So honest question...how many genuinely stupid mistakes do you make per game at tournaments?

Im talking the kind of mistakes that could lose you games the moment they happen or require you to battle back to recover.

I find that I average at least 1-2 per game that I am capable of recognizing on my own.

Lots more that have to be pointed out to me later by other or better players.

https://strawpoll.com/c19fxhbf

I said one. It’s probably closest to the truth. Some there are probably more and I just don’t realize it. Others there definitely are more. Also dumb mistake is relative.

1 per ship per round.

Usually one too many.

Sunday I K-turned both my MGT's into optimal firing position, but also on the same rock, so...

Only one: sitting down to play in the first place.

(it's not really true--playing is a highlight of the week--but the joke was too good to pass up)

I make the mistake of doing anything and leaving it to the dice. Or thinking that the dice will roll in my favor at any point during a match.

In truth don't let myself think about the potential mistakes because if I do I will second-guess everything I do in the game, starting with squad building, obstacle selection and placement all the way down to how I shook the dice in my hands and how I released them to roll.

I would hazard a guess that most of my mistakes come after the initial pass, and it's probably 1 or 2 that really cost me. Sometimes I see it sometimes I don't.

Fun topic.

I like to keep my ships lean so I don't have many card interactions to remember, and potentially forget.

I usually park a ship on a rock, by accident, once per game.

My usual mistake is taking the risky move rather than the safe one.

Sometimes they pay off and win me the game, most of the time they don’t and they cost me it.

The really stupid mistakes? Only 1, usually.

Because then I've lost the game and there's no further opportunity for more stupid mistakes!

0-2 I'd say.

0 on a good day. But I get not enough games in, so on the bad days....

And easy to get downhearted when the battle is going downhill or trying to save a rather hopeless battle by a yolo maneuver certainly enhances the probability of stupid mistakes.

A couple, I guess? Usually not dial mistakes, but I embarrassingly often take the wrong action, such as an evade when I should know I'm perfectly safe, or a lock when I definitely should have evaded.

about 2 or 3. Occasionally on a bad day I just do bone headed things.

Three.

I forget what my opponents cards do before the first major engagement

I usually bump two of my ships into each other at some point

I forget to trigger one of my own abilities (usually s-foils)

Forget an opponent has bombs. Misjudge the roll/boost space at the end of the next manoeuvre. Block my own ships pre- or reposition. Fail to plan for an obvious option my opponent just took and I missed. Just turn in a stupid direction with one or many of my ships.

At a guess, maybe 2 or 3 of these a game, but it's not always costly.

8 hours ago, Boom Owl said:

So honest question...how many genuinely stupid mistakes do you make per game at tournaments?

Im talking the kind of mistakes that could lose you games the moment they happen or require you to battle back to recover.

Genuinely stupid mistakes, where I should have known better and where it is ultimately crippling?

It might sound a bit egotistical, and I could be underestimating the number, but I believe the number is very low - maybe 1 every four or five games.

I consider myself an above-average player, and I have placed decently well in the tournaments I've been in - good enough to the degree where I have a reasonable shot at placing in the top 25%. Outside of tournament play, it is rare where I have a game that I feel powerless to influence the outcome.

For most of 1.0, I flew TIE Interceptors, and in 2.0, I've bounced between pure Fangs and Republic, so I'm used to flying ships where big mistakes lose games.

Of course, I've had days where I seem to do nothing but screw up my flying, too.

My Green dice only need me to make one to finish the deal.

About a third of my games I’ll forget the activation order for one turn. It’s always glorious.

Usually either no major ones (if I win) or 1-2 major ones (if I lose), but sometimes far, far more.

About a month ago, I decided to try my TIE/fo as a break from my beloved Strikers.

One thing I forgot is that unlike the extremely pointy striker, it's not visually obvious which direction a TIE/fo or TIE/ln is facing, especially when looking at them side-on.

Guess how I set them up.

Guess what happened in the first turn.

Guess how many ships it happened to.

Guess how well the remaining ships did against a Han/Jake/Norra list after over half their squad mates decided to bug out on the first turn.....

I think the question should be edited to be, "How many mistakes per turn ?"

A lot of mine involve forgetting that my I6 is much better at being blocked than at blocking, and stuff like that.

One or two actual mistakes per game. I'd say 90% of the time now it's forgetting a trigger or card ability till it's too late.

10% of the time it will be an actual major wrong move/missed action/fly off the board mistake. I get about 3 games a week on average so I can live with that 10%.

I feel after 5 years of playing and getting games so regularly, this is pretty decent. I don't hate myself after every game lol

All of them

0.25 per ship per round.

1-3 depending on how well I know my list.

I’m pretty poor at turn zero and often misjudge range on initial engagement. I’m also a bad judge of maneuvers so I either leave way too much space, land on a rock, bump, or miss arc entirely even when I correctly predict the opponent’s move. I think I’m very good at action selection and trigger memory though.

I remember my last 1.0 game I played a list of triple Rebel mini-aces (Hera, Keyan, Fenn IIRC). I landed on 3 rocks in 2 turns, missing two shots and taking 2 hits and a crit, BEFORE the first engagement. The rest is history. I think I’ve improved since then.

sub par list , bumping my ships, forgetting triggers, forgetting to turn cards like s-foils or pivot wing, thinking my dice will help, misjudging distances, not pay attention to what my opponent can do and will do, should I go on