Last night I met up with CrookedWookie for a battle or 2. First match was Bwing vs bwing with me realizing that Heavy Lasers are really beasts. It came down to one on one and he had the advantage with his last Bwing having full strength. I was down to hull I think. The only thing I had going for me was some moves he did not catch, which got me in his head and he turned out second guessing moves. But I know once he caught up it was pretty much the end of me. And it was.

Second game was a great match. He had Han with 2 recons, title, and push the limit, along with 2 naked Bs. The han load out he had read somewhere on here, and it was a kinda joke load out BUT it did come in handy a couple times. I ran BH with engine and gunner, 2 vanilla ties, and Darth with engine and Vet.

Set up didn't go great, as my plan was foiled by his layout. SO I set them bottome left corner with him with the bs in the middle and Han on my right corner. His Bs went for the middle and han came up and around to the middle. My ties stayed in fromation the whole time (pretty proud of that) they came up to the middle left and turned to the center, the BH went a little farther ahead of the ties before turning in. Darth flew fast and was the flanker. The Bs where first to fall. They did deal some damage. My Ties had 2 hits quick, but mostly held on.

Fast forward to the ending moves

He has an untouched Han (attacks missed prior) I have a BH that has already hit a rock in prior moves. 1 tie that has one hull left and Vader with just hull. In one turn I had all 3 able to fire on Han. well he was set up as a Focus monster with 3 focus, well all three attacks were defended thanks to those focus's. Which for me meant all miss, which as an attacker, that sucked. MOre time travel. Vaders gone in one shot. BH got hung up on the same tiny rock twice thanks to a stupid move by me and that rook tie is still in. TIE gets one shoted out.

Its BH vs Han. Han has some shield down, after me trying to force him off the mat by getting in front of him and trying to have him hit me we maneuver apart. I have one hull left and am going the opposite direction of him and boost out of range. He heads off with one hull as well, and has a crit of if he hits anything he takes a damage. So he is flying through the rocks and flying safe. I come around and line up to joust it out. Knowing its one evade from death for both of us. I slow roll to him knowing range 3 is my best bet. He comes a little faster, with firing first, its a good call. He delivers 3 hits rolled at range 2. I had taken an evade action, and rolled 2 evades. I return fire and get 2 hits and a crit. BOOM!

If I had boosted on my last move he would have just overlapped me, meaning he would have died thanks to the crit. Which that thought HAD crossed my mind. But I didn't want to be in range one with him getting a bonus die AND having focus monsters.

SO I think our total vs score is like 8 to 1. I have the 1, but it was hard fought. ANd imagine if that drunk BH could have not hit that rock 2 times in a row, that was 2 more shots he could have taken. Oh well. It was a great game, probably the most fun game I have had with this, and not just because I won, but that it was down to 1v1 hit.

Oh sure, put up a report for the one you WON.

Those were both pretty brutal battles. 6 B-Wings with FCS, at least 4 (and I think actually 5) of which had heavy lasers is just a recipe for pain. I thought I had a big advantage early in that one, only to get blasted back even harder (red dice were a lot hotter than green in that game) and wind up on my back foot for most of the match.

The Han game was tough. I had mixed feelings; 3 focus a turn was nice (and got USED, several times) but I often would PTL with him to focus AND evade, and that was handcuffing my maneuvers a bit trying to clear stress or winding up defenseless the following turn.

B-Wings are usually my jam, but I did not fly them well this game and I'm not sure why. They just sort of meandered into the fray, didn't set up good shots, did some damage but got picked apart fairly early. I felt like they were wasted, which was doubly frustrating since they're my main ship. I think I was so focused on flying Han and being a bit rusty on my large ship maneuvering that I didn't pay enough attention to what I was doing with the Blues, maybe.

Not much else to say about the final exchange. We were trading shots back and forth across the map. Broke, circled around, came back at each other trying to gauge distance. I wanted to close to range 1 and ensure I finished him off, but Han had a Stunned Pilot crit on him, and the BH moved first. If I guessed wrong I would land on him an automatically die, so I played it a bit conservative and wound up with the range 2 shot. Still managed to finagle 3 hits on my attack roll, and all he had to do was NOT roll 2 evades on his dodge, in combination with the evade token he had on him.

Naturally, he rolled 2 evades. To be honest, after making such poor use of my Blues, I didn't deserve to even stay in the game as long as I did, but Han is a beast. I don't know if I would ever use 2x RecSpec in a tournament or anything but it was an interesting experiment. I probably overused PTL (which would have been less necessary had the B-Wings actually killed anybody and reduced the incoming shots on Han a bit) but having an evade token and a stack of focus every round of combat was handy. That said I'm not sure there weren't better options available.

The fact it was basically 5-on-Han and he clawed his way back to a 1hp sudden death matchup is a testament to how brutal he is dishing out damage, but definitely not my finest hour and despite a few piloting errors in the Firespray, he did an admirable job of making me pay for my own mistakes.

Hey I did mention that we are like 8 and 1 vs eachother, so yes I'm gonna tell about my one good game.