Round 1 vs Denny of TNX Squadron flying Colonel Jendon, 3x Rho (torps and ion cannons)

Denny’s list favours a frontal assault so I need to think about how I want to approach his list. Maybe split up some flankers? Or bait him through the asteroid field? Or maybe… screw it I’ll joust him.

I do love blowing up my own ships

Jendon gave out long range scanners to the party early on and pegged Vermeil as priority one. But with Vermeil going slow and Deathrain going fast some last minute targets were switched. The launched bomb would only clip one Rho so it disengaged through the asteroid field to come about next turn. One less thing shooting at me. Deathrain got ioned and a Rho was put down to one hull. Now here is where the game was won. My opponent didn’t know Deathrain would barrel roll to the right (focus action only when ioned happens in the perform action step, system phase is free game). This caused a traffic pile up and left my ships free to obliterate them one after the other. The one Rho that disengaged in the beginning gave me more grief than the rest of the list as I had no idea where he was slamming.

Victory: 200–95