Raddus Admonition & Aspiration vs Thrawn/Pryce 2-Ship

After facing a number of Raddus lists in the Vassal tourney, I thought I’d give Raddus a try. I converted a Sato list that I had in progress to a Raddus list that consisted of an MC30 as the flagship with Admo, Lando, OEs, APTs, H9s, and Reinforced Blast Doors (Ramming Insurance); a pair of Slicer Tool flotillas (Quantum Storm on one and Hondo on the other); an MC75AC is the drop ship with Aspiration, DCO, HIEs, C&S, QBTs, ECM, and ExRacks; and a flexible medium squadron component of Shara/Tycho, Dash, and Ketsu.

On the other side, Andy brought a Thrawn 2-Ship list with a BT Avenger Kuat and a Quasar with Pryce (Turn 2) on board. For squadrons, he had Maarek/Jendon, Gamma, Jonus, Mauler, Jumpmaster, and a pair of Firesprays. He also had a hefty bid with which he chose first and took my Hyperspace Assault. Here is the setup:

In the first round, Andy played it safe and dropped to speed one. He managed to pounce on Tycho and Ketsu with Mauler (my fault). At the opening of round 2, I dropped my Slicer flotilla with Hyperspace Assault and then dropped the MC75 off of that so that it had the ISD in the double-arc. Here is the opening of round 2:

In the second round, Andy erased my Slicer Flotilla with the help of Jonus. I put some serious damage into the ISD, but forgot to add in my QBTs on both shots (oops). I positioned Admo to hit the Quasar or ISD (after it activated in the following round). The fighters did very good work on Admo. Here is the opening of round 3:

In the third round, Andy managed to kill Admo on the first activation with his Quasar. I retaliated against the ISD by hitting it again with the MC75 double-arc, reducing it to a single hull. It was able to activate, but couldn’t avoid landing on the rock. ISD down. The squadron fight then began to heat up with me taking down Mauler and the Jumpmaster. Here is the opening of round 5 (4th omitted):

In the fifth round, I positioned the MC75 to hit the Quasar in the final round, but Andy managed to avoid the double arc. Between the front arc Heavy Ions and a shot from Ketsu, I managed to reduce the Quasar to a single hull, but couldn’t quite finish the job. In return, I lost Tycho/Shara and Dash with little to show for it. The game was very close and Andy ended up winning by 5 or so MOV. This was another really great, close game.

I made a number of mistakes. I absolutely should have hit the Quasar with the Raddus drop instead of the ISD. I thought that Admo would be able to deal with the Quasar while my fighters tied up his fighters, but Dash and Shara were terribly mis-deployed for that, resulting in a very dead Admo. Furthermore, Andy had selected turn 2 for Pryce, and I simply failed to take advantage of that. I completely forgot my QBTs when I needed them. I set my MC75 to repair for two turns rather than navigate. That prevented me getting closer to the Quasar until turn 6. Lastly, I didn’t focus fire very well in the squadron battle, resulting in a lot of very damaged squadrons but far fewer destroyed.

Lessons Learned:

 - Raddus works great against a turn 2 Pryce.

 - Kill the Quasar before the ISD - It’s the greater threat.

 - Remember to focus fire with squadrons.