We had 12 people show up to this last minute midnight release. We were basically informed the morning of the monday this would happen. As a result i think the 12 was a pretty good result.
There was a decent mixture of squads played. Winner of the event was Timmerb123 with his power combo of
FLobi
Assajj
Artf trooper
Aqualish tech
r7
i pulled a ragtag collection of grunts captained by Cody and Whorm. Whorms CE was easily MVP doubling the output of almost my entire squad.
Whorm
Cody
2 x magnaguard
Lab droid
501st CT
CT with nightvision
AT-TE pilot
Rodian Trader
R7
BD
The idea was to have the clones lay down the smack while the manga and lab droids as stunning intereference. All i had left were 2 commando droids and a aqualish tech. I might have faired better getting the aqualish instead of the rodian as he did nothing more than add comic relief.
The lab droid came through twice in 4 games and they were quite big contributions so I side with he was a better choice than a commando droid (who i didn't add mainly because he has twin already).
I picked the Jedi temple for decent doors, reasonable shooting lanes and melee approachment.
It worked, but mainly due to some appauling rolls by my opponents in the 2nd and 3rd round.
1st match up
General Skywalker
Hondo
B3
senate guard
pirate
2 x 501st
I was on the right and advanaced along the bottom. He advanced most of his force across the top but split Anakin from the rest of the team. I was very fearful of the B3 with its DR, missiles and large volume of attacks so i generally used doors to hinder it as much as possible.
Anakin carved up one of my magnas but not before he had spent a lot of force defending, perhaps 1 or 2 shots got through. I then unloaded on Anakin wounding him. His 501ts dmged and almost killed my magna guard but he missed the last attack leaving it at 20 which was promptly healed up. Cody picked off one 501st while the nightvision trooper (NVT) missed the other. The B3 annihalated my rodian who had got separated from my squad. The rest of the crew layed into anakin. Next round Anakin went down and Hondo missed a shot on Cody (needed a 6 for the kill, rolled a 4). With init Hondo died without getting much play. 501st dropped and i had every one except one or two figs layed into the B3. The magna guard with his electro staff did most of the dmg.
1-0
2nd match was against Lexx
Rex
Admiral Yularen
2 x Artf
clone pilot
r7
Magna artillarist
battle droid
i might have got his squad slightly wrong but the main factors were greater mobile Rex, Yularen who gives opportunist to the clones, his override and the artilerist.
We were on the temple again. It started off much like before with my whole force moving along the bottom of the right hand side. His forces were split with the clones and Yularen running along the top and his droids on the bottom. He kept his artillarist in a position that caused issues with my positioning while i tried to get shots on his stealthers with my accurate shooters. He moved his artillarist to a place i could get shots and decided to put the r7 as the 'meat' shield to open the 2 doors. I put perhaps 20 on the artillerist with the 501st but missed all the stealther with cody and the NVT. Lexx won the init and tried to off the r7 and rolled 2 3's which probably swung the game in my favour as i was then able to leave him unactivated. I finished his artillerist and then picked off a artf with cody. The r7 took some dmg which i reparied and then started running my magnas forward. Rex smoked a magna after the init and backed up. a magna who had been given grenades by the rodian tried for a 3 prong grenade on rex, pilot and the admiral but all saved. Whorm moved up to shield.
I won init an put 20 on Rex with the Magna with the Ig only for rex to avoid the stun. Rex smoked the magna and backed up. I finished the remaining clones and moved whrom and the 501st to a position where there were no cover shots on init and where yulern did not get recon. i won init and let rip with the 501st hitting 3 out of 4 shots to kill rex. Lexx coneeded shortly after.
2-0
i then faced Ted with
Flobi
Assajj
clone with RB
BD
again on Yavin temple, and again on the right.
I took a more direct approach this time coming straight donw the center while Ted split up top and bottom.
Assajj made the first strike coming through the middle 2 doors and carving up my repair droid. I unloaded on her being careful to avoid a quint from the CtRB. she took perhaps 60 before Obi jumped in the fray and started hacking. I locked assajj out and concentrated on Obi missing about 90% of my shots. About 20-40 dmg got through before the r7 died.
Assajj then took a sextuple on my magna and missed 5 of the 6 needing 8s. I put 20 on assajj before she activated and she chose to break to kill loathsome. unfortunately, it was at that point that my rolls came around and she died leaving my force to lay into obi. Obi died eventualy after running out of force.
3-0
Last game was against Tim on the trainstation
FLobi
Assajj
Artf trooper
Aqualish tech
r7
this match exemplified my tired state as i made many errors and fell into a neat little trap Tim set. I was concerned mainly with getting rid of the ARTF. moving off the back rank i moved loathsome too far ahead into the doorway of the 2nd train. tim moved forwar across the top platform. He moved his ARTF into a position where my r7 could open 2 doors and let cody shoot it and I took it immedeately rather than sitting on it, thus springing Tims trap. Loathsome was now 17 away from assajj and 14 away from Flobi and got based by both (kind of spaces master speed). I broke foolishly forgetting rage and luckily tim missed his 2nd swipe with assajj leaving whorm with 20 left. I then unloaded onto assajj leaving her with 40 left. the init would seal the fate of the game. He won it and killed my r7, my 501st and wounded a magna guard. FLobi had suprised moved and based whorm. So i finished assajj with a magna and watched Flobi slice up whorm. The rest of the game was mop up. I finished off his droid and the aqualish but I failed to do any dmg to Flobi, not because of soresu but because my 6 and 8 attack scores failed to hit.
3-1
came 2nd got 3 boosters and pulled Hondo, ashoka and Rex.
Goodtimes