We at Fiend Squadron are all about fun on our Wednesday game nights. This week we wanted to get the Epics out for a shoot and learn game. Everybody picked an epic ship and loaded it for bear. Some ships faired better then other as the point curve and weapons mounts came into play but the outcome was fun and everybody learned about energy allocation, firing arcs, and just how far range 5 guns can shoot. We had 7 players show up. 3 Raiders, 2 CR-90s, 1 C-Roc and 1 Gozanti. No fighters were damaged during this fight as they weren't allowed.

The guys with the C-Roc and Gozanti tag teamed the raider while the CR-90 helped. The two Raiders team on the other end of the table took the lonely CR-90 down to scrap in the first few rounds and then turned their guns on the ships that had invaded the far end of the empire and on their own ships who weren't towing the line and had let scum and a defector Gozanti damage Imperial property. We ran out of time before the 2 Raiders could make it to far into the fight at the the far end of the table but did score damage on the CR-90 before time ran out.

Great game, learning experience, and fellowship.

Looks like awesome fun!

I might suggest letting the carriers (specifically) bring their fighter groups (I'd imagine they'll be a bit screwed against corvettes otherwise).

The fun part was the they(Carriers) banded together with the CR-90 and took on the Raider. It was a free for all so Imps and Rebs took to tearing into the lone Raider. He held his own and didn't ask for quarter or the other 2 Raiders help. I was in one of the Raiders on the other end of the table and took out the other CR-90 with a little help from my co Imp player. We then turned on the other CR-90 as it was the closest to us and the 2 carriers took to tearing the first Raider in their range apart.

Like I said there wasn't a person or faction that won. Everybody learned from this. Next we will add fighters to the mix and learn more.

Whenever you do random, do it like this. This is insane, goofy and absolutely awesome.

Thanks! I have a great local group I captain our Squadron for and host games for and a great statewide group of gamers I love to play little plastic ships/minis with here in Indiana.

This seems like a great way to learn and get use out of the epic ships and not have the long game with full epic. I'm going to bring it up to my group and see what they think

This is great! Thanks for sharing the experience and ideas!

After a league match the other night a guy showed up with an epic list. My Rebel freedom fighters convinced those nasty Bounty hunters to put our differences aside to stop the Imperial interlopers. We called for reinforcements (grabbed another 50 points each of ships and upgrades, mine being Ion Torp Y's) and attacked. The Imperials were not prepared for us to join forces as we did so we made quick work of their loaded down Punishers. Then I turned my Ion torpedo Y's loose on the Raider only to have those Scum shoot me in the back, literally.

I was the only one with Epic experience (2 whole games) so we all learned quickly that Aces don't like facing 8 firing arcs coming at them and Capital ships hate Ions. And keep the bombers loaded light - don't put all your eggs in one basket.

It was a lot of fun. Once the league is over in a few weeks we plan on doing some more epic. Can't wait!