WORLDS Round 2: Dave vs Billy

In my second game, I was matched with Billy from the ORJ. He was running a Raddus build with an MC75 Armored Cruiser with a CR90 on board that had MS-1s. He took first and picked my Most Wanted of course. Here is the deployment. His objective ship is across from the Interdictor:

In the first round, I moved the Dictor up and slid Demo in behind, a good start. Here is the opening of round 2:

In the second round, I jumped Maarek and Ciena onto a HWK and failed to kill it. Maarek went down from the return fire of the HWK and two VCXs. I was hoping to remove any obstacles to bombing later in the game. He dropped the 75 and CR90 at the opening of round 3:

In the third round, he softened the Dictor with the CR90, which I then destroyed with the Interdictor. He also put some significant damage through with the 75. I jumped Demo in front of the 75, thinking I could take a shot from the 75 and then escape after inflicting some nice damage. Here is the opening of round 4:

In the fourth round, Billy was able to kill Demo, despite Targeting Scramblers and then he finished off the Interdictor, who was pinned in place, ending the game by tabling me. This was a terribly played game on my part. I’m not sure what I was thinking on this one, but I served the game up on a silver platter. I should have ignored the HWKs and focused on the Raddus drop. It would have been an easy thing to put squadrons in place where I knew he was going to drop. Secondly, I placed Demo in the only place on the board that it could have been in danger and really paid for it. Instead of taking that risk, I could have turned the other way or even rammed the Dictor. My concern at the time was to preserve the Dictor, but it would have been much more wise to leave it and let my squadrons finish the 75, which would have given me the win. Well done to Billy, who is solid player.