18 hours ago, Darth Veggie said:

I wasn't the runner-up in spring Vassal tournament. I said I was merely beaten by the winner of that tournament, but this did happen in the semi finals

Meh, close enough.

http://www.steelstrategy.com/2018/02/elimination-round-aresius-vs-bmcdonald7.html

Posted up some thoughts from a Wave 7 tournament that I played over the weekend:

http://www.steelstrategy.com/2018/02/quick-thoughts-on-wave-7-seasonal.html

http://www.steelstrategy.com/2018/02/elimination-round-tokra-vs.html

That's the last one we can write until we get the result from tonight's game.

http://www.steelstrategy.com/2018/02/elimination-round-captain-weather-vs.html

Just one more preview, if Truthiness gets around to writing it.

We are only slightly delayed. Here's a Revised Commander's Guide for the ISD.

http://www.steelstrategy.com/2018/02/revised-commanders-guide-imperial-star.html

Got my act together. JJ vs Cactus is now up:

http://www.steelstrategy.com/2018/02/elimination-round-jj-vs-cactusman.html

Well, I was going to do a Green Knight vs Karneck preview, but seeing as they went and scheduled their game before the previous round was even over, they only get this half assed product for the sake of completion:

http://www.steelstrategy.com/2018/02/quarterfinal-round-green-knight-vs.html?m=1

I like to imagine you didn't look at the result before you finished it.

I wrote it before I went to sleep, but forgot to post.

31 minutes ago, Truthiness said:

Well, I was going to do a Green Knight vs Karneck preview, but seeing as they went and scheduled their game before the previous round was even over, they only get this half assed product for the sake of completion:

http://www.steelstrategy.com/2018/02/quarterfinal-round-green-knight-vs.html?m=1

We had little choice. It was pretty much now or never...

I guess we're doing this then.

http://www.steelstrategy.com/2018/02/quarter-final-round-dupy-vs-roquax.html

@Dupy - @Roquax

Gentlemen: now that we have more upgrades that either improve ships' defenses or improve their anti-squadron attacks, what are your thoughts on going squadronless? Do you think this may become a viable option? Or are we looking at a repeat of Force Z off of Singapore?

I played a game last night where I just had one deployment and activation for the first 3 turns. See what happens here: http://www.steelstrategy.com/2018/02/when-one-ship-is-enough.html

29 minutes ago, shmitty said:

I played a game last night where I just had one deployment and activation for the first 3 turns. See what happens here: http://www.steelstrategy.com/2018/02/when-one-ship-is-enough.html

That's a nifty little fleet, certainly is fun to play 1 ship armada!

17 minutes ago, BrobaFett said:

That's a nifty little fleet, certainly is fun to play 1 ship armada!

Thanks! It certainly feels odd only having that one ship out there, but the payoff when you call in the cavalry is excellent.

20 hours ago, Iskander4000 said:

Gentlemen: now that we have more upgrades that either improve ships' defenses or improve their anti-squadron attacks, what are your thoughts on going squadronless? Do you think this may become a viable option? Or are we looking at a repeat of Force Z off of Singapore?

I'm likely about to venture into this territory. Stay tuned. I still need to get through my Madine post-mortem before I venture into my new crackpot theories.

3 minutes ago, shmitty said:

Thanks! It certainly feels odd only having that one ship out there, but the payoff when you call in the cavalry is excellent.

I wasn't sold on Jyn over OE on the HH, but you might have sold me. With racks instead of a crit effect the double isn't absolutely necessary, and the expected damage is pretty good even without it.

Just now, BrobaFett said:

I wasn't sold on Jyn over OE on the HH, but you might have sold me. With racks instead of a crit effect the double isn't absolutely necessary, and the expected damage is pretty good even without it.

Before this game my feeling was that OE was likely better than Jyn, but I wanted to try her out. With the deployment shenanigans from Raddus/Profundity you should be able to get Jyn somewhere meaningful most of the time. Obviously one game isn't everything, but Jyn has a lot of potential in this fleet at least.

So I'm not sold on Jyn over OE, but I am definitely intrigued.

1 hour ago, shmitty said:

I played a game last night where I just had one deployment and activation for the first 3 turns. See what happens here: http://www.steelstrategy.com/2018/02/when-one-ship-is-enough.html

What if Raddus was on Profundity instead with Jyns Garels letting you Raddus a large ship pretty much anywhere?

3 minutes ago, Ginkapo said:

What if Raddus was on Profundity instead with Jyns Garels letting you Raddus a large ship pretty much anywhere?

That is on my list of possibilities to explore. My concern with this fleet is that Profundity isn't quite as durable as Defiance and I would be more nervous with it as the only ship. But I will be trying that at some point.

But yeah, it gives you some pretty amazing deployment options that way.

@Truthiness

Just sayin'...

Roflmao

... and I still havn't been able to see it

still better than the movie

2 hours ago, Drasnighta said:

... and I still havn't been able to see it

My wife and I just got back from seeing it. Scheduling around work, arranging babysitting, etc. It can be tough.