It is a popular game, but there are dead spots. Where I live, there's a lot of Attack Wing played, but not much X-Wing. I've been getting friends into it, but I don't have that many friends lol. Fortunately I work about an hour away from home, and in that area it's more popular. First time I've ever appreciated that commute.
Yeah I know how that is. Now apparently their is another gaming store closer neer the middle of Iowa City but travel time is dramtically higher for me to get their.
This keeps getting better and better.
The "good" news is that a 4.5' x 2' playing surface has the same area as the 3x3 table. The bad new is simply that it is much harder to USE that space as the entire middle is effectively a pinch point. The follow up to playing on a rectangle is what side is home? The long side or the short one? That 2' length it barely six range units from side to side which means two turret equipped Y-Wings could just fly down it at cover the entire width of the board; a single YT-1300 would do the same leaving absolutely no room to go around it should it be travelling down the center.
Maybe the only tactic I could see working for the Interceptor there is hope you get a head on range 3 shot then shoot past the Y-Wing before turning around and trying again. The problem with that unfortunately it perfectly clear; you can NOT shoot past the Y in a single turn so even if you could be outside of it's primary fire arc you're still going to get hit by that blasted turret.
Yeah home base has been at the end of the long end of the table. He flys those A4s like steam roller Interceptors. With 7 on the table it gets real difficult. I did roll pretty good with the Baron despite being locked on to by Dutch, one Gold, and Gray leader, with torps. That time I tried going head long at him hopfully range 1 activate focus for all Interceptors and used it for defence only. They wasted three torps on him.
I guess with a 2' wide board I'd just be happy he's using Blaster Turrets instead of Ion turrets. I'm not sure how often he's landing more than one hit with the Blaster Turret as he needs the focus to fire but with a 2' board getting ioned could easily mean death if you're not pointed the right way when it happens.
It feels like he gets 2 and 3 hits on average. Most the time I save though. I have gotten unlucky one time with advanced torp and once or twice Instant death from blaster turret.
Ug.
I say table the interceptors, get either firesprays, or match his numbers with bombers, shield upgrade, all the missiles, all the torps, all the named pilots, and then fly down his throat and introduce his cluster to massed proton bombs, then 5kturn and finish any survivors with missiles.
Thats what I was affraid of
Except TIE Fighters and Interceptors I only got one of each Imp ship, at of all the ships I feel the Bomber is usless in this crazy set up. I could be wrong.
This guy is obviously a fan of that other version of chess, where one player only has pawns and the other one has all queens
It's just ridiculous, aside from the fact that it is blatant cheating, it sounds like this guy has some kind of psychological disorder.
About all I can say is that I have to salute the OP's calm demeanour; in the same situation I would probably feel compelled to occasion actual bodily harm to my opponent. Likely several times over.
I like your chess remark. One thing I can be geartful for is that this game doesnt have salvage rules like BFG. If it did he could take my Interceptors home and then all I have would be 1 of each ship except the Three TIE Fighters.
Until otherwise disproved we should assume that all rules are being followed.
I do recall seeing "you can't have an upgrade unless it is actually on the card" meaning the Interceptor MAYBE gets an elite pilot upgrade in addition to its Modification (there was an early mix up calling the Stealth Device "Sensor Jammers" by mistake) while the Y-Wing gets it turret, two torps, droid, and modification. Now we have heard that cost considerations have been thrown out thus getting rid of the games primary balance mechanism. We've only now heard about the wrong size board. What other "rules" have we heard are being thrown out/ignored? Unfortunately "Costs" covers a LOT of ground.
Well besides the board and cost of ships and the 2nd Death Star mission from my understanding of the rule book, at the time didnt see the FAQ, we are following the rules including the dutch comp rules which states you must lose a toe of finger for each ship of yours lost. That last part their was a joke and was meant to be funny, if it where true I would be very shtockoed.
Actually, given that he is blatantly cheating, why not just table only one ship but say that all it's stats are 50. When he tries to complain that you rolling 50 attack dice is not in the rules, point out that he isn't playing by the rules either and perhaps it would be better if you both did so.
That sounds good to me but prob wouldnt fly.