outmaneuvered an E, Y, K, and two Xs for five turns, but the end result was inevitable, and that was the only time I or anyone else can remember my dice not being wet ****.

My dice simply **** the bed every game until it's way too late to matter. I'm so ******* frustrated, and I have nowhere else to vent.

Seriously thinking about chucking it all in the trash.

Can I have your stuff?

If you want to play tournament level X-wing, then you will have to build the best lists and play at top performance. You will need to fly better. You need to expect the dice to go bad when you play and work in as many "safety valves" or redundancy as possible.

Of course, that is if you want to go that route. Heroes of the Aturi Cluster is a great way to try the same game in a different way. It's co-operative, so that you and your friends are on the same team. It's less win/lose focused. It's also the only way I know a number of people even play X-wing anymore.

There are other ways, too. There are campaigns, missions, B-teams, epic, etc. Lots of ways to play the same game without having to turn it into a grilling exercise routine.

So I only read through the first page of this, and already saw pretty much everything that I expected to see. I just wanted to provide you with something that Phildo once told me. A bit of backstory - it seems like Phildo's dice are always on fire, it's crazy how good they are. But when talking to him about them after a game that imo he won due to dice, he said "My dice are good, but I never put myself in a position where I need them to be good." And that stuck with me and has actually changed how I fly. If you have the option of needing a single evade to live and exchange volleys, or the option to barrel roll away denying shots from both people, it might be worth it to say screw it. Obviously this is very match up dependent, but I've learned to never put myself in a position where I need the dice to be on my side. That way, I never lose to the dice. The dice can only grant me victory (when I'm otherwise screwed and have already lost, and they turn it around for me).