Misfits championship!

So our little team of 5 all got a mini event going, purpose was to practice lists ready for the store championships we were attending.
We were allowed to give advice and remind each other things, as this was to help each other out.

Very fun and causal event :)

Here is the run down with some pictures :)
As there was 5 of us, 1 person sits out every round, everyone played everyone, I also counted the wins by Rebel and Imperial forces

Round 1-
Lee (tie swarm) vs Luke (Han with 2 x-wings)
Close game, but Han wouldnt fall quick enough.
Luke wins 64-46

Rhys (Decimator/Firespray) vs Ryan (BBBBZ)
Rhys flew into Ryans rebel swarm, which meant damage soon built up on the poor Imperials
Ryan wins 100-0

Rebels 2 Imperials 0

Lee thinking.. how can I kill that Han!

Imperials flying into a rebel swarm

Round 2-
Edward(Firespray, mini swarm) vs Rhys(4 ship rebels)
Edwards ships picked off the rebels a ship at the time
Edward wins 100-30

Ryan(Rebel Tulips) vs Luke (Han with 2 x-wings)
Han skimmed the edges shooting and picking on ships, whey all the other ships jousted
Luke wins 100-21

Rebels 3 Imperials 1

The Imperials hunt down the Rebels

Han watching the Joust between the 6 Rebel ships

 Round 3-
Edward(Firespray, mini swarm) vs Ryan(Rebel Tulips)
The Imperials went on the hunt, and took out the Rebels, and poor Wedge fell last
Edward wins 100-36

Lee(Phantom, mini swarm) vs Rhys(Falcon with escort)
The phantom and the swarm charged in taking apart the Falcon and its support
Lee wins 100-36

Rebels 3 Imperials 3

Round 4-
Lee(Phantom, mini swarm) vs Ryan (Tie swarm)
In a close game, the Phantom was the deciding factor
Lee wins 72-24

Edward(Firespray, mini swarm) vs Luke (Han with 2 x-wings)
The rebels quickly find the X-wings have been taken out, and the Falcon gets chased down and destroyed
Edward win 100-30

Rebels 3 Imperials 5

The Phantom looks menacing 

Round 5-
Lee(Phantom, mini swarm) vs Edward(Firespray, mini swarm)
The Firespray and support make quick work of the Phantoms support, before taking down the Phantom aswell
Edward win 100-0

Rhys (BBBBZ) vs Luke (Phantom and Decimator)
The Imperials made some big mistakes in this game, the Phantom crashed into the rebel formation, while cloaked (it couldn't uncloak)and then the rebels blasted it out the sky, before turning and taking down the Decimator, all in under 20 minutes
Rhys win 100-0

Rebels 4 Imperials 6

Ties lining up their shots onto the Firespray

 So a good day, and good practice, here are the final scores!

So Imperials edged the Rebels with 6 wins over 4

And here is the finishing postions

1st-Edward
2nd-Lee
3rd Luke
4th Ryan
5th-Rhys

Doom spoon for last place given to Rhys (left)  and then Misfits trophy for first place, given to a very happy looking Ed (Right)

Till next time :)

Happy Gaming

Conquest and X-wing!

So Saturday saw 4 of us play some conquest!
I went 2-1 in the Swiss and then won in the final, i was using Ragner Blackmane as my Warlord

Game 1-

Very close game against Dark Eldar, I won on the 7th planet by warlord kill, both of us had 3 planets each at this point!
Win

Game 2-

Played against Marines and got thrashed completely, he had the perfect set up, and nothing I could do about it
Lose

Game 3-

Vs Chaos, this game was won by me killing the Warlord on Planet 5, he had to commit to planet 5, as if I won the planet I won the game anyway.
Win

Game 4(Final)

Vs the Marines I lost to in game 2, Got a warlord kill again this game (theme running?) on the 5th planet, game turned a bit one sided, I got a bit lucky due to after I used a Mulligan on a rubbish hand, the new hand gave me 3 Elysian Assault teams... which set me up very quickly
Win

Good fun and some nice prizes

Prizes :)

I also got 4 games on X-wing in, using my Imperial big 3 list (I am trying this list out for store championships) The list basically is a Patrol leader with rebel Captive, basic bounty hunter, and a shuttle with Darth Vader

Game 1
vs Wedge, Wes and Garvin
Won 100-33, my list just out lived theirs basically

Game 2
Vs Wedge, Wes, Biggs, Tala
Won 100-33 again, same as last time, as soon as Biggs fell so did Wedge, leaving Wes and a Tala vs a untouched decimator and a half life shuttle.

Game 3
Vs Twin Firespray
I won this 100-24, including taking one bounty hunter out in first round on shooting (range 1 of two of my ships) and he hit it with relentless, and after that it was a case of chasing after his other bounty hunter.

Game 4
Rematch vs the twin firesprays
This time it was a 100-0 win for me, long game, lots of chasing, and 1 Hull left on my bounty hunter, and not much on my Decimator or shuttle either! Good game though

But I am now scrapping this list for the store championships, as I do not believe it can take on lists such as Dash and Corran, hmmm back to the drawing board

Anyway a very quick written post as its getting late

Happy Gaming :)

X-wing MK January

So back to MK for some more x-wing fun!
Having never used Han or used a yt-2400 on a table top, and with store champions/regionals around the corner thought I would give them a test!
Normal stuff, might have got bits mixed up from games (I dont take notes)

So the list is basically Han who is a hard nut to bring down and using swarm tactics to make the yt-2400 shot at ps9 to! Also 98 points just in case there is a couple of phantoms flying around!

Han solo
-Swarm tactics
-c3po
-R2D2
-Falcon title

Wild Space Fringer
-Heavy Laser Cannon
-Outrider

So my Falcon and a outrider basically! and off we went!

Game 1
Against-
Vessery, VI, HLC
Chiraneau, Expose, Isard, Experimental interface

So this list looks solid and was always going to be hard, but after he dropped my outrider, it was always going to be his game, I got lucky with a crit on his decimator meaning he couldnt use pilot abilities etc, but after his decimator went down, I just couldnt use Han to out move Vessery well enough, needed engine upgrade!
Result- Lose 57-100

Game 2
Against-
Chewbacca, vi, C3p0, lando
Leebo, outrider, HLC, recon spec,

So this started off close, but my mistake here was getting my ships to far away from each other, both of our Falcons took down the outriders, and left a duel, but my Falcon only have 2 hull left vs his 8 hull was always going to be hard! But he finally got my Falcon at range 1, his falcon only having 2 Hull left! Got out flown this game well and truly
Result-Lose 50-100

Game 3
Against-
2 Rookies
2 Blues, 1 with FCS
1 Bandit

So to sum this game up, outrider stays out of arc all game and snipes, while the Falcon does the same and only gets a few damage, this guy kept crashing and was unlucky on a lot of his dice
Result- Win 100-0

Game 4
Against-
Ociunn, expose
Kendrick, determination, gunner, isard

Interesting build to go up against, expose with no experimental interface just doesnt work in my opinion, but anyway, proved to be a close game with his Ociunn going down first, and then my outrider limped away to try to live (It had 1 hull left) and Han went on to deal with Kendrick, just.. only had 2 Hull left at the end of the game.
Result Win 100-0

Game 5
Against-
Leebo, outrider, hlc, determination, recon spec
Biggs, r4d6, hull upgrade
Cracken, swarm tactics

This game has to be my favourite today! Losing the outrider in the first 2-3 turns but somehow crashing into biggs to keep shooting Cracken, and then staying out of range of Leebo till I finished Biggs.. then it came down to the face that Leebo couldnt do enough damage to actually hurt the Falcon, and a few turns I got my Falcon into range 1, meant I was able to turn this game around, very fun and enjoyable game.
Result- Win 100-42

Overall a good day, and as always a well run event by the TO, came away with a Dagger promo card and some Acrylic seismic bomb tokens, finishing 6th I think

Anyway heres a couple of pictures! Forgot to take many!

Game 3, Bandit already been destroyed, and some large ship arc dodging

Game 4, My ships hunting themselves some Imperial Decimators 

  

X-wing Rugby event

So last weekend I turned up to a event in Rugby, very good event held by the nice people of Shadow Games.
As always sorry I forget most players names :(


I couldnt choose between trying out the VT-49 or the YT2400 but when I second Vt-49 turned up... my choice was made!

Twin VT list-

Read Admiral Chiraneau
Rebel Captive
Veteran Instincts

Captain Oicunn
Ruthlessness
Mara Jade
Dauntless

Idea is Chiraneau picks shots from range dealing damage while Oicunn gets into the mix and causes damage and stress aswell as a general issues for the other player.

Game 1 vs Gary (I had played this great guy on vassal a couple of times, great lad)
Gary was the only other player running a Decimator in this event, but he ran his with Whisper
I started this game well putting 13 hits on his Decimator, but my dice turned, I couldnt roll a hit for anything, intill a lucky turn when Chiraneau rolled 4 natural hits on a uncloaked phantom (I shoot first) and with him onnly having two hull left, he was gone, by the end of it, it was a very close game, I finished with 2 Hull left on Chiraneau and that was it!
Win 100-50

Game 2
Up against 3 Tie fights, 1 interceptor and Echo.

I really dont want to be playing against phantoms as they each my hull to quick, but this game, Oicunn ramming and Mara jade won me it, causing him to not be able to K-turn around me and do much else, I had a full heath Chiraneau and Oicunn who had 1 hull left.
Win 100-0

Game 3
Whisper and 4 ties... great another phantoms, so glad I put VI on Chiraneau now.
Close game, lots of stress on his ships, he tried to run off to clear stress and regroup, but whisper was in range 3 of Chiraneau, so he murdered him. A highlight of this game though was the Academy pilot who in the late game had 1 hull left, and would not die.... took 3-4? turns of shooting at various ranges before he finally fell, and then a howlrunner with stealth turned out to be a easy task to drop!
Win 100-50

Game 4 and last one of the swiss
Against Craig Reed.
Yep he was after his revenge! Already beaten him twice in a past event, and now he wants to get one back
And he had 7 ties... not a list I wanted to be up against.
This game turned into me trying to drop a tie a turn.. and most turns I did, including first range 3 engages, ruthlessness must of dealt around about 4-5 points of damage this game, including on the last turn when Oicunn shots down a tie at range 1, and uses ruthlessness to finish off dark curse.. as always a very good and enjoyable game against Craig, and very very close.
Result 100-50

Semi final
So I go into the semi finals as the top player, but finding out I had to be leaving asap, my game against Tom was very quick and brutal, He had Dash and Chewbacca, he done 8 damage in two shoots from Dash, and hits me hard early on, but as soon as Chiraneau gets into range 1 of dash, dash couldnt escape and soon falls, but by this stage it was Chiraneau vs chewbacca and chewbacca had the hull advantage and went on to destroy Chiraneau, think chewbacca had 4 hull left.
Good game, but knowing I couldnt stay for the final, it was good to get going.
Results 52-100

So off I went got a Promo Jendon card and a Y-wing box for 4th place (didnt have time to play the play off)

Good day and hopefully will be down again :)

Only one picture, as I forgot to take many.

This is from game 3, as we lined up turn 2

MK, Friendly X-wing

So after Rushden yesterday, I got informed of some friendly x-wing going on today at MK, so down I went, with the goal to try some more stuff out!

Game 1-
So A-wing testing with a E-wing

Corran, R2D2, Marksmenship, FCS
Farrell, PTL, VI, Refit, Test Pilot
Tycho, PTL, VI, Refit, Test Pilot

Vs

Wes
Wedge
Rookie
Rookie

So I got battered, and lost 100-50, taking out a Rookie and Wes, most of the damage came from Corran, and my dislike for A-wings hasnt changed, as they got shot out the sky to easily, as a aggressive player, I dont think A-wings are for my personal style of play.

Game 2-
I have never done very well with z-95's, so I thought lets try a mini swarm and give it another go.

Biggs
Hobbie, R3A2
4x Bandits

vs

Garvin
Cracken
Prototype Pilot, refit
Ethan, sensorm R2, engine

So I won this 100-0, hobbie was on 1 Hull left, but forcing range 3 shots on Biggs instead of the z-95's really helped me win this one, still not 100% on the z's, so I thought I would give it another go.

Game 3
So same list for me!

Biggs
Hobbie, R3A2
4x Bandits

vs

Farlander, HLC, adv sensor, ptl, kyle

Farrel, ptl, test pilot, deadeye, Cluster missiles

Gemmer, VI, test pilot, refit

So again I won 100-0, and murdered Farlander very quickly, and Farrel went down quickly to, this game I was running the Z's as blockers, and it worked, by Gemmer was a nightmare to kill, all those extra evade dice.. but fell in the end.

So I starting to like that mini swarm list, but I am still not convinced.. so I loaded it up onto Vassal, and we shall see how it goes, when I get chance to play

:)

X-wing, rushden

So got to rushden today to get some games in against the Williams brothers, we played 4 games, and I tried something new that I have never done before.
  Game 1-
My list was a miss mash, to let me try lots of things

Shuttle
Rhymer, ptl,2xapt
Cowall, VI
Obsidian

Vs

Keyan, ptl
Blue
2x green pilot, stealth, ptl, refit

So I lost 100-22, good game, but my mush mash ships didn't hold up, what I leant was shuttle can be a beast when flown around the game, not into it.

Game 2
My list was having a go, at tusken raiders, famous sigmas, and trying out low PS phantoms

4x sigma phantoms

Vs

Chewbacca
Wedge
Rookie

So we both lined up facing each other, and the first round of shooting saw a phantom and wedge go down, from here the falcon found it self flying away with little to do, while the phantoms murdered the rookie.
The falcon got rid of another phantom, but 4 red vs 1 green is never nice..
Win 100-50, lots of firepower, but no holding power, got to stay out of arcs

Game 3
So trying out E2 and tacticians

4x blue, E2, tacticians

Vs

krassis, hlc
Sontir
Saber

So first turn of shooting sees krassis with 4 stress, within a few turns a blue went down as well as the saber and krassis, and then it come down to chasing sontir.

Win 100-25,  I like the idea, but b-wings dont move well enough to be without any other types of ships

Game 4
First time ever... I will be flying Biggs

Wes, r2, ptl
Keyan, opportunist
Biggs, r2d2

Vs

6 z-95, including blout and cracken

So game finished 100-0, Biggs done well by just keep getting shields back, and wes and keyan only took damage from asteroids, so some bad flying there by me, but while the list did well and seemed solid, with wes and keyan and opportunist combo, I did think that 2 more ships instead of Biggs, could of been better

Anyway, things I still want to try-
A-wing in more detail
Horton salm
Chewbacca, Biggs list, very defensive but could be interesting, maybe next time, as I don't think I will get any games in now before January.

:)
(Written on my tablet, so grammar may be even worse then normal)

MK Return of the Jedi Event

So another MK event, ( I got to everyone this year)

And another theme, so this time taking ships from the film, and so here is my list!

Lando, VI, Nien
Wes, VI, R3-A2
Rookie

Well something like that, I wasnt going to bring a Falcon, as I did have another list, but the signed Falcon picture, was my motivation of bringing Lando!

I forgot most load outs and names (as always) But then it is only a quick rough blog.

So here we go, I turned up shattered, so could be a interesting day.

So game 1-
Against
2 low Ps Phantoms
1 Alpha Interceptor
1 Shuttle

So went and got murdered, I couldnt hit anything, (bad dice, vs really good evade dice)
and I made some silly moves etc,  so went on to lose, I got 42 points, for killing the shuttle and the Interceptor, but not the start I was looking for.
Lost 42-100

So here I go and drink a can of Monster before next game.... well that worked wonders, so I had another one to make sure I was awake!

Game 2, Scott-
Phantom
Defender
Shuttle

So wide awake, it was a different game, I took out his Phantom after he found itself range 1 of Wes, and then the Defender fell quickly next, the shuttle was off on its own, and was never going to turn around before being shot apart
Win-100-0

So lunch time, 1-1 not to bad, went for lunch with Lee, and we chatted about how we are doing and his list etc...... so game 3.. was always going to be Lee

Game 3-Lee
Phantom
Interceptor
Shuttle

This was a murder, my dice got lucky to one shot his Interceptor, but the phantom was no match to Lando and Wes, and then a rookie pilot, near enough took on the shuttle, as it slowly got back into the fight, So good result
Win-100-0

Game 4
42 point Horton Salm
Wedge
Biggs

Well, second pass saw me lose my Rookie and him lose biggs, but it came down to 2 hull Lando, and 1 Hull wes, vs 1 Hull Salm and 1 Hull Wedge, so when Lando take out Salm, he takes a risk with Wedge, and puts him out of arc of wes, but Lando can still just get a range 3 shot on him, and kills him.
Win 100-21, game of the day for me, as it was so close, and it could of swung either way

Game 5, Kyle
So my arch enemy (insert evil laugh here)
We are the only two fighting for the Lando poster... and the Grand Championship, so winner takes all.
He has duel Falcon, and I not even going to talk about this game, me and Kyle normally have close great games and have a laugh, but this was a slaughter, he didnt roll a single evade all game, but made worse, when I kept roll all natural hits, and rolled so many crits.. including 3 natural crits in one roll... so very quick win, but not a enjoyable game.. He did kill Wes though
100-32

So 4-1 and finished second in total, 1st place had killed 4 more points then me, but still got some cool stuff.

So my Grand Championship price, a awesome drinking horn (need to try it out), and the Signed Falcon Picture, and stress tokens,
I took Stress tokens over a ship(Had a choice of them or a wave 4 ship), mainly because I got all the ships I need, even though I was tempted by another Z-95, and how often do the Acrylic tokens turn up?

So some awesome prizes again, and I think that may be it for MK events this year(lots of things on) but I cant wait for next years events :)