Hey all, been lurking around for a while on the forums here and finally decided to make an account. In my area here in Nebraska we have a small leauge play going on, we're trying to get more people involved in playing as well.
Our league is just the first game we play of the night and we cycle through the missions from the rule book and the large ship expansions at 100pt games, then we play some other games. I've only played 6 games of x-wing so far but I'm loving it, have been collecting it since the spring didn't have much time to play till now.
My opponent and I played the smuggler mission from the Falcon box this past weekend. He was playing rebels so I made a quick Imperial list and we rolled off to see who was escorting and who was capturing. I was escorting.
My list was one I always wanted to try playing since I read about it a while ago:
Soontir Fel w/ PTL and Stealth Device
Turr Phennir w/ PTL and Stealth Device
Darth Vader w/ Concussion Missle and Stealth Device
The variation of this list I saw had Phenner with Veteran Instincts instead of Push The Limits and gave Vader Engine Upgrade instead of Stealth Device. Since it's only 3 ties I liked all with stealth device and wanted the bonus action with Phennir over making him PS 9 too.
My opponent ran with:
Biggs w/ R2D2 and Shield Upgrade, I think
Garven w/ can't remember what
Ibtisam w/ advanced proton torpedo and can't remember what else
With deployment he had Garven as the smuggler, and I placed the escort tokens on Fel and Phennir as they had the extra mobility. He deployed along my left side of the table with all 3 ships, Garven nearest to try for turn 1 container grab, Ibtisam behind him and Biggs in the rear, who after movements was outside of range 1 of Garven. My 3 ships moved up to engage, Vader in the center to meet them head on and my interceptors on the outside flanks. Vader target locked Garven and focused, fired his concussion missle taking away all of Garven's shields, Fel and Phennir finished him off. His Ibtisam and Biggs fired at Vader taking away 1 shield and his stealth device was lost.
Turn 2 Biggs was the new smuggler and failed at catching the nearest container which at end of turn was moved 4 as both my escorts were near it. Ibtisam target locked Phennir. I moved Phenner up and with a boost and a barrel roll moved behind the B-wing, Fel moved out and behind Biggs, Vader moved shallow right to get outside of fire range of Biggs and Ibtisam. My interceptors took the shields and 2 hull off of Biggs thanks to range 1, nothing happened to my ships.
Turns 3 & 4 Biggs and Ibtisam moved straight forward to the center container which was captured ultimatley,giving up on destroying my ships which was the good call, Biggs was destroyed and the B-wing was the new smuggle making a break across the table to the far right container.
Turns 5&6, my ships gave chase trying to take down the B-wing removing most of the shields but he was not able to catch the container and it moved off the table.
Game ended in a win for me.
I really enjoyed playing this list, it was very fast and hard hitting, but very delicate as there was only 11 hull points and shields on the table on my side split between 3 targets. I can see where this list can have its drawbacks especially if a ship gets caught in the open and crippling them as a whole as it's only 3 ties on the field.
Edited by Jmach