I noticed the arc colours were different for each faction, but don't know enough about clone wars stuff to relate to the blaster fire. I just assumed they chose the colours just to be different.
I love the design choice of the turbolaser arc lines. Not only thematically, but also stylistically. It's such lovely care and attention to detail. Also helps distinguish the Rebel and Republic Peltas from one another, and perhaps the hopefully inevitable Arquitens as well?
I think this reminded me that first strike advantage in squadron play is really important. That first Quasar turn was total murder (some very good rolls, as well, but 6 dice would be deadly either way). It doesn't necessarily require to be first player, and will depend on positioning and squadron speeds and ranges. Maybe you'd be better off with Ashoka as Officer here? The Arcs have a speed disadvantage, but with Snipe from Ashoka they might still be able to get in an uncontestable first strike against some enemy squadrons, particularly valuable against anything with Counter. Maybe replace her squad with Anakin. (He wouldn't survive such a Sloane onslaught much better, though) Reserve Hangar Decks is always mean with Counter squadrons, especially when boosted with Dengar and Howlrunner. (Though a V-19 + Reseve Hangar Deck combination also has a potential to be annoying. But it lacks the mean streak.)
That's good advice, Dan. I am still playing around with Republic squadrons (my favorite is still Ahsoka / Anakin / Axe / Kickback) and looking for something that works for me. I may have to try a few things out akin to what you suggest. Thanks :) - Ken
Last one for today, did the percentages on this one too. Red blank % after mods: John 18.18% vs Ken 19.05% and Black blank after mods: John 40% vs Ken 37.5%.
I have a lumi list I'd love one of you to run :D Ven2: luminara, adi galli, flight controllers, thermals, flag bridge, ordinance pods, DBY 827 tubos, tranquility and mercy mission Ven1: Barris Offee, ordinance experts, maximum shields, assault concussion, SPAT, DBY 827 turbos and resolute Consular armed crusier: auxiliary shield team, radiants IIV and comms net Y wing anakin, ahsoka , 2 arc 170 and 1 y wing It would be awesome to see this list in action please consider it for a future video :D
I would agree with a quasar increase if it had more than 2 defense tokens and didn't die to a light breeze. Sloane could go up in price and still be a good commander. -John
I was surprised Ken that you did not at least cover your ARC Bombers with at least a couple escorts. Good Game, and Sloan is one Crazy Biaatch! LOL Great game and some crazy shooting by some veteran Imperial Pilots.
The squadron game in Armada is probably the weakest spot for me. I’m working on that though off camera. Things like this I realize after the fact and adjust down the road.
Mark, if you are looking at Turn 4, Dengar did drop a die but got to add it back with Flight Controllers. Everything else looked okay as squadrons did not appear to be at distance 1 of Luminara. Do you have a timestamp? - Ken
@@IONRadio it's my error, I was taking abot the first shot, but hat was by Luninara, so she doesn't affect herself. I must have been distracted during that round 😁👍
@@IONRadio I'm trying to make Sloan lists because I'm not great at making Empire fleets even though I started as an empire player haha. I'm tempted to *clear throat* "borrow" this Sloan fleet, for research purposes of course. Great game, I was really looking forward and had my dreams crushed, rip the GAR. Looking forward to more battles!
Incorrect. "A ship’s shield dials and the plastic portions that frame them count as part of the ship’s base for the purposes of overlapping..." pg 14 RRG.
Glad we could help out as Armada has plenty of rules to remember. We're constantly looking up how many dice Exogorths roll. It's 3 by the way. :) - Ken
Moral of the story, Empire's offence is better than Republic's defense. Sloan provides an easier to use ability than Yularen does. Healing a squad for a few HP has potential to be good, but it's at the cost of using engineering on your own ship, and enemies can mitigate it by focus firing and killing squads off. Sloan has no negative aspect, you either get accuracies or you don't. Yularen might get better with more releases, but for now he's super lackluster. He's probably better as player 1 though, since you would get a better alpha strike with more activations. Pushing 8 squads with you Venator and killing Howlrunner and some others would have been nice.
I would agree that yularen isn't the best. The healing part of him goes against him wanting to command squads. Sloanes negative aspects is wht type of squads can be used. At the time of her release no one was using tie fighters or tie interceptors. It was a world of medium range rhymer and tie bombers and firespray. She was intended to give the classic fighters table time. -John
Hey guys. Thanks for batrep. What I would suggest to test against John Sloan whoop is a SH bunker supported by Peltas projection experts. There is an idea of list which I played recently in Polish regionals. Search Legion Krakow YT channel, you'll see the idea. Cheers guys and have fun.
I’m curious how the interceptors were rolling six dice on anti-squad armament. I recall them having 4 blue anti-squad and a single blue capital-ship attack.
Bearer Of Truth 54, you are correct, TIE Interceptor Squadrons have 4 Blue anti-squadron dice. This is a fun interaction between the TIE Interceptors, Howlrunner (adds 1 die to friendly squadrons with swarm) and Flight Controllers (adds another die when activated).
Just brutal. Flying against Sloane is borderline NPE imho - just too strong with no real way to mitigate the efficiency of what she does (short of killing her/surviving the alpha long enough to kill her squads) but, that puts a lot of constraints on list design options 🤷♂️
Jason, I was trying something out which obviously didn't pan out. Good news is that with more "in-person" play, I'll have more time to put together fleets and test ships without doing so on-camera. - Ken
Although you are correct that in a 400 point game you are only allowed 4 “Aces,” you will find that this is a legal list. John’s fleet only has 4 squadrons with defense tokens (aka “Ace”) - Ken
@@panickingpichu8675 Glad we could help you out. Here is the specific rule under FLEET BUILDING (RRG pg 6.): "A fleet can contain one unique squadron with defense tokens for each 100 points of the agreed fleet-point total." - Ken
@@IONRadio Just my opinion, GAR has to play thermal shields and Spha-T to stay competitive. But, as far as I am concerned, competitivity is not much than a side effect of fun when I play/watch Star wars armada.
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I would like to say it is amazing to see how much both of you have improved over time!
Thanks, redspec01! We’re closing in on 100 battle reports. It will be interesting to see how we do in Season 2!
@@IONRadio I still think that the clone wars fleets are not quite there yet for me, they don’t feel… right yet.
Another wave should round them out better. I agree that there are elements that seem to be missing. This latest wave definitely helped though.
- Ken
I noticed the arc colours were different for each faction, but don't know enough about clone wars stuff to relate to the blaster fire. I just assumed they chose the colours just to be different.
I love the design choice of the turbolaser arc lines. Not only thematically, but also stylistically. It's such lovely care and attention to detail.
Also helps distinguish the Rebel and Republic Peltas from one another, and perhaps the hopefully inevitable Arquitens as well?
I agree, I think it makes a nice difference. I would love to see the zhan Dreadnought for all four factions with such differences as well
That would be cool. Probably be a while though... At least we saw the ship design in Rebels.
Republic Arquitens... :)
i noticed the colors, it's a nice touch of detail i think :-) great battlereport guys, thanks for the good work
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.
Another great performance guys. Always exceeds expectations.
Thank you. :) That means a lot to us Ye old battle strategies.
Great batrep! That Imp fighter alpha strike was insane! They might be squishy but the RHDs and just hitting hard really worked out.
Reserve Hangar Deck is a great way to build a fleet with more than 134 points of squadrons. :)
- Ken
I think this reminded me that first strike advantage in squadron play is really important.
That first Quasar turn was total murder (some very good rolls, as well, but 6 dice would be deadly either way). It doesn't necessarily require to be first player, and will depend on positioning and squadron speeds and ranges. Maybe you'd be better off with Ashoka as Officer here? The Arcs have a speed disadvantage, but with Snipe from Ashoka they might still be able to get in an uncontestable first strike against some enemy squadrons, particularly valuable against anything with Counter. Maybe replace her squad with Anakin. (He wouldn't survive such a Sloane onslaught much better, though)
Reserve Hangar Decks is always mean with Counter squadrons, especially when boosted with Dengar and Howlrunner. (Though a V-19 + Reseve Hangar Deck combination also has a potential to be annoying. But it lacks the mean streak.)
That's good advice, Dan. I am still playing around with Republic squadrons (my favorite is still Ahsoka / Anakin / Axe / Kickback) and looking for something that works for me. I may have to try a few things out akin to what you suggest. Thanks :)
- Ken
Last one for today, did the percentages on this one too. Red blank % after mods: John 18.18% vs Ken 19.05% and Black blank after mods: John 40% vs Ken 37.5%.
I have a lumi list I'd love one of you to run :D
Ven2: luminara, adi galli, flight controllers, thermals, flag bridge, ordinance pods, DBY 827 tubos, tranquility and mercy mission
Ven1: Barris Offee, ordinance experts, maximum shields, assault concussion, SPAT, DBY 827 turbos and resolute
Consular armed crusier: auxiliary shield team, radiants IIV and comms net
Y wing anakin, ahsoka , 2 arc 170 and 1 y wing
It would be awesome to see this list in action please consider it for a future video :D
It’s insane how good the imperial squadrons are. Add in the quasar… it’s a nasty machine. Sloan should be more expensive and so should the quasar.
I would agree with a quasar increase if it had more than 2 defense tokens and didn't die to a light breeze. Sloane could go up in price and still be a good commander. -John
I was surprised Ken that you did not at least cover your ARC Bombers with at least a couple escorts. Good Game, and Sloan is one Crazy Biaatch! LOL Great game and some crazy shooting by some veteran Imperial Pilots.
The squadron game in Armada is probably the weakest spot for me. I’m working on that though off camera. Things like this I realize after the fact and adjust down the road.
I also noticed that when John first countered (with Dengar boost) your V19's that were near Luninara, the shots were not obstructed.
Mark, if you are looking at Turn 4, Dengar did drop a die but got to add it back with Flight Controllers. Everything else looked okay as squadrons did not appear to be at distance 1 of Luminara. Do you have a timestamp?
- Ken
@@IONRadio it's my error, I was taking abot the first shot, but hat was by Luninara, so she doesn't affect herself. I must have been distracted during that round 😁👍
The First Order squadrons look really nice, especially the Upsilion for Jendon
Thanks! I picked it up a few years ago from mels miniatures and fits perfectly into this fight theme. -John
That was brutal. Sloane is my favorite so it was great to see her win, great game guys!
Sloane is also my favorite. Her character is a bad guy with out necessity being evil. But in the game she def is evil. Thanks for watching. -John
@@IONRadio Thanks for the great videos to watch!
Love the reports. Only played a few games so far myself. Love Sloane. Turn 2 at 18:37, John takes the hit from the wrong interceptor.
Had to go and look and good catch. Easy to get lost in the swarm.
what a dice!
Egad! Sloane in John's hands, is a pale horse a comin' ...!
Yeah.... John's best commander by far is Sloane.
Jesus that was brutal
Sloane tends to be either a 10-1 or 1-10. -John
@@IONRadio
I'm trying to make Sloan lists because I'm not great at making Empire fleets even though I started as an empire player haha. I'm tempted to *clear throat* "borrow" this Sloan fleet, for research purposes of course.
Great game, I was really looking forward and had my dreams crushed, rip the GAR. Looking forward to more battles!
When John plays Sloane it is a 10-1 as often as I reroll doubles on my red dice. :)
- Ken
request during the status screens; could you also list the speed and what command tokens each ship has at the end/start of the round?
Quick point: overlapping only matters for the cardboard base, not the shield "bubbles."
Incorrect. "A ship’s shield dials and the plastic portions that frame them count as part of the ship’s base for the purposes of overlapping..." pg 14 RRG.
@@IONRadio I stand corrected!
Glad we could help out as Armada has plenty of rules to remember. We're constantly looking up how many dice Exogorths roll. It's 3 by the way. :)
- Ken
Moral of the story, Empire's offence is better than Republic's defense. Sloan provides an easier to use ability than Yularen does. Healing a squad for a few HP has potential to be good, but it's at the cost of using engineering on your own ship, and enemies can mitigate it by focus firing and killing squads off. Sloan has no negative aspect, you either get accuracies or you don't.
Yularen might get better with more releases, but for now he's super lackluster.
He's probably better as player 1 though, since you would get a better alpha strike with more activations. Pushing 8 squads with you Venator and killing Howlrunner and some others would have been nice.
I would agree that yularen isn't the best. The healing part of him goes against him wanting to command squads. Sloanes negative aspects is wht type of squads can be used. At the time of her release no one was using tie fighters or tie interceptors. It was a world of medium range rhymer and tie bombers and firespray. She was intended to give the classic fighters table time. -John
That black shuttle is beautiful (Krenic? or Kylo?) Where did you get it??
Mel's Miniatures on shapeways, the "Upsilon shuttle."
Haven't watched yet but I bet Sloane massacres.
Hey guys. Thanks for batrep. What I would suggest to test against John Sloan whoop is a SH bunker supported by Peltas projection experts. There is an idea of list which I played recently in Polish regionals. Search Legion Krakow YT channel, you'll see the idea. Cheers guys and have fun.
Nasty TIE/in alpha strike followed by ISD steamroll. Nothing to do against that. Also Sloane is still strong.
I’m curious how the interceptors were rolling six dice on anti-squad armament. I recall them having 4 blue anti-squad and a single blue capital-ship attack.
Bearer Of Truth 54, you are correct, TIE Interceptor Squadrons have 4 Blue anti-squadron dice. This is a fun interaction between the TIE Interceptors, Howlrunner (adds 1 die to friendly squadrons with swarm) and Flight Controllers (adds another die when activated).
@@IONRadio thank you. Now I need to use this in a field of my own.
Just brutal. Flying against Sloane is borderline NPE imho - just too strong with no real way to mitigate the efficiency of what she does (short of killing her/surviving the alpha long enough to kill her squads) but, that puts a lot of constraints on list design options 🤷♂️
I actually have an idea for that. However, it will probably wait until Season 3 or an impromptu "numbered" game.
- Ken
Why XX9 over XI7? You can get more damage through with XI7 which helps when you don’t have a huge battery against high hull ships.
Jason, I was trying something out which obviously didn't pan out. Good news is that with more "in-person" play, I'll have more time to put together fleets and test ships without doing so on-camera.
- Ken
In my opinion Plo Koon is a much stronger squadron commander than Yularen, But hey that's just me.
anyone gonna comment on the imperial list having 5 aces, and therefore being illegal by current rules?
Although you are correct that in a 400 point game you are only allowed 4 “Aces,” you will find that this is a legal list. John’s fleet only has 4 squadrons with defense tokens (aka “Ace”)
- Ken
@@IONRadio !!!! I had no idea the "uniques" without tokens weren't Aces, this changes ALOT in my lists!
@@panickingpichu8675 Glad we could help you out. Here is the specific rule under FLEET BUILDING (RRG pg 6.):
"A fleet can contain one unique squadron with defense tokens for each 100 points of the agreed fleet-point total."
- Ken
the Republic fleet is the weakest of all factions.
I think the accs are pretty good and some of the commanders are very strong. Not a huge fan of their squads tho. -John
@@IONRadio Just my opinion, GAR has to play thermal shields and Spha-T to stay competitive. But, as far as I am concerned, competitivity is not much than a side effect of fun when I play/watch Star wars armada.