Tournament report: The Village Geek (NEW RGC META!)

[Leveton 325]

I played in The Village Geek's (McPherson, Kansas) first skirmish tournament today. We ended up with 10 players from a pretty good area -- McPherson, Salina, Hutchinson, Manhattan, and even one from Kansas City.

 

The championship match was a near mirror match, with both sides fielding the RGC and a group of Royal Guards. The eventual champion ran RGC (which was beautifully painted), one group of regular Royal Guards, two groups of regular Stormtroopers, two regular Imperial Officers, and Rule by Fear. I didn't catch exactly what was different about the runner up's list. I really expected to see more lists with the Wonder Twins, but I think there only ended up being two players who ran both Luke and Leia.

 

I went 2-1 with my mid-range Rebel list, finishing fourth. Two regular Wookiee Warrior groups, one elite Rebel Saboteur group with Targeting Computer, Diala Passil, Gideon Argus with On a Diplomatic Mission, R2-D2, and C-3PO. I played the eventual champion in the first round, Drinks and Dealings. He went right for the cantina, while I sent R2 with a Wookiee group to the outdoor terminal. We ended up going to time limit, and he won 20-14. He took out one of my groups of Wookiees, the Saboteurs, 3PO, and grabbed scenario points once, while I killed his Royal Guards and picked up scenario points twice and grabbed points with Diplomatic Mission twice. If I'd used Urgency on Diala at the right time, I could have cleared one of his Stormtrooper groups with a cleave, but I didn't see it (and I think he still could have grabbed one more batch of objective points to win, anyway). I shut out both of my other opponents, playing on the two Kuat missions -- another RGC list (not the runner up ... somehow we had three Royal Guard Champions in a 10-person field) and an Imperial Boba Fett list. The Wookiee Warriors don't have the Guardian trait, but I sure was able to use them to soak up a lot of damage that opponents would have rather done to other figures. They're probably worth six points just as damage sponges, but they also put out a good amount of damage, including cleaving.

 

On the whole, it was a good tournament, and I'm satisfied that my list did what it was designed to do.

Edited January 31, 2016 by Leveton