All in on the Jedi for the next SC? And a wee bit of other stuff...

Well, testing a few other options for the next X-Wing event.  Red Raccoon in Bloomington, IL is holding their Store Championship next weekend (21^st of March).  Looking like I might be leaning heavily toward the Jedi.  I ran my Obi/Plo/Ahsoka/Ric list last evening and it went…  Poorly.  Big part being the early and harsh betrayal by my Agility dice putting me heavily on my back foot at the first engagement.  Having Obi-Wan get hit for 4, rolling only a Focus on the dice and of course my counter strike hitting for no damage meant bad things.  Mind, I was able to make it a game and go to time.  Could have had the long shot the last turn, but just called it as I already got the information I felt I needed from the game.  Ric with Outmaneuver was…  OK I suppose?  SO predictable, and the Outmaneuver popped up only once during the whole game, and THAT was firing through a Gas Cloud, so no effect.  Convinced me that a 4^th Jedi would be better.  While Ric is fast enough to keep up with the Aethersprite, he lacks the ability to do a double reposition.  And the ship itself is actually very predictable with the need to go 3+ to get the Evade and ideally faster than the enemy to get the extra dice on Offence and Defense.  Not ideal, and I find myself doing a lot of slash and circle which limits the damage output of the Ship.  So, trying Barriss Offee in her Aethersprite.  Her ability is…  Interesting?  If only she had 2+ Force.  She has only the one, so I suppose she is worth the 1 extra point over the generic Jedi for the +1 Initiative and the potential for the Ability.

Republic HS 2 (191)

Obi-Wan Kenobi — Delta-7 Aethersprite	48
R5 Astromech	4
Calibrated Laser Targeting	4
Ship Total: 56
Half Points: 28 Threshold: 2
Ahsoka Tano — Delta-7 Aethersprite	44
Calibrated Laser Targeting	2
Ship Total: 46
Half Points: 23 Threshold: 2
Plo Koon — Delta-7 Aethersprite	44
Calibrated Laser Targeting	4
Ship Total: 48
Half Points: 24 Threshold: 2
Barriss Offee — Delta-7 Aethersprite	38
Calibrated Laser Targeting	3
Ship Total: 41
Half Points: 21 Threshold: 2

So, a big bid…  Relatively.  Not even close to the bid one finds on a Boba/Fenn list, so it is really just there for “some” things I guess?  Might say just got for it and put another R5 on one of the Ships after some testing.  On Obi-Wan, I think it works well enough and it allows me to discard Damage cards including the ones that are persistent like Damaged Engine and the like.  Costs an action to flip and another along with a Charge to discard.  The advantage of the Jedi being that Actions are not at the premium that they are on so many other Ships.  The Mech allows me to be a bit more…  Daring with Obi-Wan than I “should” be…  Always been an issue for me, I do tend to play a lot more aggressively than most.  And the list itself being 4 of the ships that I really enjoy flying…  I can just dial something basic in and figure it out later on the fly…  Missing Anakin of course, but in Hyperspace there is a dearth of I6, so my 5’s seem pretty good…

Otherwise…  Well, just gearing up for the “potential” to move the University to mostly online classes with the Covid-19 hitting.  Does remind me of the ancient curse of “May you live in interesting times”.  These times are becoming too interesting as I get older J… Running, dieting, etc…  So, weight dropping and my fitness level is better than it has been in decades.  Fitting into clothing that I have not worn since High School, at least the sizes J…  I DO have a few things I had back then like a USC sweatshirt one of my Aunts sent me hoping I would go out there…  Alas, UIUC had a much better Engineering school, so there I went…  But 34” waist jeans being what I should be wearing…  Do not HAVE any at the moment, my 36” ones are just huge on me now…  But amusing wearing things several sizes smaller these days and getting the fairly constant commentary that I am shrinking away…  Not “reporting to Ranger School” in shape, but like I said, better than I have been in decades with the running and weight lifting…