So I just bought into this game, hard. Got a decent rebel and imperial fleet going on. Me and my regular gaming buddy played a few games last night.
The first one was just the quick start rules from the starter. After some playing around with the different manuvers he smashed my poor rookie with me dealing only trivial damage to his TIEs.
Second game we played was the shuttle escort mission. I was able to get his TIEs to split their fire between my xwing and the shuttle so it was able to make it off. He probably wont make that mistake again so a rematch might be a little different.
Third we did the disabled ship mission. Even with 1 and 2 speed manuvers and smacking into an asteroid luke smashed the TIE fighters handidly and fled taking only a single hit to his shields. (constantly rolled evade/focus)
The last game we played we ran with 50 points. I had Luke with determination and a Prototype pilot with concussion missles. He had 3 Acadamy TIEs and a Black Squadren TIE. We didnt use any asteroids in this game. I deployed Luke and the Awing in the center of my side. He deployed his TIEs in paris on either corner and came right at me. I banked my awing and luke to keep them togeather. in the first round of real shooting luke TLed the BSP and landed a single hit thanks to some good rolls by the TIE but it was a crit 'minor hull breach' in the subsequent traffic jam it would prove the BSPs death. The Awing locked on and loosed his missle at the acadamy pilot, rolled 2 hits and 2 crits. Alrighty I'm thinking, one hit goes away for the evade token, then he drops 3 evades on his defense dice... His return fire strips the awing down to 1 HP and takes a shield off of luke. Then the next 2 turns the traffic jam of saddness happens, almost no one gets actions including both my pilots. the awing get right up on 2 TIEs(one behind the other) cant shoot at the wounded one in front so blasts his 3 dice into the one behind, 3 hits and the TIE drops all blanks, for the first kill. That turn luke is right behind the only TIE with an action(evade) and totally whiffs his 4 attacks. Next luke and the TIE both hit K-turns and the TIE ends up behind luke! lukily the force was with luke and i only lost my second shield. The BSP cant seem to drive and takes his second and third hit running into luke and the Awing in the 2 respective turns. at that point i had luke and the awing who up until now had been keeping the sembalance of a formation break and both loop around, luke kills the second acadamy TIE and my awing evades retaliation. At this point we call it 1 Acadamy TIE isnt going to get both luke and the awing. we had a lot of fun and will be playing alot this thursday night..
