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Someone should video the finals in real time. Facebook live that sucker or something

Okay! Let's get this down...

kezzamachine: "Triple Ven" (I know, I know...)
Map: Simulation Deck
Ven/Satele/Bastila/WookCom/4xWookScoundrels/R7/Loth/Prowler/Uggie/XT6

Yan: "He's Finally Running R2!"
Map: Spynet HQ
GOWK/4xERCs/R2/Rex/Mas

Joseph: "No"
Map: Modular Base
Twins/MonMothma/Sabine/R2ex/Crix/Rieekan/Dodonna/Lobot

Sam: "Chiss Club"
Map: "Ruined Base"
ThrawnCE/Lobot/ChissFO/ChissCapt/4xChissTroops/Ozzel/Mas/Uggie

Paul: "Fire in the Disco"
Map: Great Library
ShaiSubalter/TsavongWE/Khalee/Nen/8thCortex/Harrar/Dooje/Zonama/Uggie/Consul/AAO/Yammosk

Mike: "Saturday Morning with the Skywalkers"
Map: Ruined Base
Twins/HanBowcaster/ChewieBowcaster/Jacen!/LorSan/Borsk/Whills/filler

Hayden: "That is NOT my squad name..."
Map: Ruined Base
Talon/BobaAFH/Embo/Corde/Malakili/Watto/R7/Ugs

JP: "Immortal Luke"
Map: Dark Academy
LukeMOTO/Calista/LandoNRL/Wedge/Dodonna/Ossus

Graham: "Jan Ores For Two (Siblings in the) Woods"
Map: Modular Base
Twins/KyleRH/Lobot/LandoInfil/Jan/Crix/Rieekan/Dodonna/filler

Daman: "Four Corde Song"
Map: Spynet HQ
CadBane/Thrawn/Corde/Lobot/Ozzel/Mas/Brutes,Ugs,andMice... so many Brutes

Ian: "Quinlan Redeemed"
Map: Great Library
Cin/QuinDA/GenSky/Serra/R2/Mas/Spaarti/2x Loth&Ugs

Alex: "Making 10 activations feel like 100"
Map: Modular Base
Jyn/Cassian/Baze/Bodhi/K-2SO/Chirrut/3xROMarine

Paul Matheson: "Zombie Horde"
Map: Modular Base
Celeste/Talon/Malakili/2xRakghoul/2xRakWarrior/R7/Uggies

Awesome!!!!
And Daman bringing back Cad Bane!
And boba malakili!
And Quinlan redeemed!!

Great stuff a good variation as well. Should be fun. 3 twins though but one is in NR which is cool

What is the rolling on twins being able to follow Lor Sans ce tattoo allow them to start halfway? Name contains Luke Skywalker?
If it works that is a nasty trick

Round Two Begins:

Hayden vs Kezza
PaulMat vs JP
Daman vs Graham
Ian vs Yan
Paul vs Joseph
Alex vs Sam
Mike has the Bye

Here's the next round (after lunch):

Kez (6pts) vs Daman (6pts)
PaulMat (6) vs Ian (4)
Hayden (4) vs JP (4)
Paul (3) vs Mike (3)
Graham (3) vs Alex (2)
Yan (2) vs Sam (1)
Joseph (0) vs Bye (good luck!)

Final Round... Fight!

Daman (8) v Ian (7)
Hayden (7) v Graham (6)
kezza (7) v PaulMat (6)
JP (4) v Mike (4)
Yan (4) v Paul (6)
Joseph (3) v Alex (2)
Sam (1) has the Bye

Final Round Results:

Kezza beats PaulMat 207-80 on Modular Base
Paul beats Yan 210-10 on Bothan Spynet
Graham/Hutts beat Hayden 200-93 on Ruined Base
Mike beat JP 216-82 on Ruined Base
Joseph beats Alex 200-55 on Modular Base
Daman beats Ian 202-23 on Spynet

Daman beat Graham on Modular Base 200-108
Kezza beat Paul on Great Library 202-63

Wow - so close to your first major!

I'm awake early and wanted to share some of my thoughts on LowerHuttACon.

If you look at our tournament history, New Zealand's had a reputation for not running strafe much - Tim Ballard has pointed this out before, especially when Daala was running riot. Yesterday we had three players running Luke and Leia on Speeder, which was very unusual, and there weren't really any swarms in the field. The three players who used the Speeder, Joseph and Mike (who played the final at last year's LowerHuttACon) and myself went 5-5 in pool play (if you take out the byes), so you could argue that the meta didn't suit it, or that we're just not that good at playing strafe.

Two of my games were reasonably straightforward. The Commandos and GOWK made a few mistakes and gave me R2 and Rex early, although they did get to 100 points by killing Crix and the Speeder and getting gambit. The Rogue One squad had little answer to strafe, and even though it has crazy movement tricks doesn't have much damage, especially as I knocked out Cassian early. As playing Daman's Thrawn Swap twice made me appreciate, it's way, way tougher IMO being the out-activated player. If you're the out-activating player you get to make all your decisions later and feed off the other player's mistakes.

Hayden's Fringe squad was a lot closer than the scoreline made it look. Basically he moved Talon near my guys at the start of the round in anticipation that I was going to blow the door and get in on his squad. This left Talon exposed and Kyle was able to get next to him and kill him with Lightsaber +10 needing 2s. But then Kyle, who's really my squad's big damage dealer was exposed, and died quickly. I then miscalculated with Luke - I thought Embo had 80 hit points and strafed so I ended next to Embo and could get a second shot on him, but turns out he had 90. I moved Crix up to protect Luke from Embo's overwhelming, but Embo went after Crix instead, so I lost Crix as well, which meant I'd lost a lot of damage output. Jan Ors missed a lot of shots too - she needed 9s on Morrigan, and missed 7 of the first 8, where you'd expect her to land 4 or 5. I was able to close it out, but it was a lot closer than it looked from the score.

After pool play we were looking up the floor rules to seperate Paul and I into 3rd and 4th, as we were both equal on everything (both had 3 three point wins) and we had to delve into Strength of Schedule. I think we got down to the 6th tie breaker rule to figure out Paul was 3rd and I was 4th.

I played Daman's Imperial squad twice, once in pool play and once in the semis. It's very tough, as Daman's expert with that squad, and it handily outactivates mine. Both times I bought in Ree Yees and a Killik with Lobot - I figured Ree Yees would give me a shot at mowing down Cad Bane or Morrigan with the Speeder if I could steal init. In hindsight I played it wrong - my squad has things that can give him issues with disruptive and evade, but I probably should have bought in a bunch of activations with Lobot. The issue I had was that I had very little disposable fodder bringing in Ree Yees - I should have had a Rodian Brute instead of the Mouse in my base squad, and I should have used Dodonna as a meatshield instead of hiding him out back. But the way I had it, I started losing vital pieces almost immediately in both games. It's still tough being outactivated, and at the mercy of Daman who's expert with his squad, but having more fodder would have helped.

I've never thought about it before, but after playing it, I don't mind suppressive fire being unavoidable, but it's pretty harsh how it stops CEs for the rest of the round - so after Luke and Leia were tapped by Morrigan, they didn't have evade against Cad Bane.

It was a really fun day - thanks to everyone who turned up, and thanks Kezzamachine for organising it.