1 hour ago, DR4CO said:Wookiee Liberator + Expertise + Tactician + Breach Specialist [33] x3
There are variants which do away with some of the Breach Specialists to make room for Lowie.
That's the vassal version, that is not what Chris is running.
The best solution if wookies get out of hand is to make Carnor, Wes, old teroch etc work against reinforce. Those are all super fun ships anyway
Oh, man, I would Carnor so hard if he neutered Reinforce tokens.
Anyone have final results yet?
Tactician is just another one of those cards that could probably have used a "Primary Arc Only" from the beginning. (I mean, it is MORE tactful to require the Primary arc, after all).
Or cost 4+ pts for ships that can make use of it for more than the primary arc (obviously this one will never be the case).
It is a well designed, great costed, niche use card in the primary arc, but worth way more pts once you get to use it out of multiple arcs.
I'm not calling it broke or anything, just a product of "early design meets new shinies" that couldn't really be accounted for at its creation, but continually creates weird scenarios (see the now unplayable 3 x Tactician YV-666 and TLT+Tactician).
1 hour ago, catachanninja said:That's the vassal version, that is not what Chris is running.
The best solution if wookies get out of hand is to make Carnor, Wes, old teroch etc work against reinforce. Those are all super fun ships anyway
I agree. Wes (and other similar cards?) could be given an errata that simply allows the removal of 1 token (of any kind) from the enemy ship.
26 minutes ago, gennataos said:Anyone have final results yet?
The final match was up on the Krayts twitch. Still up there for replay.
Over on Reddit, they're saying it ended with:
1st Place
Asajj Ventress — Lancer-class Pursuit Craft 37
Fenn Rau — Protectorate Starfighter 28
Contracted Scout — JumpMaster 5000 25
2nd Place
Asajj Ventress — Lancer-class Pursuit Craft 37
Fenn Rau — Protectorate Starfighter 28
Inaldra — M3-A Interceptor 15
How many players were there?
In the wookies topic: it's not tactician their issue. They have a decent dial with a 180° arc on a 9 hp ship. And it gets to have 1 evade for each attack.
Wookies are the new 4 tlt with the added bonus of not having a donut hole and being way sturdier. Have I mentioned that with wookies commando they also get to modify their dice without needing an action?
Seriously, tactician with that arc is strong, but it's not specifically that what make the auzituck a poorly designed ship
7 hours ago, Biophysical said:Oh, man, I would Carnor so hard if he neutered Reinforce tokens.
Better: imagine if Palob could steal them, or Genesis could copy them...
3 hours ago, Sunitsa said:How many players were there?
In the wookies topic: it's not tactician their issue. They have a decent dial with a 180° arc on a 9 hp ship. And it gets to have 1 evade for each attack.
Wookies are the new 4 tlt with the added bonus of not having a donut hole and being way sturdier. Have I mentioned that with wookies commando they also get to modify their dice without needing an action?
Seriously, tactician with that arc is strong, but it's not specifically that what make the auzituck a poorly designed ship
138 was the final count
so basically a post-nerf(nuke) Parattani won PAX!
Geesh, so what next? nerf Asaj? or Latts? or Fenn? ...or my personal favorite, undo the Palpatine nerf ;-D
(Well I hope somthing else rises to the top - although I did see how booring 3 wookie ships were to play against... poor RAC Quickdraw)
12 hours ago, catachanninja said:That's the vassal version, that is not what Chris is running.
The best solution if wookies get out of hand is to make Carnor, Wes, old teroch etc work against reinforce. Those are all super fun ships anyway
Updating older ships that are designed to mess with "green" tokens would be a great solution. I don't think Palob should work against Reinforce like others want because that would be a rules mess to deal with, but Carnor, Wes, and Old T would be great to see on the board again to help counter the wookiees. I would potentially argue, what's stopping them from doing it now anyway? Most of those aren't seeing play anyway, it supports counter play, and all 3 of those are primary arc ships that don't carry ordinance.
6 minutes ago, Sciencius said:so basically a post-nerf(nuke) Parattani won PAX!
Geesh, so what next? nerf Asaj? or Latts? or Fenn? ...or my personal favorite, undo the Palpatine nerf ;-D
(Well I hope somthing else rises to the top - although I did see how booring 3 wookie ships were to play against... poor RAC Quickdraw)
34 minutes ago, Sciencius said:so basically a post-nerf(nuke) Parattani won PAX!
Geesh, so what next? nerf Asaj? or Latts? or Fenn? ...or my personal favorite, undo the Palpatine nerf ;-D
Git gud?
Wait like 3 weeks for a whole new wave to come out and shake things up all over again?
1 hour ago, Sciencius said:so basically a post-nerf(nuke) Parattani won PAX!
Geesh, so what next? nerf Asajj? or Latts? or Fenn? ...or my personal favorite, undo the Palpatine nerf ;-D
(Well I hope somthing else rises to the top - although I did see how booring 3 wookie ships were to play against... poor RAC Quickdraw)
The only thing left to do is nerf Latts crew, since she is basically just a second awesome ability for Asajj, because no other ship can use it reliably. Instead of REMOVE the stress, you would TAKE the stress, in turn stressing yourself to add an evade result, and of course you cannot do this if you are already stressed. This would make Asajj actually care about getting stressed, even in a mindlink list.
Edited by wurmsMaybe Latts should be 3 points - the normal cost for a conditional extra action.
I wouldn't cry nerf for something after this System Open, brand new meta building, it's gonna shake up again with Waves 12 & 13 in a month or less, and consider that the player playing the newer Parattanni has been playing it for a very long time. Andrew Bunn is probably one of if not the most experienced player with that type of list.
Parattanni is not a boogeyman list; its just a decent, strong list. It being on top again is a good sign that things are getting back under control.
You don't have to nerf everything that wins a tournament.
15 minutes ago, RStan said:I wouldn't cry nerf for something after this System Open, brand new meta building, it's gonna shake up again with Waves 12 & 13 in a month or less, and consider that the player playing the newer Parattanni has been playing it for a very long time. Andrew Bunn is probably one of if not the most experienced player with that type of list.
Nothing that was played this weekend is nerf worthy. Every matchup felt winnable and the meta if one could even be derived from this was incredibly wholesome overall. The only thing that feels slightly out of wack is re-enforce but we have known that for awhile now and im not really sure it will matter at all after the next waves.
The tournament felt competitively balanced to be honest. A lot of solid lists were on the tables and there was a good deal of variety across all factions.
Edited by Boom Owl1 minute ago, RStan said:I wouldn't cry nerf for something after this System Open...
Just now, kris40k said:Parattanni is not a boogeyman list; its just a decent, strong list. It being on top again is a good sign that things are getting back under control.You don't have to nerf everything that wins a tournament.
What would people post about, if not nerfs?
X - "Tactician wookies are bull. 180 arc and reinforce is broken."
Y - "Did you run into a bunch of that?"
X - "Just one, round 2 of stage 2. I won, but it's still bull."
Y - "..."
7 minutes ago, gennataos said:What would people post about, if not nerfs?
I'm sure someone has some ideas for S-foils on a T-65 that we haven't heard yet 
When things are so relatively open, you see more variety in squads. This makes it harder to predict the likely match-ups you'll see, which ought to lead to rational players leaning towards consistent take-all-comers type squads (e.g. triple wookiees, parattani-ish), right? Does that make sense?
5 minutes ago, Incard said:When things are so relatively open, you see more variety in squads. This makes it harder to predict the likely match-ups you'll see, which ought to lead to rational players leaning towards consistent take-all-comers type squads (e.g. triple wookiees, parattani-ish), right? Does that make sense?
Yea thats sorta what we saw.
Overall my main take away from the weekend.
The guys who made it to Top 4 probably could have been there with a wide variety of different lists, even Imperial stuff ( though itd be slightly more difficult ).
Edited by Boom Owl28 minutes ago, kris40k said:Parattanni is not a boogeyman list; its just a decent, strong list. It being on top again is a good sign that things are getting back under control.
You don't have to nerf everything that wins a tournament.
My sentiments exactly. Soontir, quickdraw palpaces just won a national... things are starting to move back into place.