I’ve been running Boba/Lando/ace for a month (Fenn, Guri, and even Dengar) and now Coruscant has me wanting to replace that ace with three gunrunners and I can’t decide whether it’s the best idea or the worst idea.

13 minutes ago, Boom Owl said:

• Half Pt Small Base confuses everyone all the time

This is a big one. Evaluating board states at a glance is really hard now.

4 minutes ago, Chumbalaya said:

This is a big one. Evaluating board states at a glance is really hard now.

So rules question....

Is it "note taking" if you bring a piece of paper and write down what the half point cost of each of your opponents ships is? It's not like you can look at a card anymore and do the math easily on the fly. It's all "public" information but is approaching the line of taking notes about your opponent.

Who all is going to Crossroads?

4 minutes ago, Chumbalaya said:

This is a big one. Evaluating board states at a glance is really hard now.

As someone who likes to run lots of small ships, I'm really hoping they add a scoreboard function to the official app - I really don't want to be trying to run my own calculations on the fly as the game comes to a close in order to optimize my win condition. I know I'm going to get that math wrong most of the time and give away potential wins ?

5 minutes ago, viedit said:

So rules question....

Is it "note taking" if you bring a piece of paper and write down what the half point cost of each of your opponents ships is? It's not like you can look at a card anymore and do the math easily on the fly. It's all "public" information but is approaching the line of taking notes about your opponent.

They’re supposed to bring a printed list with points on it. If they don’t, I punch it into LaunchBayNext (which has a points calculator) while we’re getting set up.

11 minutes ago, defkhan1 said:

Who all is going to Crossroads?

< This guy

25 minutes ago, defkhan1 said:

Who all is going to Crossroads?

I’ll be there

1 hour ago, pheaver said:

I didn't feel like doing math on round 1 to see if I was ahead or not at time, so I just jousted with Luke to try to kill Jonus. I didn't, he killed Luke, so I lost. I was winning beforehand, so I could have just bailed. Lesson: wrote down the points for my ships after that.

This was my biggest takeaway. I don't know if pencil/paper is the right strategy, but it's where I'm going to start every game now - keeping track of points like magic health, haha.

Just now, Brunas said:

This was my biggest takeaway. I don't know if pencil/paper is the right strategy, but it's where I'm going to start every game now - keeping track of points like magic health, haha.

Maybe even a chess clock like device to track points scored on each side. Even though it may give my opponent an "advantage", I may keep a notebook on the side of the table to record score updates for both sides to see. I would rather keep a game moving then have to spend time figuring out the game state all of the time.

5 hours ago, Sunitsa said:

Thanks to @FirstEarth , we know have almost all lists from Coruscant https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=C185C198904BD0E0!4038&amp;ithint=file%2cxlsx&amp;app=Excel&amp;authkey=!ABNWQiNbXxgK1rA

Top 4:

• Redline Vader Soontir
• Redline Whisper Vermeil
• Rhymer Jendon + 3 Bombers
• Wedge Dutch Garven

Top 8:

• Redline Deathrain Jonus + 1 Bomber
• Vader Rexler
• Fenn Palob Guri
• Drea L33T + 3 Quadjumper + 2 Zs

Top 16:

• Fenn Palob Teroch
• Fenn Palob 4Lom
• Fenn Palob Guri
• Redline Whisper Vermeil
• Redline Deathrain Jonus Rhymer
• Whisper Sai Vermeil
• Luke Sabine + 2 Xs
• Luke Miranda Sabine

8 Imperials, 5 Scum and 3 Rebels

Most common pilot was Redline, with 5 appearence.

Fenn and Palob were in 4 scum lists out of 5.

Only 1 list was a swarm, a scum one (also the only scum without Fenn and Palob).

9 lists were 3 ships build.

8 lists had double modified Proton Torpedoes, 6 imperials and 2 rebels.

Obviously Coruscant with its meme list builiding limitations had its own weird meta, but the top cut doesn't look so different than 1.0 as far as presence of differnt archetypes.

1/4th of the cut was basically a very similar Fenn Palob + scum list but Scum was probably the faction hurt the most by the format.

Another 1/4th was Trajectory Simulator Proton Torpedo Redline.

6 out 8 Imperial lists had Proton Torpedoes.

Have I said Proton Torpedoes?

So looking at the full results, there were following ships represented among the 4-2 or better players:

Rebels: x-wing, y-wing, z-95, hwk, attack shuttle, arc-170, k-wing, u-wing

Scum: z-95, y-wing, fang, starviper, quadjumper, hwk, g1a, escape craft

Empire: lambda, tie adv x1, tie punisher, tie defender, tie interceptor, tie/ln, tie phantom, tie reaper, tie bomber, tie striker

The ship representation looks pretty good in my book, especially among the Empire, where only 4 ships were not present.

Rebels and Scum might be suffering from the general large-base ship nerfing - the only large-base ship present was Lambda!

The first points readjustment should hopefully address that and reduce prices on those large bases across the board..

1 hour ago, skotothalamos said:

LaunchBayNext (which has a points calculator)

I keep seeing this, but i dont know where to find it in the app. JUDGE

2 hours ago, defkhan1 said:

Who all is going to Crossroads?

@Kieransi and @Do I need a Username i believe

2 hours ago, defkhan1 said:

Who all is going to Crossroads?

Me....and like half of our locals.

Except @Biophysical, which sucks.

2 hours ago, defkhan1 said:

Who all is going to Crossroads?

I got a car with 4 krayts on top on top coming down

4 hours ago, Chumbalaya said:

Had a great time, really enjoyed playing 2.0 and super Luke.

Turns out you were a skywalker player all along.

5 minutes ago, catachanninja said:

I got a car with 4 krayts on top on top coming down

3 minutes ago, jagsba said:

Turns out you were a skywalker player all along.

I was always a Rebel player.

13 minutes ago, Mattman7306 said:

@Kieransi and @Do I need a Username i believe

I don't know about @Do I need a Username , but that's more than a day's drive away from me (like, over 1000 miles), so that's a nope from me.

3 minutes ago, Kieransi said:

I don't know about @Do I need a Username , but that's more than a day's drive away from me (like, over 1000 miles), so that's a nope from me.

no balls

4 minutes ago, Kieransi said:

I don't know about @Do I need a Username , but that's more than a day's drive away from me (like, over 1000 miles), so that's a nope from me.

oh i confused walker with crossroads, rekt

3 minutes ago, baranidlo said:

So looking at the full results, there were following ships represented among the 4-2 or better players:

Rebels: x-wing, y-wing, z-95, hwk, attack shuttle, arc-170, k-wing, u-wing

Scum: z-95, y-wing, fang, starviper, quadjumper, hwk, g1a, escape craft

Empire: lambda, tie adv x1, tie punisher, tie defender, tie interceptor, tie/ln, tie phantom, tie reaper, tie bomber, tie striker

The ship representation looks pretty good in my book, especially among the Empire, where only 4 ships were not present.

Rebels and Scum might be suffering from the general large-base ship nerfing - the only large-base ship present was Lambda!

The first points readjustment should hopefully address that and reduce prices on those large bases across the board..

I think just as importantly we should look at those ships not represented:

Rebels: Sheathipede, b-wing, auzituck, yt1300, yt2400, e-wing, tie fighter, VCX, a-wing

Scum: Kimogila, Kiraxcaxax, Aggressor, yt1300, firespray(no Boba though), lancer, scyk, scurrg, YV-666, jumpmaster

Imperial: Decimator, Tie Adv V1, Tie Aggressor, Gunboat.

22 ships not present vs 26 present.

Ships I'm not surprised that they were absent:

YT1300, YT2400, Decimator, VCX, Lancer, YV-666. Large base ships came out of the gate at too high of point values. Alex Davy already said they know large base ships are in a bad place right now, we'll likely see this fixed in January with the points balance. You'd have to imagine that because large base ships tend to have a lot of upgrade slots that FFG was worried about combo-wing coming back and dominating, especially now that half points for everything exists. I'll give them a pass on this.

Jumpmaster is a special kind of hatred from most of the community so I'm not surprised.

A-Wings are arc-dodging ships that don't have any pilots at I5 or I6, so they struggle to arc-dodge. This probably won't be fixed until the ship is re-released.

TIE Aggressor because turret options are really limited, and bombers are better missile carriers.

Ships I am surprised (a little) that were absent:

Sheathipede because I6 Coordinate should still be good with Fenn, and even though he's 52 points he doesn't need upgrades to have an impact.

Gunboats because proton torpedoes are good.

Kiraxsvscz, did anyone bring 5? 5 seems pretty solid.

Aggressor because IG88-A looks really good, and without Boba could have acted as an anchor with some support.

The rest of the ships I just don't have any experience with, nor have I seen much regarding them in the forums.

1 minute ago, Brunas said:

no balls

I'll be at the Walker Classic if you want to drive out here and play a couple of games on my turf. We'll have an honorable joust at high noon as a lone tumbleweed blows past. Silly moustaches, vests, and pocketwatches are a requirement.

1 minute ago, Kieransi said:

I'll be at the Walker Classic if you want to drive out here and play a couple of games on my turf. We'll have an honorable joust at high noon as a lone tumbleweed blows past. Silly moustaches, vests, and pocketwatches are a requirement.

you drive the walker classic to me and we'll talk

1 minute ago, Brunas said:

you drive the walker classic to me and we'll talk

I know, I was just seizing the opportunity to continue to make fun of the West because everything is so far apart and lonely out here...