So Nete, your list got me 4th place today. That's out of 7 though. I know I didn't fly it anywhere near as good as you do. I've only flown a Firespray once, an Imperial Kath a long time ago. Luckily I've gotten a ton of bomb experience out of Miranda recently, so Emon's tactics weren't new to me. The tournament format was a 3 round tourney, with a free Palp for every person. So every participant had a free Palpatine (or "Ackbar" for Rebels or "Jabba" for Scum, that acted the exact same as Palp) to use on every round, it was just auto-included into everyone's list at no point cost.
Round 1: I faced a guy that I've faced many times, who was flying a list I've flown against many times (and have yet to beat that list). The list was a naked Seinar Test Pilot (TIE Advanced Prototype) and four Tempest Squadron Pilots (TIE Advanced) all with the title and accuracy correctors. He flies the Advanceds in a box formation and frequantly takes evades, so he has four ships each throwing two hits every round at you, and three green dice with an evade on each. Very frustrating, because if your green dice aren't with you, you'll eat shots every round. And my green dice weren't with me. Boba put a hurt on the TAP and killed him but then mistakenly flew off the board. I got too deep into the corner and was scared that a 3K would take me out (we measured after, it would have for sure) so I did a hard 2. The corner of my base just barely overlapped and that meant dead Boba. It went to time and the final score was 74-16, my loss.
Round 2: Round two was against a Sabine Shadowcaster and 2 generic Protectorates (I think they were Concord Dawn Aces, maybe). I didn't get too many bombs off but a set of clusters took the Protectorates down to almost no hull while they were pounding Boba. They finally got Boba down to half health and secured half points on him when they both got finished off.mafter that I tried to hunt down Sabine while keeping Boba alive. It went to time, 100-24 me.
Round 3: Round three was against a guy flying a Falcon, who won with a Falcon at the tourney I organized a few weeks back. This list was different than that one though, he was flying a 49 point tank-y Resistance Sympathizer Falcon (with Chewie crew, old MF title, C-3PO, and Shield Upgrade) and a 51 point fat-as-hell Regen Poe with PtL, Advanced Proton Torps, and a few other upgrades. The game started off a lot slower than the other two, since I played really aggressive in the first two right off the bat. I took things slow and tried to line up some bombs with Emon. I couldn't get in good position and kept getting really poor attack rolls as well, and just wasn't putting any damage into anyone. I'd get one damage a round on Poe and he'd regen it. I finally got Boba into a poor position behind Emon where I couldn't drop anything on Poe. Finally I decided to focus on the Falcon and try to get points. Boba got taken down to half points towards the end of the hour and I did the math on the Falcon and realized that if I could get half points on it and kept Boba alive, I'd win. His Falcon was 50 points, which would net me 25, and Boba was 49, so 24 points would go to him. Time was going to get called, so I turned Boba towards the edge used 4-LOM on the Falcon's evade, since I didn't have to worry about the next turn. I managed to get the damage I needed without Boba dying (since the Falcon took an evade every turn, his attacks were all unmodified and not doing much damage). Went to time, 25-24 modified win for me.
So fourth place was mine. The guy who out the tourney together bought a bunch of Star Wars Funko Pops on sale as prizes (a Sabine, a Boba, a TIE Pilot which I really wanted and didn't get, and I think Bib Fortuna maybe?), as well as some mint in card actions figures (Thrawn, Palpatine, a Black Series Vader), and some other cool stuff. Another guy donated some acrylic tokens and range rulers, as well as three of the old Scimitar Squadron alt-art Bomber cards. I didn't get the TIE Pilot Funko Pop figure I wanted; the guy who organized it wanted it and placed second. So I got the Episode 1 "Darth Sidious" action figure, which came with a loose Royal Guard figure he picked up at a flea market, a Boba Fett pin, and one of the Scimitar Squadron alt-arts. All in all, it was a fun day.
Things I screwed up: I forgot to use Dengar for half of the first match. Didn't use the HLC at all with Emon all day, since I was trying to get bombs out my rear arc and wasn't lining up front shots. Kept getting Boba behind Emon in the last match in spots that I wanted to bomb. And the big one, I didn't was Boba's ability at all until the third match despite having plenty of opportunities to. The guy I flew against in the second match flies Boba a lot and said at the end "You know what I'm surprised you didn't do?" and tapped the Boba card. I smacked my forehead and said "Oh man, he DOES have an ability, doesn't he? What the hell is it? I didn't even look before we started and forgot he even had one!" That was a big "Duh" moment for me.
. Maarek/Farlander and Braylen/Thane are actually dual cards.
