6-0 in Hyperspace Qualifier

9-0 in System Open

With Imperials

No Harpoons

1 minute ago, Biophysical said:

6-0 in Hyperspace Qualifier

9-0 in System Open

With Imperials

No Harpoons

I'm at work so I can't really look too much up.

What was the list?

Yorr w/ Palp, QD, Inq.

Good to see Imps on top.

Congrats Joel!

build?

Yorr with Palp and Collision Detector for 32 points

Standard 31 point Inquisitor

Quickdraw with VI, FCS, Optics, LWF, Title for 36.

9 minutes ago, Warlon said:

I'm at work so I can't really look too much up.

What was the list?

8 minutes ago, PanchoX1 said:

build?

Palp QD Inq (99/100)
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Captain Yorr + Collision Detector + Emperor Palpatine (32)
Quickdraw + Veteran Instincts + Fire-Control System + Advanced Optics + Special Ops Training + Lightweight Frame (36)
The Inquisitor + Push the Limit + TIE/v1 + Autothrusters (31)

X-Wing is saved.

I think this officially means no one can ever complain about Harpoons again.

Uhm. Wow.

Much congrats.

Who has seen him play? What does he do? Why is his list good?

Whats the trick? Whats the deployment?

17 minutes ago, Biophysical said:

6-0 in Hyperspace Qualifier

9-0 in System Open

With Imperials

No Harpoons

only one possible response to that...

6 minutes ago, Blail Blerg said:

Uhm. Wow.

Much congrats.

Who has seen him play? What does he do? Why is his list good?

Whats the trick? Whats the deployment?

From what I gathered, he kind of slow rolls in.

Which is where he won in the final game, as he did NOT slow roll. Rammed the shuttle into the fight before his opponent could get the trajectory bomblets into position. Which should negate any arguments that this is a combo game now, not a flying game.

Should also point out we are celebrating Palp Aces. Which is a weird thing from 2 years ago.

25 minutes ago, Biophysical said:

With Imperials

No Harpoons

Final Destination.

1 minute ago, Sithborg said:

From what I gathered, he kind of slow rolls in.

Which is where he won in the final game, as he did NOT slow roll. Rammed the shuttle into the fight before his opponent could get the trajectory bomblets into position. Which should negate any arguments that this is a combo game now, not a flying game.

Should also point out we are celebrating Palp Aces. Which is a weird thing from 2 years ago.

Hey I love me some good Palp Aces. Vader and The Lambda on the table? That's a +1 in my book for OT canon. (Soontir is pretty cool too. Remember that guy?)

Yorr gets +1 for cool unused ship. And 2014 US Nats cred.

Final would be Imperials, no harpoons, with canon ships.

(Though Tie SF is canon, just.... awfully non-flavorful, since it gets its most screen time being Rebel hijacked.)

The Emperor is pleased with his performance.

Congratulations!

This begs the question...Are we to a point where good play beats broken mechanics?

Also, its still *** weird to mix FO and Empire canonically.

Yeah. PalpAlpha is all canon, but Vader + Lambda + Tie SF? WDF. Too weird for my taste.

Then that means the mechanics are not nearly as broken as you would claim, correct?

Very impressive, Zombie Palp Aces, nice. This is what the Empire does, it wins.

no GUNBOAT tho, so Fake News. (Actually I’m the jerk who would run 5 GUNBOATS with Flatchet Torps and LRS just to see how people react)

22 minutes ago, Boom Owl said:

X-Wing is saved.

I think this officially means no one can ever complain about Harpoons again.

If they will. We have 9 pages of evidence o. The other thread.

1 hour ago, Sithborg said:

Which is where he won in the final game, as he did NOT slow roll. Rammed the shuttle into the fight before his opponent could get the trajectory bomblets into position. Which should negate any arguments that this is a combo game now, not a flying game.

But does anyone say it's really completely one or the other? It's always been both but I think it's pretty clear just looking at the number of upgrade cards in lists these days that it's shifting more towards the combos (Miranda Nym is 20-22 cards!!). It's certainly a great accomplishment by Joe, though, as he kind of took a list that has lost some favor, especially in large competitive events.

I SAY IT'S ABOUT TIME WE NERF Joel Killingsworth!!

Whoever he is. . .

Failing that, congrats to the guy.

He needs to be nerfed, we have to deal with him week in, week out.

He's a hyper analytical player, those of you who have been listening to the Birmingham Barons X Wing Podcast (shameless plug) probably already know this though. Those of you who haven't been listening, he's one of the three hosts (including myself, an X Wing nobody, and Andrew Nuckols of Curled Paw Creatives aka Big Acrylic fame). I'm pretty sure this week's show is going to be all System Open, all the time.

And for those of you looking to deal with QD and 3 boats, or Kylo and 2 boats, he played a combination of those lists a whopping 7 or 8 times. We went in depth on how to beat those lists in last week's show, and a lot of the analysis was courtesy of Joel. The list he flew is well suited to deal with those matchups.

I'm 3-1 lifetime against him. Not sure what y'alls problem is.

Joel has only ever beaten me one time. That we have only ever played once is inconsequential

Great now we can expect nerfs to the shuttle

Palpaces OP nerf plz kthx.