I just finished my game with Mando.

Mando
--Legendary Destroyers—
37 Aurra Sing
33 Sora Bulq
60 Destroyer Droid x2
20 General Whorm Loathsom
16 LEGENDS Nute Gunray, Leader of the Naboo Blockade
10 Figrin D'an
9 Battle Droid Officer
9 Mouse Droid x3
6 Ugnaught Demolitionist x2
(200pts. 13 activations)

thereisnotry
--Jedi Training--
48 Cin Drallig, Jedi Battlemaster
39 Quinlan Vos, Double Agent
31 Commander Fox
29 Aayla Secura, Jedi Knight
27 Lobot
9 R2-D2, Astromech Droid
5 Rodian Diplomat
6 Rodian Brute x2
6 Ugnaught Demolitionist x2
(200pts. 11 activations)

My Reinforcements:
13 Czerka Shield Technician
6 Mouse Droid x2

I won the map roll so we played on Cantina. From the start, we knew that my Czerka would pretty much neuter the Destroyer Droids. Mando was kinda hoping to face one of the shooter squads which have been popular, but my squad was pretty much the opposite. First round was uneventful, other than me sniping an Uggie with Fox at the end of the round and then taking 10dmg back in my face from the Reflective Shield thing (ala Nute). Next round, Mando makes a good move that I didn't see coming: he used Nute to move a DD 18 squares, where he had a no cover shot on Fox, needing 6s. I figured that even if Mando hit all his shots, I'd still be fine because of Flak Shield...but then he rolled a crit, and so the Fox went back into his hole, never to be seen again. Next round I killed a DD (thanks to the Czerka!) with Cin Drallig, and then killed another one when Aayla pulled it into the room with my guys, where its shields were neutered. After that Aurra came in wanting to put 60dmg on Aayla from an adjacent attack (to avoid Soresu), but she missed her twin, which meant that Aayla only took 30...and Aurra took 60dmg from aoo's (a Rodian crit and Aayla twin), so it wasn't a good trade. Then Sora charged in and hurt Aayla again (one was a crit), so Aayla was alive with 20hp. I then ended the round by towing Quinlan in with Twin (using Whorm's CE) to kill Aurra (with the help of a Vaapad crit) and put 80dmg on Sora (crit and hit with Assassin). Sora made his Djem So saves but couldn't roll to save his life (nor take someone else's) on the attacks he gained from them. Next round Mando won init again, but his dice were TERRIBLE: 7,5,1,2 as he tried to finish off Quinlan using Sith Rage (needing 8s to hit). After that it was clean-up, as my 3 jedi easily mopped up the rest of his fodder and commanders. The game took 58 minutes.

Final score: 230-74 and a 3pt win for me.

I had a lot of fun playing the Legends Nute Gunray yesterday, even though the match was pretty one sided due to the Czerka Shield tech. Pretty interesting design. I wasn't sure I'd find him very useful, but he is a HUGE movement breaker for Destroyer droids. It would be interesting to see how well the squad I ran would do against an all shooter squad. I played him cause no one else had played him yet in this whole tournament so I threw together the best squad I could think of with pieces i like, such as the old school Aura and Sora Bulq. The squad had a decent chance, and I was building it to be geared towards shooters cause then Figrin Dian would have Evade and access to Energy Shield 10 from an adjacent destroyer droid, and Sora would have Soresu and Energy Shield 10. Not bad for defending against shooters. I liked the squad and wish we had one more round so that I could run it again. Anyways, it was a good game against Tint. I had a lot of fun playing in this tourney and it will be interesting to see the results for the top 4.

ALRIGHTY THEN, it's time for another playreport by yours truly. After 2 bye's in a row, the fourth round I managed to get my next game in. My apologies for any inaccuracies, let me know and I will correct them

I played said game last wednesday. My opponent was none other than theultrastar himself.

I decided to give my squad from the first round one more playthrough, especially since I didn't have much time this past week to squadbuild what with midterms:
--Episode V: Bounty Hunter Battle Bros Strike Back--
45 Durge, Gen'dai Bounty Hunter
43 Cad Bane, Bounty Hunter
33 Aurra Sing, Assassin
27 Lobot
20 Bossk, wookie Hunter
17 Elite Czerka Technician
3 Mouse Droid
6 Rodian Brute x2
6 Ugnaught Demolitionist x2

--Lobot Reinforcements--
16 Dr. Evazan, Galactic Criminal
3 Rodian Brute

theultrastar ran the following:
Lord Vader
Starkiller's Clone
Thrawn
Grand Moff wilhuff Tarkin
R7
assorted ugnaughts and mouse droids

I lost map roll, and we played the following map:



I chose the right side of the map, setting up around the middle tank. Theultrastar set up above the middle room, except for Thrawn, who he stashed deep in a closet near the bottom out of harms way.

First round saw everyone moving closer to gambit, fairly straightforward. Theultrastar was setting up his pieces in position so that swaps would be viable and Tarkin would be able to protect vader/starkiller with DoF. There was a bit of overriding done between Lobot and the R7, but nothing that really affected much.

Lobot, annoyed that the door controls seemed to be broken on his end, sent forth an ugnaught to 'remove' the faulty door until a repairman could arrive. The resulting explosion brought a tear to every ugnaught's eye on the board.

I'm a little fuzzy on the order of the next few events so bear with me. Seeing I was up against a melee-beatstick-heavy squad, I did what any good commander who respects his soldiers would do: construct the Great Wall of Expendable Fodder between myself and the blown-open door. To my dismay, Starkiller's Clone appeared and zapp'd the middle piece and annihilated an ugnaught and 2 rodians, and was then swapped out for the beefier Lord Vader.

This next moment defined the course of the game I'm certain.

Many years ago, Anakin skywalker had sent Durge plummetting into a sun to destroy the formidable Durge. Durge, however, managed to survive thanks to [desperate plot hole filler]. With a mighty roar, the Gen'dai Bounty hunter charged forward, shouting:

"You once cast me into a sun to be burned alive—for 20 years! If that didn't kill me… if the Sith and the Mandalorians and the Bloodboilers of Kragis couldn't kill me—then you can not kill me!"

Vader, shocked and apalled by the re-emergence of the immortal Durge, let his guard down for a moment, and in that moment Durge landed an ever-so-criticital critical upon the Dark Lord. Armed with charging fire from Cad and blast cannon from the Elite Czerka, an 80 damage shot hurdled at Vader, reduced only by his Dark Armour to 70. Durge together with Aurra finished him off in one phase.

Taking advantage of my momentum, my attack continued over the next few turned, where Cad Furious assaulted a ton of basic tech. Mouse droids were harmed in the making of this turn. I believe I even landed 2 crits on those tech pieces, not that it mattered. I sent Bossk on his way down to draw Thrawn out of hiding, and sent Aurra in to deal with Tarkin.

Durge and Cad set off to eliminate Starkiller's Clone, who was still at large. A very good skirmishing game was played by theultrastar here, who managed to drop enough lightning to take down cad, but when Durge and Aurra got in close he was dropped down to 40. Bossk had managed to chase thrawn out but didn't get much damage out.

Finally, I sent in Durge to finish off Starkiller's Clone, who with gambit brought me up to 201(?) points.

I really enjoyed my match against theultrastar, he is a very polite and patient opponent in addition to being a great tactician and dangerous matchup. Good game, sir!

Final Score: 201-72(?) in my favour for a 3-point win

Myself and the amazing Spryguy1981 played our round 4 match yesterday morning (NZ time). A big match for the both of us as the winner was pretty much guaranteed a spot in the semi-finals.

I decided to run something a bit different from my previous Sith beat-stick squads. I went with Seps and the new Durge.

45 Durge, Gen'Dai Bounty Hunter
43 Cad Bane, Bounty Hunter
35 Hondo Ohnaka
33 Aurra Sing, Assassin
15 Ponda Baba, Galactic Criminal
8 R7 Astromech Droid
9 Mouse Droid x3
3 Rodian Brute
9 Ugnaught Demolitionist x3

(200pts. 13 activations)

Spry went with a NR squad based around GMLS!

115 Grand Master Luke Skywalker,
33 Legends Ben
29 Ganner,
8 R7
9 Uggie x3
6 Mouse x2

Spry won map roll and we went with his Smugglers Base map. I decided to let him set up first so that I could try and work out his movement intentions. He took the right and set up at about the mid point. I set up all my guys in the lower area hoping that he'd go straight for gambit and I'd be able to snipe his team from the bottom warehouse area.

First round is just positioning. I move a few scrubs towards the gambit room and my main force towards the warehouse. Spry moves along the middle of the left and gets GMLS into gambit.

Round 2 and I open the right side door of the warehouse hoping spry doesn't see that I can get Hondo to shoot Ganner with Cad coming in to finish him and the R7 off. Unfortunately for me he spots my move and runs the two into safety. After opening a few doors, I take some shots at GMLS knowing it's him I have to be wary of. I think I hit about 80% of my shots at him, but GMLS makes ALL of his LSD saves! I think he takes one hit from Aurra leaving him on 120hp. In between all the shots, he moves Ben and GMLS to the lower left of the Command Center and ends the round there.

Round 3 and I decide to shift my focus to Ben. I run Aurra out the left side of the warehouse and take 2 shots at him, hitting only once and dropping him to 60hp. We have a little scrub fight at the lower door of the Command Center. I lose an Uggie and the Rodian. I forgot about the rule change to MD's where you can move through them and i try to block up the door so no one can get through. GMLS makes his move and stomps over the MD's towards my attacking force using a FP for Master Speed. GMLS attacks Ponda and hits once but rolls a 1 on the twin. Spry decides to keep his FPs for LSD as Ponda, Cad and Durge are yet to activate. Ponda take a shot and hits! Take that 10 damage GMLS! next Durge makes his way to a no cover shot and this is where the magic happens. He crits and GMLS fails his LSD and the re-roll, leaving him with no FPs. Durge's next shot hits and GMLS is now on 20hp. Cad just has to hit one of his shots. Needing 5's, he rolls a 4....... but hits the twin shot and GMLS falls. That's where spry calls the game. End score was 200-33

In the end it was a tough match up for spry. All melee characters with stealth vs a crap-ton of shooters with accurate. Full credit to Matt, he's a great guy and it was a lot of fun to play against him and have a bit of a chat afterwards. Hope we get to play again soon mate!

We are still waiting on a few games to finish, but we now know the top 4 for the LEGENDS Playoff.

#1. shmi15 4-0 10pts
#2. Dr Daman 3-1 9pts
#3. Amadeus 3-1 9pts
#4. scruffyhan 3-1 8pts

Congrats to you guys! It was a really close race at the end to determine who would make it into the playoffs! Looking forward to seeing the playoffs play out!

In the 1st round of the playoffs it will be...
shmi15 vs scruffyhan
Dr Daman vs Amadeus

Official Playoff Pairings

#1 shmi15 vs #4 scruffyhan
#2 Dr Daman vs #3 Amadeus

Last night me and Dr Daman played our game. I might get a play report up eventually once I get through another midterm and some assignments.

Squads were:

Amadeus:
45 Durge, Gen'dai Bounty Hunter
43 Cad Bane, Bounty Hunter
33 Aurra Sing, Assassin
27 Lobot
20 Bossk, Wookie Hunter
17 Elite Czerka Technician
3 Mouse Droid
6 Rodian Brute x2
6 Ugnaught Demolitionist x2

--Lobot Reinforcements--
16 Dr. Evazan, Galactic Criminal
3 Rodian Brute

Dr Daman:

45 Durge, Gen'Dai Bounty Hunter
43 Cad Bane, Bounty Hunter
35 Hondo Ohnaka
33 Aurra Sing, Assassin
15 Ponda Baba, Galactic Criminal
8 R7 Astromech Droid
9 Mouse Droid x3
3 Rodian Brute
9 Ugnaught Demolitionist x3

Synopsis: I was ahead first round, and held gambit for the rest of the game, but it was all downhill after the first round, with a full win for Dr Daman. Fun game, enjoyed playing, and good luck in the final game!

Yeah it seems to be the dominate build in this meta. That and cin dralling/aayla secura and the all fringe hired guns. But the bounty hunters are way more prevalent in this meta especially since sing is so deadly tojedi with that twin charg.not to mention how fun surge is in that squad.

The final, for the Legends Championship comes down to

Dr Daman vs scruffyhan

Good luck to both of you, very much looking forward to the game!

Let us know when you guys will be playing so we can watch!