Tugboat FTW!

By markcsoul, in X-Wing Battle Reports

So I had my 3rd game of 2.0 tonight on vassal. I used a variation on a 5 ship scum list I had used the first two games. I removed sunny bounder and put in a generic tugboat instead because of all the hype I'd heard about them.

And man, did he pull his weight this game!

Not only did he survive until the end, but he was still full health. AND he did at least 1/3 of the damage to my opponent's list myself (his list had 18 total hit points between 3 ships). Damage from rocks he tugged ships onto was I think 4 or 5, though that was lucky that my opponent rolled for hits/crits everytime I think. But his primary attack did a few damage as well, including the kill shot on a ship.

If it wasn't for him, I would have lost as two of my ships died before even getting a shot off and a third ship only got 1 shot before dying. I had really bad luck getting a ship 1-shotted each round basically from my opponent's combined shots going first.