Casual play simple Battle report (Kath +IGB) vs (Vrill + Dagger/tact)

[ctsparky 33]

So I'll drop this off here.

 

Simple casual game at my house, untimed with my next door neighbor that I'm teaching him to play.

 

I figured I'd play a squad I've wanted to try out.   MY neighbor knows most of the rules but every time he comes over I show him some new cards, models, etc.

 

My List:

Eadan Vrill + Gunner + Engine upgrade (41)

2x Dagger Squadron + Fire control System+ E2 + Tactician (2 x 29)

 

Bringing the 3 largest debris fields

 

Versus:

Kath Scarlet + Lone Wolf + Recon Specialist + Engine Upgrade + Inertial Dampeners (48)

IG-88B Heavy Laser Cannon + Push the limit + Advanced Sensors + Autothrusters+ Inertial Dampeners (52)

 

Small Rock, and 2 debris fields

 

Eadan Squad:

Get the opponents in the fields and then close to range 1 with vrill to get the most out of the dice, and use the daggers to give stress.

 

Kath Squad: 

Use IG-88 to get some great long range damage while kath flys past the opponents and then parks and attacks.

 

 

What happened:

Debris field placement managed around range 3 around the board evenly, with the one small rock in one corner.

 

Eaden set up on the side with the rock on the edge, with the Daggers set to go between the debris in the middle of the board.

 

Kath and IG set up across from Eadan.

 

Round 1:

Eadan makes a hard left 1 to start to go parallel to his start area while the Daggers go 2 forward and barrel roll to get into good positions within the debris.

 

Kath and Iggy both go a 2 forward. 

 

Round 2:

Eadan makes a 3 hard right around the back of the daggers while the daggers do 1 banks to get a good arc.

 

Kath goes forward again, and iggy banks towards the B wings. 

 

Further rounds:

 

What winds up happening is that I pin down Iggy in the corner of the board shooting at him with both B wings and Eadan.  Iggy does bring 1 b wing to one  hull and I take down Iggy.  Meanwhile kath winds up hard turning into the fray and with one shot manages to take take 4 shileds from that b wing.  

 

Then in subsequent rounds Eadan is shown the rear arc of Kath at range one and loses all of his shields in one fell swoop.

 

It finally came down to Kath with one hull left and a B wing with the crit that lowers attack dice by one, and with one hull left. I tried to keep bumping or to get an arc when she didn't but it just didn't happen.

 

I liked the kath squad and lets see what happens next.  Very defensive builds, and although Iggy B didn't do much he can be a terror.

 

Eadan is nice, but with only a native 2 attack it was hard to get lots of dice on the target.  and hte B wings go down to a concentrated firepower like Kath with lone wolf.

 

 

So what do you guys think of the builds?  Suggestions?  Remember this was a casual untimed game.