Dear Community!

As Raddus is more and more popular at our local tables (don't look at me like this, we are small and slowly changing community!), I'm trying solutions to mitigate him. I've read about bigger events, how they prepared, but I wondered if I can use G7-Xs gravity bubble to effectively make him drop earlier, or force a safer drop (for me).

Anybody has experience with this? I'd also appreciate Raddus player's point of view about this, how would they approach this or what would be the worst / best place to put the token.

For the sake of the question, let's assume I'm first player as I operate with a large bid, and Raddus plays second.

Thank you very much!

The grav well tokens stay on table and affect anything that's a deployment throughout the game.

So yes, you can use it potentially help protect you against a Raddus drop.

It's bound to be more effective as first player. If you're second, it's too easy to Hondo/Nav speed back up. But still, you've probably forced the Raddus ship to move early. So maybe useful.

I'd approach this by dropping my Raddus staple ( Aspiration with Lando) wherever I wanted. Not saying it isn't good, it seems like a nice trick; just a reminder that they may choose "through" as their method sometimes.

The main problem IMO: You're taking a Dictor with a Grav Well, mostly to maybe limit a specific admiral's ability. Not neuter. Limit. One admiral. Seems a good way to disadvantage yourself vs all the other lists out there.

15 minutes ago, Green Knight said:

The main problem IMO: You're taking a Dictor with a Grav Well, mostly to maybe limit a specific admiral's ability. Not neuter. Limit. One admiral. Seems a good way to disadvantage yourself vs all the other lists out there.

I see your point. I take it over GSR which is far more universal, and potentially great in most matchups. However it's not like the GX-7 doesn't do anything in other matchups. I'm trying to figure out, whether this upgrade which helps me against this matchup worth the opportunity cost.

10 minutes ago, Rimsen said:

I see your point. I take it over GSR which is far more universal, and potentially great in most matchups. However it's not like the GX-7 doesn't do anything in other matchups. I'm trying to figure out, whether this upgrade which helps me against this matchup worth the opportunity cost.

Maybe.

But I'm not the right one to ask, really, as I think the Dictor is a horrible (but fun) ship in competitive play

I’ve got a decent amount of experience with the Interdictor, and I think it is actually a decent ship to use against a Raddus fleet, but I wouldn’t run it without Targeting Scramblers and the GSR/Brunson combo - it’s much too strong to pass up. Backing it with a heavy squadron presence (I love Morna & Jendon) and maneuverable/low point support ships will also help.

Bottom line: Opportunity cost is indeed too high.

It forces hard decisions on your opponent, which is always a good thing. Even in non-Raddus matchups you can manipulate your opponent's deployment or command selection. I ran a Brunsondictor with GSR and G7Xs for a while with a Kuat and it really skewed most opponents, because they knew they couldn't give me my Objectives with all that board control, but they also couldn't let my Kuat have 1st activation.

Granted Raddus could certainly play around the build and it was mostly made as a joke (Konnie and Gauntlets) but ended up being surprisingly effective when played right.

I have used it against Raddus effectively. Against most lists it's more of an annoyance than anything else, but sometimes you can use G7-X to encourage a deployment mistake.

One time my opponent brought G7-X, and I deployed my own Interdictor and ISD on opposite sides of the bubble, which meant my ISD and Interdictor were way too far apart. My opponent tore my ships up one by one.

Another time I put the grav well token distance 4 from the edge of my opponent's deployment zone. He took the bait and put his CR90 in that little nook, but he had no more room for anything else, so his other ships were all the way on the other side of the bubble. I focused all my firepower on those ships and killed two, he killed none of mine.

But those are unforced errors. Grav Shift Reroute is probably better in most situations.

I played an interdictor with:

Interdictor-class Suppression Refit (90 points)
- Interdictor ( 3 points)
- Captain Brunson ( 5 points)
- Engine Techs ( 8 points)
- Disposable Capacitors ( 3 points)
- Heavy Ion Emplacements ( 9 points)
- G7-X Grav Well Projector ( 2 points)
- Targeting Scrambler ( 5 points)
= 125 total ship cost

It's very expensive, but it makes a good anchor and gunship with HIE so long as you have a significant follow up threat to use after it. Grav Well is nice for controlling deployment - both against Raddus and in general.