9 minutes ago, Ronin K said:

Matt's & my list is a total of 400 points. The objectives are as Megatronrex noted above:

Advanced Gunnery

Contested Outpost

Superior Positions

I am not going to give all the strategies of the list away because Matt is still playing later today. I will say though that two days before Gencon I sat down with him and pretty much told him how every round was going play out (obviously dice will still be random). I did this by asking him two simple questions:

1.) Who is going first?

2.) Does your opponent have around a 100+ points worth of fighters?

He called me last night and said that it has played out the way I thought it would.

I thought I remembered it being 400 but added it up to 399 some how. You must have tweaked it a little since we played. Didn't you have Vader instead of Zertik and I didn't remember Wulff but you may just not have needed him. I was massively impressed with it when I played against it. I don't remember ever being so over-matched before. I'd be proud to have fathered such a nasty b****** of a list.

Per battlescribe this is 399. Hmm.

It may be 399. I have been playing with both a 399 and a 400 pt version. The list components are correct either way.

9 hours ago, Vergilius said:

Easy. Activation quality is just as important of a concept as Activation advantage. Squadrons are a big part of playing a lower activation list because they give you the option to hit your opponent in a lot of different places, provided you can play the squad game very well. The principles that animate the Imperial squadron force there are the same that go back to wave-2. Sloan amplifies that by largely giving them the chance to ignore the opponent's squads if they so desire and hit purely ships. That's the real benefit of Sloan if you build her right: early ship damage, which can be followed-up from your own ships. The Flight Controllers make it so you can select fairly well which squads focus enemy squads down and which ones go after ships. So its a fairly typical win the squadron game hard-core while putting the right kind damage on ships.

The beauty of low activations as well is that to go after the really big target, you're going to have to fly into its arc range and into the squads. The wide arc of the ISD gives you a pretty big threat range that is doubled up over a particular area of the board. So you're effectively concentrating fire (the concept, not the command), which is what you need to finish off enemy ships.

With the list above, the bid and objectives aren't clear, so it might even pick up more benefit by a strong big for selectively picking first or second, and strong objectives that weaken any strategic fleets out there.

Now, I said this when Sloan released, and its quickly proving true, but the real starting point for a good Sloan list is Norms GenCon winning list last year, which was...aha, you guessed it: Two activation+Ace Squads.

So three activation and ace squads is a small evolution of that list type.

I regret that I have but one like to give for this post.

Whoops doubled up

Any idea what the top 8 is?

Wait, so is the US Nationals over already or is there another day of competition?

1 minute ago, Wraithdt said:

Wait, so is the US Nationals over already or is there another day of competition?

Two heats and a cutoff i believe

23 minutes ago, Madaghmire said:

Two heats and a cutoff i believe

So, we're down one heat right? Or did I miss something?

I'm confused because there seems to be a miscommunication.

Is Armada Gencon over?

Is the list and standings from the first heat?

@Team Norm.

1 hour ago, Madaghmire said:

Two heats and a cutoff i believe

US Nationals isn't for another two weeks yet.

3 minutes ago, Formynder4 said:

US Nationals isn't for another two weeks yet.

Isnt gencon a twoday tourny tho?

Are there more games today and if so is there a place to stream them?

15 minutes ago, Madaghmire said:

Isnt gencon a twoday tourny tho?

Not sure, but it's North American, not US nationals. And my initial response should have included the post you were replying to. Blasted phone view.

Just now, Formynder4 said:

Not sure, but it's North American, not US nationals. And my initial response should have included the post you were replying to. Blasted phone view.

Yeah i didnt catch that he was askig about nats i just assumed he meant gencon

The final game is still going on. It's turn 4

55 minutes ago, Davard said:

The final game is still going on. It's turn 4

Who is in the final game?

Nicholas won. Ackbar list

27 minutes ago, Davard said:

Nicholas won. Ackbar list

Cool. Cool cool cool cool.

Pickle strategic? Swarm? GT afmk's? Inquiring minds want to know

55 minutes ago, Davard said:

Nicholas won. Ackbar list

Wait a minute, Griffiths own photos on facebook showed him playing the black and white double isd. He confirmed that he was flying them and answered questions about his list on facebook.

How did he end up with Ackbar? Even the Rebel fleet across from those ISDs had only two ships with dice in the side arc to begin with.

This is very confusing.

2 minutes ago, thecactusman17 said:

Wait a minute, Griffiths own photos on facebook showed him playing the black and white double isd. He confirmed that he was flying them and answered questions about his list on facebook.

How did he end up with Ackbar? Even the Rebel fleet across from those ISDs had only two ships with dice in the side arc to begin with.

This is very confusing.

Nicholas posted another pic in NOVA Fleet with his fleet and finalist plaque and said he was 2nd.

1 hour ago, Davard said:

Nicholas won. Ackbar list

Jeff Berling was flying the super pickle ackbar iirc. His Ackbar list did win though, just wrong admiral.

Im still completely lost as to who was in it, let alone won. Doh

Sorry got it mixed up. In my defense I really had to go to the bathroom and was running while typing.