Birmingham Barons Being Pretentious with Math

By Jello Knight, in X-Wing

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There was a request to see some spreadsheets that we had mentioned on the last Birmingham Barons X-Wing Podcast episode on the subject of the difference between using a Focus Token or a Target Lock to modify attack dice. I had some unfilled time this weekend, so...

Hosted on the FFG forum (doesn’t work for everyone): Focus_vs_TargetLock.pdf

Google drive link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6teFplp6ymxQzg0SGFfZmJxcUE

Edited by Jello Knight
It’s not my fault! They told me they fixed it!
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Link does not work. I receive the following error:

The page you are trying to access is not available for your account.

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55 minutes ago, any2cards said:

Link does not work. I receive the following error:

The page you are trying to access is not available for your account.

How pretentious.

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Interesting. So statistically, focus and target locks are identical?

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20 minutes ago, BadMotivator said:

Interesting. So statistically, focus and target locks are identical?

That is correct. There are tactical reasons you would want to take one over the other (whether or not you are being attacked this turn for instance). But assuming you use it on your attack, they are exactly the same.

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I mean, we've known this from wave 1... TLs just give a slightly better chance for crits.

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From the little i see from this, there is a time and place for both focus and tl.

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OMG TL+F is totally OP!

must be why Vader rules this game. He can totally get focus and target lock in the same round and FAQ you up!

thank goodness there’s no other ways to get rerolls or modifying dice. I would hate for the Dark Lord to be absent from the table.

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I recently learned that with the combo of Jan Ors and a recon spec. you can have focus and evade. For defence this is almost as good as it gets lol.

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thanks for sharing! definitely helpful for a new player like me :)

link could also be added to that important links post imo

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On 24/09/2017 at 5:39 AM, HipHoplite said:

I mean, we've known this from wave 1... TLs just give a slightly better chance for crits.

They're also persistent, where Focus tokens are not (Moldy Rey aside). So if you find yourself not needing to use it, you can save it for a subsequent turn, allowing you to stack modifiers.