An old format ends and a new one begins

Nationals season will be nearing an end over the next few weeks and the most recent ones have had a myriad of different formats available. UK Nationals was a SoR + 2 Player Startersmeta, Canadian Nationals starts tomorrow and will be SoR Meta due to the 2 Player Starters not arriving in time, and Poland Nationals is Oct 7th-8th and has EaW legal. I feel that hearing from the winners is a big treat for the competitive community, so if you or someone you know has won any of the National / Continental level events (past and future) and is willing to write a Tournament Report with their experiences at the event, we here at TheHyperloops would love to host it. I’ve had a tough time getting in touch with some of the winners, so if any one is in contact with the US Nationals winner (or any other ones) and can send them our way, it would be much appreciated.

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UK Nationals Champ – Dan Adlem – 2P Meta

75 players met in Liverpool UK for the first ever SWDestiny UK National Championship. Two weeks before Nationals, Fantasy Flight Games released the 2-player box which met the cut-off date by 1 day. Enter the “Two Week Meta” it was obvious that New Phasma & New Kylo was going to see a lot of play. I threw out all of my current testing and focused on what decks these characters went in, while also keeping up on tournaments results.

This deck list is a copy of the recent Bluegrass Open winning list. After playing a few test games with new Kylo’s ability and the destructive power of 9’s I knew I would be playing this deck.

Swiss round: (All Phasma’s and Kylo are from 2P)

1 – eVader (Dark Apprentice), General Grievous (Win)

2 – eLuminara, eRey (Win)

3 – eVader (Sith Lord), Phasma (Win)

4 – ePhasma, eKylo (Win)

5 – eVader (SIth Lord), Royal Guard (Win)

6 – eQui-gon, Erey (Loss)

7 – eBala, FN2199, Phasma (Win)

Most of my games in the swiss were very close with most of the wins coming down to an action or two. Kylo’s ability really saved me during the day with only guessing the wrong colour about 4 times over the 7 matches (more on that later)

I’m sure most of you will be surprised about the loss to eQui-gon, eRey so just a few points on that match. I lost FN to a huge burst turn while he had 2 Vibroknifes on him so I lost all weapons on the board. And Qui-gon just kept putting on so many shields I couldn’t do the damage I needed with Kylo. My opponent plays eQui-gon, eRey exclusively and as I have said on our podcast if you are a master of your deck, then you can do very well regardless of tier lists.

Top 16 – eVader (SL), Phasma (2-0) Simon (+2 modifier of the ThreeManMeta)

Top 8 – eKylo, ePhasma (2-0)

Top 4 – eVader (DA), ePhasma (2-0) – Leighton (Fellow host on the ThreeManMeta)

Finals – ePalpatine (2-1)

Top 16 was a mixed bag of emotions I was happy to keep advancing but didn’t want to play my fellow teammates. I felt pretty in control of all my games leading up to the finals.

Going into the finals vs a mono deck I was very happy but then I started to Doubt… I picked out Doubt 9 times over the 3 games with Kylo’s ability that a loss of 18 damage. He had a great no mercy play vs me in the second game which grabbed him the win.

After two days, I went 12-2 very happy to be heading to worlds next May and meeting all the other great content creators.

– Danny Adlem

ThreeManMeta – A Star Wars: Destiny Podcast

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Getting in touch with everyone across the globe is hard to do at times, but by chance the GER National Champ came into my open TTS room and introduced himself. We played some MazHerati vs Kanan2Pads and then I ask him about writing a report of us. The event was a few weeks ago, but late is better than never I say.

GER National Champ – Chris Allroggen – SoR

Hello guys (and gals),

My name is Chris Allroggen (TK4334), I’m from Germany and I started playing Star Wars games from FFG 2013.

I was totally thrilled the first time I heard about the Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures Game and I started playing it from day one. I really enjoyed the game and I had some success with it. My X-Wings resume:

Regional Champion 2013 Nürnberg

Store-Champion 2014 Wiesbaden

Store-Champion 2014 Iserlohn

Store-Champion 2014 Mainz

Store-Champion 2014 D’dorf

Regional Champion 2014 Berlin

Regional Champion 2014 Hamburg

Store-Champion 2015 Krefeld

Store-Champion 2015 Düsseldorf

Unfortunately my new job made me quit, I just couldn’t spend enough time anymore to hold this level. Since I’m an ambitious player I decided to change to a system with lesser intense time constraints. Star Wars Destiny was released and the game fit perfectly. I played only a few tournaments before I decided to go to the German Championship. Poe/Maz was a thing and I’ve won 2 out of 3 Store Championships with it. The third time, I played Vader/Raider and got ripped apart by Funkar in the final game, so I got second, that leaves me with:

Store-Champion 2017 Bochum

Store-Champion 2017 Dortmund

National Champion – Germany 2017.

This is my first tournament report ever and the German Championship was a few weeks ago, so I’ll spare you on the details and talk about it more in general. Please excuse my english, it isn’t the best but I hope that you’ll enjoy the report anyways.

Preparing for the tournament:

We had a meta heavily loaded with Poe/Maz, Emo Kids and eVader/X, the German Championship came closer and I had yet to find my deck. I really enjoy watching the guys on YouTube, so the big Artificery Store Championship was a thing and I was very interested in the Rainbow 9s Deck, but couldn’t really decide which road to go. To be honest, I’m not that great at creating decks, but what I’ve learned from the X-Wing Miniatures Game is that I don’t have to be the best mechanic to be the best driver.

Gencon was one week before the championship and that helped me a lot to choose a deck. I played about 25 games with Rainbow 9s the day before on TTS, to get a feeling for the deck and I tried out some combinations and different tactics, which helped a lot. The guys from the Hyperloops dominated the biggest Destiny tournament ever at Gencon with a secret version of Rainbow 9s, so I was afraid to run in to a lot of mirror matches and I made a few untested changes to my original list minutes before the tournament. I dropped a Flamethrower and a Logistics for two thermal detonators, which I hoped would give me an advantage against other 3 Character lists. My Decklist can be found here

The Championship: 76 Players showed up, which is pretty good for Germany since we have only a small community. The organisation was pretty good and the location was amazing too.

Round 1-4:

I was a little bit afraid to play against Poe/Maz because of Thermal Detonator and U-Wing. Both can deal a lot of damage to my 3 characters. So guess what happened? Right, I played against Poe/Maz 4 times in a row and had to deal with 7 Thermal Detonators in only 4 games. The craziest game was in round 4. My opponent threw his first Thermal Detonator first turn with a little help from Maz, after that he claimed and threw the second Detonator at me. Ouch, 18 damage in the first round. I dealt a little bit of damage to Poe and round 2 started, I lost my first character and aftermath triggered to give me some resources. After my opponent claimed, I played Boundless Ambitions and luckily I drew my second copy of it as well and a bunch of weapons. That was the first time I really realized what this deck can do. I burned through Maz and started killing Poe before I played my second Boundless Ambitions. I killed his entire team in this round and rescued a hopeless situation with some luck.

Round 5:

My first mirror match, things went well for me, my dice were hot and my draws amazing, if I remember it right I lost only one character. The first time I used a Detonator to kill off the last characters.

Round 6/7:

My first match against Funkar with this deck, and I thought it is an good idea to kill his FN first, it was a close game, so I had mixed feelings about my decisions.

Poe/Maz again and I was pretty sure to win this again especially because the battlefield wasn’t Throne Room. This match showed me how dangerous it is to feel too safe. I decided to kill Maz first as always when Throne Room isn’t the battlefield. That was a big mistake this time. He played Cunning and 3PO so an early loss of Maz wouldn’t have stopped him from doing his thing. I changed my target to Poe in Round 2. At the end it came down to Maz with 3 health left and FN with 2 health left. Unfortunately he had a Planetary Uprising in play. So I had to play a Rocket Launcher on FN to just kill Maz off before he can claim. Luckily I got a damage side. Never feel too safe! Lesson learned.

7:0

To be honest I can’t remember all the things happening so I’ll focus on the highlights.

Top 8:

I had some success against another Rainbow 9s. These games were hard ones because my opponent pulled away my Boundless Ambitions 4 times in total, 2 times with Friends In Low Places which I didn’t play and 2 times with Vibroknocklers random from my hand.

That was a big deal, all three games became very close and I had a hard time against it. Thermal Detonator was a game changer here. FN was near death and I couldn’t find another redeploy weapon. So I played Thermal Detonator, because I knew I would loose the three resources anyway. I got the special and dealt 6 damage.

2:1

Top 4:

I had a great game against Emo Kids. I played very concentrated and focused and I had to deal with Kylo as soon as possible. An early Vibroknife combined with expensive Cards in my hand made me go for Kylo first. Vader is always dangerous and my opponent rolled very well, but Rainbow 9s had a lot of health to burn through. Once Vader was alone he loses a lot of his impact. In the next game I tried to kill Kylo again. My opponent loaded up Vader this time, so this game was a little bit closer.

2:0

Finals:

The final match was horrible. It was against Funkar and the resource generation Unkar can do is insane. Unfortunately he played Thermal Detonator as well. The difference between us was that he could effort the loss of 3 resources easily. So I had 3 very challenging games. I tried to find Enrage early to make sure that my upgrades stay in play. Imperial Inspection can be devastating.

The final Situation comes down to Bala Tik with 5 health and 2 Shields on him loaded with a Rocket Launcher vs Unkar with 5 health left and 2 Z6 on him. I was so glad that my opponent already claimed so I could kill the Trooper and a readied Bala-Tik saved me some stress and killed Unkar with an great roll before the next round could start. Every single game was on the edge and one bad decision could have destroyed the dream for the title, but after 11 hours I made it.

2:1

Overall it was an amazing event with great people and Bala-Tik was the man of the day. I’m very happy that I could made it.

I’m looking forward to worlds now and with Empire At War we will have an exciting time.

Enjoy playing Destiny and feel free to join me on TTS.

Cheers,

– Chris (TK4334)

Well there you have it folks, two great reports from two great players who I’m sure you’ll be hearing more from at Worlds 2018. If you have any questions for them or us, be sure to leave a comment here and I’ll let them know.

Thanks go to our loyal viewers and also to our gracious winners for taking the time to write the reports!

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