I don't play often in Denver, and was wondering if anyone has eyes on current meta. Last Denver tournament I went to was heavy on heavies: double larges at least. Has that changed? Bombers or MSUs coming up?

Can't speak to *all* of Denver since there's multiple game stores with Armada groups in the area, and I only frequent one of them. As far as the meta around me, I can say that Big Ships are common, most lists have 1, some lists have 2. No one is regularly running 3. Fighters tend to be light screens (4-6 ties/aces or 4-6 awings/aces) or whole hog (Sloane, Rieekan Bombers, Raddus w. 132pts of rogues, etc) Sometimes fighters are totally absent. MSU is very uncommon, most lists don't pass 5 activations (including SA)

I imagine you see ECMs in the defense retrofit slot more than EWS?

8 hours ago, SJSkerjanec said:

I imagine you see ECMs in the defense retrofit slot more than EWS?

By a wide margin yes. Not much EWS floating around. See it sometimes in squad-less builds - but if people have even a token screen, they tend to take ECM.