Without further ado, let's start with what I flew.
Woo! Great game here. Haha the funny part of this was that I had a SC bye and told the TO to use it if we end up with an odd number of people. Well, we ended up with an even number but someone else used their SC bye. So there we sat.
Hey look! My round 1 bye buddy. Who would have seen that coming? (Everyone. Everyone saw that coming.) So Kurt was flying his own double ISD list, but instead of ISD II's and Motti, he had Cymoons with Vader, 1 less Gozanti, and Ciena/Valen instead of just my Mauler. He ended up deciding to go 1st and chose Most Wanted. Going into this matchup I knew that if I was going to win the slugfest, I would have to minimize the shots being taken at long range and jump to medium quickly. We start placing forces and he sets up well with a good slow-roll route that looks to make it tough for me to avoid a long range volley to start combat. I place Motti on a arcing route to flank Vader and my 2nd ISD to run right down the middle of his with the station in between us. Round 1 starts and he proceeds to slow roll like any Vader Cymoon list should, while I play some janky speed games to toss Motti a bit out ahead of my other ISD. Round 2 we are looking likely to engage, so I slow #2 down to speed one just behind the station and jump Motti to speed 3. After the dust settled, we exchanged shots between Motti and Vader at long range, and my ISD 2 might have gotten off 1 shot as well (I do not remember it being a big deal if it did.) Round 3 was the beginning of the slugfest. My activation advantage worked great here and was able to use SA to allow everything of his to shoot before either ISD of mine moved (To the tragedy of 1 of my Gozanti's. RIP little guy). That meant that both my ISDs would be putting 8 dice into each of his. With Motti and ECM over his Cymoons, I knew I was sitting pretty good now. #2 even managed to land on the station, blocking both vader and his 2nd Cymoon from jumping onto it unless they took it down first. Round 4 started up and we exchanged some brutal shots on each other, but I was inching ahead due to my ECMs. Round 5 came and he was able to take down 1 of my ISDs, but my remaining cleaned up both of his to grant me the table and a 311 point victory. Most Wanted single handedly took that MOV game for me. In the post discussion we agreed that Contested Outpost probably would have been the better choice due to it negating station repairs and would have caused me to want to slow roll as well.
At 27 points I was starting to freak out a little. I now had a good chance of winning this thing. Alas, it was not meant to be as another player managed to 10-1 all 3 games and only lose 109ish MOV the entire day! He took home the trophy and I snagged 2nd at my first ever Armada Regional. What an absolute blast and a big thank you to everyone there. The games were amazing and the people I met even better. Hope to see you all again in the future!
Hey great report. I've been seeing a lot of dual ISD lists around lately. Glad to see you did so well.
Thank ya! I took it solely due to my lack of time to practice and feel I got pretty lucky with it. Switching over to rebels now to give Raddus a good look. Hoping to make Omaha in January.
I wish we got to play. I was the other dual motti.