AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
No lie, the only part of getting another ISD that worries me is having to put together another hanger for them. They are awesome and perfect but very time consuming.
Today I finally managed to get use out of the imperial raider. The main focus of my build was the Gladiator flanked by two imperial raiders, all three with intel officer crew, and assault concussion missiles. Fleet admiral was Screed. Started the above three at speed 3 and surged in, and completely shredded his entire fleet. The idea was to use Screed to repeatedly trigger assault concussion missiles, which causes 1 damage to hull zones adjacent to the zone attacked, whilst using the intel officers to take brace out of the fight. The two raiders alone destroyed his Pelta and his Assault Frigate, whilst they stripped ALL of the shields entirely off his Nebulon B Yavaris, leaving the gladiator to finish it off.
At the end of the game he had killed off 1 raider, and killed about 121 points in total. I had killed 330 something points of his.
Which was great! That said though, I still think it is difficult to find a place for the raider, as its defense isn't built to withstand the range you need to get your offense to bear. I like its rebel counterpart the cr-90 a lot more, since it offers so many more options.
Just got into a star wars debate with a friend. The Empire goes through all the trouble of making it look like desert nomads shot up a Jawa crawler to cover up the fact that stormtroopers did it.
The same Empire who just gave zero fucks about blowing up an entire planet just to show the whole galaxy that they could.
Just got into a star wars debate with a friend. The Empire goes through all the trouble of making it look like desert nomads shot up a Jawa crawler to cover up the fact that stormtroopers did it.
The same Empire who just gave zero fucks about blowing up an entire planet just to show the whole galaxy that they could.
Tell him that this happens all the time with large governments such as the Empire. The local Empire government on Tatooine likes to keep the locals confused. So they do a lot of frame jobs to keep the locals at each other's throats. Makes it easier to rule them.
Then hope your friend doesn't bring up the fact that Obi Wan mentions that the blaster shots are too precise which is what gave them away.
Just got into a star wars debate with a friend. The Empire goes through all the trouble of making it look like desert nomads shot up a Jawa crawler to cover up the fact that stormtroopers did it.
The same Empire who just gave zero fucks about blowing up an entire planet just to show the whole galaxy that they could.
Tell him that this happens all the time with large governments such as the Empire. The local Empire government on Tatooine likes to keep the locals confused. So they do a lot of frame jobs to keep the locals at each other's throats. Makes it easier to rule them.
Then hope your friend doesn't bring up the fact that Obi Wan mentions that the blaster shots are too precise which is what gave them away.
Racism is racism, even when it's Space Racism though.
The average moisture farming yokel is going to do exactly what Luke did and jump to the same conclusion. "It looks like Sandpeople did this, all right. Look, here are Gaffi sticks, Bantha tracks", but most of them aren't going to have an experienced general/jedi master with them to point out all the parts that don't fit the Sandpeople's MO.
So, it's not going to be too hard to convince the average Tatooine native that the Sandpeople are getting ready to go to war with the Jawas and everybody should be keeping their heads down while the Storm Troopers march in and sort everything out (by killing everyone that doesn't keep their head down).
Just got into a star wars debate with a friend. The Empire goes through all the trouble of making it look like desert nomads shot up a Jawa crawler to cover up the fact that stormtroopers did it.
The same Empire who just gave zero fucks about blowing up an entire planet just to show the whole galaxy that they could.
Tell him that this happens all the time with large governments such as the Empire. The local Empire government on Tatooine likes to keep the locals confused. So they do a lot of frame jobs to keep the locals at each other's throats. Makes it easier to rule them.
Then hope your friend doesn't bring up the fact that Obi Wan mentions that the blaster shots are too precise which is what gave them away.
Racism is racism, even when it's Space Racism though.
The average moisture farming yokel is going to do exactly what Luke did and jump to the same conclusion. "It looks like Sandpeople did this, all right. Look, here are Gaffi sticks, Bantha tracks", but most of them aren't going to have an experienced general/jedi master with them to point out all the parts that don't fit the Sandpeople's MO.
So, it's not going to be too hard to convince the average Tatooine native that the Sandpeople are getting ready to go to war with the Jawas and everybody should be keeping their heads down while the Storm Troopers march in and sort everything out (by killing everyone that doesn't keep their head down).
That makes a better reasoning than mine. I'd go with this.
Tattooine isn't part of the Empire. It's part of Hutt space.
So, they're likely trying to avoid annoying the Hutts (and their "trade cartels") by making it look like the wanton slaughter of a bunch of protection-paying tax-paying locals was a purely internal matter.
Tattooine isn't part of the Empire. It's part of Hutt space.
So, they're likely trying to avoid annoying the Hutts (and their "trade cartels") by making it look like the wanton slaughter of a bunch of protection-paying tax-paying locals was a purely internal matter.
Is it? I thought there was an imperial garrison there making it "officially" part of the Empire, but the part that's generally ignored for all intents and purposes.
I could be wrong, or that might be old EU.
Tattooine isn't part of the Empire. It's part of Hutt space.
So, they're likely trying to avoid annoying the Hutts (and their "trade cartels") by making it look like the wanton slaughter of a bunch of protection-paying tax-paying locals was a purely internal matter.
Is it? I thought there was an imperial garrison there making it "officially" part of the Empire, but the part that's generally ignored for all intents and purposes.
I could be wrong, or that might be old EU.
It was considered part of the Empire with just a garrison there. In the new EU Jabba was negotiating with the Empire (aka giving supplies) and knows that as long as he plays nice with them he is allowed to do whatever he wants. This was in both the new Star Wars comics and Darth Vader series.
AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
Well, fuck.
I was looking forward to a tournament, but it turns out it is this Sunday... when I have to travel 6 hours away for a conference. So.. no participating in that.
And I had just printed up some really sweet 3D trays too.
Do anyone else's Rebel Transports fit in their stands really loosely?
Mine fit alright. My problem seems to be with my nebulon B's, which slip out as soon as I lift them.
One a sidenote, I flew a Screed-fleet made up of an ISD 1 with the Avenger title and XI7's, and two VSD 2's with overload pulse, XI7's, all three with gunnery teams, with a Bossk tacked on for minimal squadron presence, against my friend who flew and MC80 alongside a MC30, a CR90 and a rebel transport, some squadrons, and with Ackbar as the commander. The game got really spectacular in the third round, when I got into his side-arcs, and he got into my front-arcs. The ability to get a guaranteed crit from Screed is just so good, since his MC80 got obliterated in that round when I activated one VSD, exhausted all of his defense tokens with Overload pulse, and then activated my ISD right after. Avenger title means defender can't use exhausted defense tokens.
I think Screed is by far my favourite imperial commander so far.
Sooo, I bought the ISD as my personal Christmas present just to have. It really is so intimidating sitting next to Home One. Also helped that Amazon gave me a coupon for it as well.
Sooo, I bought the ISD as my personal Christmas present just to have. It really is so intimidating sitting next to Home One. Also helped that Amazon gave me a coupon for it as well.
I was curious after watching The Last Jedi, and reading about your ISD reminded me, so I did a bit of mathing in case anyone else was similarly curious.
If the ISD is 1.6 kilometers long, which seems to be the general consensus, and the Supremacy is 60 kilometers wide, that's 37.5 ISDs wide.
The ISD mini hangs out at right around 8 inches long (give or take a bit, but close enough for boredom mathing).
At the same scale as the Imperial Star Destroyer, the Supremacy star destroyer would be around 300 inches wide. In other terms, 25 feet, or 7.6 meters.
Hopefully, it would also double as a makeshift apartment (presumably with a table inside it to play with your more reasonably sized tiny space ships).
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
Ackbar doesn't let your CR90Bs fire at long range (he lets you add dice to your dice pool, but a CR90B can't attack at long range, so can't form a dice pool, so he doesn't help). I'd upgrade them to As because the difference between 0 and 3 long range dice is significant.
Maybe swap the X-Wings for A-Wings? The 'escort' keyword is wasted when they've got nothing to escort, and the longer range on the A-Wings is good when you don't have a carrier ship with squadron upgrades.
Your assault objective should be Advanced Gunnery, but nobody will ever pick it. I think Ackbar lists like Fire Lanes and Intel Sweep?
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TurksonNear the mountains of ColoradoRegistered Userregular
Thanks!
I made the MC80 a Command Cruiser and that freed up the points needed to swap the "B" Corvettes to "A" models.
I'm using 4 X-wing squadrons because they're the only rebel fighters I have.
I still have 5 points but nothing else is really popping out at me to spend them on.
oh h*ck
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TurksonNear the mountains of ColoradoRegistered Userregular
A picture my opponent took. I think my Cruiser dies next turn after doing absolutely nothing. My Frigate does get behind the Demolisher and leaves it a flaming wreck and does hurt the Carrier but dies to the Rhymer ball next. My two flanking Corvettes also get behind the Vic and demolish it but take some damage in return. We had to end a turn early because of wife aggro but I conceded. I couldn't catch his Carrier with my remaining Corvettes before the Rhymer ball wreck them.
oh h*ck
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
I wish there was a local Armada scene around here. I love it!
AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
I'm really worried this game is going to die at or around GenCon. There hasn't been any new announcements in forever, and no new capships are showing up in the universe. It looks great on a table, but Legion is quickly eating its lunch.
The game could easily benefit from a 2.0 retool, but I don't think it has the support to survive that. Plus it is half as old as X-wing at this point.
I found another picture that shows the scale a little better:
I'm trying to imagine the 2020 Gencon Death Star reveal, and I can't quite grasp the scale... Would it be the size of a small apartment?
I can't imagine it being fun in a game, especially a 400 point game. You're in my front arc, I win! You brought a bunch of bombers, I lose! I haven't played in a year anyway.
I still want one.
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AthenorBattle Hardened OptimistThe Skies of HiigaraRegistered Userregular
I don't think that is it. The base is wrong, looks printed.. too close together. And there's NO WAY they would put the prototype out on a table. Plus the abundance of custom ships...
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I should know... *sadface*
At the end of the game he had killed off 1 raider, and killed about 121 points in total. I had killed 330 something points of his.
Which was great! That said though, I still think it is difficult to find a place for the raider, as its defense isn't built to withstand the range you need to get your offense to bear. I like its rebel counterpart the cr-90 a lot more, since it offers so many more options.
The same Empire who just gave zero fucks about blowing up an entire planet just to show the whole galaxy that they could.
Tell him that this happens all the time with large governments such as the Empire. The local Empire government on Tatooine likes to keep the locals confused. So they do a lot of frame jobs to keep the locals at each other's throats. Makes it easier to rule them.
Then hope your friend doesn't bring up the fact that Obi Wan mentions that the blaster shots are too precise which is what gave them away.
Steam: betsuni7
Racism is racism, even when it's Space Racism though.
The average moisture farming yokel is going to do exactly what Luke did and jump to the same conclusion. "It looks like Sandpeople did this, all right. Look, here are Gaffi sticks, Bantha tracks", but most of them aren't going to have an experienced general/jedi master with them to point out all the parts that don't fit the Sandpeople's MO.
So, it's not going to be too hard to convince the average Tatooine native that the Sandpeople are getting ready to go to war with the Jawas and everybody should be keeping their heads down while the Storm Troopers march in and sort everything out (by killing everyone that doesn't keep their head down).
That makes a better reasoning than mine. I'd go with this.
Steam: betsuni7
So, they're likely trying to avoid annoying the Hutts (and their "trade cartels") by making it look like the wanton slaughter of a bunch of protection-paying tax-paying locals was a purely internal matter.
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Is it? I thought there was an imperial garrison there making it "officially" part of the Empire, but the part that's generally ignored for all intents and purposes.
I could be wrong, or that might be old EU.
It was considered part of the Empire with just a garrison there. In the new EU Jabba was negotiating with the Empire (aka giving supplies) and knows that as long as he plays nice with them he is allowed to do whatever he wants. This was in both the new Star Wars comics and Darth Vader series.
Steam: betsuni7
They would not know that some super high ranked guy would then later order a planet blown up. They probably didn't even know the deathstar existed!
I was looking forward to a tournament, but it turns out it is this Sunday... when I have to travel 6 hours away for a conference. So.. no participating in that.
And I had just printed up some really sweet 3D trays too.
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Mine fit alright. My problem seems to be with my nebulon B's, which slip out as soon as I lift them.
One a sidenote, I flew a Screed-fleet made up of an ISD 1 with the Avenger title and XI7's, and two VSD 2's with overload pulse, XI7's, all three with gunnery teams, with a Bossk tacked on for minimal squadron presence, against my friend who flew and MC80 alongside a MC30, a CR90 and a rebel transport, some squadrons, and with Ackbar as the commander. The game got really spectacular in the third round, when I got into his side-arcs, and he got into my front-arcs. The ability to get a guaranteed crit from Screed is just so good, since his MC80 got obliterated in that round when I activated one VSD, exhausted all of his defense tokens with Overload pulse, and then activated my ISD right after. Avenger title means defender can't use exhausted defense tokens.
I think Screed is by far my favourite imperial commander so far.
(ps @Elvenshae let's do a SW rp campaign again )
Steam: betsuni7
I was curious after watching The Last Jedi, and reading about your ISD reminded me, so I did a bit of mathing in case anyone else was similarly curious.
If the ISD is 1.6 kilometers long, which seems to be the general consensus, and the Supremacy is 60 kilometers wide, that's 37.5 ISDs wide.
The ISD mini hangs out at right around 8 inches long (give or take a bit, but close enough for boredom mathing).
At the same scale as the Imperial Star Destroyer, the Supremacy star destroyer would be around 300 inches wide. In other terms, 25 feet, or 7.6 meters.
Hopefully, it would also double as a makeshift apartment (presumably with a table inside it to play with your more reasonably sized tiny space ships).
It is very good looking and my favorite model.
How does this list look?
Assault Objective - No idea
Defense Objective - No idea
Navigation Objective - No idea
Admiral Ackbar
MC80 Assault Cruiser
Defiance
Engine Techs
Reinforced Blast Doors
Leading Shots
MC30 Scout Frigate
Admonition
Ordance Experts
Rapid Reload
CR90 Corvette B
CR90 Corvette B
4x X-Wing Squadrons
Total 393/400
Maybe swap the X-Wings for A-Wings? The 'escort' keyword is wasted when they've got nothing to escort, and the longer range on the A-Wings is good when you don't have a carrier ship with squadron upgrades.
Your assault objective should be Advanced Gunnery, but nobody will ever pick it. I think Ackbar lists like Fire Lanes and Intel Sweep?
I made the MC80 a Command Cruiser and that freed up the points needed to swap the "B" Corvettes to "A" models.
I'm using 4 X-wing squadrons because they're the only rebel fighters I have.
I still have 5 points but nothing else is really popping out at me to spend them on.
A picture my opponent took. I think my Cruiser dies next turn after doing absolutely nothing. My Frigate does get behind the Demolisher and leaves it a flaming wreck and does hurt the Carrier but dies to the Rhymer ball next. My two flanking Corvettes also get behind the Vic and demolish it but take some damage in return. We had to end a turn early because of wife aggro but I conceded. I couldn't catch his Carrier with my remaining Corvettes before the Rhymer ball wreck them.
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The game could easily benefit from a 2.0 retool, but I don't think it has the support to survive that. Plus it is half as old as X-wing at this point.
But, yeah, it's never been as popular as xwing or legion. Definitely not legion.
Legion came out this year and is still getting its feet under it.
The chimera and hammerhead came out a few months back, but before that was... Ummm... I think the TIE carrier wave that also had Phoenix One?
It's not that big.
MSRP $199.95. 6 firing arcs. Super long base. 4 ship cards, and hinting at its full power being felt in larger game formats.
Feed I was watching didn't have a good shot of Korey holding up the model, but it was wider than his chest.
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I haven't played the game, or bought into it, but I might just for that.
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Also, my poor wallet is crying between this, the X-Wing announcements, Lego, and saving for a trip next year.
Fixed your post for you.
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I'm trying to imagine the 2020 Gencon Death Star reveal, and I can't quite grasp the scale... Would it be the size of a small apartment?
I can't imagine it being fun in a game, especially a 400 point game. You're in my front arc, I win! You brought a bunch of bombers, I lose! I haven't played in a year anyway.
I still want one.
I mean, it's close. But that ain't FFG's.
I will probably buy that model just to have it. So good.
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