28 minutes ago, Tlfj200 said:

3bQD

What’s that? Do you mean Quick poon?

9 minutes ago, Biophysical said:

Napoleon and Sun Tzu have made similar observations about the ideal disposition of forces.

Dee doesn't have a monopoly on references to ancient military writers.

1 hour ago, Tlfj200 said:

Well, yes... because it's the obvious maneuver there: he doesnt tank 3x fully modded harpoons, arc dodges 1-2 ships, has Fenn to shut down a set of mods, and has evade/focus if he chooses. AND THEN can leave and regen afterwards...

So, yes, I agree most 100-point rebel players sit there, and it's why we've heard people whine about 3bQD... because they sit and take it, and they can't actually take 3+ fully modded harpoons (no one should be able to - the counterplay is playing better).

Thank God for 2.0...

even taking 2 is a bad idea in most cases, even if you lock one down with Fenn. I find Harpoons have forced me to fly a lot better than ever before.

3 minutes ago, Wiredin said:

even if you lock one down with Fenn

Too bad every ship can’t just throw a thermal det out there and shut that pedo down. Nyms everywhere. What a grand game that would be.

24 minutes ago, Biophysical said:

Dee doesn't have a monopoly on references to ancient military writers.

Wait, I thought Dee WAS Sun Tzu!?

3 minutes ago, tortugatron said:

Too bad every ship can’t just throw a thermal det out there and shut that pedo down. Nyms everywhere. What a grand game that would be.

don't joust Nym? seems simple enough.

5 minutes ago, Wiredin said:

don't joust Nym? seems simple enough.

You’d think that, but Nym has 1 straights and banks and has barrel roll. He’s gonna get ya unless rocks are in the way.

2 minutes ago, tortugatron said:

You’d think that, but Nym has 1 straights and banks and has barrel roll. He’s gonna get ya unless rocks are in the way.

Nym became my arch nemesis when he came out. I almost quit playing because of him. but my community helped me realize I was being a little **tch so I figured out how to fly against him. He doesn't scare me anymore. Assajj can goto **** tho.

41 minutes ago, Biophysical said:

Dee doesn't have a monopoly on references to ancient military writers.

True. On a related note someone needs to do an entire episode that considers what basic economic concepts can teach us about X-Wing design & strategy.

Fundamental Economics

Macroeconomics

Microeconomics

International Economics

Personal Finance Economics

2 minutes ago, Wiredin said:

Nym became my arch nemesis when he came out. I almost quit playing because of him. but my community helped me realize I was being a little **tch so I figured out how to fly against him. He doesn't scare me anymore. Assajj can goto **** tho.

I do hate me some Asajj. Luckily time walk with all the fixin’s probably won’t exist in 2.0. And you can definitely play around Nym’s long bombs, but rebel Fenn isn’t going to be much use if Nym is packing thermals (which he always should be doing/double protons is for chumps).

1 hour ago, Boom Owl said:

Yea i was exaggerating with my made up 80-90% stat. More just commenting on the fact that the average 100 pt ace player tends to do exactly the same thing every game even though there are surprisingly a decent # of choices for them to make and their Fenn/Low token stack isn't an invulnerability spell. The rock wall goes up to protect Fenn's blind spot and they almost always just set up a corner slow roll joust when as you pointed out they could go fast, turn, bank or even break up the formation!? Same with Palp players just bumping the shuttle against QD and putting Quiz in the middle of the board and asking their opponent to decide what to do, when that Shuttle can actually move pretty fast and block the **** out of all kinds of rebel stuff.

Breaking news: the average player is bad at xwing

1 minute ago, Sunitsa said:

Breaking news: the average player is bad at xwing

And they also have no idea if a ship is in arc or not. JUDGE!

1 minute ago, tortugatron said:

I do hate me some Asajj. Luckily time walk with all the fixin’s probably won’t exist in 2.0. And you can definitely play around Nym’s long bombs, but rebel Fenn isn’t going to be much use if Nym is packing thermals (which he always should be doing/double protons is for chumps).

just depends on the approach. I've been adapting my strategies to counter play this stuff. I've learned that the initial engagement either makes or breaks most lists. If I can get a favorable first engagement, and I win it, I have an 80% chance to win the game as long as I keep my head on straight and don't make stupid mistakes. Last two times I faced timewalk I got her to waste both glitters by faking her out. She still hurt me a bit, but it made her a lot easier to kill in the late game and I didn't waste shots taking her down as I ended up firing on the +1 and crippling it. I fly fast ships that can flank/hit and fade fairly easily, so that really helps.

24 minutes ago, Boom Owl said:

True. On a related note someone needs to do an entire episode that considers what basic economic concepts can teach us about X-Wing design & strategy.

Fundamental Economics

Key Concept	Related National Standards
1. Decision Making and Cost-Benefit Analysis	Standard 2, Standard 14, Standard 15, Standard 17
2. Division of Labor and Specialization	Standard 6
3. Economic Institutions	Standard 10
4. Economic Systems	Standard 3, Standard 15
5. Incentives	Standard 4, Standard 15,
6. Money	Standard 11
7. Opportunity Cost	Standard 1, Standard 15
8. Productive Resources	Standard 1, Standard 6, Standard 13, Standard 15
9. Productivity	Standard 15
10. Property Rights	Standard 10, Standard 16
11. Scarcity	Standard 1
12. Technology	Standard 15
13. Trade, Exchange and Interdependence	Standard 5, Standard 11

Macroeconomics

Key Concept	Related National Standards
14. Aggregate Demand	Standard 13
15. Aggregate Supply	Standard 13
16. Budget Deficits and Public Debt	Standard 16, Standard 20
17. Business Cycles	Standard 19
18. Economic Growth	Standard 15
19. Employment and Unemployment	Standard 6, Standard 10, Standard 18, Standard 19
20. Fiscal Policy	Standard 20
21. GDP	Standard 16, Standard 18
22. Inflation	Standard 7, Standard 8, Standard 19, Standard 20
23. Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve	Standard 11, Standard 12, Standard 20
24. Real vs. Nominal	Standard 6, Standard 7, Standard 8, Standard 12, Standard 18

Microeconomics

Key Concept	Related National Standards
25. Competition and Market Structures	Standard 3, Standard 7, Standard 8, Standard 9, Standard 16,
26. Consumers	Standard 1
27. Demand	Standard 7, Standard 8, Standard 13
28. Elasticity of Demand	Standard 8 (N.B. closest fit)
29. Entrepreneurs	Standard 1, Standard 14, Standard 15
30. Government Failures/Public-Choice Analysis	Standard 17
31. Income Distribution	Standard 13, Standard 15, Standard 16
32. Market Failures	Standard 8, Standard 9, Standard 16
33. Markets and Prices	Standard 7, Standard 8, Standard 15
34. Price Ceilings and Floors	Standard 7, Standard 8
35. Producers	Standard 1
36. Profit	Standard 2, Standard 14
37. Roles of Government	Standard 14, Standard 16
38. Supply	Standard 3, Standard 7, Standard 8

International Economics

Key Concept	Related National Standards
39. Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments	Standard 5
40. Barriers to Trade	Standard 5, Standard 17
41. Benefits of Trade/Comparative Advantage	Standard 5, Standard 6
42. Economic Development	Standard 6 (N.B. closest fit)
43. Foreign Currency Markets/Exchange Rates	Standard 5, Standard 7, Standard 8

Personal Finance Economics

Key Concept	Related National Standards
44. Compound Interest	Standard 10, Standard 12, Standard 15
45. Credit	Standard 10
46. Financial Markets	Standard 15
47. Human Capital	Standard 1, Standard 15
48. Insurance	Standard 15
49. Money Management/Budgeting	Standard 11
50. Risk and Return	Standard 12, Standard 14, Standard 15
51. Saving and Investing	Standard 12, Standard 15

I could do the same thing with enzyme kinetics, thermodynamics, and signal transduction. This is probably because I have had fairly good English teachers, though. I can turn a lot of things into a metaphor.

34 minutes ago, Sunitsa said:

Breaking news: the average player is bad at xwing

additional information in article: everyone's bad at xwing. some are good at turret defense

14 minutes ago, Biophysical said:

I could do the same thing with enzyme kinetics, thermodynamics, and signal transduction. This is probably because I have had fairly good English teachers, though. I can turn a lot of things into a metaphor.

WoW BC Arenas and X-Wing
The Game State Changing is the Real Enemy, All Hail Resto Druids and Miranda.

19 minutes ago, Biophysical said:

I could do the same thing with enzyme kinetics, thermodynamics, and signal transduction.

Boooooooh

Genetics and Evolution is where we should look!

Lots of overlap with ‚warfare‘ in Biology

Ewww whats all this content doing here?

3 minutes ago, Mattman7306 said:

Ewww whats all this content doing here?

Yeah, isn‘t it beautiful? @Biophysical (Whose nomen est omen) and others are bringing the big guns, so we should better compensate a bit

So Krayts, since it seems that Team USA at ETC won't be possible this year due to Gencon, actually being in Europe and 2.0 hype, what would be your dream USA team assuming everyone in the team would be able to go to Zagreb? And what lists would you bring?

Rules are team of 6 players (with an optional seventh as non-playing coach/captain), two per faction and with unique cards being unique throught the whole team (so no Rebel and Scum Fenn at the same time)

39 minutes ago, GreenDragoon said:

Yeah, isn‘t it beautiful? @Biophysical (Whose nomen est omen) and others are bringing the big guns, so we should better compensate a bit

2.0 makes me feel optimistic.

50 minutes ago, Sunitsa said:

So Krayts, since it seems that Team USA at ETC won't be possible this year due to Gencon, actually being in Europe and 2.0 hype, what would be your dream USA team assuming everyone in the team would be able to go to Zagreb? And what lists would you bring?

Rules are team of 6 players (with an optional seventh as non-playing coach/captain), two per faction and with unique cards being unique throught the whole team (so no Rebel and Scum Fenn at the same time)

There's only two factions right now, so without thinking too hard about metagaming I'd just bring:

1. 100 point ace
2. ghost/fenn or miranda/nym
3. palp aces
4. double/trip defender
5. trip jumps
6. trip jumps again

15 minutes ago, Brunas said:

There's only two factions right now, so without thinking too hard about metagaming I'd just bring:

1. 100 point ace
2. ghost/fenn or miranda/nym
3. palp aces
4. double/trip defender
5. trip jumps
6. trip jumps again

The optimal Ghost Fenn is taking up both Ezra and Fenn spot, making 100 point ace life harder.

Is scum so doomed that you wouldn't even bring a double IG or an alpha strike list?

I also want to hear the names of who would fit to play said lists ?

4 minutes ago, Sunitsa said:

The optimal Ghost Fenn is taking up both Ezra and Fenn spot, making 100 point ace life harder.

Is scum so doomed that you wouldn't even bring a double IG or an alpha strike list?

I also want to hear the names of who would fit to play said lists ?

You can get by without ezra in ghost fenn and be fine, and some 100 point aces are already running ezra - not optimal, but they'll live.

Yeah, scum alpha is bad, brobots are bad especially when you get to pick matchups.

Well, no one would fly them, but they'd all be played by Soontir Fel of course.