Hahaha yes! Looking forward to it!

Well it was a doozy

i was running
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/179635/spirit-bomb-never-works

He was running
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/179457/chief-of-state-bothans

He won map (I swear the last 7 times he has won map)

we played on lame cantina, but since he is good with angles it is a great map for him.

Since I am so low on door control without relying on Sabine I let him set up first.

He choose left side and set up with the intent of spreading out. Crix went to gambit

I set up on the bottom.

First round I get into the room down there and he has spread out decently.

Second round is more positioning with me levitating Sabine out to blow a door and come back.

Third round I move into gambit the in the next room up.

with Sabine on edge, and Ahsoka on top of her in the corner, Hera behind her and Kanan under hera and behind Sabine.

He moves some people and i am in traps and he gets 2 infiltrator twins on me, I have evade +4 and he needs a 12 to hit. both characters miss everything and he tries with leia to no effect. But the worse was that ol' ackbar himself got adjacent to Sabine and combined fire and needed a 3 and rolled a 2. He should have brought his chair.

but man, all that cloaked and stelth and diplomats, I couldn't touch anything unless I was adjacent.
So next round is going to be a doozy. I am talking all out war. He can double twin everything and even has an emp grenade that I forgot about that might do some damage too. he moved Criz over so that Ahsoka and Sabine have no evade. Luke is not in the group (they all have accurate on that cat).

So he has tactician +4 and recon (which we did not use by the way richard).he rolls a 4. I am like YA!!
i roll a 4....

He is going to do his thing and I am going to levitate Ahsoka or Kanan in to kill that infiltrator so fast. But than it would have been on from there.his plan was to activate Kanan. Combine fire and all that stuff probably would have hit 2 or 3 shots. I would have needed to evade all of them with my 7 roll and only 1 reroll. Would be interesting.

VASSAL crashed to the ground. both got kicked off instantly.... right at the friggin good part too.

But I chalk this up to my victory because I advanced slowly (something I never do) and Richard did the same spread em tactics. so he was static and I was dynamic.

This song came into my head while writing this with the word Lightning changed for vassal. so sad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsJ4O-nSveg

Hahaha you quoted the whole thing just to write that?
But I really won't keep that on the scoreboard.

My squad
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/179040/rogue-one-challenge

His Squad
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/179668/calling-all-bounty-hunters

Map roll I WIN!!

so I choose some map I have never played on but like:
Royal Palace

He lets me set up first and I choose the left side in the middle

He sets up kind of spread formation on the right

ROUND 1
no one gets gambit. momaw hurts Leia and Chirrut to give bonuses out.

ROUND 2: baze shoots at an ugnaught.... misses with a 1 (I knew his attack was bad)
He shoots at Chirrut, misses, everyone is cloaked. stalls his advance

We are kind of feeling each other out at this point and I am advancing slow.
He gets Gambit

ROUND 3:
Heavy Blaster at a 12 attack to kill his San Hill, who he thought was safe.
He moved a few scrubs up to stop me from peeping out and back in, I move Momaw 6 and war throat to kill 2 uggies and a mouse.

He grips Momaw and than Mira shoots at him and puts him to 20. morrigan finishes him later. He moves Cad Bane in an attempt at a possible charge.

He gets gambit

Round 4: I position myself to get ready to advance and run Chirrut out to the middle of his army ready to heavy blaster and hopefully get in people's way, also to give Baze the Protective bonus when he runs to furious assault.
He positions himself to be ready for the advance.

ROUND 5:
he wins init and runs Cad bane to base Jyn, Cassian, and Sabine

Something that I kind of foresaw but 1) did not think he would do and 2)would be happy with since I would kill it and run back in the door. leaving him Chirrut.

However, I totally misunderstood Hostage Shield. i really thought that it did not work on adjacent attackers... I dont know what ability I was thinking of, maybe bait and Switch...

But game is over at that point. 100% over.
We played it out and Jyn attacked him for 30 each and guess what Sabine had 30 and Cassian had 30. so they both fail there save one after another and die. hahaha

Wow! ummm that ability is one of the best shooting defense abilities ever. and... I hate it.
and after the taste of utter defeat goes away I will still hate it. I mean, what power. even If I had known about it being adjacent it would have stalled my advance terribly. haha I cannot go anywhere because everyone has to be separated so they are 4 and 5 squares back. It is a nasty ability. It being on Cad bane makes it not so crazy bad... but it controls so much spacing it is unbelievable. and it is not like its not a good piece otherwise. Lord Kaan for instance controls so much space, but he is not great otherwise. Even if you take Hostage shield completely away Cad bane is still great. change it to nonadjacent attackers and he is still fantastic.
just an eye opener and one move made me have zero chance when all my people where at full health is all.


Lesson learned. haha

Richard wins and I am going to hug my wife.

Can't we just blame the ability?

next time on Chronicles...

jen'ari will not overextend, Richard will play vong. (about the same odds of that happening)