League Night: List Stealing

Three more games to go and the next two I have to fit Mace and Vader into hyperspace lists. Coming up to my third anniversary of playing X-Wing I figured I’d celebrate by using that wonderful list building technique, half inch someone else’s.

(45) Mace Windu [Delta-7 Aethersprite]

(6) R2 Astromech

(18) Delta-7B

Points: 69

(43) Luminara Unduli [Delta-7 Aethersprite]

(6) R2 Astromech

(18) Delta-7B

Points: 67

(50) “Wolffe” [ARC-170 Starfighter]

(3) R2 Astromech

(9) Seventh Fleet Gunner

(1) Crack Shot

Points: 63

Total points: 199

The 13 year old that Americans can’t beat claims ownership on this setup. Simeon has been raking in the kills on his home turf with this chunkier version of my favourite archetype, ‘two aces and another thing’.

First game was D20 Elliot flying Wedge and double tapping Y-Wings. Wolffe wrapped around the asteroid field to exchange shots with as few Ion cannons as possible. Elliot set his fleet up to block off Luminara’s disengage but she pulled off the 3 bank with millimetres to spare and escaped an almost certain death.

Wolffe and Dutch exchanged Ion tokens (lucky crit) and then bumped into each other, you moved first numbnuts! Fortunately Luminara had a beautiful fully modded range 1 seventh fleet shot and sunk her teeth in.

With Gold Squadron out of position, next target was Wedge. One wrong move from Elliot and Wedge fell onto Mace’s dinner plate. After that it was a simple matter of clearing up the rest, not before regen-stealing all of Elliot’s hard earned MOV like the absolute bastard I am.

Wolffe has all the tokens he needs

Jedi regen needs a fix and increasing points won’t cut it, maybe fix it so it doesn’t point steal? I dunno. As far as the list goes It’s pretty cool. Middle of the road initiative and no bid means you gotta put the work in and can’t rely on having perfect infomation. Good luck Simeon, and may the force be with you.

(67) Darth Vader [TIE Advanced x1]

(6) Afterburners

(2) Fire-Control System

Points: 75

(53) Soontir Fel [TIE Interceptor]

(2) Predator

Points: 55

(42) “Duchess” [TIE/sk Striker]

(9) Fifth Brother

(2) Predator

Points: 53

Total points: 183

Yeah it’s Dale’s list again. Could have picked something else but it was still in the case from the Birthday party and I’m a busy guy. Next up, D20 Dean and his beautiful beard.

Game lasted about 20 minutes. A smattering of range 1 shots crippled the four Rebel ships beyond any chance of recovery. Can you tell I really like this list? High initiative, big bid, and mods for days. It practically flies itself. Kinda feel dirty for bringing these lists to League night, I’m sure I had a point to prove but I forgot what it was. Oh now there’s a thing:

So you know how a while back people were talking about which archetype requires the most skill to fly compared to other lists? And some people went on to say that Ace lists required actual skill to fly well? Well I ain’t knocking people’s life choices and I may come across as biased for having some weird affinity with Aces. I mean this with the utmost respect when I say those people are full of shit.

Experience? Sure. Skill? Na. Aces are for those old guard veterans who just want a nice ride that’ll carry them through the day. And until a third unique Punisher pilot shows up, Aces are probably where I’ll stay.

I’m just grouchy my Speeder Bikes haven’t turned out the way I want. See you in November. :D