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9 hours ago, Cuz05 said:

Fanoptics are almighty good when you're forced to strip shields off of each in turn.

I think HS is very dicey. I see 2 routes to victory.

Never make any errors whatsoever.

Be stupendously lucky.

I think the latter only stretches so far. But a blend can do well.

There is another...

Take Boba Fett.

14 hours ago, Boom Owl said:

Why are people more concerned with dice in hyper?

Is it because players generally have near zero experience with high ship count single mod ships?

I dont get it.

I have never once played a game of hyperspace and thought to myself "huh my dice really genuinely seem to matter more than usual"

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On 2/9/2020 at 12:30 AM, Flurpy said:

4-4-3-2 don't you disrespect my boy Bastian like that :D

Also lol I finished 2nd overall in Swiss. I think people just underestimated my firepower and mobility, theres no legendary performance here. People don't see Cova and Kaz as 3 dice knife fighters. For some wierd reason.

what was the full list if you dont mind sharing?

8 minutes ago, catachanninja said:

what was the full list if you dont mind sharing?

Cova Nell (38)
Heroic (1)
Leia Organa (Resistance) (17)

Ship total: 56 Half Points: 28 Threshold: 4

Lieutenant Bastian (47)
Integrated S-Foils (0)

Ship total: 47 Half Points: 24 Threshold: 4

Jessika Pava (51)
Integrated S-Foils (0)

Ship total: 51 Half Points: 26 Threshold: 4

Kazuda Xiono (40)
Heroic (1)
R5 Astromech (4)

Ship total: 45 Half Points: 23 Threshold: 3


Total: 199

View in Yet Another Squad Builder 2.0: https://raithos.github.io/?f=Resistance&d=v8ZhZ200Z351X172WWWW244WWWY254XWW175WWWY296XWW175WWWY378X172WW6WWWW&sn=Unnamed Squadron&obs=

Does anyone know the exact list that Stephen Moore was flying? seems really interesting

6 hours ago, Blail Blerg said:

Does the timing on primed thrusters really let you take an action before you get the stress? Oh wait it’s only barrel or boost. Huh. That’s interesting.

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All I learned this weekend is that I should have just stuck to Vader.

6 minutes ago, impspy said:

All I learned this weekend is that I should have just stuck to Vader.

I was actually going to ask what new things people learned from this weekend, but feared being inundated with "LOLZ, BOBA AND CIS GUD" replies. I'll try anyway....? This is based entirely upon seeing some streamed games from both Texas and UK along with threads I'm following on the forums.

  • Republic not as dead as headsimmed (by me)
  • Vonreg maybe is better than I believed
    • People aren't trying Holo as much as I'd have thought, or maybe they feel they need the I6?
  • Way less Proud Tradtion than I'd have thought
  • There's more (good) Scum variety than I would have thought
  • Resistance has defaulted to 5A, mid-initiative quad T-70 and versions of Resistance salads (not all that different from previous versions...I don't know what I expected otherwise.
  • Empire more dead than I headsimmed
1 minute ago, gennataos said:

I was actually going to ask what new things people learned from this weekend, but feared being inundated with "LOLZ, BOBA AND CIS GUD" replies. I'll try anyway....?

  • Fangs are gonna dominate this meta, considering how averse people are to flying CIS swarms. Any scum list without at least 1 Fang is probably wrong in HS.
  • Kylo needs other ships that can support him or hit hard; he's just not good enough against the field to carry a list solo.
  • Boba is still degenerate, but certainly not unbeatable.
  • Everyone gave up on Empire, which I think is a mistake.
  • Rebel beef is still amazing.
1 hour ago, gennataos said:

Cova Nell (38)
Heroic (1)
Leia Organa (Resistance) (17)

Ship total: 56 Half Points: 28 Threshold: 4

Lieutenant Bastian (47)
Integrated S-Foils (0)

Ship total: 47 Half Points: 24 Threshold: 4

Jessika Pava (51)
Integrated S-Foils (0)

Ship total: 51 Half Points: 26 Threshold: 4

Kazuda Xiono (40)
Heroic (1)
R5 Astromech (4)

Ship total: 45 Half Points: 23 Threshold: 3


Total: 199

View in Yet Another Squad Builder 2.0: https://raithos.github.io/?f=Resistance&d=v8ZhZ200Z351X172WWWW244WWWY254XWW175WWWY296XWW175WWWY378X172WW6WWWW&sn=Unnamed Squadron&obs=

@Flurpy were you the fellow flying in Glorious Pinwheel Formation? I saw that on stream and it warmed my heart

7 minutes ago, gennataos said:
  • Resistance has defaulted to 5A, mid-initiative quad T-70 and versions of Resistance salads (not all that different from previous versions...I don't know what I expected otherwise.

Not got many options outside of that since all of the Large bases have been cut from Hyperspace, and they aint got a medium based ship. Kinda leaves you in a spot where 5A or 4i4 is the go-to build. A couple of players did well with mid initiative beefy lists, One guy took 4 T70 with Hull and heroic to 5-1 day 1 before dropping like a pro. A few Poe lists around, but seemed to struggle at the sharp end ... probably because Poe dies where other aces dont.

7 minutes ago, impspy said:

Fangs are gonna dominate this meta, considering how averse people are to flying CIS swarms. Any scum list without at least 1 Fang is probably wrong in HS.

Double Firespray would like a word.

Also, don't sleep on the M3-A's.

1 minute ago, Ablazoned said:

Double Firespray would like a word.

I maintain that's a meme list. Works great if you've never gone against it though.

Just now, impspy said:

I maintain that's a meme list. Works great if you've never gone against it though.

I guess winning a 485 person event is the kind of thing a meme list does eh?

3 minutes ago, Dreadai said:

Not got many options outside of that since all of the Large bases have been cut from Hyperspace, and they aint got a medium based ship. Kinda leaves you in a spot where 5A or 4i4 is the go-to build. A couple of players did well with mid initiative beefy lists, One guy took 4 T70 with Hull and heroic to 5-1 day 1 before dropping like a pro. A few Poe lists around, but seemed to struggle at the sharp end ... probably because Poe dies where other aces dont.

Yeah, I really don't know what I expected. Probably more successful Poe. I probably place too much faith in Poe and....myself.

4 minutes ago, impspy said:

I maintain that's a meme list. Works great if you've never gone against it though.

I really feel like the swap to koshka makes it a lot more real, i'm thinking more than playing right now, but when i look at the lists i want to bring, koshka makes most of them pretty sad.

16 minutes ago, impspy said:
  • Fangs are gonna dominate this meta, considering how averse people are to flying CIS swarms. Any scum list without at least 1 Fang is probably wrong in HS.
  • Kylo needs other ships that can support him or hit hard; he's just not good enough against the field to carry a list solo.
  • Boba is still degenerate, but certainly not unbeatable.
  • Everyone gave up on Empire, which I think is a mistake.
  • Rebel beef is still amazing.

I made the cut with Empire at UK SOS. They are definitely not at Boba/CIS levels, but not terrible.

3 minutes ago, gennataos said:

Yeah, I really don't know what I expected. Probably more successful Poe. I probably place too much faith in Poe and....myself.

My Poe experience is wicked limited, but it almost feels like he just doesn't work. He's kinda too hard to keep alive as an arc dodger, but if used as a bruiser, he just doesn't do enough damage. Or at least, too hard to keep alive or too little damage for his price. Poe almost seems like an awkward hybrid of Soontir and Redline that just doesn't quite work out.

9 minutes ago, Dreadai said:

I guess winning a 485 person event is the kind of thing a meme list does eh?

What was the build?

14 minutes ago, gennataos said:

I was actually going to ask what new things people learned from this weekend, but feared being inundated with "LOLZ, BOBA AND CIS GUD" replies. I'll try anyway....? This is based entirely upon seeing some streamed games from both Texas and UK along with threads I'm following on the forums.

Yup, the Boba and CIS are just things we knew that have been confirmed.

New things:

-Resistance I had pegged as being the actual powerhouse and apparently I was wrong. It could still be that there is so much there that is viable that the right combination of ships plus the time to practice them hasn't been found.

-FO might be more dead than I thought. Easily the most hyped faction behind Scum's obvious good stuff. I'm sure some FO apologists will come out and tell me I'm wrong though.

-Imperial had a lot of people believing in Maarek and I don't understand that. Hopefully Listfortress will have stuff that tells us what people brought that didn't work I guess.

Just now, Darth Seridur said:

I made the cut with Empire at UK SOS. They are definitely not at Boba/CIS levels, but not terrible.

With what?

-The meta is still super young. The good things we expected to do well did well, and the couple of real surprises were some Republic players. Normally I'd walk into this thread and proclaim Extended as the savior, but there were enough interesting things in the cut to make me think we are just an emergency ban of Slave One away from a pretty great format.

Just now, Micanthropyre said:

With what?

Vader Duchess Academies.

There was another guy in the cut with the exact same list. Kinda cool that we had independently come to the same conclusion. Also, double Deci was definitely in there too.

14 minutes ago, impspy said:

I maintain that's a meme list. Works great if you've never gone against it though.

The guy has been flying it for quite awhile and top16 at some major events. Not a list you just pick up and win tournies with. He put in the reps with it.

11 minutes ago, gennataos said:

Yeah, I really don't know what I expected. Probably more successful Poe. I probably place too much faith in Poe and....myself.

4 minutes ago, theBitterFig said:

My Poe experience is wicked limited, but it almost feels like he just doesn't work. He's kinda too hard to keep alive as an arc dodger, but if used as a bruiser, he just doesn't do enough damage. Or at least, too hard to keep alive or too little damage for his price. Poe almost seems like an awkward hybrid of Soontir and Redline that just doesn't quite work out.

North American champ Carson Wray put it pretty well, the best use of poe is to get four dice, that's either HLC or Proton torp.

With HLC that means proton torp is your go to if you want four dice poe, but thats not as good with all the beef around, and its expensive and I don't see people playing it.