Well, I had the pleasure of venturing out to Fayetteville, NC for a store championship. The event was in Hobbytown, which was a great store with excellent staff. All the local players were a lot of fun to game with and enthusiastic about the game, which was really cool to see. I was able to place first place for Sloane:
This is the list:
Sloane me some defense tokens
Author: Caldias
Faction: Galactic Empire
Points: 396/400
Commander: Admiral Sloane
Assault Objective: Advanced Gunnery
Defense Objective: Contested Outpost
Navigation Objective: Salvage Run
[ flagship ] Imperial I-Class Star Destroyer (110 points)
- Admiral Sloane ( 24 points)
- Avenger ( 5 points)
- The Grand Inquisitor ( 4 points)
- Boarding Troopers ( 3 points)
- Dual Turbolaser Turrets ( 5 points)
- Leading Shots ( 4 points)
= 155 total ship cost
Raider-I Class Corvette (44 points)
- Ordnance Experts ( 4 points)
- External Racks ( 3 points)
= 51 total ship cost
Gozanti-class Cruisers (23 points)
= 23 total ship cost
Quasar Fire I-class Cruiser-Carrier (54 points)
- Stronghold ( 5 points)
- Agent Kallus ( 3 points)
- Flight Controllers ( 6 points)
- Boosted Comms ( 4 points)
= 72 total ship cost
1 Soontir Fel ( 18 points)
1 "Mauler" Mithel ( 15 points)
1 Black Squadron ( 9 points)
1 Dengar ( 20 points)
1 Ciena Ree ( 17 points)
1 "Howlrunner" ( 16 points)
(only change is DTT is a placeholder on the ISD for quad battery turrets)
I don't think I need to delve into each game, but here are my thoughts:
- Quasar is just as fragile as it seems, but also interesting in it did draw a substantial amount of fire away from my ISD.
- Avenger and Boarding Troopers is as bonkers as you think
- Sloane's ability is great.
- the FAQ changes definitely improved the game substantially.
- Grand inquisitor and the Quad turbolaser works SO well.
So this is a store champs, so take all this with a grain of salt. We had 9 imperial players out of 11, and 6th, 2nd, and 3rd place were all rocking tooled up VSD IIs. I am beat, but had a BLAST.