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  2. Posted

    I cannot wait for Bossk!  I like the look of this one for dishing out plenty of stress:

     

    Bossk 35
    Marksmanship 3

    Tactician 2

    Tactician 2

    Gunner 4
    Engine upgrade 4

    Binayre Pirate x 4

    99 points

     

    Could toss in Inertial dampeners as well.

  3. Posted · Edited by Moy

    I disagree that Concussion missiles and Proton Torpedoes are grossly inferior. To truly understand why, you have to look a lot deeper than just "how many dice do I get to roll" and "how much does it cost". The game is much more complex than that, and as I talked about in my tactica it often comes down to making your opponent guess who to target. You also have to consider who can actually use those upgrade cards. A Heavy Laser Cannon is only worth '7' points, but you obviously can't put it on any ship.

     

    Who can use the upgrades

     

    The cheapest ships with a missile slot are 12 points for Scum and Rebels, and 16 points for Empire, making those ships 16 and 20 points respectively, when given a 4 point upgrade to fire 4 attack dice. Another thing to note is that these ships all only have an attack value of 2, so firing off these missiles literally doubles your maximum potential for damage. 

     

    The cheapest ships that have cannon slots are the B wing, 22pts; the Lambda Shuttle, 21 pts; and the Scyk, which is the cheapest at 17 points. Once you finally go through the work of putting your precious HLC on these ships, they become a staggering 29, 28, and 24 points, respectively. There is a reason why you will almost never see any of these ships on the table: They cost way more than they are worth. Realistically you might get 1, perhaps 2 shots off with them. So, if you think about it that way, you just paid 7 points for a 1 time use item. Not worth it in my book, I would rather have a 16 or 20 point ship that gives my opponent something to think about.

     

    The HLC becomes much more valuable when put on an extremely durable and maneuverable ship, so your chances of firing it multiple times are greater. This means the IG, YT2400, Firespray, and to an extent the Defender are your only viable HLC platforms at the moment. Would you give any of those ships ordnance? Maybe, but only if you needed it to do a certain role, like Prockets for an Outrider, for example.

     

     

    personally, you could make everything but the ion pulse and possibly prockets unlimited in usage, and they'd still be mostly inferior to the HLC

     

    This would ruin the game. You would have endless threads about how 7 Z95s with Homing Missiles ruined the game. People would never fly a Millennium Falcon again, and then I would have to build an entirely different list to try to kill that meta. Unacceptable  ;)

     

    But in all seriousness, Unlimited usage of missiles would turn X-Wing, which is very balanced right now, way too hard in the direction of missile spam. 

     

    Flying ships with ordnance well takes practice

     

    The biggest complaint I hear about ordnance is that it takes multiple turns to set up well. Yes, it does, but that does not make it bad, that makes you bad if you can't use it. Most players don't like to change the way that they fly, regardless of what ship they're playing. Every turn their thought is "How can I get most of my guns pointed at my enemy THIS turn?" While that is great when you're flying something simple, like a Rookie Pilot, or BBBBZ, it doesn't work when you have ordnance. 

     

    You actually have to change your approach and play style when you fly ordnance. This does not mean that it needs to be fixed, it means you don't know how to use it right. 

     

    Preach!  Love it.

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    Hi, I'm very new to the game, only playing for a few weeks with some friends.  I probably won't come to the tournament since I'm so new, but I live in Tacoma and was wondering where people get together most often to play?  I know Terracrux has a league on Thursday nights and they told me at Tacoma Games that a group meets there somewhat regularly.

    The tournament is on Sunday, but our regular game nights are Fridays 7:00pm - midnight at The Game Matrix. We tend to skip the first Friday of the month.

     

    Here's a Google maps link to The Game Matrix for convenience: https://goo.gl/maps/ZfkpI

     

    Awesome, thanks for the info.  How many people show up usually?

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