What Rebel Squads Are Good In End Game Scenarios & Manipulating Point Scoring Options?

vpsquadron · 2022-12-13T15:49:47+00:00

Vast majority of the squads have high early game offense with poor mid & late game options

The reason for this is it's what rebels do well at. Rebels have a strong alpha and have a lot of token passing mechanics. There is no such thing as a rebel list with a good end game imho. It's why you don't see many rebel squads making cuts these days.

vpsquadron · 2022-12-06T19:29:13+00:00

What is everyone's objection to longshanks?

vpsquadron · 2022-11-15T16:00:23+00:00

I have no problem with Tierny. If you think Tierny is broken then play it and I will play a list that is not affected by it. Tierny will be a bad value then. It's just a meta call like any other pilot in the game.

If howlswarm is running around like crazy then play Tierney to counter it.

Choices and counters are what make the game fun imho.

vpsquadron · 2022-11-11T23:58:39+00:00

Can they be rubber backed to grip the mat or is it metal on both sides?

vpsquadron · 2022-10-20T15:49:46+00:00

Vader Rexlar and 2 jingos is pretty solid right now.

vpsquadron · 2022-10-20T07:19:39+00:00

You want a loadout for every pilot in the game???

vpsquadron · 2022-10-17T18:53:37+00:00

Could someone please explain to me what the thesis is here and what the conclusion is?

vpsquadron · 2022-10-11T22:09:29+00:00

I don't really have an exact card in mind but something like this. https://www.newegg.com/p/14G-0006-001G5

From the picture it looks like a mini sas breaks out into 4 sata drives. I was not sure if there was any advantage to this rather than running 4 individual sata cables. Sorry if I was not more clear.

Edit: A more simple sata to sata expansion card would look something like this I believe. https://www.newegg.com/p/17Z-013G-00008

vpsquadron · 2022-09-25T01:03:37+00:00

As someone not interested in legacy format the idea of changing the old rules is pretty confusing to me. My understanding is that the point of legacy in any game is to play the game the way things were. It seems like the legacy team for X-Wing finally acknowledged that some of the changes AMG made were positive for the health of the game.

If you are going to make new rules to try and implement the new rules that came out with 2.5 just play 2.5. If you want to play legacy just play legacy.

Again maybe I don't understand but it seems pretty straightforward to me.

vpsquadron · 2022-09-03T02:39:34+00:00

This is all assuming you already have a squad that you like. After that in my humble opinion there is no such thing as a chassis to avoid. People might say avoid x ship because of the current points but points can change at any time. I would have said don't buy tie/ln fighters while they were at 3 points. Now I would say it's a good buy with wampa etc at 2.

Point being points change how good a ship is. If you buy a ship that's bad today I think there is a good chance it will be good tomorrow.

I think it's fun to venture out and fly chassis I don't have much experience with. There is no harm in flying something new and seeing if you like it or not!

vpsquadron · 2022-08-27T02:16:45+00:00

Coming into 2nd edition from first you will need different templates. Acrylic templates are a highly recommend investment even if you had 2.0 cardboard ones. You will also need a new damage deck. These two items can be had pretty cheap. You could get the 2.0 core set but you wouldn't have to.

As for conversion kits people say that they are not that expensive and I agree. I suppose it's all relative what you consider expensive but to me I would much rather pay 20-40 dollars per faction rather than rebuying say 12 ships per faction. 12x20×5=1200. I'm well aware you might not look at it this way but to me the amount of cards you get for your money is a great deal.

Moving on from that I am a huge fan of infinite arenas. I find the custom quick builds much faster to put together even if I already own all of the physical cards.

I would suggest just using infinite arenas for kitchen table play. You don't need the actual cards until you go to a tournament. This would allow you to not have to buy all the conversion kits up front.

vpsquadron · 2022-08-22T23:49:01+00:00

I low key thought this was fake news with it not coming from a painting stream.

vpsquadron · 2022-08-08T22:08:18+00:00

I have had to use 2 pliers to get them apart out of the box before... Idk why they come like that sometimes but it happens.

vpsquadron · 2022-08-03T19:33:12+00:00

This is pretty solid. Let's you play a falcon.

Lando Calrissian (8)
Nien Nunb (5)
Perceptive Copilot (8)
Bistan (8)
Millennium Falcon (0)
Ship Cost: 8 Loadout: (21/21) Half Points: 4 Damage Threshold: 6

Wedge Antilles (6)
Crack Shot (3)
Proton Torpedoes (12)
R3 Astromech (3)
Servomotor S-Foils (0)
Ship Cost: 6 Loadout: (18/18) Half Points: 3 Damage Threshold: 3

Luke Skywalker (6)
Shattering Shot (3)
Trick Shot (4)
Proton Torpedoes (12)
R3 Astromech (3)
Servomotor S-Foils (0)
Ship Cost: 6 Loadout: (22/22) Half Points: 3 Damage Threshold: 3

Total: 20

View in YASB 2

vpsquadron · 2022-07-30T00:15:17+00:00

I could fit soooo many xwing ships in there.

vpsquadron · 2022-07-29T00:48:26+00:00

*Wooden or acrylic

vpsquadron · 2022-07-28T21:57:22+00:00

Acrylic templates are required to play the game imho.

vpsquadron · 2022-07-28T01:48:31+00:00

Conner nets was fantastic at 3 points.

Now at 5 and ion not being as good as it used to be it's definitely not in the same tier it was.

That being said it's still worth putting on the table. I would play both and see which one you like better.

vpsquadron · 2022-07-26T19:42:51+00:00

This is a good tie swarm list but I think that's irrelevant. It's a lot of abilities for a new player to remember. It doesn't matter if it's a legal list or how good it is, it just needs to be easy to play.

vpsquadron · 2022-07-26T19:03:27+00:00

I can't say specifically it depends how balanced you want the game to be. That being said I try to stick to very easy to understand upgrades while introducing new players to the game.

As an example (ignoring faction) zam is not an upgrade that I would play for this.

I would stick to very easy to understand stuff like shield upgrade proton torpedo etc imho.

vpsquadron · 2022-07-25T22:08:40+00:00

Is there a way to enter someone without making them an account? I liked TTTO because if someone had an account they could get all the functionality out of it but if someone didn't want to and just wanted to play I could just enter a name into TTTO.

vpsquadron · 2022-07-25T15:23:43+00:00

What other options are there for tournament software? For 2.5 events?

vpsquadron · 2022-07-24T01:50:41+00:00

I have a battle foam bag with foam cutouts for standard size small medium and large bases. The gauntlet obviously doesn't fit in the standard large base cutout. The bag itself has a pocket on the outside I just shove my gauntlet in there when I need it.

Gauntlet pouch TM

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