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  1. Posted

    Has anyone had any luck using phantoms?

    I mean, I find their ability super situational, their dice are OK (even the odd-duck swingy 2 red ship dice) but they feel way too fragile and cost a good bit! Are they one of those squadrons that just will never get much play (looking at you, Lancer) or is it that its one of those you really should only ever field one of at a time?

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    As has been stated, yes you can interpret it to be on/off, it DID get errata'd so in my opinion, to use it RAW would be in extreme poor taste and bad sport. Clearly they did not call out that they removed that errata in their "these be the changes" article so its likely a mistake, and to take advantage of that would be lame AF.

    Incidentally, @NebulonB the new FAQ does not take effect until the 26 so any tourney this weekend would still obey the previous FAQ with the errata'd fields so you would be cheating. (after the 26th you would just be a D***)

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    3 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:

    I mean, if you hear it, I believe it.    Would be disappointed - the last few times we'd been on-par...

    Although the Runewars Situation at the Sentry Box had a lot of people scratching our heads.......

     

     

    ...  Now if I could only find out what happened to the Corellian Conflict Tournament Kits...

    I know exactly what happened to those kits. You can DM me for the story...

     

    I am confirming now. It's possible they will coordinate the dates but it's going to be a tight squeeze.

  11. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:

    Hothgary's is Sunday the 25th.

     

    Half of my Playing Field wants me to Make It Legal, and I just can't...  Mostly because as much as I want to, I can't actually make sure all Non-Facebook using Players would be up to speed in time.

    Just do what I've done with pre-clarification rules problems. Poll the field day-of and give people 15 minutes to adjust their fleets if necessary. 

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  14. Posted

    Just now, Ginkapo said:

    Never was a thing, and just to reiterate something.

    You dont need Rieekan for CRambo90's (CR90b with engine techs and reinforced blast doors)

    RBD need to be used at the start of the ship Phase IIRC. Now if you have a bunch of fragile-*** HHs making a ramming run for an ISD or whatever and you cinder them before they get to you the ramming list player has to make a choice as to which he keeps.

  20. Posted

    1 minute ago, RogueCommander said:

    Love all the changes.

     

    surely, a big part of rhymes nerf had to do with Sloane?

    Oh for sure. People were already having wet dreams of massive tie balls with rhymer flying around blessing them with medium range

    I think for skilled Rhymer players this is a minor change that won't be tremendously huge. Most good Rhymer players are masters of ball placement anyways and shuttles made this all too easy.

    Reeikan nerf is great. It very specifically addresses things like Aceholes without pitching the whole commander in the garbage. As a reeikan-crutch player now you need to choose if you bring all those unique non-ace squadrons and also how you play them. A well timed and placed squadron alpha can "use up" reeikan and leave a ship open to insta-gib (preferably the one carrying reeikan, now that he isn't in a corner in a transport). It keeps the archetype viable but raises the skill cap to keep it so.

  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, Hastatior said:

    Fresh news from the grapevine, and it's good news!

    First or second week of July are looking like winners. Third week is a possibility and August is no longer on the radar.

    Only troubling piece of info is that there is no official release date yet, not even a confidential one. This can sometime mean there is uncertainty in the mix somewhere.

  23. Posted

    11 minutes ago, Snipafist said:

     


    In short, I feel like just spamming a ton of Hammerheads isn't a good fleet. It has serious problems. As an addition to a more well-balanced fleet, a lot of these problems vanish or at least diminish because you've got a better toolbox to handle them.

    I heartily second this. I'm not worried about 9 HHs, I'm worried about 4 with disposable racks and balanced support

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  24. Posted · Edited by Hastatior

    I know if I was flying 9 HHs the fleet I wouldn't want to see on the other end of a table is...actually a LOT of stuff. Anything Min/Max in this game tends to have a hard counter and this one has several.

    An ISD 1 with GT and a Rhymerball in the same fleet + other stuff to taste would be a nightmare to this fleet as the rhymerball threat range and mobility makes flanking the ISD Safely much much harder, anything fast and maneuverable that is difficult to pin down and ram would be a nightmare (you might get the odd ram off but you would struggle to do much damage without smashing into yourself and by the time you get your one ram off that MC30 or his buddy is behind you and having a wonderful time! 

    Honestly I am zero percent worried about this, it might be a fun list to fly but I seriously doubt it will be competitive, and if it is, it won't be meta defining.

    I currently have 3 HH packs on order but 2 extra down the road are not off the table. Yes Mad, I am one of "those" people. I will likely buy this just to try it because why not?

     

     

     

     

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