Grand Moff Boris wrote:
The thing a lot of players don't think about - and the realization of this fact separates the amateur from the amazing - is that when you pick a map to go with your squad, if it's going to be one like Teth Monastery, you MUST be able to win from the "bad" side. Some maps don't have true good and bad sides, but I agree with you that Teth Monastery does.
Woohoo! QFT! Speeder squads are great from the right side. If you were planning to run it, you assume you will always be on the right, as most smart opponents will have no choice but to pick the left. Of course the same was true when I abused Starship last year, which wasn't as abusive, but the same concept. In that case, I used setting up second as my way of overcoming the "bad" side. In truth, it's probably more comparable to Geonosis and Broken Boba, as setting up first turn kill shots isn't as easy, but setting up to all but ensure a win is much easier by round 2. Speeder will be ahead 5-0, and the opponent will be up near the doors at best in most cases. If they moved appropriately, the speeder squad will be very tough to defeat. There are squads that can do it, but you will have a much better time if you win map and play something like Bespin
Grand Moff Boris wrote:
That is why Bill (correctly) points to Rieekan's Snowspeeder on Teth Monastery as a "gatekeeper" squad. With R2 and Lobot, it can lock the enemy down behind both doors, and stall the game for a couple of rounds, just long enough to position for an overwhelming strike. It can do this from the bottleneck point, even. And in a mirror match, the game is 99% determined by the map roll.
I am not convinced the mirror is so one sided. More than likely, the game will be decided by who gets the first big kill in that case. Who fails evades, who bases for a quick kill and gets it or doesn't, etc. Slow Cannon has more risks than Speedy Cannon had, because of it's lower number of attacks, and lower attack ratings overall. But the person with the left does have a pretty strong positional advantage regardless in that, so I get what you are saying.