As to the matchup with UrbanShmi and Udorian84, I unfortunately with have to declare a 3-0 win on both games for UrbanShmi.

There was ample communication on her side, and virtually none on his.

I'd have been happy to give a little more time due to the holidays, but there was no communication.

Round 6: Era-Centric Powers, match #2

thereisnotry defeats TimmerB123 200-80 (3-0)

thereisnotry:
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/228659/can-this-actually-work-
--Can this actually work?--
100 Luke Skywalker, Master of the Order
32 Jaina Solo Fel, Jedi Master
25 Callista, Force Spirit
25 Head of State Jagged Fel
10 TC-70 Protocol Droid
5 Caamasi Noble
3 Ugnaught Demolitionist
(200pts. 7 activations)


TimmerB123:
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/224253/sing-n-king
--Sing n' King--
35 Dashade Pirate
35 Hondo Ohnaka
33 Aurra Sing, Assassin
33 Enfys Nest
30 Arvo Norstag, Pirate King
25 Black Sun Pirate Captain
25 Captain Zothip
19 Benthic, Partisan Lieutenant
(235pts. 8 activations)


I won the map roll so we played on Imperial Garrison. Tim chose the right-hand side.

Round 1: Advancing to gambit for both of us, no attacks.

Round 2: Gambit for both of us, no attacks.

Round 3: Gambit for both of us, no attacks.

Round 4: I win init, so Luke moves up 6 to LS Throw on Aurra Sing, who dies. Luke takes some return fire (the Dashade has Force Immunity) from the rest of Tim's guys, and he is able to pick off the Caamasi Noble, whom I had placed there to help protect Luke. Jaina bodyguards a 40dmg hit as well. Enfys charges Luke but misses.

Round 5: I win init (thx to Tactician) and Jaina gets 70dmg past Enfy's Parry/Beskargam combo. Hondo keys up for some severe damage (Cunning 20, Deadeye 10, Zothip's CE) and also some JOLT saves, against Luke. Luke successfully deflects the first shot after a fprr, and makes the Jolt save, and then takes a full 60dmg on the second shot (again made the jolt). The Dashade missed by rolling a 1...that was huge, because if Luke gets activated here then Arvo would've lived. But he didn't, so he didn't.

Round 6: I rolled a 1 for init, so Luke has to survive some more Hondo magic. Tim rolled a 1 for one attack, and Luke was able to deflect the twin. Luke is now at 1fp, so he activates, gives up an aoo to Enfys (takes 20dmg) and misses the Djem So save and then uses LS Throw to kill the Dashade.

Round 7: I won init so Jaina took down a wounded Benthic and someone else beside him, who was also wounded.

Round 8: Tim won init so Hondo killed Jagged. Zothip attacked Jaina, but she deflected it. Luke ran up to eliminate Hondo with LS Throw, and that brought me over 200pts. Tim had Zothip left, and I had a 80hp Luke and a 60hp Jaina, plus Callista to bring one of them back to life if needed.


I wasn't sure if this squad would actually work, but I'm pleasantly surprised that it did. The combo of Jagged's Tactician and the big Cunning damage from my 2 attackers is pretty handy. And Callista just makes it demoralizing to attack Luke. I was able to save up 9fp on Luke because of all the non-engagement in the beginning of the battle, and those extra FP really ended up making a difference, since Luke was down to 1fp pretty quickly once he got into the fray and he had to deflect some pretty heavy shots. A missed Jolt save or two, and this game could've easily gone the other way.

Thanks for playing, Tim!

It was certainly a double edged sword not advancing and letting Luke build up points. Running around the corner on that silly map would have been suicide. So I felt like I had no choice but to wait for Luke and hope my barrage of shots can get through enough. I was rotating Enfys and Benthic as the gambit getters, but then I made a big mistake by mindlessly activating Enfys when she was not in gambit, so I had to put someone else in gambit, thus Aurra had to go in. Thus she died. That was dumb of me. Needed to keep her around both as a big damage dealer but also her FPs to maybe pop Callista. I knew it was going to be even harder from there. "Demoralizing" to attack Luke is right. Takes so much to hit, and then he usually shrugs off the damage. Jolt was the potential game changer, but he literally made every jolt save. Hindsight I should have been better with my positioning, I could have made it so the Dashade moves 2 with Arvo's CE and then get 2 attacks on Luke that could not be defended nor rerolled on the Jolt saves, but I was back a couple squares too many. It would have been very hard to win this, but I think had any of several rolls gone my way (any jolt, several of my misses and missed parries, etc) I could have gotten a 1pt loss. I'd have needed more luck (and better play) to win, especially on that map. I really hate the gambit standoff that frequently happens on that map. Trevor even packed 2 diplomats to block up the narrow hallways and tight turns, which would be much harder to do on other maps. Had I tried to be the initial aggressor and round that corner, he could have easily blocked me off and prevented me from attacking. But he played it just right and my pieces fell like dominos.

Yeah the diplomat comments were more about how they could be really abused on that map, not that you intended that with them.

Spryguy1981 defeats UrbanShmi 212-41 on Imperial Checkpoint.

I played
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/231278/meeburs-militia


UrbanShmi played
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/229680/haunted-han

R1 positioning. I get gambit

R2 I pulse cannon and get the Cobalt pilot, kill the Wraith pilot. Use a pinpoint attack to damage Jag and Snap. Ig-11 Died

R3 IG-88AD kills Chewie, IG-88A damages Bhindi. Uggie heals 88A

R4 IG-88AD and IG-88A kill Han. Foul kills Bhindi and Snap. Uggie heals 88Ad

R5 I kill all but Wedge, uggies heals 88A.

Darth Jim defeats DarkDracul 200-10 in our second game on Asteroid Base.

My squad: http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/231326/father-of-the-rebellion

His squad: http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/216031/luxs-parisans

Bryan won the map roll, and he chose his Asteroid Base. I set up lower left, he set up upper right. The first 2 rounds were positioning moving towards gambit. He got a couple of pot shots off on Dad but needed 20s to hit and he didn't. In the 3rd round Dad took a little damage, but levitated Marek up to do a repulse which killed 2 partisans, the R7 and an uggie. I activated him the next round and he got off another repulse which killed Ackbar, a partisan and I think something else, then ran Marek for cover because he was down to 70.I brought Ben up to hit more stuff and hopefully activate some people. He whittled Ben down to 10 but couldn't kill him. One final repulse killed just about everyone and Marek mopped up the next 2 rounds. Leia had 2 more chances to kill Ben but couldn't hit.

Afterwards, Bryan said he thought he'd had a character in the squad that granted an extra 10 damage but he figured he'd accidentally taken him out messing with the build. It certainly would have made a difference. Playing The Father squad was fun, and this one had good synergy, but I don't know how it does against other squad types.This was actually the first time I ran one.

As to the matchup with Mando and Udorian84, I unfortunately with have to declare a 3-0 win on both games for Mando.

No communication from Udorian84 at all now. I hope he's ok

time for ETERNAL POWER!!!!




Everyone must build (exactly) 2 out of these 4 factions for this round.

(These are the last pairings, no die roll needed)


Pairings:


With the holidays coming up, I'm gonna not give a deadline yet. Do your best to get it in by years end, but if we need to go into January - so be it. Just please COMMUNICATE! Both with your opponent, and in the thread or to me directly, so we know what is going on if scheduling is not coming together.

I went back and looked. On January 24 2017, Swinefeld addressed this in a Rules thread started by Correllian Comedian. In the event that you have 2 different factions and The Father, you get to choose which faction the squad is.

That is a trip