I'll be there this week, but I'll be playing Armada.

I will NOT be there this week (3/2).

I’m not sure if I wanna go. Capital ships vs. fighters just don’t seem fair to the capital ships.

I will be there, with a list that does not include Fenn Rau!

I will endeavor to be there on the 9th for HotAC.

I’m looking for a co-admiral. Does anyone want to be my partner for EPIC? I wanna try Rebels.

I’m like 99% won’t be able to make it

I'll be there but a bit late.

@Pretty Fly for a Jedi. You still there or did you bail?

What time do these events usually start? How long do they typically last?

I'm planning on showing up with a friend (it'll be his birthday) for HotAC.

Edit: Some comprehensive reading of the first post should have answered my question. Sorry.

I talked to doji privately.

We are going to postpone Heros of Aturi until the third week in March (Friday the 16th). I had some craziness pop up and will not have the time to prepare what I need to make it all happen.

However, we would like to use a quarterly tournament kit from FFG for HotAC. That means we have to charge slightly for HotAC to pay Game Matrix for the kit. Probably $3 or $4 total per person.

Maybe we can give any new person we are introducing to the group a free pass the first session of HotAC and then if one comes back to play HotAC again then we collect the $3 or $4???

What do you all think?

Sorry for the delay on my end. I have to go through boxes labeled "Rec Room" (after the move) and unpack all the preprinted stuff for HotAC that I had from last time. I'll still be there this Friday to play xwing, I just don't have the time to find all the HotAC stuff and prep for the initial start of the campaign before Friday.

2 hours ago, Sephlar said:

I talked to doji privately.

We are going to postpone Heros of Aturi until the third week in March (Friday the 16th). I had some craziness pop up and will not have the time to prepare what I need to make it all happen.

However, we would like to use a quarterly tournament kit from FFG for HotAC. That means we have to charge slightly for HotAC to pay Game Matrix for the kit. Probably $3 or $4 total per person.

Maybe we can give any new person we are introducing to the group a free pass the first session of HotAC and then if one comes back to play HotAC again then we collect the $3 or $4???

What do you all think?

Sorry for the delay on my end. I have to go through boxes labeled "Rec Room" (after the move) and unpack all the preprinted stuff for HotAC that I had from last time. I'll still be there this Friday to play xwing, I just don't have the time to find all the HotAC stuff and prep for the initial start of the campaign before Friday.

This makes me sad. I was looking forward to HotAC, and I'll be working the weekend of the 16th. You take care of yourself, and iron out whatever craziness you've got going on.

That being said, I am still coming out on Friday, so prepare for some easy wins.

Hotac is being moved to third week.

Hero's of the Aturi Cluster is back at Game Matrix. SEPHLAR will be running it the 2nd Friday of every month (unless it has to be moved to third one on weeks I can no make it).

Starting March 16th.

I'm going to be looking for addition rules sets that other have come up with that we can use. We will be starting over again from the beginning with new character sheets.

we are looking at add $5 entry to Heroes of the Aturi Cluster. This is so we can throw in a game night kit to hand out for prizes to participants. SEPHLAR to come up with breakout. Either way participation card for all particepents.

1 hour ago, Yakostovian said:

This makes me sad. I was looking forward to HotAC, and I'll be working the weekend of the 16th. You take care of yourself, and iron out whatever craziness you've got going on.

That being said, I am still coming out on Friday, so prepare for some easy wins.

Sorry, man.

This move has been stressful and trying to get the old house ready for rent (first time landlord for me) is proving a lot of work too and taking away from getting the new house up and running on schedule.

Birthday of the buddy I was bringing along has vetoed travelling out to Tacoma (from Kitsap) if there is no HotAC. So I'll be in Bremerton instead. Sorry again, fellas. I'm sure you were all hoping to gain an easy 100 MOV.

No MOV on casual night. Just hanging out and (particularly after regional) playing with new experimental lists that (for me anyway) tend to fall on their proverbial faces.

Mine tends to fall on their literal faces, but I'm clumsier than @Sephlar.

I am thinking about bringing U-wings (that is plural) this Friday.

1 minute ago, Sephlar said:

I am thinking about bringing U-wings (that is plural) this Friday.

Do It!!!

Next casual night I can be there, I will bring the wierdest list I can think of.

Next casual night I’ll play all Wookiee’s. It’ll be a giant furball of craziness.

19 hours ago, Fuzzywookie said:

Next casual night I’ll play all Wookiee’s. It’ll be a giant furball of craziness.

You and your wookies. I look forward to you playing Empire again lol.

HotAC is on for Friday (March 16th). I will try to be there by 6pm to get us a table and to start setting up. I'd like to be putting dials down in first turn by 7:30 (7:45 at the latest) so please try to arrive by 7:15 to get prepared.

It would be helpful for each of those coming to play to have a starting ship/character ready to play. I will have laminated character sheets with me like last time for everyone to use, so just have your starting character for week 1 written down and on paper and we can transpose it to a laminated character sheet when you arrive.

Each participant has to choose a starting ship. There are two to choose from:

(A) X-wing Starfighter (T-65) and 5 experience points to start with (the astromech, torpedo, and modification slots are open for you to fill as you wish using your five points)
or
(B) Y-wing Starfighter and 8 experience points to start with (the astromech, turret upgrade, modification and a combination of two torpedo/bomb slots are open for you to fill as you wish using your eight points). ALSO Y-wings can choose to opt in to BTL-A4 title before each mission. The Bomb Loadout is already factored in.

Note that there are lots of rules to upgrades specific to HotAC. Some are more lenient than standard xwing; others are more strict and even ban some upgrades. Unless otherwise discussed here (or decided on as a group later) we are using the rules as printed in HotAC v0.7

Each player gets one ship and starts the campaign at PS 2. You can use your experience points 1:1 to purchase various upgrades/modifications (according to HotAC rules, EPTs can not be purchased for use during the first mission and neither can you upgrade from PS 2 for the first mission). We will NOT be allowing "sell backs" of upgrades this time around at any time. Once you use experience to purchase an upgrade it is yours for the duration of the entire campaign UNLESS you lose it due to campaign rules (usually if your ship is destroyed during a mission). Keep in mind that you can choose to unequip and equip various upgrades that you have prior to each mission. AND when you change ship types, all of your purchased upgrades and such carry over and can be used on your new changed ship as you have slots. MORE on changing ship types at the end.

We are going to follow the rules of HotAC more closely this time around when it comes to building up characters/purchasing upgrades. I would suggest reading the manual. You can download it here.

We will be using the X-Wing AI app for the imperial ships. It will be quicker. I have the app on my phone. No charts or rolling of dice (basically it is still the same thing, including the randomness, but it can be done quicker).

Experience will be handled different than the printed rules. The experience gained by each participant will ALL be put into a common pool and split up AFTER the mission is completed. The exceptions are:
(A) The bonus experience point from destroying (the kill shot) a large enemy ship (Lambda Shuttle or VT-49 Decimator)
(B) The bonus experience point from any assists (this includes kill-assists and guardian-assists) as well as assists from the pilot abilities of Roark Garnet and Etahn Abaht.

All the experience in the common pool will be handed out to each participant after the completion of the mission and any fractions of experience will be rounded up.

When a player is shot down (ship is destroyed) there is an "ejection" roll that is made. The rules state that if one(1) focus result if rolled, the player earns half the XP this mission and if two (2) focus results are rolled the player loses all XP this mission. We will alter that as follows:
(1) Focus result = immediately remove 3 XP from the common pool
(2) or more Focus results = immediately remove 6 XP from the common pool

In either case, if there is not enough XP to cover the removal from the common pool, then take what is currently there.

The object is to work together to get everyone through each mission with their ship intact. So use team work. Help each other out.

SHIP CHANGING: As you know, we all start out with either a T-65 xwing OR a Y-wing. And the HotAC rules have ship changing rules for A-wings, HWK-290s, and B-wings. We are also going to allow a few more ships to change to. The rules for changing ships apply as in the HotAC rules with the following changes/additions:

(A) T-70 X-wing... all standard ship changing rules apply (cost 5xp and can be changed to for any PS 4 and above pilot)
(B) Attack Shuttle (Phantom)... cost 6xp to upgrade to these (and can happen at PS 4 and above)
(C) Sheathipede-class Shuttle... cost 6xp to upgrade to these (and can happen at PS 4 and above)
(D) ARC-170... cost 8xp to upgrade to these (and can happen at PS 4 and above)
(E) E-Wing... cost 8xp to upgrade and requires a PS 5 or more pilot
(F) U-wing... cost 8xp to upgrade and requires a PS 5 or more pilot (also note, this will be a SMALL SHIP base)

The platforms for the Auzituck Gunship, K-wing, and Scurrg H-6 Bomber are simply too powerful to allow in HotAC.

I will create sheets that we will use for these six (6) new ship types that we are making available. I will have them available to look over for the month of April.

LASTLY, Doji is trying to find out if we can use one of the quarterly store tournament kits that Game Matrix has for this campaign. IF WE DO, we will charge a nominal fee to anyone you wants to be a part of the swag package... enough to cover the store costs for the kit. No one will be forced to pay, however only those who do will get any swag. So it will be optional. There should be WAY more than enough in the kit to make sure everyone walks away with something (probably multiple somethings). AS SOON AS we get the word that we can use a store kit, I will get the prize/swag break down on the most recent monthly thread for Game Matrix here on the FFG Forums.

Auzituck to powerful? Pfft. Lol