100/6 LGS play "by the book". Casual and friendly with the idea of fielding Unique pilots not very popular. At least one each side.

My opponent choose Tie Advanced Colzet. Quite good in my opinion but one of the less played named pilots in the local meta. Cheap, simply Title, ATC and Mk II Engine. 25 pts.

I was a little surprised about the role asigned to him in the Squad. Simply try to keep him alive and TL turn after turn my Mandalorian Mercenary. I asigned Colzet a low priority (bad move) and didn't see it coming. Well aimed Proton Torps with GCs and after that two Academy Ties started to bite.

And each turn till the Mandalorian thing blow up Colzet turning one card face up. Quite damaging crits (No Direct Hits but Pilot Blinded, Major Hull Breach...).

The key was outmaneuvering my brain. While the FS 31 was torn to pieces I finished my rival's Tie Bomber and then again got surprised.

Mid game suddenly Colzet changed his tactics from "simply stay out of arc" to frontal R1. You do not expect Tie Advanced K turning to bite you in the face with no TL. Hit him of course but those Crits were mitigated by Shields.

Then I started to use my head to think and not to hit the wall. Minor Defeat (only one Academy remaining, two Hulls left). Very funny and clever flying.

Another example that perhaps X Wing is still the best minis wargame out there. 5 minutes to "unholster" your squad. 5 minutes setting the stage. 55 minutes of play. 10 minutes to pack while chatting. 75 minutes in total.

As I usually play at home with friends it is refreshing to play little LGS games with gamers outside my social circle. After playing perhaps 5 LGS plays next one at my home with his boy. Lets introduce him to Raider vs Tantine...

Thanks for sharing. I too really enjoy running colzet. Usually I try to put an adv. Homing missile and GC on him, so that if i get a flip-crit, he can do his thing from early on. He synergizes quite well with kylo and - believe it or not - TLTs, since those provide a lot of non-crit damage.

He, omega leader or duchess and 2 TLT Aggressors are quite the beeswarm

The advanced has quite a few decent pilots, especially in the mid tier PS range. Colgate is good but I'm a fan of Juno eclipse. Give the accuracy corrector and mk2 and their tougher to peg down than people think, plus the consistent damage means you are almost always evading (except in collates case ). And with Juke they can really hurt some higher agility (two and up) stuff.

i love Juno, she's like a mini Ryad in the same way that the inquisitor is a budget Soontir or how Jaketensity is a budget poetensity (or maybe less so...)

glad to see their getting some play

Agree. I really like Juno. Select speed 2 maneuver and enjoy earing your opponent's cursing her. When I play LGS 100/6 games (not very often) I enjoy a lot flying Tier 2 or 3 ships, both sides.

One of the +1 to X Wing is the amazing variety of ships. I avoid 4x TLT players. Nothing against them, play as you want, but not my way of playing. 4 x TLT once is interesting, but as your favourite squad...

42 minutes ago, Hexdot said:

Agree. I really like Juno. Select speed 2 maneuver and enjoy earing your opponent's cursing her. When I play LGS 100/6 games (not very often) I enjoy a lot flying Tier 2 or 3 ships, both sides.

One of the +1 to X Wing is the amazing variety of ships. I avoid 4x TLT players. Nothing against them, play as you want, but not my way of playing. 4 x TLT once is interesting, but as your favourite squad...

Yeah TLT's can be annoying... Did you ever play the wood chipper list from back in the day?

5x Ywings with Autoblaster 20 points each

that was some annoying stuff, wonder how viable it would be wth aggressors?

I've found all the named mid-PS Tie Advanced pilots to be pretty effective. I used them a lot to play test my Narrative Campaign games and they were ugly. I found even Zertik Strom with a bunch of Tie Fighters to be ugly when they joust you.

...phrasing?

2 hours ago, Quadjumper King said:

Colgate is good

For cleaning teeth

I like the TIE Advanced these days.

I've run Colzet with Fire Control System just so you've always got that target lock to spend. I think I'll give him an airing.

I've run Juno with PTL/Cruise Missile/TIE MkII/ATC and intend to do so again. I think that speed flexibility could be really good with CM and she has access to loads of greens.

Colzet is ridiculous when paired with KyloRAC. Just push a blinded pilot past shields and voila - you keep getting blinded every single turn from now on. If you're down to one ship, it's pretty much game over.

Overall TIE/Adv seems to suffer from the very same problem X-wing has - the pilots are awesome but the ship just doesn't cut it. Unfortunately some of the pilots are a bit TOO awesome and it's difficult to significantly buff the ship without making them OP.

10 minutes ago, Lightrock said:

Colzet is ridiculous when paired with KyloRAC. Just push a blinded pilot past shields and voila - you keep getting blinded every single turn from now on. If you're down to one ship, it's pretty much game over.

Wow never even thought of that

Not me. Nasty...really nasty. So nasty that I can see a clear picture in my mind of one enraged Rebel player going Wookie Rage...

i liked Colzet but i stopped using him because i kept turning over useless cards (Cannot be assigned straights....on a lancer...) or bad combo'd cards (stressstacker gets receive a stress crit...). Even had him doing it against a ghost with 6 possible options and i somehow kept drawing the same dang stress card (he had hera crew) - we even looked, it was the only copy of that card lol.

I'd have to agree with Lightrock, TIE Adv ship itself is pretty lousy but basically all the pilots have really gnarly abilities. Imagine Vader in practically any other tie....

I can't resist. You guys are all talking about unused TIE advanced pilots, and I used three in my epic squad at Saturday's tournament. I used Maarek Stele, Zertik Strom and Commander Alozen. Here's the battle report.

I am a devoted Epic player. Really like 300-600 pts per side playing on a large surface and Objectives to win.

Even better if Cinematic play. I have seen this little PS3 Pilot only a few times. Zentrik, Juno and of course Vader much often

I feel your pain. I just got hammered the other night by a Kylo/Colzet combo. I was flying new Chewie with a squad of bandits: He was rapidly PS zeroed, and then I think Chewie lost at least four or five shots to a constantly flipped blinded.

I definitely played the match up wrong - I forgot I had countermeasures, and I prioritised my targets badly - doing it again I maybe have a chance - but the first time you see it, that's **** of a combo.