I went to
my first x-wing tournament and spoilers: I lost spectacularly...
managed to go 0-5 for the day, thus cementing my place as worst x-wing player
in the world...
I took 3 X-Wings,
Wedge Antiles with R2-D2, Marksmanship and Advanced Proton Torpedoes; Biggs
Darklighter, with an R2-F4 unit; and Luke Skywalker with Veteran Instincts and an R5 Astromech.
First game
was against Vader and his cronies, a Tie Advanced, 2 Tie interceptors and a
regular Tie Fighter...
There was a
bit of swarm tactics shenanigans with the Advanced and the Interceptors
but I did manage to take out one of the Interceptors and nearly put paid to the
Tie Fighter but my opponent manage to kill Wedge and Biggs thus depriving me of
my first win of the day....
Next to
lose against was 4 Tie Fighters and a Firespray-31... the
Fire-Spray puts out more fire power than I would have thought....
lost Wedge and Biggs again....
The Third
match up of the day was against Tie Advanced and some Tie Fighters? possibly,
lost all 3 x-wings in this game, did manage to do the Marksmanship+Advanced
Proton Torpedoes and took out the Tie Advanced with one salvo......
Followed by
the fourth, a mirror match of sorts, 3 X-Wings; Luke, Wedge and Biggs only with
slightly different equipment, managed to lose Wedge and Biggs, which by this
point was becoming a theme...
It should
be pointed out, and this is obviously clutching at straws, but at this point I
had managed to kill some of the opposing force in each game and only once did I
lose all of my ships.
This all
changed with my worst, and most ignominious loss of the day and this I
will put down to bad luck....
This was
against 2 Rookie X-Wing Pilots and Chewbacca in the Millenium Falcon, I managed to
lose Wedge and Biggs as usual but this time it was in one round of shooting. Things were going reasonably well I had taken some shields of the enemy and he had taken a couple of me. I was lining up for the kill 3 abreast when the Millenium Falcon and one of the X-wings had range of me. He rolled to hit on Biggs and scored 2 Hits and a Crit, I rolled to save and came up empty. With only 1 shield to go, that was taken followed by a face down damage card then the face up take 2 damage critical card. With that Biggs was out. His X-Wing shot next, this time at Wedge and managed to do exactly the same thing and again I pulled the 2 Hit critical card and there went Wedge....
Luke went soon after and that was the end of the tournament for me...
Oh well, he was very appoligetic but some days these things just happen...
So that is how I became "The Worst X-Wing Player In The World"
