Trapping Vader

By Ziggy03, in X-Wing Battle Reports

This happened many moons ago, but something made me think of it today. We don't play a lot and one day I decided to give a heavy ordnance ship (K-Wing) a shot since they had come out with extra munitions. I don't remember the exact loadout, but I did choose ion bombs as one of my bombs and I had this thing piled up with points. Naturally, it was an Imp-magnet and they knocked my shields out Round 2 and I was lamenting my choice to pile on the points even though I had shield-regen capability (through R2 perhaps?) I decided to stick with my plan of turning sharp left from the right side of the board and essentially running down the "50 yard line" dropping bombs and shooting anything in my path whilst SLAMing.

This is when probably the funniest thing that I've seen in the game happened. We play a lot in teams of 2 and the Imp players each had a ship (Vader and Academy Pilot) in front of me before I turned. Well, Vader decided to peel off after Wedge and The AP was anticipating my move. They ended up turning into each other (Vader hit the AP), just as an ion bomb detonated. They spent the next two rounds bumping into each other (as we imagined Vader Force Choking the hapless Academy Pilot) while the rest of the team turned into and blasted them.