Well, tonight was a blast!
We had a really good turnout, 13 players in all.
After 4 rounds, the final standings were:
1st tint/trevor (4-0) {see below for Squad}
2nd aaron/lobo (3-1) {see below for Squad}
3rd eric/ruhk (3-1) {see below for Squad}
4th hunter/hman73
5th bill/billiv15
6th phillip/joruus (2-2) {see below for Squad}
7th ray/dvader831
8th jeff/empirejeff {Vodo, Lucian Draay, Nomi, Juggernaut War Droid on Teth Monastery}
9th brian/strider {see below for Squad}
10th matt peterson/mt magus
11th matt g /gurneywars
12th nick/landshark
13th kenred2/ken
I chose to run the new speeder variant that tint was telling me all about.
--New Cannon--
45 Luke's Snowspeeder
27 Han Solo, Smuggler
27 Lobot
20 Princess Leia
14 General Rieekan
9 General Dodonna
8 Juno Eclipse
Preferred Reinforcements:
(Lobot) 5 Caamasi Noble
(Lobot) 9 Mouse Droid x3
(Lobot) 6 Ugnaught Demolitionist x2
(150pts. 13 activations)
Map : Teth Courtyard.
My first match was against Landshark. However some miscommunication had happened and he though it was a 200 point tourney. He chose to run the squad I like to call Replacement Killers:
55 Grand Master Yoda
28 Dash Rendar, Renegade Smuggler
26 Jedi Weapon Master
27 Lobot
9 R2-D2, Astromech Droid
5 Caamasi Noble
(150pts. 7 activations)
I believe his reinforcements were Wicket; Uggy x2 Mouse x2. I won map and set up on left side. Not a lot was happening, I was using the speeder to pick off his reinforcement and whittle down his activations (I should note that I forgot that the speeder had speed 16, and was playing like it had speed 12!). Eventually Yoda came out to play. Towed and then ran up to the speeder (getting gambit) for ASM and bringing the speeder down to 50. Dash then popped his head around the corner and and did 10 more damage to it. I mobile the Speeder back after kill R2, and then surrounded the speeder with my reinforcements to create a wall so Yoda couldn't base. I also locked out the JWM and wicket forcing them to travel along the bottom of the map in the corridor. A Han-Leia-Han saw 2 han hits and a leia crit, one was defensed taking Yoda down to 70. Next round, yoda LST3-ed on Lobot to gain some points on the board, but Han and Leia quickly took Yoda down and that gave me the game.
My second match was against strider.
He was running:
62 Boba Fett, Bounty Hunter
49 The Jedi Exile
18 Twi'lek Black Sun Vigo
9 Mouse Droid x3
12 Ugnaught Demolitionist x4
(150pts. 10 activations)
Once again I own map and set up on the right, my reinforcements were wicket, 2 uggs and 2 mice. with 4 ugs but no override I was feeling good about being able to control the doors. To avoid the speeder, strider tried to move along the top corridor. I managed to kill one of the ugs with a long range strike from the speeder. Also I critted on the twilek with Han, but it was evade (shooting from along the corridor. I won the next init and saved han bye hitting the Exile for 20 and hiding back down into the center area. Also one Mouse bit it. Slowly I was taking out his activation fodder. Boba made it to the end of the corridor on my side and tried to dispatch Juno, but rolled a 1 on his second attack. The round ended with me locking the upper right side corridor door, stranding Juno and Wicket (who put 10 on Fett!) From the backside of the corridor, Luke continued to take out uggies and mice, with some help from Leia's CE. By the fourth round or so, strider had killed Juno, Wicket and Lobot, but was down to a weakened Exile, the Vigo and Boba, while still had everything else. Boba ran 12 and based Leia, then was hit by Han and Leia's attacks, leaving him at 20. I won the init and the speeder flew back to finish him off. The Twi'lek and Exile were a little later to the fight, but came just in time to be kill by han and leia,
My 3rd match was against LoboStele. unfortunately I lost the map roll and had to play on Bespin. He was running, of course.. San!
41 Aurra Sing, Jedi Hunter
28 Dash Rendar, Renegade Smuggler
27 Lobot
23 Jareal
18 Twi'lek Black Sun Vigo
10 San Hill
3 Mouse Droid
(150pts. 7 activations)
Reinforcement: Human Bodyguard, Uggy x2, Mouse if I recall correctly.
Well as well as my last two matches went for me, this one didn't. I opened late in the first round by doing a little damage to Aurra. Second round came and after some minor positioning I raced the speeder all the way to the back of his side (left side that is) and took 2 no cover shot at Aurra... miss, miss, fprr, miss
What started was kind of a theme for me. The speeder then took 2 hits from Dash, failed both evades. Later a hit from the Vigo.. also failed evade. Finally Aurra ran over and did the final 60. Leai took a wicked risk, and ran into the mass of his squad, killing his lobot. Then gave her CE to han, who shot at Aurra.. and missed. Han then took his turn, also shot at Aurra.. also missed. Had those two shot hit, it would have been a trade of Leia and the Speeder for Lobot and Aurra.. which could have been good, but Han couldn't hit werth a dern! Anyways the game went south for me in a hurry. I lost, but near the end I was able to pick off all hit uggies and try to lock out half of his squad..
Except Jareal was on the wrong side of my lock out and killed th rest of my squad anyways
My Final match up was against Joruus C'boath. He was trying out the new Asajj in his squad:
--Venting--
43 Asajj Ventress, Separatist Assassin
28 Dash Rendar, Renegade Smuggler
27 Lobot
20 Bith Black Sun Vigo
18 Twi'lek Black Sun Vigo
10 San Hill
3 Ugnaught Demolitionist
(149pts. 7 activations)
His reinforcements were 3x Uggies and 3x Mouse Droids.
Of course I lost map roll and we played on.. Bespin!
gah!
I set up second on the right again, and we were off to a very very very careful start. I tried my first round trick again, running Leia up, open the door near gambit, then using Lobot to open the second one, and allowing Han to take a shot. Aiming at the BBSV, but he missed
. I thought I was in for a repeat of the last game. More positioning...more careful placement. I win the 2nd round init and get 40 damage on Ventress with the Speeder and run away. Poor placement caused me to lose Juno and a Mouse. With Gambit, he was up by 3, but after round 3, not only were the activations the same, but so were the scores. I took a few hits and evade a bunch. Round 4 I think it was, I took a chance with the speeder, and got close enough to twin the TSBV. Both hit, and he failed the evade save! I was up on points and also had a 1 man activation advantage. I pulled the Speeder back as far as possible, but couldn't get far enough away from Ventress. She based Luke and we rolled init. Luckily I won (since I forgot the Ventress had rage and could kill the speeder right away!). Once again I twined with The speeder and ran. San ran forward and tied up rieekan, but I decided to risk it again, and had Han run forward to Base an unactivated Ventress and take a CE shot from leia. It hit! No more Ventress, but I exposed Leia to Dash, and subsequently lost her. But it was now my full health han and Luke vs his Dash and BBSV. An uggo got a hit in on the BBSV and Luke got the Twin to kill. From there it was mop up, eventually killing San and Lobot (while loosing all my uggs, Dod and Rieekan), but giving me enough points to win it.
In all I found the squad to very powerful. While it doesn't have as much damage output as its previous inception. It is more a reactionary squad and with mobile and evade flying around, very hard to take down from range. When you get map choice and play on Teth, you're nearly guaranteed a victory.
Tint was also playing the same squad, on the same map and went 4-0, defeating mtmagus{unsure squad/map}, Joruus C'baoth{Teth}, hman73{Teth vs SS Rebel Commandos w/ Luke RC} and LoboStele{Bespin}.