100 points

PILOTS

Bossk (51)
YV-666 (35), Expertise (4), “Mangler” Cannon (4), Dengar (3), Boba Fett (1), Engine Upgrade (4)

Ketsu Onyo (49)
Lancer-class Pursuit Craft (38), Veteran Instincts (1), K4 Security Droid (3), Glitterstim (2), Shadow Caster (3), Gyroscopic Targeting (2)

This past Saturday I participated in our regionals tournament. This was my first time running a scum list at a tournament. I didn't think I was going to be able to play so I had only run this list once prior to Saturday. I didn't have high hopes I was mostly going for fun.

First match vs Ryad (TIE/D, Ion Cannon, MkII, Adapatability?) Vessery (TIE/D Tractor Beam, MkII, Adaptability) Howlrunner (Swarm Leader, Experimental Interface, MkII) I think that was his list, close to that if not exactly

My opponent told me he had just thrown the list together and it showed, He thought he would be able to pull of two barrel rolls with Swarm leader and his defenders. This mistake led him to putting Vessery right behind a rock on his first move. On the second move he flew over the rock leaving Vessery at range two of Ketsu who tractored him back on to the same rock while Bossk stripped a few of Ryads shields off. Second round of combat saw Howlrunner tractored onto the same rock Vessery had just vacated and he rolled a hit. Bossk and Ketsu focused on Ryad this round and were able to take her off the board. Vessery managed to take a couple shields off of Ketsu. Howlrunner had no choice but to turn away from the fight rolling another hit from the asteroid and Bossk managed to get the last hit in for the kill after Ketsu tractored vessery onto another rock and stripped a couple more shields. In the next round Vessery went down to focused fire from Ketsu and Bossk. In the end Ketsu had one Shield left and Bossk still had two or three

win 100-0

Second match vs Dash (PTL/HLC/outrider/Kanaan/Engine upgrade/Proton Rockets) Nien Numb (Black one/R3-A2/PTL/Autothrusters/Pattern analyzer)

First round of combat I managed to get Bossk face to face in range on of Dash, forgetting he had prockets on there. He landed two hits on Bossk with his missiles while I got no damage on his Dash with a terrible roll despite all the mods. Ketsu had a range three shot on Nien and managed to strip two shields off of Nien who had no shot back. Next round Ketsu got into range one of Nien, so did Bossk. Ketsu tractored Nien onto a rock leaving him with no shot and they were able to finish him off. I was feeling pretty good at this point to have taken out his stress dealer before he'd even had a chance to shoot. I had given my opponent initiative so he had a lot of thinking to do with Dash's positioning. Bossk had taken a full 4 hits from Dash's HLC and started to run at this point hoping to line up a nice shot at Dash at some point later. so most of the match was Ketsu vs Dash. After many intense rounds both ships had 5 hit points left while Bossk stayed out of Dash's range. On the second last round of the match Bossk landed on a debris field and was unable to boost out of Dash's cannon fire range and he blew up. The next round brought us to time and both Ketsu and Dash still had 5 hp left. Even though I had lost this match it was so much fun, we used the entire board, the ships were all over the place.

loss 69-75

Third match vs Miranda (TLT, Proton Torps, Extra Munitions/C3PO/Advanced SLam/Some Bombs/LRS) Norra (R2D2/Alliance Overhaul/LRS/Proton Torps/PTL) maybe some other things

I was a little worried about this match up due to Norra's heavy hitting/regen and Mirandas regen and load out. I rushed in as fast as my two ships could manage. I got both my ships into range two of Miranda who had Bossk locked for a torp shot. Ketsu stripped a couple of shields and tracotr beamed her into range 1 of Bossk to deny her ordinance shot. She managed to strip one shield off of Bossk who then hammered her with his primary weapon with four hits and a crit which allowed him to strip Miranadas tlt with Boba. The second round of combat my opponent bumped Bossk with Miranda and landed on a debris field which left her a sitting duck for range one with Ketsu who finished her off. Norra put herself into a postion to shoot his torps at ketsu but rolled badly and only stripped two shields. Bossk hit back hard and stripped all of Norras shields off. Next round Norra two banked towards the edge of the map to regen a shield, Bossk had no shot this round but Ketsu had a range one on Norra. I tractored her towards the edge of the board so there was no choice but to fly off the next round. The whole match took maybe 30 minutes.

win 100-0

fourth match vs Hera (VCX) (TLT/Intelligence agent/FCS/?)Ezra (docked shuttle/auto blaster turret/rage/inspiring recruit/phantom) Fenn Rau (Adaptability/FAA/?)

My top priority in this match was the Ghost. My opponent seemed to forget about Fenns ability or else he just didn't want the stress. Bossk and Hera traded shots back and forth and after a couple rounds of combat both ships were hurting pretty badly. In the third round of combat I was able to strip Hera's tlt with Boba which stopped her double tap. On the next round of combat he blew up Bossk with Hera and Bossk bllew up Hera on the simultaneous fire. Had he been able to double tap Bossk the round before Hera would have lived (assuming he managed to land at least one hit, very likely). So it came down to Ezra and Fenn vs a full health Ketsu. It took some time but in the end Ketsu blew up both shuttles while only losing a single shield in the process. I had some hot evade dice for once rolling two natural evades 4 or five times in a row!

win 100 - 51

fifth match vs the Dreaded Nymiranda. Same list as the discussion in Squad Lists thread with the exception of Ion Bombs instead of thermal detonators on Miranda.

My opponent had gone 4-0 for the day and I was rightfully worried. I attempted to rush miranda with Bossk and Ketsu, This may have worked if I had used a pincer movebut I had them coming up in a row and Nym managed to drop both of his proton bombs hitting both ships. I figured they could take them but the crits were about the worst that could happen. Bossk got a blinded pilot and weapons failure and Ketsu got the stress crit and all hard turns are reds. Ketsu managed to get a shot at Miranda and tractor beam her into range one of Bossk, who couldn't shoot back but at least it stopped her from getting her harpoon missiles off this round. Nym got his off though. I was in trouble. I had no real way of bouncing back after this. The rest of the match was a series of hit after hit on Bossk who was unable to shake his weapons failure crit, as a result he was unable to put much damage onto my opponents squad. He mopped me up pretty quickly.

loss 0-100

Over all I finished in 10th out of 33 and managed to get myself some acrylic stress tokens. I was surprised that only three people were running Nymiranda, two of which made the top 8 cut and I only saw one QD triple gunboats who also made the top 8. I'm not sure what the other lists were that made the cut. It was a great day of matches with a wide variety of lists. I'm happy with my finish seeing as how I didn't think I was gong to get to play at all and had only had one match with my list prior to the tournament, I think I've only flown the Shadow Caster once previously to that match too! My last regionals I ended up somewhere around 20th so this was a big improvement.