Northampton Store Championship 21/3/15

So here is a quick run down of the store championship in Northampton yesterday.
I didn't write notes down as usual, so some facts may get missed.

My list
I am looking at lists for nationals so I thought lets bring the Decimators out again

Oicunn, Predator, Rebel Captive, Isard
Patrol Leader, Gunner, Vader

Game 1-
3 Blues with FCS and Manglers
1 Redfitted A-wing

Now this game was a bad match up, but the A-wing went around the board dodging rocks but not really getting into the fight till late, the first B came at the Decimators on his own, so got ripped apart, the other two found themselves out of arc alot, but did manage to get a bead on one of the Decimators, before being taken out themselves
Win 100-48

Game 2-
Fat Han
3 Talas

So the Talas ran off while taking a couple of shots from the Decimators, but Han charged in on his own after this, and got battered by the Decimators and he limped off on 2 Hull left, at this point the Headerhunters joined back in, and starting chewing up the Decimators but were losing ships in return, Han came back around and got Vadered and the last Headhunter fell, not before it took down a Decimator though, the last Decimator only had 2 Hull left
Win 100-52

Game 3-
Duel Decimators

So it was to be a dice off, both of us flew well and no mistakes were made (no rock hits etc) and so my dice were slightly better then his, not much else to say here
Win 100-48

Range 1 shots everywhere

Game 4-
Decimator
Whisper

So up against a good friend of mine, last time we played it was a very close game, sadly this one not so much, Oicunn end up blocking Whisper leaving him with no shot, so the Patrol leader single shoot him (range 1 +vader for the finish) after that it was all about taking his Decimator out, but up against two almost untouched at this point it was only going to go one way.
Win 100-0

Game 5-
Decimator
Whisper

Slightly different version this time, and well I got smashed, I just couldnt make any damage stick and he was able to deal out crits well. Good game, but got completely outflown
Lose 0-100

So at this point I was through to the top 8 as 3rd Seed, last time at MK I made top 8 but then lost, which I was here to get the top 4 tokens, and so I needed to play well now.

Top 8
Dash
Corran

A few of my MK team mates know I hate this list, I seem to have a bad run against it, but this time it was a bit different, first exchange I was able to take all of Dash's shields down and while he flow off, Corran tried to take on both Decimators in one go, a mix of extremely bad dice and a lucky Direct hit from Vader meant he was finished very quickly.
Dash finally got back into the fight, but struggled to make any impact at this stage. The game was won when Corren fell, 1 evade in 8 dice hurts
Win 100-0

Dash coming back into the Fight

So I made it into top 4, my goal was complete, but next game anyway

Top 4
Duel Aggressors

Now a list I didnt want to play against at all, its the perfect match up for him against my ships, but he charged the ships head on, meaning the Decimators hit one hard, leaving it on 2 hull and with no pilot abilities, and then taking it down the turn after with a Vader hit, the other Aggressor turned around as did my Decimators and he went head on again, and again with the same results, the Aggressor taking enough damage to be taken out
Win 100-0

Final
Rematch against the Duel Decimators from round 3

So another dice off, and the top table being completely dominated by Decimators, this time a bit of a different outcome, his dice were a little sharper and that was all it took, he knocked one Decimator out early, and the other one was floating around trying to deal enough damage, intill he changed range 1 of hit Oicunn and as we were both PS4, we killed each other, good game though.
Lose 48-100

So a successful day finishing by getting to the final, which was further then I planned, but all that mattered was I finally got my Acrylic Focus tokens, I was only able to make 2 Store Championships this year (top 8 in mk, final in Northampton) but making the cut in both and the final in one, is a success I reckon, now to prepare for the Regional's and then the Nationals!

Top 4 prize, the one I have been trying to get, Acrylic Focus Tokens

MK Store championship 2015

So here is my run down of the events of the MK store championship.
I believe a total of 35 people played as there was a few drop outs.

After taking weeks to decide what list to bring, I still couldn't choose, so I brought along-
4x Bandits
4x Talas

yep a full blown rebel Headhunter swarm, I wasn't sure how it was going to fare against the amount of Interceptors and Phantoms that showed up, but off I go!

Game 1
vs Soontir, Dark Curse, Patrol Leader
Picking targets was easy, taking down the patrol leader very quickly and then a little while later taking down dark curse. Soontir still with 2 hull left was up against 7 headhunters, and he called the game there, we worked out Soontir was about to be blocked anyway so action less against 5-6 headhunters shooting should of been enough anyway.
Win 100-12

Dark Curse and Soontir surrounded 

Game 2
vs Rexlar, Howlrunner, 3 Academy's
This game went down to time, with Ties dying as well as Headhunters, Rexlar lived only thanks to his Lone Wolf re-rolls, very close game though
Win 54-51

The mini swarm crashes head first into the Rebel swarm

Game 3
vs Whisper, Howlrunner, 3 Academy's
Great a phantom! Lets see how this goes!
Early shots see me go after the mini swarm, taking down Howlrunner and 2 Academy's, at this point I turn my remaining 7 headhunters towards whisper, now whisper had 2 options, decloak left or forward (right was blocked) decloaking left would see Whisper blocked next turn and taking 5-6 headhunter shots for two turns running. He took a decloak forward which with the movement he had chosen took him off the board.
Win 100-12

Game 4
vs Echo, 2 Sigmas
Great 3 Phantoms!
First pass saw a Sigma go down, but after that the headhunters couldnt line up the shots, Echo just picked off a headhunter at will, while the Sigma was keeping out of arcs well, and the odd shot that did come in had little effect against the phantom defence.
Lose 29-100

Game 5
vs WSF, Luke, Rookie
Early on I knocked off 3 shields off Luke (he has shield upgrade), Luke ran off to heal... which was my Goal, leaving the 8 headhunters to hunt down the rookie and the Mangler outrider, I was never able to finish off Luke, but killing the other two ships meant Luke had a lot of work to do on his own.
Win 63-38

Bandits chasing the poor outrider

Game 6
vs Real Admiral, Patrol Leader
Fun game this one, my dice were poor but in the end the weight of dice against these ships was enough, he did pick off 4 headhunters and a couple of others were damaged, but he couldn't finish them off.
Win 100-50


Top 8
vs Rexlar, Howlrunner, 3 Academy's
I repeat of round 2! But with a twist... Green dice! To sum it up all 8 headhunters shot 1 tie, and were unable to kill it! In the last turn of the game it came down to if I could kill his last two ties (1 had 1 Hull and 1 had 2 Hull), I was able to point all my headhunters at them, including at range 1, but not a single shot got through, including 3 natural evades to save one of them.
Lost 30-49

Overall a good day, and a lot of fun
Won some nice goodies, but the FFG dice bags do seem really low quality but the cloak tokens look really good.

The Final was between the players I played in round 3 and 6 and the duel Decimators winning the whole thing.
The biggest surprise for me, was that there wasn't many Scum lists around, a lot of Soontirs and Phantoms and not many turrets!
So looking at that, I am quite happy with my results, as the swarm really struggles vs ships like Phantoms and Soontirs!

Till next time :) 

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

:)