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Sounds like fun!

Yes, set up takes a lot of effort. Using printed YASB works really well for big games. I would recommend pulling out any cards/tokens/ships out ahead of time if you can (night before or whatever).

The game should go a lot smoother once you play a couple of games. I've found by game 3 everyone knows what is going on and should be playing well enough.

It's a shame the Raider didn't fire! It is a power house when it gets in range to shoot.

Yeah, that's been my experience so far too. Capital ships like the CR-90 provide a lot of punch, which can make them the backbone of your fleet. Sounds like you were able to successfully Tie up the Imperial fighters with your Y Wings. Feel free to groan over that one. And yeah, provided you have the shields for it, running over enemy starfighters with the CR-90 can be a nasty tactic. Of course, the trick is that your opponent will realize that too. So you have to try to outguess where they will go to evade your CR-90.

What hardpoints was the Raider running? Cause it sounds like you were out ranging your opponent's capital ship.

2 hours ago, Faerie1979 said:

What hardpoints was the Raider running? Cause it sounds like you were out ranging your opponent's capital ship.

It had targeting battery. When I say it didn’t shoot, I mean it did 1 damage over three shots. Which is basically nothing. It also had ordnance tubes with cluster missiles. My friend couldn’t get in range Bc he slow rolled his ship and Couldn’t get close enough.