Kelvan, StarSlinger, MajorJuggler, Dom and Blair discuss Some local store championships, the Euro national championships (AKA Europe does NOT suck), as well as the new Guns for Hire preview. Be ready for another episode soon as we already have another in editing.

Our Store Champ Snap Shot A bounty is still alive and well. We have 1 custom painted A-Wing left to give out.

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Also at the suggestion of @Biophysical I will be doing a standalone A wing episode to get it out of my system. I'll let you know as soon as I can who I get to jump in.

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So a full on A wing episode is coming. What do you want to see?

How best to take advantage of snap shot. I ran some snap awings at a store tourney, and I couldn't get it to consistently trigger to my liking.

also, how to load out and build the underused, non elite named pilots (Arvel and Gemmer).

I enjoyed Kelvan's increasingly desperate pleas for skilled players to run Snap A-Wing and validate his life choices - glad to hear you are doing an A-Wing special

Someone already won a store champ with snap juke A-wings? I'm impressed. Also, how many A-wing's does one need in their list for it to work?

On 6/28/2017 at 4:19 PM, imzeke21 said:

Someone already won a store champ with snap juke A-wings? I'm impressed. Also, how many A-wing's does one need in their list for it to work?

5 apparently!

Snap Crack A's!

On 6/28/2017 at 4:07 PM, Transmogrifier said:

I enjoyed Kelvan's increasingly desperate pleas for skilled players to run Snap A-Wing and validate his life choices - glad to hear you are doing an A-Wing special

There's an uncomfortable amount of truth to this. But snap shot is a playstyle similar to the old swarms so there's a lot of players who might enjoy Snap A's.

I'm planning on taking some Snap/Juke AWings to a league tournament tomorrow to see how they do and maybe decide to bring them along in a SC or two.

57 minutes ago, Kelvan said:

There's an uncomfortable amount of truth to this. But snap shot is a playstyle similar to the old swarms so there's a lot of players who might enjoy Snap A's.

I agree, I just wish I was able to make it out to more tournaments so I could justify flying something a bit less serious like Snap A's. With Wave 11 dropping in 2 weeks though I think the window may be closing for people willing to fly something like Snap As :|

8 minutes ago, Transmogrifier said:

I agree, I just wish I was able to make it out to more tournaments so I could justify flying something a bit less serious like Snap A's. With Wave 11 dropping in 2 weeks though I think the window may be closing for people willing to fly something like Snap As :|

while the bombs are problematic, conversely the auzitech is actually fairly vulnerable to snap shot.

19 minutes ago, Kelvan said:

while the bombs are problematic, conversely the auzitech is actually fairly vulnerable to snap shot.

True, I meant more that the target audience for Snap A's is probably people who have accomplished what they aimed for in Store Champs already and are now willing to branch out to Tier 2 lists. Wave 11 coming out may kill that impulse and replace it with trying to suss out what's going to be the next big thing.

On 6/30/2017 at 0:18 PM, Transmogrifier said:

True, I meant more that the target audience for Snap A's is probably people who have accomplished what they aimed for in Store Champs already and are now willing to branch out to Tier 2 lists. Wave 11 coming out may kill that impulse and replace it with trying to suss out what's going to be the next big thing.

THERE IS ALWAYS TIME FOR A-WINGS!

That's what Lowhhrick with Selflessness and Chewbacca are for: take the hits so your A-wings can happily keep on snapping, cracking, and juking.

9 minutes ago, Hawkstrike said:

That's what Lowhhrick with Selflessness and Chewbacca are for: take the hits so your A-wings can happily keep on snapping, cracking, and juking.

oh god... I feel dirty

Green Squadron Pilot — A-Wing19

Snap Shot2

Chardaan Refit-2

Juke2

A-Wing Test Pilot0

Ship Total: 21

Green Squadron Pilot — A-Wing19

Snap Shot2

Chardaan Refit-2

Juke2

A-Wing Test Pilot0

Ship Total: 21

Lowhhrick — Auzituck Gunship28

Selflessness1

Hotshot Co-pilot4

Operations Specialist3

Ship Total: 32

Or, you know, drop Biggs for another Snap A-Wing, and have points to space for Swarm Leader and some autothrusters.

A list in the case you don't want to go the snap shot route that I have found to work exceptionally well.

Jess Pava w/ ept droid, Swarm Leader, Sensor Cluster ( considering swapping for pattern analyzer), Integrated

2 greens w/ push, juke, title, refit, thrusters

Zeb (Tie) w/ title, Hotshot copilot

97 points

Shoot first with Zeb, strip their focus, fire with the Awings, juking any evades, and then Swarm Leader shot from Jess for 5 or 6 dice.

Taking an evade with Zeb is conditional. I find I can take focus with him quite often unless I think an awing is for sure losing its evade before jess fires. An extra dice on Jess is most times more valuable than a 2 die+ focus shot from Zeb.

1 minute ago, Kdubb said:

A list in the case you don't want to go the snap shot route that I have found to work exceptionally well.

Jess Pava

ept droid

Swarm Leader

Sensor Cluster ( considering swapping for pattern analyzer)

Integrated

2 greens w/ push, juke, title, refit, thrusters

Zeb (Tie) w/ title, Hotshot copilot

97 points

Shoot first with Zeb, strip their focus, fire with the Awings, juking any evades, and then Swarm Leader shot from Jess for 5 or 6 dice.

Taking an evade with Zeb is conditional. I find I can take focus with him quite often unless I think an awing is for sure losing its evade before jess fires. An extra dice on Jess is most times more valuable than a 2 die+ focus shot from Zeb.

not taking snapshot seems irresponsible.

I think Kelvan's self-medication to deal with his A-wing problem isn't working. Seems to be spiraling.

5 minutes ago, Q10fanatic said:

I think Kelvan's self-medication to deal with his A-wing problem isn't working. Seems to be spiraling.

This could not be more true.

On 29.6.2017 at 0:19 AM, imzeke21 said:

Someone already won a store champ with snap juke A-wings? I'm impressed. Also, how many A-wing's does one need in their list for it to work?

I made this meme for one of many "Make A-wing Great Again" threads:

I myself finished third in a casual tourney a couple of weeks back with 3xSnap/Juke Greens with Zeb(OpSpec) and Rex, and I'm pretty confident on taking them to upcoming store champs...

EDIT: I've been trying out some other OpSpec carriers (Heff, Ahsoka, Braylen) but Zeb/Rex has been by far the best...