VASSAL WC2019: CommanderDave vs JP82729

My first game of the POD play in the 2019 Vassal World Cup was against JP82729 (or just JP). I had played against him before, but instead of Thrawn bombers, he was bringing deadly Screed Dual Kuats with HIEs and ACMs. I knew that if he was able to double-arc my Interdictor at close range, he could wipe it out even with Brunson and Scramblers. He also had a pair of Gozantis for activation padding and Ciena/Valen for squadron coverage. He picked my Fighter Ambush and I deployed as follows with my Interdictor and Demo quite a distance away from each other:

In the first turn, I moved my Interdictor up to hit his flagship on left while preparing to run around the left most asteroid if need be. JP decided to turn away from the Dictor, which was a big surprise to me. I hit him with the Rogues and tied up his squadrons with Ciena. Here is the close of round 1:

In the second round, I nearly destroyed his flagship. While he moved to intercept my Demo. Here is the close of round 2:

In the third round, I finished the flagship and put some damage through/farmed tokens on his left most gozanti. I also did a bit of a U-Turn with my Demo, thinking I might be able to escape that way. This was a mistake as it took the ISD in the opposite direction of the rest of my fleet and still resulted in a dead Demolisher. Here is the close of round 3:

In the fourth round, I killed the right most gozanti while the left one escaped. JP was able to successfully intercept the Demo. I dropped speed to stay out of his front arc. Here is the close of round 4:

In the fifth round, JP did some serious damage with both HIEs and ACMs and reduced Demo to a single hull. I also couldn’t navigate around the ISD and ended up ramming him with fatal results. In the squadron fight, his Ciena/Valen managed to eliminate my Ciena and then tie down and kill a Firespray. Maarek and Jendon killed Valen while Boba and Morna finished off his Ciena. Here is the close of round 5:

I forced JP to choose between my Demo and the Dictor as targets by spreading them out. I knew that he would likely get one or the other due to his deployment advantage, but hoped to be able to make up for the lost points. He chose Demo and managed to preserve his non-flagship Kuat. Thanks to the tokens, I was able to win a solid 8-3 victory. Good game that would have been much closer had it not been for some pretty significant objective farming on my part.