Red Castle Games' 2019 Armada Prime Championship is today!

I'm going to be live blogging the event with pics and fleet lists (as best I can), so come back for updates throughout the day. First up, let's start with our custom-made trophy. FFG didn't include a trophy in this year's OP kit so we made our own!

And as is our tradition at Red Castle for special events, we've got an Armada cake for that second-round sugar hit!

Lastly, we have our prize table! I've added some other goodies to the kit, plus we have a special "Anakin" prize for last place, a prize for best painted fleet and best costume. In addition, we're raffling off $200 in store credit throughout the day so someone may be going with with a new Starhawk or Onager!

@Karneck was kind enough to donate even more prizes to our event, including a promo damage deck and a double-sided spot gloss ISD-II/H1MC80!

Here's our list of Commanders. Piett is the most popular, followed by Garm and Dodonna. It's good to see such venerable Rebel commanders are still being taken in large numbers. We've also got some fun outliers in Leia (my favorite), Mothma, Madine and Sato. All in all, a great mix of commanders!

REBELS (16)

Admiral Ackbar x2

Admiral Raddus x3

Commander Sato x1

Garm bel Iblis x3

General Dodonna x3

General Madine x1

General Rieekan x1

Leia Organa x1

Mon Mothma x1

IMPERIALS (10)

Admiral Motti x2

Admiral Piett x4

Admiral Screed x1

Admiral Sloane x1

Admiral Thrawn x1

Moff Jerjerrod x1

Wow Garm has the same representation as Raddus, can no longer be considered janky.

Shmitty in shambles

36 minutes ago, Red Castle Games said:

Red Castle Games' 2019 Armada Prime Championship is today!

I'm going to be live blogging the event with pics and fleet lists (as best I can), so come back for updates throughout the day. First up, let's start with our custom-made trophy. FFG didn't include a trophy in this year's OP kit so we made our own!

And as is our tradition at Red Castle for special events, we've got an Armada cake for that second-round sugar hit!

Lastly, we have our prize table! I've added some other goodies to the kit, plus we have a special "Anakin" prize for last place, a prize for best painted fleet and best costume. In addition, we're raffling off $200 in store credit throughout the day so someone may be going with with a new Starhawk or Onager!

Holy cow. Next time I make the drive down there, this is most impressive. Hope the event is a blast for all participants!

6 minutes ago, The Jabbawookie said:

Holy cow. Next time I make the drive down there, this is most impressive. Hope the event is a blast for all participants!

Thanks! This is my favorite event that we host each year, so I try to go all out in support of the PNW Armada community. It's a sold out show today with 26 players.

ROUND 1 OBJECTIVES

Asteroid Tactics x3

Capture the VIP x1

Dangerous Territory x1

Doomed Station x`1

Fighter Ambush x2

Ion Storm x2

Jamming Barrier x1

Rift Ambush x1

Targeting Beacons x1

BIDS
Our highest bid is 372 for a Piett SSD list. Our second highest bid is 383 for an Admiral Screed Raider fleet.

We have 7 players with no bid, and a total of 9 players with bids between 395-399.

GO WHOEVER'S PLAYING MADINE!

Go Sato! Crit ‘em up!!

Pics of Madine's fleet in action vs Ackbar playing Ion Storm:

Leia vs Piett in a Rift Ambush.

Mothma vs Raddus playing Doomed Station.

A few more pics from round 1.

Red Castle's play space:

@Karneck 's mascot:

Contemplating a turn-2 Profundity Raddus drop:

Tricked-out Triangle!

Id love to know where the piett player found that token holding thing

1 minute ago, Madaghmire said:

Id love to know where the piett player found that token holding thing

He purchased it on Etsy from a vendor called Dangerous Designs.

TURN 1 RECAP
We had x4 10-1s with a Dodonna MC75 Norra bomber swarm, Piett SSD Ravager, Garm Liberty/Pelta combo and Piett ISD/VSD fleet taking top honors. Raddus, Piett, Garm and Dodonna round out the top 8.

Most of the scores were big wins, with just x4 7-4s and a single 6-5.

TURN 2 OBJECTIVES

Abandoned Mining Facility

Asteroid Tactics

Contested Outpost x2

Doomed Station x2

Hyperspace Assault

Infested Fields

Opening Salvo

Salvage Run x2

Superior Positions

Targeting Beacons

Love seeing a pair of Salvage Runs in there!

Garm vs Raddus (second player) in a Salvage Run mission:

The space junk...

Making the run!

The Liberty has yet to appear, but Raddus' MC-75 goes to work.

We have a pair of SSD Ravager fleets at the tournament today. One is helmed by Jerjerrod, the other Piett.

Jerjerood vs Madine

Piett vs Dodonna at Table 1

Another Salvage Run game, this time between Admiral Screed and General Rieekan.

A turn-2 brawl!

Demolisher goes down.

Admonition makes a run for it but flies off the board!

The Rebels win the day, but just barely! It's a 6-5 victory.

TURN 2 RECAP
We had x3 10-1s and x3 9-2s. The Dodonna MC75 Norra bomber swarm leads the pack with 20 points, followed by another Dodonna MC80/Pelta bomber list at 18, and then a pair of Garm bel Iblis lists with 17 points each. The 2 Garm lists are very similar. One has a Liberty, Pelta, Yavaris and CR90A with Jan and Biggs, while the other has an MC-75, Yavaris, Jan, Biggs and Scurrgs.

This round was much closer with a total of x5 6-5s, one of which was separated by only 8 points (267-259).

For round 3 it's Dodonna vs Dodonna and Garm vs Garm!

TURN 3 OBJECTIVES

Asteroid Tactics

Contested Outpost x2

Hyperspace Assault

Infested Fields

Most Wanted

Opening Salvo

Rift Ambush

Solar Corona

Superior Positions x2

Surprise Attack

Targeting Beacons

Madine vs Sloane playing Abandoned Mining Facility. They ran out of objective tokens for scoring and had to use a destiny token from RitR!

Top table for round 3: Dodonna vs Dodonna playing Fighter Ambush

Table 2 for round 3: Garm vs Garm playing Superior Positions

Piett ISD/Interdictor vs Sloane Quasar Fire/Gladiator playing Rift Ambush. Piett used Grav Shift Reroute and Admiral Titus to really put Sloane's fleet in a tough spot on turn 1.