Me and Ultrastar just got a game done.

Seps v Republic

I won 100-47

--tholme Quibuck--
51 Yoda on Kybuck
39 Quinlan Vos, Double Agent
36 Master Tholme
27 Lobot
23 Captain Panaka
9 R2-D2, Astromech Droid
8 Mas Amedda
3 Rodian Brute
3 Ugnaught Demolitionist

(199pts. 9 activations)



--N.P.E.--
60 Jabba the Hutt, Galactic Crime Boss
43 Cad Bane, Bounty Hunter
33 Aurra Sing, Assassin
27 Lobot
12 Gha Nachkt
10 San Hill
8 Wicket
7 R7 Astromech Droid

(200pts. 8 activations)

on peaceful city

he brought in greedo, a czerka, ponda baba and stuff
1st round he moved towards center and i moved my grans out, cloak quinlan and shuffle around. Second round i tow yoda in to position. couple of phases later he gallops into r7, ponda and greed. pond take greedos hit. swap out yoda for gran. Gran dies, end of round aurra charges to snip r2 and hits one. Quinlan counters with ataru after init, aurra hits him back but he's swapped out for Tholme who crits and hits for the kill. r2 moves and opens center door, yobuck gallops killing r7, pond, czerka and hitting greedo. Cad hostage shields his uggie. Cad runs and tags tholme, r2 and panaka. Next round tholme tries a trick that fails and hits cad killing his own gran. Cad smokes panaka and hits tholme, and yoda buck. Yodabuck crits on greedo for death and then gallops to cad hitting him. Quinlan moves up and twins on cad one going on him one going on yobuck.
The next init is for all the marbles, i win and cad dies or he wins and cad smokes my whole team (3 of them anyway). I win, yoda saves the hostage roll, cad dies.

So Kezzamachine and I played and I won 210-50, these are the squads.

Kez played;

--Sidious' Bounty--
69 Darth Sidious, Supreme Chancellor
43 Cad Bane, Bounty Hunter
35 Asajj Ventress, Nightsister
27 Lobot
9 Poggle the Lesser
16 Geonosian Drone x8

(199pts. 13 activations)

And mine was

--Dooku's drones--
100 Dooku
35 Asajj Ventress, Nightsister
27 Lobot
10 San Hill
9 Poggle the Lesser
3 Mouse Droid
16 Geonosian Drone x8

(200pts. 14 activations)

So as you can see 2 very similar squads. I won map roll and chose Rhen Var. The big difference was San Hill which allowed me to bring in the MTB and set up a couple of first activation strikes. Kez brought in Salacious and Momaw and I brought in the aforementioned MTB, 2 mice and 2 uggies. We played it pretty slow first 2 rounds until the end of the second where I was able to lightning 2 drones and Salacious which opened up a path for me to set up to kill Momaw at the start of the next round. Took him out easy then Kez surrounded me with bombs and I, stupidly, moved one up to try and keep a path clear to run Asajj out but this gave Kez a chance to blow up all his bombs with mine. And he took it, albeit too eagerly. Not realising that Lobot was next to the last of his bombs, he set off a chain reaction and missed all his saves thus evening out the points in the exchange. I then had the chance to run Dooku up to Cad and won init and hit him 4 times (just, need 3's and rolled 3, 1 re-rolled, 7, 2 re-rolled, 5, 3). Kez then ran both Sidious and Asajj next to Dooku and I forgot about Jedi reflexes, Assaj hit and I made my makashi with another re-roll and then missed. I won init again and ran with Sid in order to get my drones in to play. He ran and lightninged me. I ran drones and did enough damage to get Asajj down to 30, lightninged Asajj and Sidious for 30 each, took another 50 from Sidious which drained him of his force points. Then won init and hit him 4 times to win the match. It was a tough match for Kez but he played well.

Here's my take on the Mike-Kez matchup... Since Daala has had some of her teeth removed (she can recommend a good dentist), people here have relaxed somewhat and squad choices are cooler, not just Daala/Daala-counter. We chortled at both having brought melee-heavy Separatist squads and then got down to business on what is probably my least successful map - Rhen Var (Mike's choice).

I took the right and made for the lower part of the map, trying to drag him into a tight confined space. I was hopelessly outactivated and that told heavily as he basically had his whole squad to move when I was done. By the end of round two we were largely outside the room just south of the gambit room and I tried to draw him up into the gambit room, but he didn't quite take the bait, not that I had a master plan - I was just trying to disrupt his play. He charged Assaj in early and took out Momaw (after having lightninged Salacious and two drones) but he left Assaj alone. I took a coupl'a phases to surround her with drones and then he obliged by bringing one of his own in. I Bane'd Assaj and the drone, blowing up everything around her and she left the game. However, I lost Lobot in the process (d'oh!) and he then marched Dook's in to base Bane. Next round I lost Bane but then based him with my two beats. (He forgot Jedi Reflexes, much to my delight!) However, I couldn't overcome the Dook - we traded lightning and I got him down to 40 but Dooku, combined with spare bombs on his side, meant that I didn't have enough in the tank to take out that 100pt monster. Well played, well chosen and well well. 200-50 and 3-nil to Mike!

no prob, I could see it being me in the future having a hard time working out a suitable time to play, so plenty of grace. I look forward to this next round

I'll add details later, but the quick summary is that my Mandos emerged victorious vs DarthRattleHead's New Republic, 205-38 (don't remember his score exactly).

The vassal electronic dice were favoring me to a ridiculous degree. 3 very helpful crits on my end and he couldn't make a lightsaber defense save for anything.

Good ol' Darth Rattlehead! Has been one of my closest friends since 1992... he does the guitar solo on this: http://therocklords.bandcamp.com/track/the-biggest-quest

Bring on Round 2!!!

Pairings for round 2!

Sharron: 3 pts. (1-0) vs. TimmerB123: 3 pts. (1-0)
Dr Daman: 3 pts. (1-0) vs. TINT: 3 pts. (1-0)
Mike Moore Smauggler: 3 pts. (1-0) vs. Mando: 2 pts. (1-0)
DarthRattlehead: 0 pts. (0-1) vs. theultrastar: 0 pts. (0-1)
Darth O: 0 pts. (0-1) vs. fingersandteeth: 2 pts. (1-0)
racanelli89: 0 pts. (0-1) vs. DieAndBeMetal: 0 pts. (0-1)
Deathwielded: 0 pts. (0-1) vs. Kezzamachine: 0 pts. (0-1)

Sharon beat me 138-109 (or something like that) late last night. Well late night/very early morning for me, early evening for him.

He ran a Solo charge variant with a Vong bodyguard, I ran Revan SL in the OR (yes, Old Republic) with Bastilla, Jaq, crusader, Klat Cap, and fodder. 10 activations with no Lobot. I'm really trying to play outside my comfort zone.

--Revan--
62 Darth Revan, Sith Lord
36 Atton "Jaq" Rand
33 Bastila Shan, Jedi Master
23 Jedi Crusader
18 Klatooinian Captain
11 Givin Black Sun Slicer
8 R7 Astromech Droid
6 Mouse Droid x2
3 Rodian Brute

(200pts. 10 activations)

vs

--aarons charge--
50 Han Solo, Galactic Hero
45 Mara Jade, Jedi
29 Ganner Rhysode
27 Lobot
23 Anakin Solo
11 Yuuzhan Vong Ossus Protector
9 General Dodonna
6 Ugnaught Demolitionist x2

(200pts. 9 activations)

(Evazan and Rodian through Lobot)

We played on Rhen Var

I'll add more details soon. Aaron played it well, placement giving me fits the whole game. He couldn't win init to save his life, and my saves were atrocious for evade and LS defense. I extended out with a Revan Swap to have Atton kill his Rodian early to even up activations once I shut down Dodonna with Bastila. Then Han unloads into Atton, getting him down to 10hp (bad bad saves). I pull back as he marches into gambit. He leaves Han within 12 of Revan and not next to his bodyguard or Evazan (his Lobot reinforcement), so I went for it. Went in and smacked Han a couple for 60 dam. Then he brings Mara down to crack Revan, followed by Lobot locking him in the center room. I had only Atton left, so I had to bring him into danger to unlock the door. (Wish I didn't spin my Givin and R7, this probably lost me the game). I win init and kill Han and (stupidly) an uggie. Shoulda just hit Mara. Then I (really stupidly) take a twin AoO from Mara to try and protect a 10hp left Atton. He easily uses Ganner to lift Mara next to Atton and kills him (Atton did make 2 avoid defeat saves, but it didn't matter). I push Mara away from Revan with my crusader end of round. I lose init roll but remind Sharron that Han is dead and I have master tactician, so I go kill Lobot and the Vong bodyguard. I swap out for a Rodian. (Another dumb move on my part, had I moved the Rodian further away instead of spinning him, I coulda saved Revan and won). He levitates Mara in for the kill on Revan. I get Mara down to 20 hp with the crusader and Clat capt. Last init, no Revan no Han, I roll a 1. He kills the crusader, and I still have a chance for the win if I hit with the Klat capt, but I miss. Game over.

It ended up being very close and essentially coming down to the last init, which he finally won. I was outplayed and Aaron deserved the win.

Yet again another fun time playing against an excellent member of the New Zealand crew. Had fun chatting after as well with him and his mates (He was at Mikes using his computer to play). Stayed up far too late and the "aww man!" I let out when I rolled the last init and it was a 1 woke my girlfriend up (it was like 2am here). I'm in a minor amount of trouble for that (secretly I think it's a little funny).

Anyway - fun times

Thanks!

Darth O just pumped me 110 - 47

my squad was
--Bane of shooters--
63 Darth Bane, Sith'ari
62 Darth Revan, Sith Lord
27 Lobot
24 Alema Rar
18 Gloom Walker Sniper
6 Mouse Droid x2

(200pts. 7 activations)

on rhen var.

he played Cad Bane/embo thrown swap.

I killed a lot of fodder, never really managed to get the sac with bane on bane or EMBO, just made small counting errors here and there and O didn't make mistakes so bane died, then Rar, then my sniper.
then time out.
Imps were really what i was fearing and i got them, sucks.

well played dude.

Yes Aaron, end score was 139-96