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.