Thursday, March 5, 2020

Casual Tournament with Agate Unity & Rogues

I brought a Starhawk with rogues to the monthly tournament nearby. In the first game, I was paired with Tyler who brought Yavaris MSU/Aces with Agate on Yavaris. I had a slight bid and chose first. I picked Surprise Attack. Here is the opening of round 1:



In the first round, I pushed forward at speed 2 and sent some squads into the mix. Here is the opening of round 2:



In the second round, I failed to have a squad command queued up (bummer), but I was able to do good work with flak nonetheless. I then dove into the squad ball. Here is the opening of round 3:



In the third round, I nearly destroyed Yavaris with a front arc shot and was able to finish it off with Lando in the squad phase thanks to grit. Nym and Norra were both finished off with Salvo shots. Here is the opening of round 4:



In the fourth round, I cleaned up the squads and I was able to finish off the CR90 with Lando and Ketsu. Solid win for me. Here is the last image:



In the second game, I was paired with Bernie. He also was running Yavaris MSU. I picked Dangerous Territory. Bernie had the deployment advantage and set up to do a pincer move. Here is the opening of round 1:



I decided to turn right into the corvettes and let my squads tie up the Yavaris-assisted Biggs ball. I also picked up a pair of objective tokens. Here is the opening of round 2:



In the second and third rounds I was able to eliminate the CR90 and wear away Bernie’s squads. He committed to taking down Shara and his X-Wings took a beating as a result. He also took down Dash in the exchange. I committed Lando and Ketsu to running down the Rieekan hammerhead lifeboat in the lower right. Here is the opening of round 4:



In the fourth round, I worked on the hammerhead and Yavaris, but with only a pair of YT2400s, I could not make any progress there. Here is the opening of round 5:



I was able to finish off his lifeboat, but that was it. We called it after that. This was the first time I brought the Starhawk and I was pleased with the result. It was able to effectively dismantle both Yavaris lists. Between the flak and my rogues, I was able to consistently obtain squadron superiority. I also was able to withstand any attacks without much worry. This is a very solid list and does exactly what my Interdictor/Demo list attempted to do: provide a solid points fortress while projecting Rogue firepower across the board to wear down the opposition. The chief problem may be that the Starhawk is too tough. This disincentivizes the opponent to commit to an attack and makes it difficult to win big. Here is my complete list:

GR-75 Medium Transports (18 points)
-  Bright Hope  ( 2  points)
-  Toryn Farr  ( 7  points)
27 total ship cost
[ flagship ] Starhawk-class Battleship Mark II (150 points)
-  Kyrsta Agate (com)  ( 20  points)
-  Unity  ( 10  points)
-  Expert Shield Tech  ( 5  points)
-  Walex Blissex  ( 5  points)
-  Local Fire Control  ( 4  points)
-  Linked Turbolaser Towers  ( 7  points)
-  Heavy Ion Emplacements  ( 9  points)
210 total ship cost
GR-75 Medium Transports (18 points)
-  Leia Organa (off)  ( 3  points)
-  Comms Net  ( 2  points)
23 total ship cost
1 Lando Calrissian ( 23 points)
1 Dash Rendar ( 24 points)
1 Ketsu Onyo ( 22 points)
1 Tycho Celchu ( 16 points)
2 YT-2400s ( 32 points)
1 Shara Bey ( 17 points)
134 total squadron cost
Points: 394/400  


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