{"id":3175,"date":"2017-12-11T08:09:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T15:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2018-01-01T10:10:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T17:10:14","slug":"going-big-with-x-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=3175","title":{"rendered":"Going Big With X-wing"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a whim, we decided to change things up this weekend and break out an old standby, X-wing Miniatures Game.\u00a0 Maybe it was the new movie coming out this week or just seeing all those great little ships sadly sitting on the shelf with no pew-pews to be heard.\u00a0 Either way, we decided to rectify that situation and since we knew we’d make a night of it, we should go big.\u00a0 Epic-ly big.<\/p>\n

It’s been a while since I hit X-wing and even longer since I’ve seen the Epic rules and Huge ships but we did some homework and wrote up some 300 point lists. That was the easy part. Setting up was another 2+ hours trying find all my ships and cards and setting up a 6×3 table space.\u00a0 Eventually we got it all settled and were ready to play.<\/p>\n

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In a break from my norm, I decided to go Empire as I wanted to play with the Gozanti Cruisers.\u00a0 My friend had recently picked up the new Scum C-ROC Huge ship so he found some list ideas and cobbled it all together:<\/p>\n

Gozanti-class Cruiser (40)<\/b>
\nDarth Vader (3)<\/i>
\nMara Jade (3)<\/i>
\nDual Laser Turret (5)<\/i>
\nBackup Shield Generator (3)<\/i>
\nDocking Clamps (0)<\/i>
\nOptimized Generators (5)<\/i>
\nVector (2)<\/i><\/p>\n

“Epsilon Leader” (19)<\/b><\/p>\n

“Howlrunner” (18)<\/b>
\nSwarm Tactics (2)<\/i><\/p>\n

“Scourge” (17)<\/b>
\nPush the Limit (3)<\/i><\/p>\n

“Dark Curse” (16)<\/b><\/p>\n

“Backstabber” (16)<\/b><\/p>\n

“Winged Gundark” (15)<\/b><\/p>\n

“Night Beast” (15)<\/b><\/p>\n

“Wampa” (14)<\/b><\/p>\n

“Chaser” (14)<\/b><\/p>\n

Gozanti-class Cruiser (40)<\/b>
\nFleet Officer (3)<\/i>
\nTactician (2)<\/i>
\nDual Laser Turret (5)<\/i>
\nDocking Clamps (0)<\/i>
\nOptimized Generators (5)<\/i><\/p>\n

Soontir Fel (27)<\/b>
\nPush the Limit (3)<\/i>
\nAutothrusters (2)<\/i>
\nStealth Device (3)<\/i>
\nRoyal Guard TIE (0)<\/i><\/p>\n

Total: 300<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

View in Yet Another Squad Builder<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I really love the carrier concept of the Gozantis so I was going all in on them while my friend brought almost every bounty hunter he could muster.\u00a0 It was then pointed out that I was basically playing a small Flotilla from Armada:<\/p>\n

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So much for being “Epic.”\u00a0 Still on that table, those Gozantis and a mess of TIE Fighters make for a pretty grand game.<\/p>\n

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After setting up, I did get a bit concerned that I brought all these little TIE Fighters to battle with a bunch of heavy hitting Scum large ships including the tanky YV-666, Tractor Beaming Mist Hunter and Shadow Caster, “I’m-immune-to-my-own-bombs” Scurrg nightmare, and a Zuckus + Dengar C-ROC.\u00a0 I wasn’t really maxing out my ability to swarm TIE Fighters so I was concerned they wouldn’t have enough individual punch to go through all these specialized damaging ships.<\/p>\n

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I set up initially to attack the C-ROC but after all those heavy hitters crammed in on my left flank, I had to send my heavy Gozanti (Vader led) over that way or risk getting flanked and lose that whole side of the board. I charged my other Gozanti straight on at the C-ROC, knowing that it can’t shoot at range 1 but I could.\u00a0 Fel and Epsilon Leader headed for the Scums weak left flank and totally whiffed against a bunch of crappy Binayre Pirates.\u00a0 This would happen throughout the game. Those guys could do no wrong- max out damage on attacks and take no damage on return.<\/p>\n

Vader’s Gozanti got pummeled by the YV-666 and a couple of hard-hitting heavy laser cannon Scyks.\u00a0 Enough to get a crit through the hull and damage one of my docking clamps, releasing “Night Beast” a bit earlier.\u00a0 My plan of keeping these TIEs safe and launching them behind my enemies wasn’t going to last.<\/p>\n

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Over the next two rounds, I launch all my fighters as everything starts to swarm around the Gozantis.\u00a0 Vader’s big G is lit up like a Christmas tree as I try and totally fail to run anything over in multiple attempts of ramming maneuvers.\u00a0 My other Gozanti has come directly at the C-ROC and neither of us blinked so now we were slowly grinding on each other until one or both of us are destroyed.<\/p>\n

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I did have Fel and some additional TIEs coming at him so hopefully I would wreck that C-ROC shortly and be free to join in the battle on my left side.<\/p>\n

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This swarm takes its toll on Vader’s Gozanti and gets me down to one measly hull.\u00a0 To make things worse, Vader is sucked out a hull breach and likely very pissed at his force.\u00a0 When they find him, I’m sure many more will die.\u00a0 We did have our first casualty of the match as I took down one of the heavy laser Scyks before he could kill me off.<\/p>\n

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Soontir Fel pulls off his cheater defense against an overclocked 6 dice attack from the C-ROC.\u00a0 Lucky rolls are the only reason why he stayed up against the four hits he tried to rain down on me.\u00a0 My return fire and constant ramming ended up finally taking the C-ROC down.\u00a0 My Gozanti came out pretty well in the exchange since the only damage it was taking was from the ramming.<\/p>\n

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It was getting really late so we decided to call the game at this point.\u00a0 After that initial and brutal exchange the now Vader-less Gozanti caused most everyone to veer off course and the few remaining attacks couldn’t bring her down.\u00a0 She was still at one hull and I’m sure eventually she’d fall if we brought the game to full conclusion but as it stood, I lost about 3 TIE Fighters and the Scum lost their C-ROC, YV-666, and a Scyk.\u00a0 Victory was mine but it seemed like the game was still open enough big Scum ships left to cause problems (especially that annoying Scurrg bomber).<\/p>\n

Epic X-wing was interesting and not a format that I’ve played a lot.\u00a0 While it was fun, I didn’t really get the dogfighting feel that a normal smaller game of X-wing typically evokes.\u00a0 It seems to evoke those chaotic ending battles you see in the movies, which is great but we’ll need to get more organized to run it again.\u00a0 The set and execution of an Epic game is just too big of a time investment for a regular game night.\u00a0 As I was borrowing my friend’s Gozanti to run two of them, he asked if I liked running both and would buy a second one.\u00a0 I came away from the battle thinking that I really enjoy the options and mechanics that the Gozantis offer but two is likely overkill.\u00a0 That being said, I think I’d still like to run the double Gozanti just for the sheer fun of dropping that many ships on the board in one round so another ship my be in my future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a whim, we decided to change things up this weekend and break out an old standby, X-wing Miniatures Game.\u00a0 Maybe it was the new movie coming out this week or just seeing all those great little ships sadly sitting on the shelf with no pew-pews to be heard.\u00a0 Either way, we decided to rectify […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,219,546],"tags":[36,41],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-session-report","category-x-wing-miniatures-game","tag-star-wars-armada","tag-star-wars-x-wing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}