After taking a while off from X-Wing (yay Armada!) I was able to convince my FFG Gaming pal to pull out his X-Wing collection and meet me to try out a few games. Having no idea what to play, I pulled a list from (I think) the NOVA Squadron FB page. I ended up with:

Lowhhrick: Draw Their Fire, Wookie Commandos

Kanan Jarrus: TLT, Accuracy Corrector, Rey, Ghost

Zeb Orrelios: Chopper, Phantom

I was playing our first match against:

Boba Fett: Proton Torpedoes, VI, Engine Upgrade, Gunner, Slave I

Krassis Trelix: HLC, Fire Control System

Yes, we are now both aware the Imperial list was illegal, but it was offset by our misunderstanding of the TLT wording...

Turn 1, nothing major happened. Boba is on my left.

Turn 2, my goal is to just use the Auzituck to make the Ghost very tankish. We have made an error with the TLT and attacking, where we thought just rolling hits triggered it, with green dice not doing anything at all (basically 4 free hits every turn with the Ghost / Phantom combo).

Turn 3

Turn 4

End of the game in turn 5. Once the game was finished we rechecked the rules for attacks, and found the hits aren't counted until green dice are rolled. Oops. We were both thinking the TLT was stupidly broken, especially after all of the complaining I had read on these forums. Apparently they're not as bad as we thought.

So we decided to play a second game. I went with a Dash / Chewbacca list I had pulled off the forum a while back, and my friend took a RAC / Boba list.

I had:

Chewbacca: Millenium Falcon, Predator, Han Solo

Dash Rendar: Outrider, HLC, Rey, Determination

Vs:

RAC: Mara Jade, Engine Upgrade, Mott Jerrjerrod

Boba Fett: Gunner, VI

End of turn 1

Turn 2 started the bumping and focusing on Chewy. In retrospect, I should have just jumped out of the situation as soon as I could, but i thought I could take the beat down.

Turn 3. Another error on my part got Dash too close, and he couldn't shoot.

Turn 4, Chewy is still being beaten down, but I've pulled Dash far enough away that he can contribute.

Turn 5

Turn 6. I got rid of Boba finally after losing Chewy the previous turn.

Turn 7, I have again messed up and got too close to RAC. That ended the game for me. As I sit here, I remember that I used to take a Mangler Cannon on Dash before, I'm not sure if it would have been more helpful this time. Certainly jumping Chewy away from the bumps earlier would have been useful.

It was fun being able to get 2 games of X-Wing in (while also taking time to support the LGS by spending $$$ on plastic crack) in the same amount of time it takes to play 1 game of Armada. I'm thinking a return to 4 X-Wings next time, or maybe a Ghost / Poe list or something.