Phil GC is running Precog Etakin and Supernat Obi-2. Panic.

7th league game vs Kettch (Han, Wedge, Jake)
With the new points release I was able to fly the new ETA Actis. I was so hyped for this ship since it first got announced. Therefore I was really happy to finally put it on the virtual table.
I played this list. Called it Actis Aces.
Eta-2 Actis - •Anakin Skywalker - 72
    •Anakin Skywalker - Hero of Coruscant (56)
        Predator (2)
        •R2-A6 (6)
        Stealth Device (8)
Eta-2 Actis - •Shaak Ti - 64
    •Shaak Ti - Compassionate Mentor (44)
        Juke (7)
        Stealth Device (8)
        Sense (5)
Eta-2 Actis - •Obi-Wan Kenobi - 59
    •Obi-Wan Kenobi - Guardian of Democracy (49)
        Predator (2)
        Stealth Device (8)
Total: 195

View in the X-Wing Squad Builder
This archetype is exactly what I love to fly in X-Wing: High floor-low ceiling. 3 ships with only 9 hp (even Guri/Fenn has 11hp).
I want to explain why I build the list like this:
Pilots:
- Anakin is there because he's an I6. His ability looks really cool because he can get rid off stress and even locks.
- Obi is there because he's an I5 with 3 force. His ability is ok.
- Shaak Ti costs only 44 points which is insane for her ability. She can basically keep her evade for free.
Upgrades:
- The Actis has a talent slot?! What in the world? Predator looks like the right upgrade because it's cheap, works togehter with the 3 dice bullseye and gets around the fact that the lock action on these things is purple
- Stealth Device will be absolutely awesome on the Actis. 4 green dice backed up by an evade + lots of force is insane.
- I put R2-A6 on Anakin. With the amazing dial you can get a lot out of the droid. No R5 regen droid because I don't want to take any damage flying this  
- Shaak Ti has the Juke upgrade. It works really well with her ability because she always keeps her evade.
- Sense is really important for the Actis. I put it on Shaak Ti because she has he lowest initiative of the 3 pilots. This means that all ships can use the sense information to make the best out of the ship ability.
 
The matchup against Kettchs list is somehting this list doesn't like. He has 2 I6's. One of them is Wedge who can really put damage into the Jedi. But on the other hand I can use Sense+ship ability to block his ships.
 

End of round 1: I was pretty sure that he'll make a fast approach so I turned Anaking and Shaak Ti towards Obi.
 

Jake gave Wedge a focus. Wedge rolled 3 hits and Obi had to use his evade and a force to only suffer one crit (Fuel leak). Wedge used Crack Shot. With no defensive mods Wedge dropped down to 2 hp. Anakin did 1 damage on Han.
The next turn shows the power of the Actis: Shaak Ti will use Sense to look at Wedges dial. With the ship help of the ship ability there is nearly no place where Wedge can go without getting blocked. I dialed in a 1 turn to the right for Obi and a turn to the left for Shaak Ti. Anakin will turn towards Wedge as well. 
 

 
Wedged dialed in a 3 bank. Therefore Shaak Ti and Obi used the ship ability to get into a perfect postion for a block and a range 1 bullseye shot. Obi rolled 4 hits and Wedge exploded. This round also showed the defensive strength of the ETA. Hans range 1 shot on Anakin did nothing because Ani rolled 4 dice with an evade + 3 force. 
Jake will probably bank now. So I used Obis ship ability to boost him left and then 4k.
 

It worked. Jake bumped and Obi landed right behind him; shields down on Jake. Anakin did another damage to Han.
Anakin will now turn right because Han will turn left onto the Debris (for no effect because of Kanan crew). I was too afraid to follow him with Anakin. Obi and Shaak Ti will engage Jake...
 

Took the picture to soon. Anakin hasn't moved yet. Obis 3 bank didn't land on the Gas Cloud. I was pretty lucky there. Obi stripped the focus with his attack and Shaak Ti (with the help of Juke) killed Jake.
No more pictures. The game went to time with a Han circling around and 3 ETA never taking damage. I wasn't able to half Han but both Kettch and I were really surprised about the defensive power of the Jedi. Win 103-0
 
Conclusion:
WOW. I don't know where to start...these things feel so strange and different. I will go through the pilots and upgrades and talk about what I liked and what not.
- Anakin was amazing at I6. The R2-A6 is really strong and I won't drop him off of him. I never used his ability because I kept my ships togehter which was necessary against Kettchs list. Still think the ability is pretty good.
- I wasn't sure about Obi. He is strong at I5 having 3 force but I will definetely give Aalya Secura a try because her ability looks really strong. Its basically Concordia Faceoff without spending a force to activate it. And it works on friendly ships as well. She only has 2 force and costs 2 more points than Obi but still...
- Shaak Ti was a blast. She had 2 evades most of the time so she was pretty much unhittable. Her downside is that she can bleed out of force pretty quick. So you have to disengage to recover her force pool.
- Juke seems like the right upgrade for her but it's really expensive. Might consider Predator instead.
- Sense, hands down, won me the game. It gives me perfect information on what to do with Intuitive Controls; how to setup blocks or avoid blocks, how to engage or disengage. 
- Predator did lots of work and is the right upgrade for these ships.
- Stealth Device, oh dear, the Stealth Device. The fact that he did only 1 damage total says it all. Doing this 1 point of damage required a focused Wedge with Crack Shot. This shows the defensive power of these ships. Han had some really strong rolls later on but wasn't able to crack that defense all by himself. Do you remember 1.0 Soontir with PTL, Autothrusters and Stealth Device? Had the same feeling here
On the other hand flying the Actis felt really strange. The weirdest thing for me to experience was that I didn't do lots of repositioning actions after executing the maneuver. I evaded instead. This created a strange feeling because I'm used to do lots of repositioning flying aces like Kylo, Soontir, Guri or Fenn. After a couple of turns I getting used to it and was happy having the evade. The ship ability was pretty good and I was glad having it in the matchup, although I didn't used it that often. Playing against a larger number of ships will probably make me use IC more often.
BUT: This list can really create a negative play experience for your opponent. There are lists outside that will never hit these things. You need a ton of mods and lots of focus fire to put meaningful damage through.
I finally have a new favorite archetype to fly and practice with. I am really curious to see how this list handles swarms and other popular archetypes

My lowest point begets my contribution to the game:
https://hoarderofgarlicbread.wordpress.com/2020/11/24/necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/

Ric + Wolffe + New Obi + New Anakin all fit, although you probably want to gut the muggles so that the Jedi can have some fancy toys with all those options.

Eta Anakin is DarkSide, so you can meme more with ol' Palp or a late Republic/Early Empire post Order 66 Great Purge thematic list. The fact that you can R7A7 + Autoblasters to deal damage even when depleted and tokening up for defense against something else is nothing short of pure disgustingness. Fortunately, Outmaneuver doesn't work on the 3 dice bullseye attack, but the combo of Force + Talent is concerningly powerful. I suppose it's balanced by the flimsiness of the chassis without...it has a mod slot?!

My lowest point begets my contribution to the game:
https://hoarderofgarlicbread.wordpress.com/2020/11/24/necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/

Guri/Fenn vs. Asajj, Dengar, Han
Currently I'm playing in the German X-Wing TTS league. I somehow managed to go 5-0 without focusing on a particular list. With 3 games left and a bad MOV I had to win one more game to make it into the cut. Therefore I put Guri/Fenn back to the table (after not playing the list for nearly 2 months) becuase I know it's my strongest list and I can beat everything.
I lost my confidence as my opponent spawned his list. He played two I6's and Asajj. I couldn't think of a worse matchup. The reason for that is that I am in a dilemma. Usually you trade Fenn for the I6 pilot and Guri cleans up but here I am up against two I6 pilots with lots of health. So you trade Fenn for Dengar or Han and pray that Guri will survive until the end. BUT Asajj is a huge threat for Guri (and even Fenn). Her ability is so strong against Guri which is why I should kill her first. I had no idea what my win condition was and how to approach this menace...
My opponent played it really well. Asajj and Dengar took the flanks while Han approached through the middle. I tried to stay away from Asajj and attacked Han and Dengar first. Fenn ended up at range 1 of Dengar where he usually didn't suffer any damage because Dengar had just a single reroll. Unfortunately Dengar rolled like a boss and Fenn blanked hard on his defense dice suffering 3 damage. I was pretty sure that this was game right there. Therefore I played Fenn super aggressive which surprised my opponent. I think Fenn feeled bad for his first defensiv rolls so he started to evade everything coming his way. He refused to die and put lots of damage into Han.

Fenn finally died but so did Han. My opponent was ahead on points so I had to half either Dengar or Asajj. I went after Asajj because she already took 2 damage. My opponent flew her a bit too aggressive and Guri put 2 more damage into her. Guri lost 2 as well.

This is why I love this ship: Ending up in places like this is a thing that only Guri can do. Dodging Asajjs turret arc allowed her to finally put a torpedo into her. HALF POINTS!! and 10 minutes left on the clock, so I had to run to win this game. I don't like that strategy but I would have lost that game if I would have stayed aggressive. Asajj had one more shot which Guri dodged. Win 96-71
Never expected winning this game. But I have to say that really strong dice rolls in the right moment won me this one. Therefore I wasn't really happy about my victory. 
But still... I am now 6-0 and already in the cut. 

Defenders seem like they may be hyperspace warping, but between that and what looks to be pretty limited force the inclusion of old Teroch has got me

It looks like FFG only gets their data on RZ-2s from this thread

Someone in my X-wing discord group just posted this.

Hmmm. It seems you can interact with archived forums for games no longer published by FFG.

Excellent! 
As an update for you watching my ill-fated games (batrep and such to come later this busy week), not only did I roll some average stuff online that night, but I invented a training tool that simulates severely haunted greens and it works! With it forcing myself to take the first of many many steps to learn to "see the matrix" of gameflow relative to the ticking timer, I'm beginning to be weaned off hiding behind clouds and hoping for at absolute worse moderately bad results. Winning with "Ghostmode" (so long as my opponent is fine with me severely handicapping myself) is indescribably good-feeling (although the ironic bit is that with this tool I have still to roll quite like Saturday XD).

Hmmm. It seems you can interact with archived forums for games no longer published by FFG.

Excellent! 
As an update for you watching my ill-fated games (batrep and such to come later this busy week), not only did I roll some average stuff online that night, but I invented a training tool that simulates severely haunted greens and it works! With it forcing myself to take the first of many many steps to learn to "see the matrix" of gameflow relative to the ticking timer, I'm beginning to be weaned off hiding behind clouds and hoping for at absolute worse moderately bad results. Winning with "Ghostmode" (so long as my opponent is fine with me severely handicapping myself) is indescribably good-feeling (although the ironic bit is that with this tool I have still to roll quite like Saturday XD).

🤣🤣
I just purchased a Swolo! I just recently saw @Hoarder of Garlic Bread flying one and realized I actually really liked it for variety sake.... only for Kylo tho
 
UP TO 2! 😝
 
PS... I think I’d fly Ember 
 

Reading your blogpost was really interesting. I can absolutely understand every word you're writing because I feel the same atm. The last games I played I flew horrible, did lots of avoidable mistakes and felt like I've never played this game before. It's really demoralizing. 
Sitting in front of the PC "moving" ships around is by far not the same experience I get when playing in real life. Like you I'm really tired of playing online but on the other hand right now the covid situation is pretty bad in germany so there won't be any real life tournaments for quite some time. ****, I can't even meet my best friend. Therefore if I want to play X-Wing I have to do it online...
Something you shouldn't forget and this helped me at least: Playing Kylo/Vonreg in a 2 ship list is one of the most difficult archetypes you can fly atm. If you're not paying attention and playing flawless all the time you will get punished and lose. Other lists forgive small errors - ours do not. Therefore I think it is ok if you fail hard at a tournament flying this...
 

I've avoided the forums aside from this thread and checked Discord twice this week. I'm taking a break from the talking about the game, but I still aim for the tourney this weekend. Even if I don't do well, the social aspect of X-Wing is one of the best aspects.

I think a fair amount of us have been in the same sort of mindset after an event like that.  Take the break if you find you need it...purposefully avoid the knee-jerk X-Wing content consumption you might normally do.  You'll likely come back refreshed.  

At a tournament.... I once flew duchess off board ... twice .... 😩

Maybe the advocates of drinking during X-Wing are on to something:
https://hoarderofgarlicbread.wordpress.com/2020/11/12/the-regrettable-update/

Maybe the advocates of drinking during X-Wing are on to something:
https://hoarderofgarlicbread.wordpress.com/2020/11/12/the-regrettable-update/

Maybe the advocates of drinking during X-Wing are on to something:
https://hoarderofgarlicbread.wordpress.com/2020/11/12/the-regrettable-update/

Full disclosure, I think the TIE/rb is neat.
https://strawpoll.com/7w1wk83u8

Full disclosure, I think the TIE/rb is neat.
https://strawpoll.com/7w1wk83u8

That's a very nice point. I'm a big fan of Feroph as a VIP transport, though thats more an issue for Extended because it's only really great if we have Palpatine, Vader, Sloane, Ree, or basically any of the Empire's excellent support officers available - otherwise there's no-one to protect who justifies the cost. 
(Yes, all right, Director Krennic. Whoop-ti-bloody-doo.)
Vermeil might work, though. You can take Seventh Sister to get a force charge for cheap, which helps with dice modification during red moves. Her ability to generate jam tokens helps trigger Vermeil's ability, and her ability to generate tractor tokens helps make up for your lack of manouvrability, or to reduce a target's agility for the rest of your squad.