I forgot Council Member, definitely in my top ten.

Squads at least?

i popped in the game for a sec on vassal and it looked like Daman was running sith, caedus and legends sidious, while scruffy ran legends star killer's clone and cad bane.

I was not in top form last night by any means. After playing for years with Booming Voice and then playing without it, without any practice at all really causes some bad play for anyone running Imperials. That being said, I am getting a head of myself a touch. I won map, and so we played on the wonderful world of Theed. I had been watching Daman through the tournament because by my estimation he was my only competition. I was willing to bet dollars to donuts that he was going to run the Seps squad that he had been pushing. However he switched things up and reverted back to Sith. Daman's Sith squad is what I was hoping that he would not run. It is incredibly good. After we dropped our squads I even told him that I did not like my odds. Especially since I rarely run Imps.

First round we move here and there, I go to take a shot on one of Daman's Uggs only to realize that I cannot swap because no Booming Voice
(Thanks a lot guys) so this is the first of my bad moves, though it's nothing I cannot deal with. Second round Daman does not move all that much, he's building up force, which with Sidious and Caedus is bad for me. What I wouldn't give to have Pallaeon at this moment. Anyways I know I have to make my move soon, so I set up a swap to move the Clone in.

Now the Clone is strictly a sacrifice piece. Against the Sith squad I should be able to kill Caedus, with straight up Auto, however Daman lured me in to a nasty trap. That would ultimately cost me the Clone. I go for broke because that is the kind of guy I am. I get Caedus down to 10hp and Sid down to 70. Daman heals Sid with Evazan. End of round I bring Cad Bane in and shoot Caedus who is at his max D right now. I need 8's to hit him. He uses two Master Illusions, and I miss 2 other attacks. Start of the next round I attack Caedus again, and kill him. I take 2 shots at Sid (a 1, and a 2) who laughs them off. Then I run away 6 squares. Daman gets a bomb next to me, runs in with Sid and attacks with Sith Rage, rerolls, I take self destruct and then a Crit from the reroll dropping Cad to 10hp. On my turn, I exit with my life thanks to a well timed Thrawn Swap. Take some shots with my Rodians which all fail. End of the round I claim gambit with my Amanin Scout. We play one more round because it's been a very good, close game, and there were a few hiccups during the game, so we play another. I see that his play will probably be a Master Speed run to Cad so I choose to go first. He intuitions to my Amanin Scout, I'm not buying the play though, so I override the door shut with my R7. He kills my Amanin and a few Rodians which I gladly give up at this point. End of the round I move Lobot out, reopen the door and then run Cad 12 squares and drop him on gambit.

Really fun game, it was great to see Melee competing against Imps the way that they did. It is a breath of fresh air. Me and Daman discussed this after the game. There you have it though, I am the Legends champion, and i hate to say I told you so, but I did tell you all. I will humbly accept the 100 dollars that I will no doubt use to buy the Imperial Assault Fantasy Flight minis game (Thank You!) and I guess I will be designing a piece in set 2. Off the top of my head I'm thinking a vehicle in honor of my favorite sub set. I am thinking Bane on Rancor. I'm just spit balling here, but 200hp's with Galloping Attack and 30 base damage with Twin. That sounds pretty balanced, right? Maybe give him a Commander Effect that gives sith allies Extra Attack. This piece practically designs itself.

In closing, I want to point out that the finals was made up of two people who had nothing to do with the design process. For everyone that was whining saying that the Tennessee players would do better because they were use to playing this way, I just want to point this out. Me and Daman made up the finals. A great player can rise to the top of any tournament he enters regardless of the rules or setting because he/she is just that good. Congrats to Dr Daman, and everyone else that made up the top 4.

(Stands up and starts a slow clap)

Congratulations to ScruffyHan and Dr Daman for 1st and 2nd respectively! Great tournament, everyone, looking forward to future games with all of you!

This was a lot of fun! Count me in for the next one. Also I am willing to help out if you want

For those of you who have asked to get in on playtesting for the 2nd set, send me a BM, I will send you the site where you can access all of the stats, and you can begin playtesting!