we all know Klat ass. are broken

the real surprise is what a ass scruffy is

Lol, my bad, back to bashing on scruffy.

2nd TN Regional, and 2nd tournament ever.

I first played against theUltrastarand his Hk-47, Bastilla army.
The first thing I do is engage Thon with my Mace and in a complete reversal Mace gets criticalled, ouch.

I was using Mace, Legacy, Master Yoda, and GOWK, R2-D2 (giving Mace Lightsaber defense (which he didnt get to use since Bastilla popped her BM)).

FIrst things first he kills my Mace, than my GOWK and Yoda kill his Thon with brilliant play by myself, pathetic Thon force leaping his way to retreat.

I am up in Gambit and still on the attack. I really play to have fun and fully believe that to win you have to keep fighting. So Yoda runs up adjacent to Bastilla and trie to kill her, along with my ugnaught. GOWK engages the other guy (covenant something?)

Last round he kills my Yoda and wins off Gambit.

Really fun game that shows even though my army was way better, strategy and understanding of the game prevails.

2nd match was against some 31 activation bomb squad. I got map and that is the reason I won. Too many stairs, doors, small passages for his swarm bomb squad to cover.
I felt really good about how I played this match. The bad thing is is that before the match he told me the only real way to win is to kill his battle captain and his Poggle. So I, of course, set out to do just that.

I set all my pieces up on the side closest to me. When he set up his pieces on the same side I set up for R2-D2 to move Obi-wan straight across the board and than moved 20 squares to get to Poggle the lessers side. He tried to run away but I found him and killed him but not before he did some tactic broker super attempt at blowing up 4 self-destructs to kill my GOWK.
In the meantime he had some lady who made me not able to use lightsaber defense, so in brilliant play Mace Windu runs and kills her. My Ugnaughts once again joined the battle and got off some hits. Lightsaber defense was a huge factor against his shooters and twin attack helped alot as well. No bombs and the day was won.

3rd match was against some douchebag Nicholas Cage look-alike with a small penis and who likes jokes about homosexuality. Kind of course, but man hes good looking. Kind of frightening really, bad guy personna broke my homophobic aura. jking, it was shmi15.
I Mace Windu sliced Cay, and lost both saves. Game over. My army was way way better, but I suck at decision making sometimes.

I was out, but I did play against a Mace Windu, Yoda, hero of geonosis squad. My Mace faced off with his mace, and my mace had Lightsaber defense and destroyed his mace.
GOWK and my Yoda took care of his Yoda. He ended up with like 16 little 5 point piece bodyguard guys, which sucked, but I think he took about 11 shots at a mouse droid and missed all of them.

Overall really fun day with some really crazy stuff happening. Soresu Style mastery is ridiculous. My GOWK never came close to dieing except for from Self-destruct chain bomb.

Borsk and an early Leia have that commander effect. Also, Rolling Cleave allows that effect of moving away before the explosion.

You are correct about that. But if you're setting off your own bombs, there is some balance in that. You are using up a turn to do it, and losing a character when it happens. Basically, when you set off your own bomb, it's like an attack that automatically hits at the cost of losing the character. Sure it hurts to take the damage, but the enemy is supposed to be able to deal damage on their turn.

The real pain (to me) is that with the Klat Assassin, in many cases (if you're on the right map and don't have one of the 'ignore cover' counters) it is actually impossible to kill them without taking damage. In the mean time, they can ping you with a decently high attack.

Lol, I think I get it. I did a quick double-take on that one

On another note, I have NEVER seen this many people browsing a thread... The TN Regional really DID make quite a splash this year!

Here it is, pego's play report!

So, as most of you know, I was attending my first ever tourney. I was playing Daala's Pre-party Troopers (Daala w/ Piett, Pellaeon, Scout Officer (though, strangely, due to matchups I switched this guy out for a Stormy on Repulsor in all 4 matches), 6 Elite Scouts, Ozzel just in case I faced Poggle, an R7, a Dignitary and 4 Uggies).

GAME 1: I was playing against Shmi15's Old Republic Kavar + Qel-Dromas squad. He won map roll and chose the map with the snowy terrain where most of the map is one big building in the middle, with craters/pits on the top and bottom. I started from the side with the bigger building on it rather than the one with the shed.

Being my first competitive game, I was a bit nervous at first, and Shmi probably noticed me shivering a bit (I do this sometimes when I'm anxious before/during a big minis game, and this was the biggest yet), but I knew I had a matchup. I calmed down after a little while, just focusing on playing quickly and smartly, no big mistakes.

I out activated him, he was jamming the hall on the way to the gambit room. I moved my Stormy on Repulsor around the open hall by flying over the crater, and had some troops moving that way for potential backup, as well as an Uggie. Daala and Mas stayed back with an Uggie or two, while the rest of my squad moved towards the gambit area. Round 2, I waited a phase or two before using Charging with my Repulsor Sled to move all the way around and kill Lobot, giving me door control. When he was out of acts I moved the dignitary into gambit while repositioning the rest of my squad, getting Piett lined up for Recon if he moved out next round, getting Pellaeon lined up for Ysalimari, moving my Troopers into position. I got a couple shots in on Cay, the only legal target at the time.

Round 3. Either at the end of the last round or start of this one he had popped Bastila, so I got to choose to if I wanted 2 acts and when I wanted Ozzel in the bubble for 1. I had realized I wouldn't get Daala's Charging a bit late, and began moving her up at the end of 2, but it didn't end up mattering. I used this to make an extra positioning move or two, and get use out of my Repulsor before it died (net gun helped me activate some guys). Shmi came at me with Ulic (I killed Cay pretty easily), and may have killed one of my Troopers before ultimately falling to Force immune shots, at which point Shmi conceded (understandably so).

1-0, 3 pts.

GAME 2: I was facing Brendon's Yoda, Hero of Geonosis w/ Mace LotLS squad. He won map roll and we were playing at that map that looks a lot like Peaceful City, with a big gambit room in the middle and buildings on the left and right. I started on the left.

Round 1 was positioning. He moved some Spaartis up (his filler of choice), then carted Mace into gambit with the help of Artoo. I moved the R7 up and locked Mace in from the front, then moved out all my troops. In Round 2, I got to position everyone even better after he was all out. It was getting a bit more crowded in there, though, as I had rolled a 20 on init and he had stolen it with Qui-Ghost for reserves (more Spaartis). I ended up offing R2 and almost killing Mace Windu (Bodyguard prevented him from dying entirely). Mace got off a Reflect and put 10 back on one of my Troopers. I had his army almost surrounded by the time the round ended.

Round 3 I used some of my smaller shooters (Ozzel, Piett etc.) to clean up some of the Spaartis to save my Elites' shots for Yoda and Mace (made more difficult by the fact that he popped MORE reserves) and I was able to get Pellaeon up to prevent his Jedi from doing as much crazy Force stuff or blocking my damage. Yoda got off a Leaping Assault and killed a Trooper or two before I almost entirely cleaned up his army, killing Mace and then Yoda and bringing my score way above 200.

2-0, 6 pts.

Games 3: I was facing ScruffyHan's "Zam Caught the Klat" (the new Zam, Talon Karrde IB, lots of Klat Assassins). Both of us chose Cantina as our maps, but I won roll and was going to start on the right (with all the halls), but he graciously let me change my mind to the left (with all the tables; still a better side for me probably, even with Zam's crazy missiles) before we set up.

Round 1 started and we moved our pieces towards the middle pretty quickly, I spread mine up a few different ways. I used the Stormtrooper on Repulsor to shoot up the hall on the bottom and take out one of his Klats early, but miscounted and a good shot from Talon Karrde was able to finish him off. In round 2, I moved into gambit, SH moved some of his pieces into other rooms (I was able to kill another Klat or two during my advance).


In round 3, we traded a bit of fire and I made a couple Missiles saves before I out activated him, unlocked the top door and ran some guys in from both sides to destroy. I also used some of my Troopers who had flanked from the hall to wonderful effect. The game was basically over at that point, but we may have gotten to a 4th round (I don't think so).

3-0, 9 pts., 1st place headed into elimination rounds (only undefeated player remaining)

One of the things I was kinda proud of is that I was able to get 3 point wins, as my only competitive experience prior had been on vassal, where it's HARD to finish a game. Even with my high act + act control squad, the games were going quickly.

INTERMISSION: It was the end of preliminaries, I being the only player left undefeated, so we broke for lunch. We had epic hamburgers cooked by theultrastar's wife, then I had time for a potty-break. So, the whole break was a very WIN-WIN situation, leaving me at 5-0, 15 pts.

Couldn't resist

Anyway, now on to the EXCLUSIVE new (and shocking!) details of my match against theultrastar!

Semi-final: I was matched up against theultrastar's HK-47 AD Force Leap squad with Master Thon.

I won the map roll, bringing me to 2-2 with that on the day, he chose the left side of the cantina. Before the game, I asked to see Thon's card, and after I read it, theultrastar also was going to show me HK-47 AD's card, but I had just been checking on Thon and figured I was familiar enough with HK-47's card to be good.

Yeah, big mistake.

Round 1, I moved all my pieces up to the hall, and theultrastar brought Thon up to gambit. At the start of the 2nd round I fired my net gun at Thon (thus HK, who was riding on him), who rerolled the save twice but ultimately made it, and HK made his save 11 as well. If just ONE of those had been failed, it's an entirely different game. Anyway, Thon leaps up on his turn, and is sitting in the hall, with all my other pieces lined up. It's at this point where I'm reminded of HK's 'Sniper' ability lol. Twin+Assassin+Sniper = dead Pellaeon. Bastila was turned on, so needless to say my job just got a LOT harder. Due to theultrastar's positioning, I could only get so many shots at HK (given cover, by Mount, of course), so I ended up taking lots at Thon who made timely LSD saves. My opponent moved the rest of his army up for potential cleanup.

Round 3 began, and my only shot really was with the Net Gun. No dice; he made HK's save and rerolled Thon's to make that one as well. I had HK ALMOST dead, but he was still alive (only because the 20 I rolled, my only crit of the day, did not effect him because, of course, he's a droid lol). I was missing a ton of attacks that I'd been hitting all day (no charging or Opportunist really hurt there). HK dismounted, theultrastar killed some more stuff, I couldn't quite finish Thon (though I did kill HK), he had I think 50 HP remaining in the end. Thon was able to leap away, out of my reach, to win the game.

3-1, Eliminated in semi-finals

So, that was the end of my Regional (though I stayed for the rest; I was having too much fun to leave yet lol). I felt I robbed myself of a chance to win in the end, but I can't entirely blame it on the shortsighted card appraisal to start the match. You win some, lose some, and either way, I had a great time, met some great people, saw some new cities, logged 6 more hours of drive time in my conquest for a driver's license. I can't wait for the next TN tourney!

So after reading subsequent posts from those who were there in the flesh, if scruffy's post was indeed tongue & cheek then I retract my earlier statements.

if I remember correctly there were still 2 games going on and if they continued playing scruffy would have won anyways because dieandbemetal would have had to sac a bomb putting scruffy up by 2 and then scruffy would have just ran zam to gambit and won because nothing in dieandbemetals squad could have killed her that round since the bombs can't blow up except for when the muun blows them up and the sniper has heavy weapon so he couldn't even move and shoot. the dice roll was a gentlemans agreement because the game was so epic.

Indeed, I have. For your clever observation you get one gold star! Enjoy it!


Quick Edit: Also I just wanted to say, that you have clearly put a lot of thought and imagination into your drawing of me. I must say I appreciate your effort. Cheers mate, you have knocked it out of the park with this one. I applaud you.