League Night: I Can Hold It!

1 and 1 in the league at the moment and next up for pilot of choice is Jek ‘Piggy’ Porkins. I’m thinking something themed.

It’s gotta be Battle of Yavin right? Jek with his trusty sidekick R5-D8. Luke with R2-D2, and Biggs with… R2-Q2? Ain’t got that one. We’ll just have to write on the card with tippex. Luke needs torps. How else he gonna blow the thing up? That leaves 16pts for another torp or afterburners or whatever. Na hold up. Not Yavin. Scarif! Jek was in that too. Pretty sure he lives in that one. I’ll let Facebook decide. Votes are in… and we are being redirected to Scarif.

Alright then Jek, Garven, Dutch, and Heff. They were all there, check the wiki. Weird how Heff got a pilot card and Laren didn’t. I mean she made it through the shield gate, like what ya gotta do to make it in this universe?

I deployed my U-Wing on the left. D20 Adam deployed his Arc-170 on the right. Change of pace, deployed my other ships to joust it. Heff would be isolated but the Arc would be forced to leave the skirmish for the time being. Obi-Wan and Spanish Ric went straight for Heff, with my other ships coming in for the second engagement.

Heff went pop, but I’d guessed where Obi would be and fired two range 2 shots and a torp at it, taking the Jedi out the fight early on.

Next target was the Arc as it joined the fight. Took some firepower but went down eventually. Last but not least was Ric.

Understand that this had all gone down in the first 20 minutes… and this game went to time. Ric was incredibly difficult to catch, even with three arcs to work with. Dutch took him out with a torp as the timer went.

Duck and weave

That leaves us with Jek Porkins. He used his ability at least eight times and damaged his ship once. R5-D8 used all three charges frantically holding the chassis together. What a champion!

But it’s not over as my second opponent for week 2 is here so next up is Countdown. Already done the Striker spam so gotta come up with something else.

Alright. Countdown list without more Strikers. Theme is out. So is synergy by the looks of it. Taking Aces is the easy way out. It’s gotta be the central character in the list. Come on, use your brain. Dig deeper. Countdown… counts down. Like a clock, tick tock. Timer. Fuse. Bombs. Which bombs? All of them! Three bombers to carry the gear. Points left. Barrage Rockets for all. Still points left. Promote one to Deathfire so that the Electo-Proton will go off.

bwahahahahaha

D20 Aaron, one of our newer members, would have to prep his First Order detachment against a salvo of rockets and bombs. He had a bloody good go of it.

This is how you proxy Deathfire

Rockets did most of the work, though I did catch QuickDraw out with a Conner Net, split my bombers in different directions, then came back to engage. Dropping multiple bombs at different angles meant there was no where to go.

Didn’t even get to make use of the Electro-Proton. What a waste. 😩