Map List? Time is nigh, we need to know

Map List B


We used A last year so will move to list B this year.

Top 4 after three rounds of Swiss (no particular order):

Lou (Daala)
Eric (Mace in the Face)
Laura (Talon's Hat Trick)
Tim (Rebel Commandos with Speeder)


Lou has already advanced to the finals, waiting on the outcome of Eric and Tim's match.

Lou I hope you win just because you ran Daala.

Yes, Daala with snow troopers. We have squad sheets, will post tomorrow when we get home.

I'm pretty interested to see squad lists for the bottom half and hear people's takes on the Snow Trooper squad sometime. There's been some discussion on the Facebook group, but not here.

For the record, without seeing any of the specific results, I'm pleased to see Daala still doing well. I was quite torn over which errata was best for her CE - whether staying with the status quo, dropping Charging Fire +10 down to Charging Fire, or going with Charging Assault instead was necessary or not, but it seems like it's maybe about right. Having Snow Troopers as part of the meta sounds good to me - they're tough, especially as they have can get really high attack and access to Pellaeon/Ozzel, but they're still way less painful than the turtle deep strike Raxus Prime Troopers with Zygerrians.

Lol, I wrote the real squad list on the back:

Pong Krell
Capt. Rex
Commander Gree
Clone Repeaters x2
CLobot
R2
R7

The entire strategy of the squad was to sit in the back starting area and spin so fast to force multiple rounds (I got to 10 in my matchup with Bryan). I rolled reserves all but a handful of times during the entire tournament.

Fourth Place Play Report

First round, I faced Mike and his diverse sep squad. I brought in a buzz droid and peace brigade thug with Bribery, and got Charging Fire through Con Artist (neither of which mattered in this game). We played on Cantina, and he set up across the back row. We positioned for a couple of rounds, him moving his bombs up and me advancing pretty much everything. I was able to use Talon's movement CE and Embo's Charging Assault/Speed 8/Acrobatic to take out Cad Bane early, and I managed to take out several bombs without taking much damage myself. I think the Lancer got off a strafe and took out my fodder, but didn't last long after that. Between Jarael, Dash, and Talon's Disruptive, Mike's squad couldn't do a whole lot, and I managed to pull out the 3-point win. 1-0, 3 points.

Round two, I drew Eric and Mace in the Face. I brought in Salacious Crumb and a Toydarian, and took the momentum CE. We again played on Cantina. Eric was at a disadvantage here, although I'm not sure he knew it at first. He was playing a squad I knew very well on a map I knew very well. I knew exactly what the squad could do and how to counter it. He advanced up the middle, while I advanced down a side hallway, sacrificing Embo to put 30 damage on Mace, using Jarael to get an early strike against Foul (I hit all three, but he defensed the first and lived). The rest of my squad soon took Foul out, and I moved Talon up to protect them with the Disruptive/Ysalamiri bubble. This proved to be critical, since having Talon up there pretty well prevented Eric's Jedi from doing most of the things they really wanted to do. I managed to avoid engaging hand to hand with Skywalker, sniping him with Dash and my other shooters, which he couldn't do much about. Toward the end of the game, it was down to most of my squad (Jarael, Dash, and Talon were all still alive, some more so than others), against Mace with 80-90 health left (Panaka was also alive and undamaged, but he didn't get a chance to do much). I had my squad holed up behind a two-square fodder wall, which Mace broke through easily. Instead of retreating, he decided to advance in an effort to get next to Talon. I think a couple of my AoOs landed, bringing him down to 60 HP. I won the critical init, opting to go first with Jarael in an effort to stun Mace with Shockstaff. First attack was a hit, and Eric failed the activation save (couldn't reroll because of the bubble). Jarael then proceeded to hit the next two attacks, finishing Mace and securing the victory. 2-0, 6 points. After the game, Eric remembered that he could have used Panaka to take the damage from Jarael; however, Mace would still have been stunned, so it probably wouldn't have made much difference to the end game.

Round three, I faced Tim with his Rebel squad. Once again, we were on Cantina, and I brought a buzz droid. I took the Cunning +20 from Crix. This was a close match. In the third round, I ran Embo pretty much into his starting area and killed Gha Nackht, which was who I could reach. Tim took a strafe with the speeder and taking his regular attack against Embo, taking him down to 10 hit points (we later realized that he should have been dead, since the Strafe attack would have gotten around DR10). I won the next init, putting damage on Han before Embo finally died. Then I opened the door and ran my buzz droid up to the Speeder, causing it to malfunction. Tim got in another strafe or two on my fodder (another mistake, as we didn't realize that malfunctioning limited the Speeder's movement and attacks) before the Speeder went down. In the end, Tim was able to get most of my squad dead, while I pretty much only killed the Speeder and Han, plus a commander or two (sorry, I don't remember exactly how it went down, but I know the final score was pretty close). 2-1, 6 points, advancing to the Top Four.

J already pretty much described my game with Lou. I got shot, I died, I conceded in the first 10 minutes.

Tim and I decided to play a 3/4 game just because, and we were both sick of playing on Cantina, so even though I won map roll, I chose his map (Starport). This was interesting, because neither of us was familiar with the map, which was evident when Tim sniped my buzz droid and put some major damage on Talon early in the game. Talon retreated, and most of my squad sought cover, with Jarael, Dash, and the R7 holding gambit. The Speeder took a Strafe over most of my squad, eliminating a good portion of my door control, then succumbed to my firepower after losing initiative. Meanwhile, both squads advanced into the large room off the center. I managed to get Embo outside of Crix's Disruptive bubble to take a charge on Han, killing him. However, without any door control on my side, Tim was free to isolate characters and pick them off at will. I hung on pretty well (and we actually scored some Gambit in this game), but it was clear I couldn't win under those circumstances.

As J said, this was my first time making a cut at a Regional, so I was pretty pleased with the day as a whole.

Thoughts:
As I said in the Facebook group, although playing against Daala wasn't pleasant, it wasn't any worse for me than playing against any other squad that seems tailor-made to beat mine (essentially any shooter swarm). I agree with J that a lot of what allowed it to do so well (in addition to having a very skilled player at the helm) was that people weren't really prepared for it.

Talon Karrde is really super fun to play.

So do you think if the reserves aren't rolled, that you can beat daala? Sounds like the game was close until daala crapped out more troopers.

How many troopers did he get on reserve? I thought it would be four 5-pointers?

The last two competitive games I've played against Daala, she's rolled first round reserves.