Haha

There are a few interesting options out there.

How many games do you guys plan to play?

Voting Yobuck

Although this match is very map dependent and yoda has to be careful to not get stuck by diplomats. Imps have to try and keep everyone surrounded by diplo wall and make it work.

Positioning throughout will be key for both sides and inits could be HUGE.

Very close game.

Daala for the win, but it's a 55-45 game. Jason and I are going to try to play this game out. Had it planned for tonight, but I had to cancel.

Jason and I are getting ready to start :)

Good write up and hit all the high lights!

Definitely want to play the match-up again some time on the map I played at Gencon, or even just setting up first. I feel casually picking Jabbas Palace for this tournament was a thoughtless idea. I win map role, his map is way worse and he knows it better than me. So I pick Jabbas, but then he gets to set up on the better side. In the end, Jabbas isn't a Daala map, but especially when you have to play from the left side and not the right.
Good game though Jason!

GAME #14: "Prison Break" vs "Triple Ven"

Please vote for which squad you think would win, assuming equally skilled players (1 point per vote).
Try to persuade others to agree with you.
If you play a game with these squads against yourself (solo playtest), it's worth 5 points to the winning squad.
Two-player games count even more (10 points to the winning squad).
The squad with the most points wins.

If thereisnotry and FlyingArrow themselves (or their designated proxies) play any games, they are worth 1000 points each, so they pretty much dictate the final result, regardless of other voting or other results.

--Prison Break - Winner of GenCon 2016 Championship--
55 Luke and Leia on Speeder
30 Chewbacca, Rebel Hero
25 Sabine Wren
24 Han Solo, Captain of the Millennium Falcon (off board at start of skirmish)
21 Lando Calrissian, Infiltrator
16 General Crix Madine
12 See-Threepio (C-3PO)
9 General Dodonna
8 R2-D2
Han Solo in Carbonite (not an activation)

(200pts. 8 activations. 9 activations after unfreezing Han.)
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/170151/prison-break---winner-of-gencon-2016-championship

--Triple Ven--
46 Ven Zallow, Jedi Master
37 Satele Shan
33 Bastila Shan, Jedi Master
18 Wookiee Commander
44 Wookiee Scoundrel x4
8 R7 Astromech Droid
4 Loth-cat
4 Prowler 1000 Seeker Droid
3 Ugnaught Demolitionist
3 XT-6 Droid

(200pts. 13 activations)
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/184513/triple-ven

Deadline: 48 hours (9:36am EST, 8 Mar 2018). Votes must be posted by the deadline. If you plan to play a game, games can be reported up to 48 hours after the deadline, but intent to play (and the number of games) must be announced by the deadline.

If there are 12 hours with no votes or discussion, the match-up may be ended early.

(Note that for the semifinals, the timeframe has been extended from 24 to 48 hours.)

I just played a solo game. OR won 216-72.

Map: Simulation Deck

R1: Advance. Bastila stays off. Satele "moves faster" to reach gambit on one side. Speeder easily gets gambit on the other.

R2: OR wins init and turns on ABM. With no Cunning, Rebels don't rush to Strafe. Wookiees spread out and stay away. Near the end of the round, Speeder strafes, hitting Satele, killing Ugnaught, taking a wookiee down to 10, and returning to safety by Chewie. A wookiee hits Chewie for 30. Ven pushes Speeder for 20 (100hp). Another wookiee hits Dodonna for 30, bodyguard to Chewie. (In retrospect probably a bad move - I didn't realize the skirmish would basically end before ABM would be off for a full round. So Dodonna was useless and those 30hp would've been better used as a Speeder bodyguard. But I don't think it changed the outcome.) Gambit for both.

R3: Rebels win init. They go first so Satele can't drop 80 with Cunning. Wookiees are still staying away, but Speeder strafes both Jedi and the damaged Wookiee: Misses Satele. Dead Wookiee Scoundrel (3 Scoundrels left). 20dmg on Ven (110hp). Returns to safety by the bodyguard. A wookiee gets to Triple Chewie for 40dmg each since the speeder in front of him has Stealth. Hits 1 (Chewie at 20hp). Misses the next and 3720 kicks in, so he wastes the 3rd attack. Ven doubles on the speeder, needing a FPRR to hit both, then Force-Attuned pushes, bringing Speeder down to 20hp. Chewie could have taken one of those hits, but Chewie hasn't activated yet and has only 20hp, so he doesn't take them. He ends up missing his attack, though. Sabine moves up, taking an aoo from Ven, to serve as a meatshield for the speeder and be in gambit. She takes 30 on the aoo before putting 20 on Ven. Meat shield fails, though, because the Seeker flies over and negates Stealth/Cloaked for the Speeder (but no one else), allowing Satele to push the hiding Speeder behind the Cloaked Sabine. Wookiees and OR scrubs move up. Rest of Rebels take potshots and position themselves. Gambit for both.

R4: Rebels win init. Sabine hits Satele for 20 (60hp). Ven kills Sabine, then takes an AOO from Lando (50hp) to move and FP2 to kill Chewie. Lando hits Ven again on his own turn, and that is BG'd to Satele (40hp). R2 locks the door and the rest of the round is just positioning. Gambit for OR.

R5: OR wins init. Wookiee misses R2. Lando kills the wookiee. R7 opens the door so Satele can Force Leap/LSAssault and kill Crix. Rest of the round is movement. Ven is blocked by a Threepio in the door. Gambit for OR.

R6: OR wins init. Satele kills Lando. Gambit for both.

Surviving:
Rebels: 30hp Threepio, 30hp R2-D2, still-frozen Han
OR: Full health Bastila, Wookiee Commander, R7, Loth-cat, and 2 Wookiee Scoundrels. 50hp Ven, 40hp Satele


I'm also going to vote OR.

J and I played this match twice, once on Ruined Base and once on Rhen Var. The OR won both times. The key was the opposite of TJ's game--keeping the Wookiees huddled around Satele so she could Bodyguard the strafe damage, then when the speeder attacked her, Absorb Energy some of it back. It's a risky play, but worked both times with the loss of I think a single wookiee each time. Once the Speeder landed, it was easy enough to kill it, and then it's just fighting through the rest. This IS a tough match-up for the OR, but apparently even with the 30-hp Wookiees, it has enough beef to make it through.

In my game, with the Jedi about 6 away from the Siblings, and with the Wookiees about 6 behind the Jedi (~12 from the Siblings but in different directions), the Siblings had a tough decision. If they go out & back, they get back to the bodyguard but just hit the Jedi and one wookiee. And the Jedi are close enough that they can get to the Speeder. If they do a big run and hit multiple wookiees, they don't actually kill the wookiees, have no bodyguard, and still are in range of the Jedi. With the extra Push from Force Attuned, Ven does 80dmg even without the CE granting Triple. And Satele does significant damage, too, but it varies widely depending on whether she can base someone with Intuition or has to hit someone on the move, and depending whether she gets Cunning. But she's 30-80dmg without Triple. The Jedi were able to wear down the Siblings in two rounds. 60 of it was from pushes, which can't go to the bodyguard.

The opportunity for a big Cunning run doesn't happen until the start of round 5, assuming OR keeps a door closed at the end of round 1. Bastila turns on top of round 2. (Even if Rebels win init, first activation would have to open a door.) That lasts through round 3, and OR out-activates. If the Siblings are still alive, Bastila can keep it on at the end of round 3 to last through the end of round 4. If Siblings are already defeated by the end of round 3, she can wait to turn ABM on at the top of round 4 to get 2 rounds out of it (possibly giving Rebels 1 activation without ABM if they win init).

Not an easy win either direction, and I do think if I played thereisnotry I'd lose. But I think that's the case whether I was playing OR or Rebels. :-)