Steel Squadron Quarantine Thread July - Now With 300 Articles!

By BiggsIRL, in Star Wars: Armada

4 hours ago, Truthiness said:

@Truthiness

Now that I've had a moment to digest it, I want to thank you - in English this time - for your detailed article on how to both win and defend against the Show of Force special assault. Great work! I look forward to further blogposts on the Corellian Conflict. To reward you for your effort, the Ewok tribe voted unanimously to sign up as Steel Squadron HQ supporters. As Ewoks we don't have much to offer - mostly rocks, pointy sticks and free hair braiding - but every little bit helps, right?

In fact, Chief Chirpa was so taken by your article he's made you an honorary member of the tribe. The next time you visit Endor you can drink your beer out of a stormtrooper's helmet! Yeah... it's not as fun as it sounds.

With all that extra loot you guys can crack open a cold one when you sit back to watch the next episode of @BiggsIRL's Agent Kallus telenovela. I believe it's called "He Awakened the Force Within Her".

And speaking of being immature, here's a sneak peek from Bigg's ongoing Bad Romance of Agent Kallus and Minister Tua:

Minister Tua ran two gloved fingers down the curvaceous outline of the Raider's sleek command console and purred "how do you like my ship now?"

Agent Kallus replied, "I'm no ordnance expert, but your external racks are impressive. Most impressive."

She frowned as Kallus stood on the opposite side of the bridge. What would it take to make him open up to her?

"You know you can't hide from me or your own feelings, Kallus. My disposable capacitors are sure to overload your defenses even from all the way across the room."

Uh, I'll show myself out...

5 minutes ago, Yub Nub said:

@Truthiness

Now that I've had a moment to digest it, I want to thank you - in English this time - for your detailed article on how to both win and defend against the Show of Force special assault. Great work! I look forward to further blogposts on the Corellian Conflict. To reward you for your effort, the Ewok tribe voted unanimously to sign up as Steel Squadron HQ supporters. As Ewoks we don't have much to offer - mostly rocks, pointy sticks and free hair braiding - but every little bit helps, right?

In fact, Chief Chirpa was so taken by your article he's made you an honorary member of the tribe. The next time you visit Endor you can drink your beer out of a stormtrooper's helmet! Yeah... it's not as fun as it sounds.

With all that extra loot you guys can crack open a cold one when you sit back to watch the next episode of @BiggsIRL's Agent Kallus telenovela. I believe it's called "He Awakened the Force Within Her".

And speaking of being immature, here's a sneak peek from Bigg's ongoing Bad Romance of Agent Kallus and Minister Tua:

Minister Tua ran two gloved fingers down the curvaceous outline of the Raider's sleek command console and purred "how do you like my ship now?"

Agent Kallus replied, "I'm no ordnance expert, but your external racks are impressive. Most impressive."

She frowned as Kallus stood on the opposite side of the bridge. What would it take to make him open up to her?

"You know you can't hide from me or your own feelings, Kallus. My disposable capacitors are sure to overload your defenses even from all the way across the room."

Uh, I'll show myself out...

This was gold specifically for the line "your external racks are impressive." Literally LOLing here.

15 minutes ago, Yub Nub said:

@Truthiness

Now that I've had a moment to digest it, I want to thank you - in English this time - for your detailed article on how to both win and defend against the Show of Force special assault. Great work! I look forward to further blogposts on the Corellian Conflict. To reward you for your effort, the Ewok tribe voted unanimously to sign up as Steel Squadron HQ supporters. As Ewoks we don't have much to offer - mostly rocks, pointy sticks and free hair braiding - but every little bit helps, right?

In fact, Chief Chirpa was so taken by your article he's made you an honorary member of the tribe. The next time you visit Endor you can drink your beer out of a stormtrooper's helmet! Yeah... it's not as fun as it sounds.

With all that extra loot you guys can crack open a cold one when you sit back to watch the next episode of @BiggsIRL's Agent Kallus telenovela. I believe it's called "He Awakened the Force Within Her".

And speaking of being immature, here's a sneak peek from Bigg's ongoing Bad Romance of Agent Kallus and Minister Tua:

Minister Tua ran two gloved fingers down the curvaceous outline of the Raider's sleek command console and purred "how do you like my ship now?"

Agent Kallus replied, "I'm no ordnance expert, but your external racks are impressive. Most impressive."

She frowned as Kallus stood on the opposite side of the bridge. What would it take to make him open up to her?

"You know you can't hide from me or your own feelings, Kallus. My disposable capacitors are sure to overload your defenses even from all the way across the room."

Uh, I'll show myself out...

Thanks for joining! I've been using the "Beer Money" subscriptions to fund the prize pool for the Writers Challenge competitions, so know that your monthly subscription is going to making some really cool prizes for the community.

18 minutes ago, geek19 said:

No I'm not. Us Rebel only players are looking forward to having a Princess General leading us, not some TIE fighter lady

I for one am looking very forward to 3 hull Imperial fighters becoming common place, as a Rebel player.

1 minute ago, BiggsIRL said:

I for one am looking very forward to 3 hull Imperial fighters becoming common place, as a Rebel player.

Oh yeah. That I'm looking forward to. Also people trying 3 ship imperial builds, those too.

3 hours ago, geek19 said:

Oh yeah. That I'm looking forward to. Also people trying 3 ship imperial builds, those too.

Everything in me screams "this is a bad idea" but if you're intent on having an ISD, Quasar, and decent squadron build that pretty much limits you to three activations.

1 minute ago, TaeSWXW said:

Everything in me screams "this is a bad idea" but if you're intent on having an ISD, Quasar, and decent squadron build that pretty much limits you to three activations.

Hence why I think VSDs got a boost. Else you gonna have a bad time building. And 3 activations IS a bad idea.

Just now, geek19 said:

Hence why I think VSDs got a boost. Else you gonna have a bad time building. And 3 activations IS a bad idea.

It's good to have validation. I started playing after the era of 3x ISD so I have no idea how they actually play. Actually, that would still be better because ISD, GF, Gz really only gives you one shooter and some squadrons.

One day of having wave 6 in the wild, and no hot taeks yet? Consider me... disappointed.

I had an inaugural stomping at the hands of @mythic yesterday. We determined that leia / hammers is very good at killing leia / hammers.

Also,toryn farr is more useful when you remember to use her, and I really need to paint gold squadron.

My bet is wave 7 news in August.

25 minutes ago, BiggsIRL said:

A bit late for the Monday, Wednesday, Friday publishing goal, but Phase 2: Deployment is ready!

http://xwingtactics.blogspot.com/2017/07/phase-2-deployment-ships-just-got-real.html

All kinds of Armada blogs talking about deployment and game prep lately!*

Seriously, though, it's a topic worth exploring and thanks for the articles!

*I'm not quite sure how we both hit on the same basic premise at the same time but here we are, haha.

It's a good topic that hasn't really been covered as well as it should be. Not sure how we're all figuring this out now, but hey! Good to get some coverage on it.

Next Phase will be Maneuvering, where both fleets jockey for position prior to when the shooting starts. No idea when I'll have that written.

Also coming up will be 2 Store Championships this weekend, with appropriate strategy writeups on the fleets I will be bringing. Which reminds me, I've got to figure out something to bring to Sunday's tournament sooner rather than later.

I couldn't bring myself to go to another large tourney at G&S after their regionals debacle. I'm heading up to Bel Air for their monthly, hoping at least one other person shows!

I like the list @Truthiness and best of luck up there! I'm pretty sure @CyborgNinja will be there also!

@emsgoof it's looking more promising this time around. I'll let you know how it shakes out. Have fun up at Bel Air!

Team Tycho

Nice fleet, my only comment is that I have found that Jerry can reposition an ISD quite spectacularly turn one meaning losing deployment aint so bad.

Check out 12:00 on the site for the final Store Championship, and my list. "Konstant Kontact"