So, I've played for quite awhile, but it has always been rather sporadic playing with a bunch of different lists. I've never been a great player, and just played to have fun.

Recently, I played against who I consider one of the best players of my local shop, and I'm always intimidated playing against him, though he has such a great attitude I enjoy it. He was flying a nasty list with Rey and Lowrick, and I knew it would be a good test of a list I'd been playing and getting familiar with for some time now, 5 TAPs with title, Cruise Missiles, and Guidance Chips. And I was thoroughly surprised I won. I can't really brag about the victory since I did have some hot dice rolls, but throughout I did make some plays that I looked back on and was surprised, while flying with very few mistakes.

Even if I feel like I was lucky to win overall, that pride of really starting to up my game and noticing improvements in several areas just feels so good

Congratulations my friend, you have taken the first steps to "gettin gudder"

7 hours ago, joyrock said:

So, I've played for quite awhile, but it has always been rather sporadic playing with a bunch of different lists. I've never been a great player, and just played to have fun.

Recently, I played against who I consider one of the best players of my local shop, and I'm always intimidated playing against him, though he has such a great attitude I enjoy it. He was flying a nasty list with Rey and Lowrick, and I knew it would be a good test of a list I'd been playing and getting familiar with for some time now, 5 TAPs with title, Cruise Missiles, and Guidance Chips. And I was thoroughly surprised I won. I can't really brag about the victory since I did have some hot dice rolls, but throughout I did make some plays that I looked back on and was surprised, while flying with very few mistakes.

Even if I feel like I was lucky to win overall, that pride of really starting to up my game and noticing improvements in several areas just feels so good

Hot dice will only get you so far. With a TIE swarm, you clearly also nailed dials and positioning.

You also won with one of my favorite builds

Congrats and all glory to the Empire!

...but seriously, congrats!

Nice work! Now do it again and again until you're the top guy at your shop.

6 minutes ago, Force Majeure said:

Nice work! Now do it again and again until you're the top TAP guy at your shop.

FTFY

5 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

FTFY

Heh I've been the TAP guy for a bit, but now that I'm able to do cruise missiles instead of Prockets the list has gone from a gimmick to a real threat.

Congrats!

im the opposite, I practiced with the same list for a big tournament last year and I got so fed up with flying the same thing I was glad to get the event out of the way.