A good time was had by all and here is my play report for the weekend.

TimB and I got picked up by Shawn(GalacticFunk) and TimA (Chargers) for our 8400 hr trek to the land of Gerry. Had to make a slight detour to pick up Jak to fill out the van and our complement of players. Got there Friday and started hanging out and drinking some brewskis and fired up the King o the ring tourney.

I was with Marka, Scourge, Zannah, and Vestera Khai. I went with Marka because I figured if I ever had him and another character on the board, the extra activation would be huge. Vestera was my cheapo and I was hoping I could use her shikkar to hit someone early and reap a kill I didn't actually earn later in the game. Didn't quite work out that way. Started with Scourge and on the first attack of the game, he shifted loyalties. I didn't get another person into the game until Shawn had everything pretty much in control although he did make a spectacular play and used Bane to lightning Zannah (and his own Kaan) to do 50 to Zannah, Kill Kaan and thought bomb to kill Zannah as well. TimA won the map into the finals by finally eliminating Shawn's guys because they had been so weakened, but Shawn still made it to the finals based on points. The final ring nearly came down to init as Shawn had put Bane out and then someone else put Vergere next to him. Shawn won init and smoked Vergere and then proceeded to eliminate all other comers.

While the finals were going on, a group of us played another game called coup. Very light, quick and pretty fun to boot. I won the first game then got smoked in all the rest of them.

After the finals were over most of us played another game (Avalon maybe) that was described as R U A Werewolf? but with quests. Pretty accurate description, and also quite a fun game.

Saturday started with the slightly shorter trek to the game store where the X-wing was happening. The drive through at Tim Hortons didn't really know how to handle the magnitude of our order but at least got everything correct, even if it did take what felt like forever. During the first couple rounds of X-wing, TimB, Jak, and I played a few games of SWM looking at possible fixes/issues with Daala and the Slaver. Then Heather (Hink's fiance) showed us that it was in fact national margarita day and the Mexican place across the way had carafes of them so we went with her to get some food and drink some carafes of margaritas. Finished up there and learned that Trevor had won the X-wing because someone else had beaten Gerry on a last second shot and headed back to Gerry's.

I had originally been going to just play Yobuck because I knew it could beat Daala (this was before Daala was banned by Gerry) and I didn't really have time to build anything else, but on the ride back to Gerry's I determined that with the help of the margaritas, I didn't really have the mental capacity necessary to play Yobuck so I audibled over to the ewok swarm that I knew would beat Daala, but would also be a good test with the Zyg without Daala. While writing it out, one of the guys asked why there was no glider in it, so I retooled it to add the Glider to the squad (and a rodian so it would have a swapper in the base).

Ended up with Thrawn/Mas/JabbaCL/Ozzel/Chirpa/EwokChieftain/Lobot/Zyg/Hangglider/rodian/mouse/ewoks/ugo

Rd 1 against Chris cook and his Mandos. Brought in another slaver, another Glider and another rodian. Rolled reserves on round one but that didn't matter. Outactivated him, slaved down the rodian, swapped in the glider, strafed end of turn then won init and did it again and took out Lobot and did some damage to others. Did it again at the end of the next round and finished off the Captain and took Jaster down to almost dead. After that it was just send in the ewok missiles and whittle him down. 3 pt win.

Rd 2 against Gerry.
Played on Nightclub. Brought in Slaver/R7 and an Rodian. outactivated him, although he got a FA with I think 4 targets into my starting area, slaved down the rodian, swapped for the glider. End of Turn plus winning init gave me 2 strafes (plus charging fire attacks) and I took out all his door control, a mouse or 2 and actually got some damage to stick to a couple of the others. After that I just locked myself in my starting area and sent out a couple of ewok missiles every round to trade damage for guys. Even with Gerry killing what I sent out, I still took out everything except Aurra and Assaj (both were damaged) when time was called. 2 pt win.

Rd 3 against Trevor and his Jeedaiii.
Brought in 2 Gliders and 2 rodians as I finally figured out the power of the glider in this squad. I won a very tight match (would have been by 1 pt until we realized in the last round that I could get to Aayla so it was by 30 ish). The key to this game was that I again rolled reserves and brought in 4 Raxus prime troopers which were huge in the match allowing me to kill the caamasi as well as just be annoying pea shooters. Trevor brought in a LIN and Caamasi to try and build some walls I couldn't get through. I lost a couple ewoks but finally rolled well enough to get rid of that annoyance. Towards the end of the game, I Traded Zyg and Glider for Jar Jar thinking that lightwhip got around Bombad. Had we played that part correctly, I would have kept both and our final score would have been much closer as he would have probably been able to get Jar Jar over by Aayla to make me make some saves, so I might not have been able to kill her, but I would have probably been able to get to Lobot who had been in the back row hanging with some ugos since about the first turn. Trevor and I talked through this afterward and I think had we played again, that he would have defeated me.

Rd 4 against Steve O and his Talon Karrde Squad.
Slaver/Zyg/Rodian agian for reinforcements. The big test. How would this fare against Disruptive. We played on theed. He kept Lobot/Jabba/Gha locked in his starting area and slowly started coming up the board. I took kills where I could and my movement could put pressure on him form pretty much every direction. I finally used my lone ugo (with slavedriver/swap/and init help) to go blow the door and threaten Lobot/JAbba/Gha. He had to pull Talon Karrde (as well as his klats) but it let me get another kill or 2 and let me take the push toward gambit. When Time was called, his guys were all back in his starting area protecting Jabba and Lobot and I was controlling gambit.

Semi-finals against Gerry again.
I think I brought the Glider/R7/Rodian and then I won map. Gerry (and I) looked and looked at the map and he could see no way that it wouldn't end even worse than our previous game (at least on nightclub he could possibly get a good FA off), so after about 5 minutes of talking it through and looking at the starting areas, he conceded since there really didn't seem to be any way he could win unless I just rolled really, really, poorly.

So we went and waited out the other semifinal match which came down to Quinlin internal strifeing over to Steve thus cancelling out Karrde's CE and Ysilimari, and the game STILL ended up tied going to the highest cost figure closest to the center which happened to be KArrde himself (1 square closer than Trevor's Cin Drallig).

Finals vs Steve O again.
Steve conceded because not only had he won map last time and been defeated by the little furballs, he (and neither did anyone else really) could see a better way to try and attack the ewok swarm.

Sunday 500 Epic
I was playing a double transfer Epic Exar/Lord Krayt squad.

Rd 1 Trevor and his screw act control with Dodonna and Mando CIO. I had 2 slim chances to have a chance in this game, but Mandalore used Crits on Zannah, And then my very last gasp, I forgot that MAndalor also had disruptive so Revan couldn't sawp out. Game over. Not close. No real hope of being close.

Rd 2 Jak and his NR Mara.
He raced Mara to gambit and I started killing stuff (his and mine with transfer essence). Came down to him finally letting mara come out and play. She killed stuff but then I was able to kill her and ended up with a 3 pt win.

Rd 3 TimA and his IG88 Squad.
Very interesting squad and Ganner was really annoying as when I was counting I could move almost no one without having to go get adjacent. I decided that unless I rolled a 1 (or he rolled a crit), I had a solution. End of the first round (after he was out), I ran a swoop bike adjacent. Lord Krayt then transfered in and used Rage to drop 90 on Ganner. Then Exar transferred in to Krayt and did 120 to finish him off. Exar then transfered out to gambit so I got 200 or so points and essentially locked him out of gambit for the game. Basically kept up that same thing. Transfer in, drop some damage on somebody, then transfer back to gambit. Eventually got enough points to win. However there was still plenty of time left so we kept playing to see if I could finish off his squad. I couldn't as I couldn't handle the sheer firepower of the IG88s. I think he had RS and DT IG88s left at the end of the game when he finally toasted my Exar and Revan.

Then we hung around for a bit and then finally left on our trek back. Jak graciously allowed us to stay at his place on Sunday night (Thanks Jak) so we could split up our long trek.

Overall, Frosty was a blast and I think everyone had fun. Learned some stuff about both Daala/Zyg as well as some stuff about Epics (act control has to go).