Burk

its odd they cannot easily ally with chaos SM's. from a fluff standpoint the Mechanicum was split, so many titan/knight legions went to the bad side.

you still have to move up an equivalent of 2 forward each turn after you start the "stop" fest as the 2nd one in line jumps the first, etc as if you take a red maneuver when you have a stress, you OP gets to choose your maneuver. Evil_Bryan came up with an idea that we doved the "wagon train" 4 Lambda's with APL. just start circling them in the center of the board and they one behind covers the back of the one in front, etc. could be fun to try, and it is alot of HP to get through......

you can get boost on the Lambda. It is a modification. Engine upgrade. 4 points. I have seen EH in action and I think it is better on small ships that can really utilize it. It is hard enough to land a barrel roll normally at range 1, but the big ship....not seeing it.

i dont disagree he is good, My issue is that talk that him with the card combo you list is too powerful. I dont see that is being a good addition. I dont think you could add anything to him that would stop a determined player from killing him in 2-3 rounds of concentration. I find the best adds for him is swarm tactics and maybe the MF upgrade, so a solid 49 points. But even that is getting into the "is it worth that many points" for me.

I guess we just disagree. It is no better at killing ships than any other out there (sans ties and a-wings). I dont disagree it is a good ship, but I dont see how adding a stress inducing action and a 1 use item makes it better (and to get the evade, you need to add another point, so now you are at 53.....thats alot of points.. I just played one and it was ignored completely unless there was nothing else to shoot at. Falcons are good, but the more points you add to it, the diminishing returns IMHO. We will have to settle this on the field.

sadly I say Monuments men also. I at best give it a 4/10. Not even close to the history.

Han moves last so block him. Take away his ability to barrel roll by forcing bumps. Honestly, I think any lists i play would have no problem, but not because of the list, instead due to taking away the rolling. bump, bump, bump. then he gets no action, no barrel roll. yes he can go 3-4 forward to avoid, but that is great, as then he is probably in my arc anyway as the arc gets really wide at range 3 and he is away from you so rolling becomes in-effective. I would also try to force the engagement in the area with the highest concentration of asteroids (yes asteroid placement is a vital portion of the game. Dont just throw them out there, make it dicey in an area if you are more maneuverable). By forcing the asteroids into the picture the ability to roll is further reduced as remember you cannot roll/boost if the final location would bump another ship or land on an asteroid. Dont get me wrong, it is a nice set of abilities, but if you feel you cannot kill him in 2-3 turns of concentrated shooting, then ignore him and kill everything else, then when you start "crossing your ships" you can cover multiple fire arcs so the thing cant get away from at least 1-2 shots per turn. with 1 evade dice (and him using his action to roll), i will be getting hits with each shot.

how about all the Star players and fixing the AI. AI is horribel on that. not even a challenge.

kinda of late, but I notice this not on the DA calender.

not enough MSS :)

odd. I'm the opposite. I find a falcon to be an easy kill. If it is well piloted you kill everything else then focus on it by itself. I find the elite rebel lists to be more of a problem...or Ywings. I despise those things. Well not just ywings, but anything with an Ion Turret. Makes me want to puke. My nightmare is multiple ion lists as they stop me from taking stress on my interceptors. Faced one the other day. Got hammered.

chewie being 1 use only and the expert handling really only helps if you are facing ships that need target locks. I dont see the EH being that great considering the base size, it would be very difficult to roll and still not land on asteroids or other ships (assuming you are in close with him, as most do around here). Get in close, hammer him for a 2-3 turns till dead, then move on. I dont know, I just dont see 4 shots a turn being worth 52 points when I know I can kill him in 3 turns of concentrated shooting. meh, each his own I guess. You are right that interceptors lose some strength vs hes 360, but I personally see wedge and a rookie as being worth the 52 points more than that. :) almost as durable 10 HP vs 15 (with chewie) (but 2 AG vs 1), but putting out double the firepower at range 1 8 AD vs 4AD. Ill take that anyday.

The meta in your area must be much different then ours. We play falcons, but they are not overpowered at all. However our area doesnt take many missiles, we just concentrate fire. With the falcon, you have two options. Kill it first, or kill everything else first. either works, and takes a few rounds to complete with concentrated fire, but honestly, the falcon in strong, but I would much rather face a falcon then the 2 ships it would replace.

3pm xwing.

put it together :)

i will be there at 9 then...come one come all. :)

i will be there around 9ish......

The WOW clubhouse is only about 3-5 blocks from GG, so if you were in that area, you can find where many club members meet up on tuesdays.

If anyone is planning on coming to this, please post up as the primary person I was going to play had to drop out, so want to guage interest and see if anyone else is planning. Otherwise i will avhe to bag it. I know SGABYSS is checking so everyone/anyone else, pipe up. :)

Mike, We play BB every few months, It is not a full time game locally. Most of us have been playing it for 20+ years, but not year round. A group of us regularly go upto vancouver BC for the SPIKE tourney in September. Generally about 2 months before that is BB non stop prepping. However if you are looking for games, there are a lot of good players that will play one-offs outside of leagues. Myself, Weav, Kirby, Savion47, jollyork, kb10r, blustorm all play in our leagues regularly. Oh and Frostitute, but dont play him he sucks...... I am kidding, Frosty won SPIKE last year, so he knows what he is doing, and will tell you the whole game Mojoslayer is another good player, but he is down in Salem. When you get into town, post you want to get a game in and we can meet up ad the WOW clubhouse for a game and we can introduce you around. Later Burck

cool, let me know.

damn anyone else for saturday morning xwing?

and the boxes are full sprues right? Not just boxes for sale :) (old joke)

who do you play with in Idaho?

really...I must try that.