I played Ewoks
http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/166903/chicago-2016-regional-winnerBasically the ewoks turn into 30 damamge missiles (+13 for 30) plus swarm with all their bonuses. And the gliders strafe (10/20 on the strafe and 14/30 on the charging attack).
Rd 1 against Mike S and Lord Vader/Boba Swap
I brought in a Hang Glider and regular ewok and borrowed Advantageous from lord vader. Wasn't all that useful.
I roll an early reserves and bring in the disiciple and it is what wins the game for me. 60 damage to Boba and 30 to Vader in just lightning. Boba shut down my strafe options and between triple on Boba and Sweep on Vader, he had cleared out most of the ewoks before succumbing to death.
1-0 3 pts
Rd 2 against Bryan and his Vong
I borrow blast bugs and Yammosk borrowed cunning from Jabba. He had just as much range (even more) with his guys as I did. I had to use my run, swap run some more, then win init to do much damage. I do it, miss an attack on his quedneck allowing it to live (although at 10hp) and he retreats it away. He now has all his warriors up in the gambit zone. Next rd, I use Glider number 2 for the same trick. I start doing some damage to his guys and then probably the turning point of the game his BG dies without making a single avoid defeat save. Then we get into trading. Me setting up ewoks within 12 trying to draw him closer and him blastbugging ewoks like there is no tomorrow. This is about when I roll ozzel reserves and bring in 4 Raxus primes which helps swing the game towards me. We keep on trading, but with more guys to start plus the 4 extra guys from reserves, I steadily use my advantage to whittle him down. In the end, he couldn't quite get to 100.
2-0 6 pts
Rd 3 vs Lillian with Daala and Double sleds
She again has more range since she can run 12 (or 24 with the sleds) and still shoot and has the cannon shots. I have to try and hide Mas and work on trading guys 1 for 1 since we have about the same number of attackers. Basically we dance around for a while trading. Lillian makes a great deep strike taking out Ozzel and my last glider, but because her guys are worth more pts, I end up winning at time 100-68. We had both taken care of most of each others attackers and it would have come down to a commander fight. Would have been an interesting game to finish. I think because I alread had the edge and was controlling gambit, it would have been hard for her to catch back up.
3-0 8 pts
Rd 4 vs Tim and his Mandos
I again bring my same glider and ewok and borrow twin from the Resurrector with Con Artist. We are on Rhen Var and rd 1 is just moving forward. Rd 2 the carnage starts and it doesn't end well for Tim. He uses Boba pretty well to keep my strafing at bay but my ewok missiles just keep smashing in and I keep playing door games to seal it up.
4-0 11pts
Wandered around for a bit and Watched the exciting finish of Jake K and Lillian with Caedus staving off death multiple times with Master Illusion before finally falling as Lillian was nearing both the build total with Gambit and the end of her troopers.
Top 4 was Myself, Lillian, Randy, Bryan (in tiebreaks over Jake K due to HTH).
I get Bryan again and am scared to death. I do the same reinforcements and con artist tricks. Bryan decides to take Ozzels CE with his Yammosk. This doesn't work out as he had hoped. Because I still outactivate him, I can dictate the flow of the game. I use my three gliders to fly and do stuff, his BG lasts longer but still dies on I think its 3rd death. But I keep pushing up and because my ewoks do 30 it only takes 2 hits to kill a warrior. And since I outnumber him (and win init) it is in my favor. I win this matchup again.
Just as we finish up, they come over and say that Randy has won an exciting game ny 7 points with his getting gambit in the last rd the deciding factor. They said that there were only like 6 or 7 total pieces on the board total at the end of the game (maybe one of them can give a report on how that game played out).
Finals vs Randy and his Daala Storm COmmando, Nyna, Diplomats, Luuke, and Triumvirate squad
Very different take as he is using Daala more for the attack boost and not the charging. Nyna gives the storm commandos super stealth and the diplomats provide cover and also can't be attack. I again used my normal Glider and ewok thing and borrowed Ninas extra 10 damage against stealth thing. Of course I roll reserves in rd 1 (Disciple again) which was huge. End of Rd 1, I run a rodian up, swap in the disciple and run him 14. I win init and run around (AoO to Luuke) and use lighting to hit a commando and 2 adjacent Diplomats. I trade my guys for damage on his guys and as I start killing the commandos, I can then take out the diplomats. Game is over in short order.
I basically picked this squad because I thought that with the last 3 regionals being very tanky, people would be trying to play tankbusters and this can handle most tankbusters.
The ewok squad is only good in if the meta is right for it. It is very, very much an extreme squad and if it can't do its thing, it is in deep trouble. In hindsight if Bryan takes swap, it might give him an edge in the matchup although it still might be an uphill battle. Without the Disciple reserves in rd 1, I am not sure I win that match.