Last night @Nagasadow and I concluded our Sloane v. Sloane game. This was the first time we had played these lists against one another, with each of us having another game of experience with them beforehand. I couldn’t find a standard battle report format, so hope this works for everyone; I’ll try to take screenshots in the future that are smaller in size so that they can accompany these.

Admiral Calkins

Faction: Imperial

Commander: Admiral Sloane

Assault: Most Wanted

Defense: Fighter Ambush

Navigation: Superior Positions

Imperial II (120)

• Admiral Sloane (24)

• Gunnery Team (7)

• Electronic Countermeasures (7)

• Leading Shots (4)

• Avenger (5)

= 167 Points

Quasar Fire I (54)

• Taskmaster Grint (5)

• Flight Controllers (6)

• Expanded Hangar Bay (5)

• Boosted Comms (4)

= 74 Points

Gozanti Cruisers (23)

= 23 Points

Squadrons:

• Maarek Stele (21)

• Colonel Jendon (20)

• Dengar (20)

• Ciena Ree (17)

• Howlrunner (16)

• Mauler Mithel (15)

• Valen Rudor (13)

• Saber Squadron (12)

= 134 Points

Total Points: 398

Nagasadow

Faction: Imperial

Commander: Admiral Sloane

Assault: Advanced Gunnery

Defense: Capture the VIP

Navigation: Superior Positions

Imperial I (110)

• Admiral Sloane (24)

• Strategic Adviser (4)

• Boarding Troopers (3)

• Phylon Q7 Tractor Beams (6)

• Leading Shots (4)

• Avenger (5)

= 156 Points

Interdictor Suppression Refit (90)

• Captain Brunson (5)

• Disposable Capacitors (3)

• G-8 Experimental Projector (8)

• Targeting Scrambler (5)

• Heavy Ion Emplacements (9)

• Interdictor (3)

= 123 Points

Squadrons:

• Maarek Stele (21)

• Dengar (20)

• Soontir Fel (18)

• Ciena Ree (17)

• Howlrunner (16)

• Mauler Mithel (15)

• TIE Phantom Squadron (14)

= 121 Points

Total Points: 400

I elected to be second player and he chose my Most Wanted. I chose my Gozanti and his Interdictor as the objective ships. We both placed our ships in the center of our deployment zones, going left to right by the player’s view, all at Speed 2, except for the Gozanti and the ISD-II (Gozanti, Quasar, and ISD-II to Interdictor, ISD-I).

Screenshots at the end of Round 2 and Round 4 - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gShVImrz2LbKxbUMv1p9TeWZl7eoL0u2

Round 1 (by activation): My Gozanti turned away from the center to the left and his ISD-I cranked up to speed 3 towards it. My ISD-II headed straight to try and flank the Interdictor, while his Interdictor veered right, alongside the ISD-I. My Quasar followed the ISD-II. His squadrons moved in a screen in front of the ISD-I and in between his two ships. My squadrons moved to screen my ships to their top left.

Round 2: His ISD-I activated with a squadron command and he used Maarek Stele, Soontir Fel, Ciena Ree, and the TIE Phantom to take out my Gozanti, my objective ship. I then activated my ISD-II to get a long-range shot at the Interdictor. His Interdictor activated with a squadron command and moved up Mauler Mithel to take out Saber Squadron and damage my counterball. His Interdictor landed on the debris field, stripping two shields from his ship. I then activated my Quasar and attacked and killed Mauler, Dengar, and Howlrunner. The squadrons also contributed to giving the Interdictor two damage cards.

Round 3: He activated his Interdictor first, taking away a damage card and replacing a shield, before attacking my Quasar and stripping away its front, left, and rear hull zone shields with Heavy Ion Emplacements and some extra damage. Unfortunately, he stayed on the debris field and two more shields of his were removed. I activated my Quasar and my squadrons took away all the shields from his Interdictor’s right hull zone while adding some damage cards (the damage would have been worse if it were not for Captain Brunson and Targeting Scramblers). He then used his G-8 to slow my Quasar to speed 1. His ISD-I activated and gave a damage card to the Quasar, ramming it for another one for both ships. My ISD-II activated and shot the front hull zone of the Interdictor, leading it to have seven damage cards at the end of the round. His squadrons moved up to engage the majority of my squadrons that were surrounding his Interdictor.

Round 4: He activated his Interdictor, taking away a damage card and replacing a shield, but was only able to add two more damage cards to the Quasar. I activated my Quasar and used Dengar to give heavy to all his squadrons before some of my other squadrons stripped the Brace and Redirect from the Interdictor before the super best friends took it down (his objective ship). I used the remainder of my squadron activations to take out Soontir and the TIE Phantom. His ISD-I in turn destroyed my Quasar, with his remaining squadrons killing Howlrunner.

It was at this time that we called the game. Besides an issue with the maneuver tool in TTS, our ISDs were not going to engage one another for the last two rounds and the squadron fight was not going to change the MOV.

Admiral Calkins 296 – Nagasadow 148 (8-3)

Lessons Learned

- Be wary of picking Most Wanted if you opponent has a cheap ship they can throw it on when you would be forced to put in on an expensive ship

- Always throw Howlrunner in first so that she can use her ability for follow-up attackers. Pretty sure I flew her in second after Mauler the entire game

- When using the Interdictor, learn and practice the timing of every ability on your ship. Since this was a friendly game there were no issues, but opponents may not be so kind in a tournament if you miss the timing of a specific upgrade (like using the Interdictor title). The same could be said as well if you as using Tractor Beams.

- Interdictors are a pain in the *** to take down. I'm very lucky that in the last round of tinkering, he took Engineering Team off of it. Not sure I could have ever brought it down if my Quasar had been destroyed at the top of Round 4.

Edit: Screenshot link added

Edited June 12, 2018 by Admiral Calkins

15 hours ago, Admiral Calkins said:

-  Be wary of picking Most Wanted if you oppone  nt has a cheap ship they can throw it on when you  wou  ld be forced to put in on an expensive ship         

Words to live by. Always good to hear about my favorite ship (the ISD-II) taking a win.

24 minutes ago, The Jabbawookie said:

Words to live by. Always good to hear about my favorite ship (the ISD-II) taking a win.

Absolutely. As for the ISD-II, I took @Ginkapo ‘s advice to give it a test after his success at Euros.

Couple of corrections: Ive flown ISD(X) and an Interdictor in every "real" game Ive played but I had never used sloane before and there were a few new upgrades/squads. Round 2 my Interdictor was a hairs breadth out of range of your ISD's front arc. If I recall correctly round 3 was the collision (causing the extra debris damage) but Im not certain, I do know the ISD never got to ram it (I tried). I also left targeting scramblers up on round 3 for use against your ISD's side arc but I used Brunson twice with the Interdictor ability.

Painful hindsight: on round 4 I could have activated ISD first to both get it out of the way and destroy the quasar giving the interdictor a clear path of escape in 2 directions. I had honestly been planning my moves for days in my head and that completely made me overlook a potential winning move when the time for spontaneity came. I think this same battle but switching most wanted for superior positions may have gone in my favor but I know deployments would have gone differently and you are better with squadron activation's than me, picking superior positions may have been a smarter move but the psychological effect was strong.

ALSO, I thought you were running Cymoon... glossing over details is one of those bad table habits I have.

Thanks. I need to start writing this down as it’s happening, as even a day can affect my memory of the match. Definitely had two turns of debris field shield damage though (2 and 3).

Not sure if Superior Positions would have gone in your favor though, considering I had almost two full rounds of squadrons attacking your Interdictor. Would have just focused more on your rear hull zone then.

I think adding Brunson was the best switch that you made when you tweaked your list. Looking forward to the rematch.

Yeah, I really love Brunson, shes here to stay.

Only argument for superior positions would be assuming that I could have held my screen together instead of splitting it off to chase down activation padding. That could be extrapolated out to some flanking attacks of my own but as I said before I know you are better with squads so I still think most wanted was the least of the evils I had to chose from.

I actually had 3 rounds of debris field damage on Interdictor. 2 I caught the prongs of the shield dial, 3 I rammed quasar and had to move back onto it and 4 I would have rammed either quasar again or my own ISD if I had performed a maneuver that would have gotten me off of it.

Edited June 13, 2018 by Nagasadow
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