TJ and I are tentatively scheduled for Thurs night

Played TJ tonight.

Jangalore/Ressurector/Shysa vs NR Resistance

We both had nightclub, I "won" map, so he picked right.

He set up his whole crew in the large, lower "club" area. I decided to set up directly across from him on the landing pad, and just go at it.

My theory was that I just had to throw as much damage into him as possible. He'd spread it around, so the main thing was just landing damage.

I won init and said he can go first, I resolnared into a decent bodyguard position, and told him he could go first. He had a trooper on point, and knew he'd die, so he doubled with him. Of course he rolls a 20 first, I bodyguard it with Fenn (and miss the beskargam save) and take 50. I shoot a twin back via Fenn's CE, and miss one so he lives. (Sigh). Then he hits again, this time I take it with the protector, and make the beskargam save and take 20, and kill the trooper on my attack back.

Then I announce I'll go with 3. I do a furious assault on his whole squad with Jango, making sure I get the loner bonus. I think I missed Rey, but hit the rest for 30 damage. Then Kelborn gets a narrow line to only see Han (missing Finn in front of him), takes his shots and gets really lucky and takes Han down to 30 and Chewie to 60. Then I go with Resurrector, and hit chewie for both, Han dies before he gets a turn. Chewie gets to barrage, but only can see a couple figs (the others were cloaked or out of sight. Resurrector takes it (Chewie's shot being unpreventable - I couldn't bodyguard or beskargam), the protector dies and he misses Jango.

Then on his turn he sets up to unload into me. Rolls BB-8 out (but not far enough to get sensors on my cloaked boys) and moves Rey up, and crits Jango (ugh).

I get LoS on Finn without seeing Rey (TJ later pointed out this was a placement error on his part), and blow him away with Fenn. Then I take a couple shots with my Tactician, but I miss and I'm out.

He Leia CEs Chewie up to take his shots on Jango, misses one, hits the other. The NUs take shots at Jango - but no dice.

Round 2

I win init, and declare I'm going with 3. I kill Chewie with Kelborn. Then furious assault everyone with Jango, killing the NUs, taking Leia down to 30hp, Rey and BB evade. Then I move up to kill Leia with Resurrector, and take another shot on BB (evaded).

He has 20hp BB-8 and 80hp Rey, vs full health Kelborn and Tactician, 30hp left Resurrector, 70hp left Jango, 40 HP left Fenn Shysa (and a useless R7). He concedes at this point.


3 point win for me, 0 for TJ



The game came down to really bad starting setup (this was TJs assessment afterward - not just me being a jerk) - not only having everyone right there to be shot up, but also who was positioned where (chewie should have been in a place to attack back), and also really good rolls on my part.

He rolled 2 crits, which really hurt - but otherwise missed a lot on Jango (which is to be expected). I on the other hand - even vs BB-8's defensive boost, rarely missed. A few missed shots by me could have swung the game in the opposite direction.

These two high damage output accurate furious assaulting/barraging squads against each other - whoever got a big kill first would have a big advantage, and then it want down like dominoes. Game was (or easily could have been) much closer than it seems.


Also - big shout out for TJ for being such a good sport about the game, but also allowed me time to take care of a personal matter mid-game - and pause it for a half an hour. Thanks TJ!

I'm on my way to work so I don't have time for a full explanation, but after the game I realized I made it illegal play. I used Kelborn as if he had twin (I frequently play him with twin), but in this squad he does not have twin.

It resulted in me landing 20 additional points of damage on his character when I should not have ( I missed the other twin). It could well have been very significant in the outcome of the game.

I have contacted TJ and Shawn and told them what happened. TJ has been very gracious about it and will except whatever ruling Shawn makes, as will I.

I will let Shawn post his response here

Tenitively scheduled for Monday

Spry and I are scheduled to play Wednesday night

FlyingArrow over TimmerB123
210-93

It was a complete reversal of dice fortunes compared to the first matchup. Actually, that's an understatement. In losing the first matchup, I got the bad end of a few crucial rolls (a couple inits and most importantly the shots that killed Han before he got a turn). In this game, Tim got the bad end of basically the whole game. Finn with a crucial Avoid Defeat. BB-8 with Rolling Evade all game. Plus losing the crucial init (despite tactician).

My big risky move was running BB-8 up the vertical street at the top of round 2 to lock a door so that he couldn't rush my squad with 3 straight activations. I knew after he'd open the door that he couldn't kill BB-8 with just one activation, but he did take him down to 10hp with Kelborn. Then I used Leia to drop Finn next to Resurrector and hit for 100dmg (minus Besgar'gam saves). Then I got crazy lucky... Finn and BB-8 both survived 3 of Tim's turns. Finn took 80 from Fenn but made an Avoid Defeat save. Then Jango did a Furious Assault, missing Finn while BB-8 evaded. Then MtR moved to shoot at BB-8, and BB-8 evaded again. Han and Chewie came up to bodyguard Finn and then it was just a shootout with Chewie's Barrages doing the heavy lifting. Finn was still up front. Chewie took 60 of Finn's dmg to activate Never Upset a Wookiee.

Top of the next round was the huge init. I won, and Chewie finished off MtR. Without Twin on the bodyguards or Advantageous for Jango, it was a lot rougher for the Mandos.

Too little too late, but Han rolled a 1 when he could have finished off Kelborn with a 3. So Kelborn lived another round and managed to kill Han.

On the last turn, he had Jango at 30 or 40hp and the R7. I had Chewie (+16 Attack), Leia, Rey, and the officer. Chewie shot while the other 3 combined fire to get through Jango's 31 defense in cover. (With combining fire it got up to a +28 attack.) Jango went down in 3 shots over the course of the game, all from Chewie (but I also missed Jango a decent amount). Chewie rolled a 15 on one Barrage to just barely hit. Then on another Barrage Jango didn't have any of his defense boosts (just cover) and so Chewie only needed a 7 to hit. Then at the end of the game, everyone combined fire to get through the 31 defense.

Having seen what you did to me in the first game, I knew those 3 activations would be devastating (even without Twin from Kelborn!). Locking the door seemed like it didn't have much chance of success, but it seemed better than letting you hit me with 3 attackers at once. And, really, there wasn't much chance of me avoiding defeat and rolling all those evades. So I was kind of right that it didn't have much chance of success... but that small chance paid off. Woohoo!
One of the biggest things that surviving that phase gave me was getting Chewie up adjacent to Finn so that he got a barrage both when Finn and when BB-8 died. If you killed them when probability says you should have, Chewie was out of position and would have just shot a wall.

Good game - well played.

Love reading the accounts of the games guys! Keep it up!

Spry played a great game and won like every dang ini roll! I didn't see the AN guy running to base Chewie and made a bad sacrifice with Poe. I also rolled several 1s slowing the thinning of the herd. It was an uphill battle for Resistance against all the Blast Buggery. Well played Spry.

good luck to those in the T4