made a slight adjustment to my squad Trevor. sent you a PM on swgamers about it with the update.

Just finished my first-round game with Caedus. It was a hard fought match, but in the end the OR was victorious, 182-39.

We played on Cantina, which was both of our chosen maps. I won map roll, so Caedus opted to set up on the store room side, while I had the large room to myself. We just positioned for the first two rounds, and I probably popped Bastila a round too early, but at least we were primed when the action got started. I made the first salvo, overriding the middle door with Jaq, running Shoaneb in to kill R2 and put some damage on Yobuck, then essentially doing two twins at the top of the round with Shoaneb and the Senator (he won init and attacked with Yobuck), while taking minimal damage myself due to Lightsaber Duelist. One of the attacks was a crit that got through, so by the time shoaneb was done, Yobuck had only 40 HP left. Yobuck was pinned after doubling on Shoaneb, so Satele came up and assaulted him, but missing the second attack, thereby leaving him with 10. Tarfful based Shoaneb and Satele and managed to hit Shoaneb, but she deflected the blast. With Shoaneb down to 70 HP, Shawn saw an opportunity in the next round and used quiggy's push, dealing 40 damage and separating her from Satele. Jaq ran into the room next, shooting at Yobuck through Satele. He missed the first attack and the reroll, but critted on the double, which finished Yobuck off. The Senator gave the cannon to Jaq, who hit Tarfful for 50.

Now it was AniStap's turn to strafe, and he did pretty well, hitting both attacks on Satele and Jaq (she took one, absorbed the second, and then bodyguarded on of the hits on Jaq, taking her to 80). However, he only hit Shoaneb once and missed the mouse twice, a lucky break for me. The Covenant Defender ran over and took a swing at Ani, doing 30. I won the next init, assaulting Tarfful with Satele to finish him off, then killing the uggie with her second attack and moving back to defend Shoaneb. I used my second XT droid to give a turn to the Covenant defender, who took Ani down to 20. On his second strafing run, he took 10 back from a Shien, but did manage to kill the mouse droid. However, he again failed to hit Shoaneb, leaving her clinging to life, although he did take Satele down to 20 HP (as she did not have enough force to absorb). He also missed both shots on Jaq, leaving him with 60; however, Qui Gon moved adjacent and pushed, taking Jaq down to 20 and again moving him out of position. So now Qui is finally running low of FP, and I have little to lose, since it's the last round. I run Shoaneb back into the fray, and a series of insane rolls commences, in which I miss, reroll, hit, he fails his defense save, i crit, and he again fails his defense. On the cannon shots from the Senator, now at a +17, I hit the first, two more failed defense saves, then reroll the second to end the game, 2-0.

I wanted to test this squad with two XTs instead of the one I was running in MI, and I think I'm a fan. They're good on their own, but the combo with the senator is insanely powerful. Shawn's squad is also quite a handful, and would have been a much bigger problem for me had his CEs been working. as it was, he timed his attacks almost perfectly, particularly his strafes and his decision about when to bring Qui Gon in, and, as you can see, I had quite a few pieces on the brink of death. I should also say, in case it wasn't clear, that the dice were a major factor in this game, with both of us making and missing rolls at critical junctures.

me and Matt Spry are planning on getting our game in tuesday night around 9pm central. We tried setting up a game this weekend but complications arose and we weren't able to get it in. I assume midnight on Tuesday is the cutoff?

Tim and I just finished our game. I won, 250-64, but it was a lot closer than that score suggests.

We played on Cantina (my map), with Tim choosing the left. At the start of the 2nd round, Tim won init and used the Tactician to activate 3 characters. He ran his Strike Force Leader up to negate Scorch's shields, and then his Pilot and Squadron Leader (w Accurate Shot) proceeded to end Scorch's game. I killed the Strike Force Leader with Quinlan, and then lost my Uggie who had opened a door to make that happen. I towed Blizz to missile Tim's R7 droid at the end of the round, and the droid took 30. I won the next init and missiled again, to finish the R7. But then Tim made a big response by moving Shae Vizla up to send some Overloaded Missiles, which put 20 on Cin, 30 on Blizz, and killed R2. Ouch. I should point out that missiles were the King of this match; both Tim and I were below 25% on our collective missile saves throughout the course of the match. Marn put 10 dmg on Shae, bringing her to that important 60 hp threshold. At the end of that round Blizz did a missile that successfully hit both Lesser and his Tactician. Cin moved 12 to base Shae Vizla (able to kill her if I won init the next round), and Serra moved up too, where she could go after any number of Tim's pieces. However, Tim won that init and proceeded to Snare Rifle (via Lesser's CE, on the Pilot) both Cin and Serra. Ugh!! And this was after Flaming Cin twice, too. Things were looking pretty bleak for me. Our shooters were pinging back and forth, and the round ended with Cin at 40 and Serra at 70 health. If I lost this init I think the game would've been over. But I won it, and so Cin ran up to put 60dmg (w Precision) on Lesser. Shae double-Flamed Blizz (and Quinlan, who was beside him) to death, but then Serra ran 7 squares to kill the Pilot. Serra ended the round with 30hp. Tim's dice were not kind to him this round, as the majority of his attack rolls were below a 10. I won the next init too, so my 30hp Serra leaped (via Acrobatic) over to drop the Tactician and then put some damage on the Squadron Leader. Time ended at this point, so Tim tried to get a last minute kill on Serra...the Squadron Leader got her down to 10, and so Kelborn tried to shoot her from range and get 1 hit past her Soresu, but she survived with a fprr. I then killed Kelborn and the Squadron Leader with Quinlan and Cin, which was the game. Cin survived with 40hp, Serra with 10, and Quinlan with 70. I held Gambit every round after the first, while Tim only held it on the first. So I don't think the score accurately represents how close the game was. I lost the first important initiative, but then won the next one...had I lost that one too, I think it could've been different. Regardless, it was a good game. Best of luck to Tim in the rest of the tournament!

I was trying out some pieces for the first time. It is a fun squad, but certainly tier 2 at best. I did end up missing literally every single save I rolled, which did not help. Trevor didn't have great saves, especially with missiles, but he did roll a lot more saves in general. Obviously the 2 missed saves for R2 was huge, and I did land a crit on Serra which went through when he failed 2 more saves.

Trevor's squad is never fun to play against, but the good news is that I had fun playing my squad outside of that. I had a number of fun tricks, and I think I got to use each of my fun tricks exactly once. As trevor mentioned, I got to do the big three acts at the top of a round, snaring both Cin and Serra. That was fun, it was exactly what I designed the squad for. I got to combine fire with my crusader once, but rolled like a 2 or something, so no damage (it would have negated any save attempts had it hit). I got to use Shae Vizlas overload missiles once, and her overload flamethrower once. I got to do a double attack with Mando the Lesser, using suppressive fire. . .

As I type this, I just realized that because of Cin Drallig being hit by suppressive fire, Serra should not have had greater mobile any more, and therefore could not have killed my pilot. Wow, that was a pretty big error on our parts. Oh well, can't go back now.

Anyhoo - back to what I was saying - I also go to use the strike leader's destabilize shields to smoke scorch with no shield saves. I did not get to use Mandalore the Lesser's mighty swing and close quarter combat, which would have been fun to do, but I lost that init.

As Trevor said, it might have been a different game had he lost that second big init, (or if we had remembered the rules about suppressive fire, lol), but alas it was not to be. I would have had to play perfect and have luck go my way, and neither really happened. I made a few placement errors where if I had placed 1 square back, etc, it would have been different. I did have some good luck, but not enough to beat a top tier squad run by a top tier player.

Congrats to Trevor, on to the next match.

Just curious, why was Tor shooting at Pre? I thought you had Death Watch vs. Death Watch, but then I see you're up against Galactic Alliance...? What am I missing?

So do we have a next set of pairings up yet for round 2 or are we still waiting for some of the games to be in?

J and Lou should be playing today. They are in touch with Trevor. I assume the other pair has been in touch, as well.

Updated to here.

We're still waiting on the NZ guys to get their stuff going. I've been in FB contact with them.

He's busy until 8:30 and I'm busy until midnight. Earliest we can do is probably Sunday afternoon NZT.