HU-fricking-ZZAH! I honestly thought FFG would wait until the November change.

BRAVO FFG! Thanks for observing, and thanks for fixing.

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2020/10/29/unscheduled-maintenance/
"This points change is aimed to break up the current incarnation of the 6-Nantex list, but not to push the Nantex swarm archetype out of the game entirely. The Petranaki Arena Ace will move to 35 points, and the Stalgasin Hive Guard will move to 33 points. The aces are also being adjusted slightly, accordingly."

I saw a Facebook post by FFG that vaguely talked about Jango's Firespray. Don't get angry! The move was ultra thematic! Dooku hires Jango to hire Zam to assassinate Padmé. Continuing the theme of 2 degrees of separation for a task, FFG Facebook teases at an FFG article that teases for the Firespray!

I saw a Facebook post by FFG that vaguely talked about Jango's Firespray. Don't get angry! The move was ultra thematic! Dooku hires Jango to hire Zam to assassinate Padmé. Continuing the theme of 2 degrees of separation for a task, FFG Facebook teases at an FFG article that teases for the Firespray!

I feel like Zam is excessively over complicated to really be any fun. I like the new title and WSO both for sure. 

Dengar + Proton Torp stock is up up up! xD

Dengar found a gunner.
Zam Wessel seems really good. False Transponder Codes is an actually useful Illicit.
Definitely didn't expect that either. Knew the title was going to have a gunner slot, but didn't think it would apply to Scum. Now 2 Firesprays in Scum can have gunners.

I saw a Facebook post by FFG that vaguely talked about Jango's Firespray. Don't get angry! The move was ultra thematic! Dooku hires Jango to hire Zam to assassinate Padmé. Continuing the theme of 2 degrees of separation for a task, FFG Facebook teases at an FFG article that teases for the Firespray!

I saw a Facebook post by FFG that vaguely talked about Jango's Firespray. Don't get angry! The move was ultra thematic! Dooku hires Jango to hire Zam to assassinate Padmé. Continuing the theme of 2 degrees of separation for a task, FFG Facebook teases at an FFG article that teases for the Firespray!

I said when shooting at Jedi

Today, we find out if there is a convincing enough argument against slapping Dooku to Jango and calling it a day, especially when shooting at Jedi and Dooku'ing a focus.

When the I6 is away, the Supreme Leader is out to play:
https://hoarderofgarlicbread.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/third-times-the-charm/

F's in the chat, boys. I suck at this game.
https://hoarderofgarlicbread.wordpress.com/2020/10/27/dont-let-it-get-to-you/

FO OP!  PLZ NERF!
 
 
 
 
 

Putting this list on the table was just for laughs (and I got a lot of laughs before the tournament started) so I did not took this seriously. I think the Proton Rocket is an option. But I was really happy with the HLC triggering 1-2 times per game. Because this lists offensive output is a concern I wouldn't put Mags onto Rexler because I want to deal as much damage as I could.
I will definetely give this list a couple of more runs.

Very nice! I saw Outmaneuver on Rex and immediately thought "what? No Lone Wolf?" before looking back and seeing it on Soontir. With a 25 pt bid, do you think it safe enough to cash some of it for a missile like Mag Pulse Warheads? 19 pt still outbids even Niklas God's Ryloth list, which is probably the deepest bid out there.

Just wanted to take a moment to thank GSP for streaming Mustafar. It was absolutely awesome to be able to watch a hyperspace tournament over the weekend. Shout out to the cast of the podcast to. You guys have had near endless energy to just will the X-Wing community into continuing these past few months. Also the lists you bring to your own tournaments are actually kinda neat. That Vader Maarek Vermiel Mauler list in particular is badass and I kinda want to run it with the Tie Brute(s) mixed in now. 
Watching a couple rounds of the event legitimately re-energized my interest in X-Wing again. Hopefully there will be more community hyperspace tournaments in the future! I think it is a massively underutilized format given its extraordinary potential and there is for sure a portion of the community that is hungry for more hyperspace. 
Unironic Thanks Gold Squadron.  

Yesterday I participated at a TTS tournament. 3 rounds were played with 12 players attending.
Initially I wanted to bring Kylo/Vonreg but I knew that at least one other player will bring this list so I had to think about something else. 
Soontir Fel (54)
Lone Wolf (5)
Shield Upgrade (8)
Stealth Device (8)
Rexler Brath (79)
Outmaneuver (6)
Advanced Sensors (10)
Heavy Laser Cannon (5)
Total: 175
View in Yet Another Squad Builder 2.0
I wanted to fly something with style. And who's one of the coolest pilots? The answer is easy: Soontir Fel. I decided to load him up with Lone Wolf and Stealth Device to really feel what it means to be an unhittable ace. Because I wanted to fly a 2 ship list a brought Rexler (not Vader because I can't fly this chassis and I really don't like him). I won my first tournament with him so he will always have a place in my heart. Putting Advanced Sensors onto him is mandatory if you run him in a 2 ship build. And more importantly the predictability of the Defender is gone. Outmaneuver works better than Juke because you don't have your evade when triggering Adv.Sens. The HLC is there because I had the points.
This means the list has a 25 point bid...🤪 So I will move last even against Guri/Fenn. Is this list good? I don't think so. I mean it's really defensive but it's offensive output could be problematic. I expected going 0-3 or 1-2 at best...
1st game vs. Boba/Bossk
I had to approach really careful because it's hard for Soontir to arcdodge Bossks giant arc and Bobas two arcs. Also Bossk has the ability to really hurt Soontir. 
I kept Soontir out of the fight while Rexler had some attacks here and there.

Using Advanced Sensors Rexler was able to flank Boba and stripping off the first 2 shields.
Soontir disengaged again and again while Rexler tanked the dangerous shots. This game was such a pain to play (for my opponent and me) because I had to play so defensive to win. The clock ticked down and still no points on the board.

8 minutes left in the game and Soontir had his third attack in the game finally halving Boba. Both Soontir and Rexler were in good positions to disengage (again). Win 64-0
My opponent was pretty frustrated and I can totally understand him. Chasing down Soontir is nearly impossible with these two ships while Rexler is so tanky that you don't put any meaningful damage through. I played decent but felt bad...
 
2nd game vs. Boba/Tel Trevura
My opponent created a nice Tel build putting R5 Astromech on him (the astromech can repair damage).
I knew that this will be a different game than the first one because I am able to arcdodge and kill Tel. 
In the second round I did a major mistake. I thought the 4k will bump into Boba but Rexler fully executed the maneuver landing right in front of Boba showing him his butt. I was really lucky only losing one shield. 
Tel locked Soontir but didn't use his Torpedo because Soontir had a focus token and waited behind a Gas Cloud with the Lone Wolf reroll. Soontir and Rexler attacked Tel already getting into that juicy hull.

Running away with Soontir and Rexler is so easy. Advanced Sensors boost + 4k or 5 straight is so strong.
Two rounds later Soontir landed in front of Tel at range 2. Tel had his fully modded torpedo locked and loaded. I wasn't able to kill the Jumpmaster but Rexlers ability kicked in flipping a Blinded Pilot . The Torpedo was basically useless.

Tel died to Console Fire. Long live Tel! Boba blanked against Rexler losing his last shield while Rexler was doing Defender things and didn’t take any damage. I used the HLC against Boba twice which was huge. 

My opponent did a crazy move with Boba. Using Contraband Cybernetics performing a tallon roll and boost left to show Rexler the back arc woh dialed in a 4k. But again Adv.Sens. paied off. I boosted left and 4k'd landing next to Boba. We both laughed as we see that Boba didn't have a shot but Rexler did. Boba dropped down to 3 hp. Tel's Torpedo halved Rexler.  Without many options my opponent conceded. Win 200-50
 
3rd game against Gideon Hask (Xi-Shuttle) + 4 Tie/sf (Optics + Crack Shot)
A really nice list. Against a damaged defender those Sf's are rolling 3 dice + they can shoot out of the back. My win condition was to kill Gideon asap to deny those Tie's the third die.

End of round 1. Rexler will 4k while Soontir 1 turns. No fast maneuver for Soontir because the Tie's can turn towards him. 
My opponent split his forces into pairs of two. Rexler approached two Ties + Gideon and rolled horrible twice losing all of his shields. Soontir had 3 really good rounds flanking the formation, halving Gideon and a Tie. My opponent created a killbox for Rexler. Adv.Sens. saved the day again. Rexler barrel rolled and 4k'd behind Gideon dodging 4 arcs that way. With the help of Soontir Gideon died. Unfortunately Rexler blanked again dropping down to 1hp.
Another killbox has been created for Rexler thinking he will do a fast maneuver. You can really surprise your opponents if you dial in a slow maneuver for the Defender. Therefore Rexler arcdodged again and he finally evaded an incoming shot.

Green got isolated. Soontir was happy about that. Meanwhile Rexler disengaged round after round. Two rounds earlier Soontir showed his amazing defensive strength. 3 shots came at him. Soontir had focus+evade+Lone Wolf+Stealth Device active and took no damage. I looked up the expected total hits later; the probability calculator showed 0.1 expected hits. I love this Soontir.

Green died. I was ahead 100-50. So if Rexler dies we have a 100-100 which meant that I had to kill or half another Tie.
As you can see Soontir can 2 forward to get a really good shot at yellow the upcoming round. Unfortunately Soontir only did 2 damage so no dead Tie. But Rexler was there the upcoming round killing the Tie with the help of Outmaneuver. The Tie/Defender explodes as well that turn. I was happy with that trade now leading 120-100

8 Minutes on the clock. A fully operational Soontir against 2 Tie's. With all his defensive mods and the help of gas clouds there's no way Soontir will take damage. 
So I Ran
 
 

The last round. Win 120-100
 
Conclusion:
I somehow managed to win this tournament flying Soontir+Rexler. For real? I am really happy about that and a bit proud of myself. It was my best Soontir performance ever, it feels awesome.
I still don't know if this list is strong. I think the strong defense lets this archetype really shine. So you have two point fortresses on the board. But on the other hand your offensive output is rather weak. Engaging with Soontir feels like a walk along the razor's edge every time you're turning in and if you use Adv.Sensors on Rexler you don't have any offensive mods (maybe Outmaneuver). But the flexibility of the Defender is what I really like about it. I had lots of rounds where I just dialed in a save 3 speed maneuver ending up with a focus+evade token and triggering Outmaneuver or the HLC. And of course Rexlers ability is always nice. I flipped a blinded pilot and a disabled power regulator in two games. I should try this list again against different archetypes...

Eh. Plato did when he had his representation of Socrates wise by knowing how little he knew and thus being uncharacteristically immune for any of the characters to the Dunning Kruger effect. Once again, all Western philosophy is footnotes to Plato!

To be honest, there's a lot of projecting and assuming going on in these forums.
To not sound negative, I will say that the booster engines + I5 ship ability is a neat synergy. SLAM or shoot? Get the info then decide in system and git that Jedi!

Eh. Plato did when he had his representation of Socrates wise by knowing how little he knew and thus being uncharacteristically immune for any of the characters to the Dunning Kruger effect. Once again, all Western philosophy is footnotes to Plato!

Well remember in 1e thread tracers were broken because of specific combos that no longer exist.
In 2e, ordinance is in a super strange spot and doesn't... work great right now. Thread tracer creates an interesting scenario, especially because most ships that can take it either have low maneuverability and can be dodged, or are fragile and likely can be I-killed.
As was pointed out, it creates a massive weakness in your list to depend on this for torps, and without torps if it is even a few points it becomes questionable except in super wide lists. Its interesting for sure, but it isn't 'removing' the weakness of locks so much as trading them: You now can lock during engagement, BUT this one ship has to live, focus fire, and hit.
It also is important to remember that in some scenarios this won't actually help TTK that much because you can't benefit from an entire list of 6 ESC or range 1 droids getting a lock on say... a Jedi with CLT. Your average shots to kill assuming the Thread tracer hits is 2.7, but without the lock you only need 3.6 hits average, meaning spending an attack on the lock makes you kill the Jedi SLOWER on average, and once its dead all those locks mean nothing. At range 2 and no ESC, its 6.8 shots to kill, as opposed to 5.6, so it is a bit faster, but that assumes the tracer hits and you didn't just take some other missile like a homing missile which is way better at forcing damage on the target instead of the thread tracer.
It is an interesting upgrade but it definitely seems its way less about swarm support and actually more about allowing a ship your taking for a supportive ability and not its attack to double down on that.
This seems to actually be a really good design to help punish mega-tanky aces like Boba, who REALLY doesn't like having hunters peck away at him. You need to think way harder about bringing a low ship count list with these in the meta, because your risking proportionally way more of your points essentially being a guaranteed kill over the course of the game. It is even neat because larger lists can 'shield' the prey easier than a large one.
Obviously he isn't the main bad guy of the meta, but it makes it less realistic for points fortress Boba to be a good strategy, especially if these bad boys don't cost too much on a generic. They feel like a healthy 'meta hate' card in that its never terrible or too oppressive. Even vs a swarmy list there is often one ship you kinda wanna kill. And even vs lists this that this targets its not a total blowout, its just suddenly things are on the map that can hurt megatanks REALLY badly, especially if your clever and somehow alternate shots by these and other aspects of your list to gain the strain for 3 entire attacks.