Cannot Get Your Gifts Out December 2020

By Snipafist, in Star Wars: Armada

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13 hours ago, Ginkapo said:

@Snipafist Its midnight over here 👍

Finally got the articles up. Sorry for the delay. Blogger's had a UI change since the last scheduled posts I've done so it didn't publish just after midnight like I wanted, but everything's up now and I've learned what to do in the future.

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7 hours ago, geek19 said:

POST BOMB INBOUND

I did brace for impact...

... but this was an • Avenger kind of post bomb.

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On 12/2/2020 at 12:31 PM, ianediger said:

Agree on Avenger overnerf, could have been something softer like a non-recur with a confire token to refresh.

This got me thinking, why not a Squad token refresh, would hurt BT Avenger, making it have to work hard to get that refresh.

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7 minutes ago, Thrindal said:

This got me thinking, why not a Squad token refresh, would hurt BT Avenger, making it have to work hard to get that refresh.

I still don't think anything that makes refreshing harder would seriously hurt how Avenger was actually used in most games (crushing the big target in a single huge attack). There are other options, I also think @PT106 had a good idea. But it's academic, like I said. Avenger is now binder fodder and that's how it be.

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*Sorry

7 minutes ago, Thrindal said:

*Sorry again

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1 hour ago, Snipafist said:

I still don't think anything that makes refreshing harder would seriously hurt how Avenger was actually used in most games (crushing the big target in a single huge attack). There are other options, I also think @PT106 had a good idea. But it's academic, like I said. Avenger is now binder fodder and that's how it be.

Oh, I agree its binder fodder. I really enjoyed playing Tarkin-Sovereign before the changes and new cards anyway but options were limited to some version of Tarquitens mostly. Now the options are wide open for some version of that list.

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4 hours ago, Snipafist said:

I still don't think anything that makes refreshing harder would seriously hurt how Avenger was actually used in most games (crushing the big target in a single huge attack). There are other options, I also think @PT106 had a good idea. But it's academic, like I said. Avenger is now binder fodder and that's how it be.

Maybe I'm being really thick here, but once you throw BT in, then for the life off me I can't understand what the difference is between PT's suggestion and what we got. I guess without BTs it's better?

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6 minutes ago, Flengin said:

Maybe I'm being really thick here, but once you throw BT in, then for the life off me I can't understand what the difference is between PT's suggestion and what we got. I guess without BTs it's better?

This is exactly the point. Provide additional benefits that are useless for BTVenger.

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5 minutes ago, PT106 said:

This is exactly the point. Provide additional benefits that are useless for BTVenger.

I see. That makes sense.

Also, I'm struck by the feeling that the nerf to Mon Karren was less about Mon Karren being too powerful and more about stopping it from being a strictly better Avenger in the new environment.

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7 minutes ago, Flengin said:

I see. That makes sense.

Also, I'm struck by the feeling that the nerf to Mon Karren was less about Mon Karren being too powerful and more about stopping it from being a strictly better Avenger in the new environment.

You've never been expertly double arced by Mon Karren? Then bumped to death`? :P

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6 minutes ago, Flengin said:

I see. That makes sense.

Also, I'm struck by the feeling that the nerf to Mon Karren was less about Mon Karren being too powerful and more about stopping it from being a strictly better Avenger in the new environment.

I think it was more of a general bump to Raid/Slicers/token mechanic (i.e. provide an agency for the opponent to shutdown important upgrades).

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10 minutes ago, PT106 said:

I think it was more of a general bump to Raid/Slicers/token mechanic (i.e. provide an agency for the opponent to shutdown important upgrades).

FFG has been pushing and trying boost raid ever since it entered the game. So far it has been pretty ho-hum but with all the new token mechanics maybe Raid will become more viable. Gotta play to find out.