Well, gearing up for the weekend with the big (I HOPE) event
in Bloomington (https://www.facebook.com/events/2343101475918609/)
… Looking like I’ll likely be running
Dash/Roark again:
DashRoark3 (199)
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Dash Rendar — YT-2400 Light
Freighter
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100
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Trick Shot
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1
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Han Solo
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12
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Perceptive Copilot
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10
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Outrider
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14
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Ship
Total: 137
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Half Points: 69 Threshold: 5
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Roark Garnet — HWK-290 Light
Freighter
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38
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Squad Leader
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4
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Proximity Mines
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6
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Tactical Officer
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2
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Moldy Crow
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12
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Ship
Total: 62
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Half Points: 31 Threshold: 3
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+/- on it being the Proximity Mines on the Hawk… I found them useful, but 1 point is not a
real bid. It is just the “I had nothing
else to add” I suppose… With the 2 “new”
Factions being legal, there is a fair number of viable lists and I suspect this
one is going to be a “mid-tier/table” list for me. Almost no way I win out, but I should end
with a winning record I hope… Assuming
that I do not just suffer from brain fatigue over the long day. One reason I do not play the “Ace” build this
time…
One build I am actually kind of worried about facing is
detailed quite well here:
3 Upsilon class shuttles from the First Order… SO much to shoot through, and they hit
HARD. Built out that way, there is a
Turn 1 Alpha Strike that is very difficult to avoid… Tyler talked about it at length on the OCX
podcast this week as well, but his was NOT the “sell out for the Alpha” list… With my Dash/Roark list? I set up against the Alpha Strikers with “I’m
just running” in mind. Surprisingly, the
HWK has a boost and with the 4 Straight and Boost running along the board edge
I might avoid the strike there… The
2400? Well, 4 Straight on the Large base
does move quite a distance… So likely
Turn 1, start with that… Can I dodge
most (all) of the Arcs? Maybe. Trading shots is not a good option since on
the first Turn, they are front loaded and they will NOT be later in the
game. A few things to remember for me
are that I can shed a Red/Orange token by going over Terrain and so a TL that
appears on Turn 1 might not be there…
Tempted to run right at the Shuttles, but Dash does NOT like close
combat. I suspect that this knife
fighting approach is the “Ace” answer to the 3 Shuttle list. Draw it out, drag them through the
terrain. Their Collision Detectors have
2 charges, and mine does not J… Roark just needs to skirt the field and run
like Hell… The Mines might well be
something that makes a difference as not many players of this list use them… Or they might still be on the racks when all
my Ships die J…
More previews are hitting for Wave 3, but it is all the CIS
stuff and I have no real interest in that…
Looks REALLY interesting though and I am actually quite excited to see
them coming. My Republic stuff should be
the next few previews and if they stay true to form, the real release might
well be in March or even February… And I’ll
have my Hyperspace legal Ace list I suspect…
The Jedi should be amazing on the table, and I’ve gotten one of my old
ARCs (started on) repainted… Nothing TOO
extreme, Blue stripes in place of the Red so it at least looks different… I am
HOPING that an ARC and 2 Jedi will be a list I can field… And one of those Jedi will pretty much have
to be Anakin for me since the I6 is going to be absolutely vital I
suspect. But of course until points are
released, no one knows…
Job search?
Continues. Had a few interviews,
but not the one I am REALLY kind of hoping for.
Long shot, but a completely different career direction. Amusingly, it would be a Faculty position,
and Professor Chappell does sound pretty good J… Will see.
But things continue where I am and I have a job I could well retire
from, so no real pressure to jump.
Running 3 days a week locally, and joined the Krayt’s Running Group on
Strava. I’m basically doing a 5K each
time (just a bit over 3 miles), but of course NOT going overly fast… My brother is the marathon runner, he is
REALLY good. Me? I’m just running to get closer to “back in
shape”. Once upon a time I maxxed out
the Army PT test pretty easily, and looking at the ancient DD-214 showing me as
a 12B20V for MOS… Well, once upon a time
I was able to do a lot of those things my RPG characters can do like the meme
says J
J… Losing weight again, eating better and
getting back to where I once was…
Finding that the general pain level is back down to almost pre-Army
levels… Just need to drop another 25 or
so pounds to get back there. Will see,
if I can keep this going through the Summer, it is actually likely…
