The squads for top 4 finishers were:

1. GOWK/Mace w/ HK-47
2. Dass, Luke, Leia and rebel techiness
3. Naboo pilot/trooper squad
4. Klatooinian Assassins with Poggle bombs

As Nader said more to follow but there's the initial info.

Wow Dass Jennir with a strong showing! Thank you for the list, always interesting to see how squads are doing and what people are thinking of.

I brought the squad against my better judgement (not at all in my comfort zone), but I wanted a challenge. Ironically, even though it is built as a "nuke" squad (Dass Jennir can do 200 damage in one activation with the right setup), it struggled heavily against the only "rock" squad I faced, and handled the swarm squads. It's still rebel, so it's still tech heavy and in some ways fragile, but it was fun.

Leia RC was key - specifically her versatility. I dropped her for Leia Rebel hero vs both Klatoo swarms, and it worked wonders. She allowed Dass, ERC, and Luke to kill a Klatoo or a Geo Drone and move back before they exploded. In one game I used Dass (mouse in place, levitated by Luke, using greater mobile from the Twigo, and using Leia RH's CE to swat two Klatoos in a line then move back. Several were lined up 2x2 in cover, and since they were 2x2 they all killed each other. Seven in one turn without taking a single bit of damage. Sweet.

The overall MVP of my squad was certainly the SpecForce Tech. So integral to the squad. I playtested ONCE with Jake, and he made a great move and killed my SpecForce Tech, and I was totally screwed. Leia, Dass, Twigo, Crix, and not to mention Dodanna and Rieekan ALL shoot twin when within 6 of him, and they along with the ERC all jolt too! Once he goes down my damage output is virtually cut in half.

I had a couple of close games, specifically a VERY close one against the other rebel build (Chris Cook) where Leia vs Leia both surprise attacking each other was the game. I had the luck with my evade rolls and he did not.

All in all I had such a blast! Thanks again to my travel buddies Jake and Jack - and big thanks to the whole Russell clan for the hospitality!!! Gerry - you run great events and I have such a fun time!

Also great to just see and hang out with a bunch of people I rarely see outside of GenCon. Jim, Ted, Josh, Heather, Luke, Chris, Corey and Steve-o - awesome to see you all!

So my squad was based off an idea that TinT had at Gencon and since he and I both love running Mace I figured this would be a good tourney to try it out (well that and I didn't have much a chance to try competitive squads before the event).

My first swiss round was against Pastorbudwine and his Mando squad on Asteroid base. I controlled gambit while he took mostly ineffectual shots at my pieces. When he placed his 2 scouts close to each other so Mace could base them I ran him in and he took both out with a crit. Unfortunately the ensuing deathshots and then a well-timed crit from Mandalore Vin wrecked Mace. I then got 2 good pushes off with GOWK (along with some shots from HK) to reduce his squad to just Mandalore. So HK stayed in gambit behind GOWK and took shots at Mandalore until he finally went down.

The 2nd round was against Luke Cook and it was an excruciating game. He won map so I facing down 12 Klat Assassins on Grand Plaza with Bastila turning off GOWK's ce and boosting said assassins. I stupidly chose to test out the Baran Do Sage in that match to see if he could work to replace the shieldbearer I didn't have in my squad. He didn't work. I lost every piece in that game except Mace and GOWK who had 10 and 20 hp left at the end of the game respectively. But....all the assassins were dead and won 142 to 137.

3rd round vs. Nader and his Deathshot Naboo. We played on Asteroid Base. I learned from our 2012 Gencon Champ and let HK do the heavy lifting while having him hide behind GOWK. HK was able to kill enough pilots while keeping them at bay with disruptive that I won the game 58 to 52 I believe (it may have been 58 to 54, I know it was close). I would be remiss if I didn't mention that Nader rolled a 20 for init right out of the gate, cause yeah, it wasn't going to be enough of an uphill battle.

Final swiss round vs. Timmer. We knew we would both be in the finals so we played a little fast and loose. I put GOWK and Mace in aggressive positions and he ran in Dass to try and put the hurt on Mace. He missed twice, Mace reflected once, and then ate 30 damage. Timmer then failed his Dispassionate Killer save so bye bye Dass. Mace then did his thing, along with GOWK and HK, good ol' Dr. E. that I brought in with reinforcements killed 3 pieces with homicidal surgery.

Semi-final vs. captaingig and his Klat Assassins with bugs
I knew this was going to be a low scoring match if I wanted much of a chance to win. We played on Asteroid Base and I made a bottle neck with mouse droids with HK behind to prevent advancement. I hid Lobot and only used Mace to kill an Uggie and one Klat. About halfway through the game I placed GOWK in gambit where he stayed and never attacked. Gig wasn't able to kill any of my pieces that were worth points, even with bringing in a Jawa Scavenger, and I ended up winning 29 to 10.

Final vs. Timmer again.
I won map and we played on Asteroid Base. He took the side I had been using so I set up bottom left and charged in. He took a chance on killing R2, only needing a 5 with combined fire, and he rolled a 4. He then won init and rolled a 3 to try to kill R2. So Mace was towed in like a freight train and began to pick off his guys. Tim got some damage on Mace but he left Lobot vulnerable to a push from GOWK and I took out his commanders one at a time and once I scored over 80 points I pulled Mace back a bit and played more defensively since Tim at that point would have to at least defeat Mace or Gowk to win along with the rest of my squad to win (GOWK and Mace add up to 120 points together). He wasn't able to do so and eventually I took out Dass (who at this point was pretty well nerfed since he had no CE support) and won the game, along with Frosty Con and a sweet (& appropriate) Obi-Wan Kenobi lightsaber.


I want to thank Gerry for once again hosting Frosty Con and for letting us all crash at his place. It's always a blast to get together with people and play some minis and I hope to see you all in June for the regional.

Really interesting stuff, I would have never thought of Dass+Spec Force. Great call, the main Rebels I thought of from this set were Leia+Master Yoda+Ferus. But I think I like Dass a lot more, especially for the shooting option (and obviously Twin.) The Spec Force is really an awesome addition to the Rebel arsenal along with versatile Leia, she helps out their damage output in so many builds and is a just plain useful piece.

It's the lack of ranged defence and 20HP on those 501st Stormtroopers that always scares me. There are so many fun Imperial toys for them though - GARY came out after them, but the combo of initiative control with Thrawn, cunning with GARY, and three activations first round with Grand Moff Tarkin could put out a lot of damage. I played around with a 150 point reserves squad, using Carnor Jax for a meat shield and for Anticipation, too. There are so many options.

yes, I was forced to eat "timbits" all game long.
great player(& person) + squad from hellz= me needing yet another "man"pon
made me wish I could play Ger-Brear again, at least that game was close

(A little playful trash-talking, Gerry and I have the rapport to do this in good fun - mods don't misinterpret)

Luck kept your squad away from my Darth Nihilus Lord of Hunger. He came out at exactly the worst time in the first round, which kept me from advancing. In the next match he almost single-handedly beat the entirety of the other 12 enemies by himself - to the point where everyone was crying that he is broken and it made the game no fun for them. (It was quite fun for me!)

I'd challenge my 4 vs your 4 any day!