tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289440118690007822024-03-06T02:34:39.654+01:00Rule 37A Warhammer 40K and X-Wing painting and gaming blogIcareanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313606220318490495noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328944011869000782.post-77356191007082819442016-11-01T20:41:00.000+01:002016-11-01T20:55:25.948+01:00X-Wing Showcase : Gold squadron Y-Wing repaint<h3 style="text-align: center;">
Rule 34 : If you're leaving scorch marks, you need a bigger gun!</h3>
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After my failure at the 2016 French national championship (3 losses out of seven games) I realized that I needed a new list. The swarm is still playable, but you can no longer afford any mistakes and the fickle green dice can always derail the best laid plan.</div>
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With the new X-7 title defenders have almost Soontir like defense and with twice the health they are much less vulnerable to crackshot. They are also very resilient to my main advantage: blocking. I was able to take down shields and leave a few scorch marks, but not destroy them.</div>
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What I needed was a bigger gun, able to reload and go the distance while keeping the same output. In other words, a Y-Wing with twin laser turret!<br />
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Sadly my airbrush air hose was leaking (I guess that's what you get for leaving it lying under the desk for more than a year) so this ship is all brush.<br />
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Main steps are :<br />
-black undercoat<br />
-ceramite white drybrush<br />
-bleached bone dry brush and repaint of the flat surfaces<br />
-bleached bone + ceramite white highlights<br />
-black or bleached bone +black linings<br />
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-Iyanden darksun for the yellow<br />
-ceramite white + P3 yellow ink for highlights<br />
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-Astronomican grey base for the cockpit<br />
-Regal blue glazes for depth<br />
-Mix with ceramite white for highlights<br />
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- ceramite white for the engines<br />
- glazes of Lazer Red Forged Monkey dayglow pigments + gloss varnish<br />
- ceramite white + Lazer Red + gloss varnish highlights<br />
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Not my best work as you can see the drybrush grain at close range, but pretty happy with the results, especially the engine glow. It's also the first model I've painted since the christening of SSD Gabriel last year!<br />
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Contracted Scout, Adaptability, Intelligence Agent, Feedback Array 28<br />
Syndicate Thug, twin laser turret 24<br />
Syndicate Thug, twin laser turret 24<br />
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The scout acts as a watch dog, keeping aces away from his 3 sheep and blocking as necessary.<br />
Being the same PS as the Thugs (most of the time), he usually shoots last, always ready to sacrifice shield or hull to punish any wannabe hero on the other side. With the removal of triple torpedo boats as a top tier list it's a pretty powerful combination of ships.<br />
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So far I'm 10-0 with the list, including a 38 players tournament last week-end. I'm rolling so many red dice that most ship defenses are overwhelmed and for the few that can take it, the feedback array finishes the job. We'll see how it goes when my opponents learn to counter it!<br />
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Time to reload,<br />
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On August 25 2015, the Imperial Navy established an elite school for the top one percent of its pilots. It's purpose was to teach the lost art of space combat and to insure that the handful of men who graduated were the best fighter pilots in the world.</div>
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They Succeeded.</div>
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The Crackshot Academy </h4>
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This is my debrief of the second day swiss.</div>
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<i>- Jet squadron this is Strike. We have an unknown contact. Inbound, Mustang. You're vector zero-nine-zero for bogey.</i><br />
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<i>- Jet 2, you got him? </i><br />
<i>- Roger, I've got radar contact.</i><br />
<i>- I'll get a visual.</i><br />
<i>- He's coming right at us.</i><br />
<i>- Holy shit, there's three of them!</i><br />
<i>- Whoo! Jumpmasters 5000! No one's been this close before.</i><br />
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Game 7!</h3>
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Antoine and his triple toilet seats with Boba, 4-Lom and R4 Agromechs. </div>
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I deployed using my previous plan of attack, one Aca to block the left lane and the rest ready on the right. However I misjudged the engagement and with a 4 forward + barrel roll one of the scouts landed just in front of my blacks.I had to self block 2 of my blacks, while another went to fast to target the lead scouts.<br />
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Antoine played perfectly and took down 2 Ties while I was flailing around with my Ties, unable to concentrate fire enough to take one down but starting to land some serious damage on all 3..<br />
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Another Tie went down, but even with his three ships down to 2 or 3 hull it was not looking good.<br />
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I finally managed to take down a Jumper, loosing my 4th Tie in the process.<br />
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On the next turn I managed to kill my second Jumper, but I also lost both my remaining blacks. The lone academy pilot on full health tried his best to destroy the last Jumper which was down to a single hull point, but to no avail. The large base barrel roll was just to effective to stay out of arc. On the last turn, I did manage a range three engagement through a rock, but the scout manage to remove the aca last hull point.<br />
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Loss 83-99<br />
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I mostly lost that game in the deployment phase. I should have left an aca with the black group to protect them from bumping. The agromech R4s were a big boost to Atoine late game firepower, ensuring full mods on almost every shots.<br />
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<i>- You made a bad choice.</i><br />
<i>- Fighter one performs a split "S"? That's the last thing you should do. That freighter is right on your tail. What were you thinking at this point?</i><br />
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Alain and his Imperial Aces<br />
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Here is the list I remember:<br />
Whisper, Kallus, ACD, VI, FCS<br />
Inquisitor, AT, PTL, V1<br />
Soontir, PTL, AT<br />
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but it's not possible since this is 104pts. Could be Echo and no FCS?<br />
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I cast a pretty wide net, relying on crackshot to help me push some damage through while he advanced cautiously.<br />
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I went slow on the next turn to keep his ships out of range, then fast with a combination of turns and barrel roll to block the inquisitor and whisper who bumped into him. Soontir one shooted a Tie, while Inquisitor + whisper took down another, but with no tokens the combined firepower of 4 blacks and one aca took down Whisper.<br />
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After that it became a block the Soontir game, while the inquisitor ran from the battlefield afraid of the block.<br />
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After a couple of turns of blocking Soontir, he finally escaped on 2 hull, but a lucky cracked shot direct hit took him down and I failed to finish the Inquisitor on time.<br />
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Win 69-42<br />
Every thing went my way but I almost handed him the game because I blocked Soontir several times only to have no Ties in arc to shoot at him. I would have to do better to qualify!<br />
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Game 9</h3>
I'm now 6-2 and every point counts, the organizers announced no IDs on this round so may the best pilot win!<br />
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Gabriel<br />
Boba,adaptability, guidance chips, homing missiles, 4-Lom, extra munitions<br />
Tel, glitterstim, plasma torpedoes, R4, deadeye, guidance chips?<br />
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Going slow with the bottom element, I managed to stay just out of range 3.<br />
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With a 3 hard left plus barrel roll, I blocked Boba in full view of the swarm, savaging him and preventing the use of his missiles. Gabriel made a mistake here and popped glitterstim on Tel thinking I had more arcs on him that I did.<br />
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Sadly I again failed at putting arcs on the ship I blocked and Boba one shooted 2 Ties (3 or 4 hits with 4 Lom...) before I took him down. Tel came back into the fight.<br />
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But he was blocked at every turn, and I took him down for the win.<br />
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100-30<br />
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- Jet squadron. You're a hell of a good squadron. Maybe too good. I'd like to bust you but I can't. I got another problem here. I got to send somebody from this regiment to Jakku. I've got to do something here. I still can't believe it. I got to give you your dream shot. I'm gonna send you up against the best.<br />
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7-2! I'm in the top 8! Stay tuned for my top 8 and 4 games.<br />
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Time to reload,<br />
Ica<br />
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Happy 30th anniversary Top Gun!Icareanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313606220318490495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328944011869000782.post-77666488696168775412016-05-08T14:16:00.000+02:002016-05-08T14:35:43.543+02:00X-Wing : Top 4 at the Jakku Open tournament debrief day 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week-end saw the Jakku Open in Cusset. 110 players battled in the icy rain for the privilege to compete in a very elite 8 players tournament organised by FFG next summer. This is the tale of my top 4 finish with the Crackshot Academy.<br />
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With wave 8 fresh out of the printers and with some very interesting results starting to arrive from big tournaments in the US and elsewhere I knew that 2 lists where currently dominating the meta:<br />
- Palp Aces<br />
- Triple Scouts<br />
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Other more rounded lists have had some good results (5 A-wings, Dash and Ghost, etc), but those 2 were the big elephants in the room that any serious player would need to have answers for. With triple scouts came the demise of the 4 TLT y-wings and more importantly of rebel regen lists. R2D2 will not help you if you take 8 damages in a single turn.<br />
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I knew I did not want to play triple scouts (although I did try a very promising double bumpmaster + Aggressor list) and did not have any experience playing with aces so I went back to my trusty swarm.<br />
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My Worlds list was 5 Blacks with crackshot, Obsidian, Academy. 7 Ties for blocking, 5 crackshots for consistant damage and no Howlrunner so no linchpin and easy target.<br />
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It worked pretty well, I went 6-2 with it, with 2 losses mostly due to pilot error. First loss was against Miranda, stresshog and 3 Z95. Took down the hog in a single turn of shooting then switched target to Miranda instead of finishing it's support first. It lead me in a merry chase while the Zs whittled down my numbers. I could have won with a couple of better rolls, but it was a bad choice. You can see a video of the match : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3l4mpk_PmA (taken from the twitch stream which was a bit buggy)<br />
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Second loss was against Vador, Soontir and a third interceptor. I took down Vador pretty fast, then crited Soontir to PS0 : that was my downfall as I could no longer block him. I was winning right until the last turn where I dialed a bad maneuver and Soontir one shotted a full health black.<br />
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Given the disparition of the ubiquitous PS2 ships in rebel regen and TLT lists I decided to downgrade the Obsidian to an Academy, giving me a 1 pt initiative bid and an additional blocker against Scouts.<br />
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<b>Crackshot Academy:</b><br />
5 Black squadron pilots, crackshot<br />
2 Academy pilots<br />
99pts<br />
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The conditions at the venue where atrocious, with 5 to 10 degrees C inside the tent (except a short while during the early afternoon) and toilets 50 meters away in another building with rain for most of the day. Timing was also short, and you'll see that most of my games went to time. Organizers had a fixed schedule and launched games when most players where still placing rocks.<br />
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<b>First game:</b><br />
Virginie<br />
Zuckuss with title<br />
Slaver with boba and Mangler<br />
Scout with double torpedoes and trimings<br />
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I wanted a pretty dense asteroid field to hinder the slaver and the scout. We both deployed on my left side of the board, her slaver facing inwards.<br />
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Classic advance, except that she got scared of the swarm impact on Zuckuss and barrel rolled him behind the asteroid on the top right after the picture. This left him with no option but a hard left, keeping him out of the fight for several turns.<br />
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My swarm removed the shields from the scouts, loosing a black in the range 3 exchange.<br />
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Closing to range 1, I finished the scout taking a crit in return from the slaver and another from a bad maneuver onto a rock (I self blocked myself on the rock!).<br />
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After that it was a festival of bad maneuvering on my part and it took me 4 or 5 turns to finish the slaver, allowing Zuckuss time to get back into the fight.<br />
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Time was called with Zuckuss left against 4 Ties.<br />
Win 68-45<br />
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I had not flown the list in anger since December and it really showed here, my positioning was bad, I blocked myself on a rock and only won the game because Zuckuss took his time getting to the fight.<br />
I would have to do better to secure a spot on day 2!<br />
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<b>Game 2:</b><br />
Yoanne (100pts)<br />
Vader, VI,X1,ATC, Engine<br />
Soontir, PTL, AT, TC<br />
Inquisitor, PTL, V1, AT<br />
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Triple Aces!<br />
With 7 blockers and 5 crackshots my list should do pretty well against triple aces, especially if I can get some key blocks and concentrate fire.<br />
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Asteroid field was of medium density and we deployed on opposite corners. I deployed on the bottom left as I had better lanes turning right than on the other side turning left.<br />
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I split the swarm to get more blocking options, dangling a juicy black on the top left. I knew that he would not want to joust with the swarm and would veer left or right trying to nibble at my swarm from the edges. He advanced very cautiously which meant that the top left was not in range for a 5 forward + barrel roll block so I decided to pull the bait knowing it was the most probable target.<br />
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Top left did a 1 hard right + BR, and the rest advanced, putting me in a good spot for the next turn.<br />
Soontir dealt a weapon failure to the bait Tie, and Vader was trough a rock at a focused tie so I took minimal damage dealing 1 shield to Vader in return.<br />
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Yoanne correctly anticipated that I would go for the block and went fast with his aces, but that only meant that I had very good shots and he only had the inquisitor firing. Inquisitor dealt no damage while I took 2 shields off the inquisitor (crackshot FTW!).<br />
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Next turn I blocked the inquisitor while vader K-turned and he finally killed his first Tie.<br />
In the following turns I flew pretty badly blocking Vader every turn but denying myself shots in the process. I still managed to take down Vader while loosing 2 more Ties. Last 2 turns saw Soontir pulling off an unexpected K-turn to take down another Academy, and a very tense last turn trying to keep my 12 point lead.<br />
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Win 66-54<br />
I had a good lead that I almost threw away in the last turns thsough some bad flying.<br />
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<b>Game 3</b><br />
Laurent with a classic triple scouts with overclocked R4.<br />
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I placed my asteroids in a tight cluster on my top left to prevent the scouts from starting in that position and shed stress turning left.<br />
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I deployed my Academies on the left and he deployed opposite, taking advantage of the huge open field there. We both advanced cautiously (3 forward for me to prevent a range 3 turn 1 engagement and 1 fwd for him).<br />
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Turn 2 saw a range 2 engagement where I lost 2 Ties to torpedoes while crippling the left most scout.<br />
Turn 3 I finished his crippled scout, taking a crit on a black in return.<br />
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<b>Game 4</b><br />
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Christian<br />
Dengar, title, engine, lone wolf, R5P8,4-lom<br />
Tel, proton torp, extra munition, dead eye, hull upgrade, R4 agromech<br />
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We setup on opposite corners and I had a very nice open lane to the board center.<br />
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I banked toward the center, while he went fast with dengar.<br />
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I slowed down, barrel rolling the lead tie backward to stay out of Tel range. He boosted with Dengar and with a lucky 3 dices attack at range 3 took down the lead Academy. Not a very good start for me, however I'm well positioned for a next turn block.<br />
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My top Tie went 5 forward then barrel roll left to block Tel, while the others just flew in a big blob in front of Dengar who ended up blocked just in range 2 of Tel. With no actions, his fire was ineffective, and with a bit of luck my 4 blacks focused at range 1 of Dengar took him out as pay back for the previous turn one shot (8.4 expected damage including 1.3 crits)!<br />
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After that Tel stood no chance.<br />
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Win 78-24<br />
Pretty much what I expected from this matchup, loose one Tie early to a torpedo + dengar attack, then crippling one and finishing them while denying actions.<br />
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Whatever happens now I'm in for day 2!<br />
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<b>Game 5:</b><br />
Pierre "Futil"<br />
Triple scouts, with boba, 4-Lom proton torps and 1scout only has 1 plasma?<br />
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This time I setup my blacks in front of his scouts, going for the range 1 kill.<br />
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We advanced cautiously on turn 1, with my academies gunning forward to join the fight.<br />
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He made a ballsy move with the plasma scout, gunning 4 forward then barrel rolling to block my blacks, but with self blocking I ended up with 5 blacks at range 1 (one without actions) and I took him down, loosing only one black and 2 damages in return to the torpedoes. The Acas stripped a shield.<br />
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He took down the damaged Tie the next turn, but I also took a few shields from both scouts. With careful damage mitigation, and blocking he was unable to launch another torpedo.<br />
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Win 100-27<br />
In retrospect I made a big mistake during deployment which allowed him to try to go for the block, but he misjudged it a bit and it turned in my favor.<br />
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<b>Game 6:</b><br />
Abel<br />
Omicron, palpatine<br />
Inquisitor, PTL, V1, AT<br />
Whisper, VI, ACD, intel agent, FCS<br />
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Last game was cut short, we only had 60 minutes including deployment due to a software (Tome) crash.<br />
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I'd never played against the phantom post nerf so it was quite and experience. Drawing on my prenerf experience I setup a dense asteroid field to block decloak lanes.<br />
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Sadly no more pictures after this point, but I discovered that it is impossible to prevent whisper post nerf to decloak. I had to split my swarm due to the dense asteroid field, and with only 2 or 3 ties at best able to fire at a focused+palp whisper, your not doing much even if you managed to block his action. I lost badly and fought in the end game just to take the shuttle to half points!<br />
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In retrospect I needed a much thinner rock field to be able to gun for the shuttle if possible and force some hard choices on my opponent part.<br />
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All in all a pretty bad day of flying and I consider myself lucky to have made it to the second day with only 1 loss. I was especially weak in the furball, and I repeatedly blocked my opponents with a big blob of Ties only to have most of my guns facing every which way but the opponent!<br />
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As the 2015 and 2014 French national champion I would like to protest against the new Intentional Draw rule for X-Wing competition. X-Wing is not Magic the Gathering where draws are relatively common and difficult to police, in fact draws are a very rare occurrence. In 30+ tournaments over the last 2 years I have only seen a handful of draws and only 1 occurred during the final round of swiss due to player collusion (it was pretty obvious).</div>
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In my opinion (and that of most French players I've talked to) Intentional Draws make the game less competitive and more easily gameable, rewarding not playing and increasing collusion risk between players. From a competitive stand point, intentional draws make the early rounds of swiss more important which increases the luck factor as early rounds have more random pairings. They also reduce the number of players competing for the cut in the last rounds of the tournament which reduces the overall enjoyment. For most tournament players I know, more games with an interesting stake equals more fun which is the main reason we go to tournaments instead of playing casually.</div>
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If you really worry about stealthy intentional draws, I think it would be much better to remove the incentives to draw in the last round of swiss. For exemple you could just adjust scoring rules in the last turn of swiss to give a modified win to the player with initiative in case of a draw (like in elimination rounds). This would remove any incentive for players to intentionally draw to manipulate scoring in the last round of swiss.</div>
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Icareanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313606220318490495noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328944011869000782.post-66833990845275905792016-02-24T21:06:00.000+01:002016-02-24T21:06:24.985+01:00X-Wing : La boite à Chimères 2016 store championship debriefHello guys,<br />
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A small tournament debrief to hopefully jump start the blog engine again!<br />
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The tournament season is once more upon us so when I saw that La boite à Chimères was organizing a tournament I jumped on the occasion. As usual for me I decided on the list I would play in the car on the way in : brobots or Tie swarm?<br />
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On the one hand I really wanted to test the new Tie-FO, Omega leader and Zeta leader especially, but on the other hand sleep deprivation would probably make playing a 6 ships list a not very enjoyable experience so I choose to fly the aggressors.<br />
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IG88-B, Heavy Laser Cannon , Fire Control System, Veteran Instinct, Inertial Dampeners, Autothrusters 49<br />
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IG88-C, Heavy Laser Cannon, Advance Sensors, Push the limit, Autothrusters 51<br />
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Slightly asymmetric, IG88-B with HLC and FCS is a pretty good ace killer if he can get them in his sights while IG88-C with PTL and AS is more of a brawler, capable of staying in a swarm mist and survive with focus/evade.<br />
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He was playing a Palpatine, HLC, FCS shuttle with 4 blacks with crackshot. Sadly he made a pretty big mistake on the third turn, K-turning his ties in front of the IGs.</div>
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Interesting list, with the stressbot to constrain my moves and 2 aces with better PS to kill my aggressors. Thankfully I was able to kill the Y-Wing on turn 4 without taking a shot from it as he underestimated the speed of the aggressors. After that I managed to block Jake and Poe with a couple of unexpected maneuvers with IG88-B (and dampeners). Jake went first, then Poe.</div>
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I gunned aggressively for the shuttle boosting on the right side of the map, and the first range 3 exchange allowed me to take a shield off Vader while loosing one on IG88-C. I then feinted on turn 4 and hard turned IG88-C left in the middle of the asteroid cluster which allowed me to block Vader and Soontir. Here I probably made a mistake, targetting Vader with IG88-A instead of Soontir (focused HLC shot with gunner FCS versus palp 4 dice evade).I dealt 3 damages which was the best I could hope for with palp in play. With Vader down to one hull, I stalled IG88-C with a one foward forcing another bump for Vader and finished him off with A loosing a couple of shields in exchange on C.</div>
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At that point I had 2 options, either go for the sure kill of the shuttle or try to take down Soontir, knowning that the shuttle was dead meat once Soontir gone. In the end I only took down Soontir to 1 hull while loosing the final shield on IG88-C and a couple on B. Due to random potshots when my IGs had no other targets the shuttle was also at half health and I won 48-25.</div>
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Game 5 : Jarran<br />
Jarran was playing the now classic 4 unhinged TLT ywings list. Aggressors are very advantaged in this matchup with autothrusters to modify every defense roll and boost to get into the range 1 donut hole. I destroyed a ywing every 2 turns while the return fire managed to take a hull off IG88-C and all shields off IG88-B.<br />
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Very interesting tournament and my first without loosing any ship! Flying brobots is a completely different tournament experience from flying the swarm, I usually finished my games well in advance, having time to rest and eat between each game. Having durable ships meant that my firepower stayed the same the whole game, when with the swarm it would decrease with attrition.<br />
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The list is much more vulnerable to loosing a ship though if your opponent can manage it as it then looses any ability to block and shoot an ace. I don't really like the odds of a single IG against Soontir...<br />
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Next tournament in 2 weeks at the Waaagh Tavern.<br />
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Time to reload,<br />
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Sorry for the lack of posts lately, SSD Gabriel came out of the shipyards and that meant relocating to a new space dock so no blogging for a while.<br />
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First I'd like to share a document I created to visualize IG88 possible maneuvers including premaneuver boost:<br />
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This helped me tremendously when I played double IG to estimate the final position of a tricky sloop, or when I was trying to determine wether I should boost before or after a maneuver. The PDF "should" be printer friendly, and is 8 pages long to help turning it into a booklet (with 2 blank pages at the end). You will also find on the last page the most interesting small ship guides from Osoroshii's <a href="https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/110115-earning-your-wings-a-guide-for-understanding-movment/">earning-your-wings-a-guide-for-understanding-movment</a><br />
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The guide is nice but it will not help if you play too recklessly though as I found out at the Nantes regional. Playing a very aggressive game put me in trouble in round 4 against an atypical list of 2 gunner B-Wings and 3 Z95.<br />
My lead IG took 5 damages at range 3 in turn 1 even with autothrusters (2 from 2 Zs and 3 from the Bs), and it went downhill fast as I had no back up plan beside going in gun blazing. I even rolled the 4 eyes dice roll!<br />
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After that I decided to go back to my trusty swarm for the Paris regional where I finished first after swiss (loosing to a Fat Han list in top 16 of all things...) with:<br />
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Howlrunner, PTL<br />
Black squadron, wingman<br />
Black squadron, draw their fire<br />
4 Academies<br />
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I made the mistake of going after the Z95s, which then rolled enough evades to prevent me from dealing more than a couple of damage per turn. I lost that game 100-0!<br />
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Fast forward a couple of months to September, the French national is coming up and I still don't know what to play. On paper double IGs looked really strong, but I'd not been able to make them work for me. I'd failed at the Paris regional with the Howlrunner swarm. What was I to play?<br />
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I played a last minute game with my friend and training partner Kansen the night before, dusting the 8 swarm against Dash/Corran and won, but I'd come to appreciate the Howl rerolls.<br />
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At the last minute, in the registration queue, I finally decided on the classic 8 swarm:<br />
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This is the list that won me last year French nationals, but would it perform in the wave 6 meta?<br />
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Boy was it the right choice! I finished undefeated after 6 rounds of swiss (while facing 5 opponents from the top 16) then managed to win my 4 top 16 games.<br />
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Worlds 2015 here I come!<br />
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PS: For my French speaking readers I have a small analysis of the swarm in wave 7 on the sw-xwing.com forum: <a href="http://www.sw-xwing.com/t4995-La-nu-e-en-vague-7.htm">http://www.sw-xwing.com/t4995-La-nu-e-en-vague-7.htm</a><br />
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PS2 : If you read the blog and would like to meet me, I'll be the guy in the blue hoodie with ICAREANE on the back!Icareanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313606220318490495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328944011869000782.post-54752331086184807212015-04-14T22:51:00.001+02:002015-04-14T22:54:23.811+02:00Armada tutorial : painting Red Squadron X-Wings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This article will cover how I painted the X-Wings from Armada core set. I decided early on on a high contrast/high saturation approach to keep them interesting at 1 meter (gaming range).<br />
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For the laser canon pin replacement, you can check my previous article <a href="http://www.rule37.net/2015/04/armada-first-x-wing-painted-and-laser.html">here.</a><br />
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First you will need to prepare the models, I suggest removing the flash around the nose with an x-acto and clearing the mold line on the top wings (x-acto then small file). I failed to do it properly and had to clean it again half way trough.<br />
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I started with a black undercoat then a general airbrushed coat of white insisting on the top, to give a natural gradient (light grey on top, darker grey on the bottom). After this step, you may see a few imperfections in your cleaning or due to the pin replacements. You should clean them now.<br />
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Color used (Games Workshop):<br />
Astronomican grey<br />
Ceramite White<br />
Enchanted blue<br />
Iyanden darksun<br />
Mephiston red<br />
Chaos black<br />
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Next I defined the volumes, first painting the shape of the canopy with a grey blue (a mix of astronomican grey and a drop of enchanted blue), then painting the engines (top and bottom) with very diluted dark grey (chaos black with a drop of codex grey).<br />
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I then hand shaded the model, painting a fine line of dark grey around most features : gun mounts, astromech, engines, wing roots. Afterwards, don't hesitate to go back and correct mistakes on the next steps with light grey/white.<br />
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Nose: Draw a small line across the nose about 1.5mm from the tip, going down the sides angled toward the rear.<br />
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Engines: Draw a grey line about halfway across the engines, then paint the intakes black.<br />
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Guns: Draw a black line halfway across each gun, then paint a small gradient (dark at the rear of the ship and white at the front) on all 8 sections.<br />
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Engine cowlings: first start by drawing 2 parallel lines around each cowling, separating it into 3 sections. Then draw 2 additional parallel lines starting at the first line around the cowling.<br />
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Cockpit 1: paint the glass areas of the canopy black (don't worry here about small mistakes, they will be covered in the next step). Here to keep my sanity I decided to simplify the cockpit and regroup the 2 side panels in a single zone.<br />
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Cockpit 2: with a blue grey (mix of enchanted blue and astronomican grey), trace the canopy frame, a thin line around the glass panels and a thin line between the 2 top panels.<br />
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Cockpit 3 (optional step): using pure black well thinned, paint a very thin line at the limit between the canopy frame and the white skin. Pro tip : use a good brush with a point tip such as a martre kolinsky Raphael 8404, keep only a small amount of paint on the brush and try first on a sheet of paper or the back of your hand. If you made a mistake, no worries, come back with the correct color to thin the line.<br />
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Technical area: using dark grey, paint a rectangle behind the astromech to the end of the craft, leaving a thin white line between it and the engines.<br />
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Engines (optional): using a mix of codex grey and black lighter than the engines, draw thin lines from the front to the rear, starting at the ring you painted at mid point. I chose to do this at this point to give me an easy task and relax a bit before the next step.<br />
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Engine intakes : using thinned white, draw a first line parallel to the wing across each intake. Clean the line with chaos black. Finally draw another line perpendicular to the first one, starting at the middle of the first one and going toward the exterior of the craft.<br />
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For the following steps, I recommend using 2 brushes and 2 water pots, to keep the red from turning your white pink. Use one brush to paint the red, and another to paint the white and grey corrections.<br />
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Nose line: using mephiston red, paint the red lines on each side of the nose, correct as needed with grey on the bottom and white on top.<br />
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Nose shading: using diluted light grey, paint a grey gradient on the side panel from the red stripe (white) toward the top the nose (grey) . You can check the next picture for reference (see the port side of the nose), the grey is painted on, not a natural shadow.<br />
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Squadron markings: using mephiston red, start painting a rectangle on each wing, covering about a half of the width and a third in length. Then paint a small line parallel to the back of the wing from the rectangle toward the engines.<br />
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To paint the number stripes, I used 2 methods.<br />
For number 1 to 6, I painted the stripes directly as very thin lines.<br />
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For number 12, I first painted 2 thin parallel red lines (see picture above) leaving a very thin white line in between, then 5 white perpendicular lines to create the 12 stripes. Number 7 to 11 used a mix of the 2 methods.<br />
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Individual markings : using movie references, I painted the yellow markings with Iyanden darksun + ceramite white.<br />
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Engine glow : I first painted the engine exhausts using a mix of lazer red and ultra violet dayglow pigments + acrylic medium, then highlighted the middle with white.<br />
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Astromechs: it's a bit hard to see, but the R2 mechs received first an enchanted blue coat, then a small white dot on top, then an even smaller blue dot on top in the middle of the white dot (not yet done in the picture above)<br />
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<br />Icareanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313606220318490495noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328944011869000782.post-21416554950385126382015-04-11T01:02:00.000+02:002015-04-11T01:02:37.580+02:00Armada : X-Wing half-squadron paintedHello guys, just a quick post to show you my progress on Red squadron.<br />
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It's been a bit hard to find reference photos so I've been watching and rewatching A New Hope, pausing frantically and taking screen shots! Modellers magic is a good ressource but it's still hard to get a good idea of all ships.<br />
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I just got my copy of Armada last week and I could not wait to see what I could do with the fighters.<br />
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At around 14 mm long the X-Wings are about 1/3rd the size of X-Wing miniatures X-Wings and of course much less detailed. However with a bit of detailing and freehand you can get a pretty convincing result.<br />
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To start I did not like the stubby canons on the stock models so I decided to replace them with pins.<br />
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First I cut the barrels of the canons at the base, cleaning the model to get a nice flat surface. My pins are 0.6mm in diameter so I needed to carefully drill a hole in each gun mount to get a solid fit.</div>
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I tried with several small hobby drills (from 0.5mm to 0.7mm) but could not get good results (the head did not bite) until I switched to my best small drill which is 0.8mm in diameter. This is the largest you will be able to use on the gun mounts.</div>
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I drilled in 2 passes, first a small guide hole:</div>
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Finally I cut the pins to size. You want the guns to extend about 5 mm, so you need about 7 mm of pin.<br />
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Of course for my first model had to be Red 5, Luke Skywalker fighter in A New Hope as I already painted it for <a href="http://www.rule37.net/2014/05/showcase-luke-skywalker-red-5-x-wing.html">X-Wing</a>. Sorry for pictures, but it's really hard to photograph such small models!<br />
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After wave 5 came out, I let my trusty swarm on the shelf in favor of the new hotness : Decimators and YTs. I've only been playing for about a year now and almost only played the Tie swarm from my first tournament in March 2014 to Worlds, so playing the big pancakes was a pretty nice change in gameplay. </div>
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I've tried Fat Han+3 bandits, Kenkirk+Echo, and finally Oicunn + Whisper with pretty loopsided kill ratios. However I read Hothie <a href="http://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/134251-my-evolving-the-shark-series/">Evolving the shark</a> series saturday morning and that inspired me to take out the swarm for the Waaagh Tavern monthly tournament.</div>
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Can the Tie swarm still play with the big boys?<br />
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I decided to take Hothie's classic Tie swarm:<br />
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Howlrunner<br />
Backstabber<br />
Black squadron, draw there fire<br />
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Academy<br />
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to see if it would work for me. The list is flown in 2 groups with 2 Obsidians + Backstabber on one side and Howlrunner leading the rest. This is really similar to how I usually fly my 8 Tie swarm so I was pretty confident I could make it work but I was more worried about Howl survival.<br />
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It was a small 14 players tournament with 4 swiss rounds.<br />
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Game 1:</h2>
My first opponent was Petit Batard with a standard Super Dash list:<br />
Dash Rendar, Kyle, heavy laser canon, outrider title, engine upgrade, push the limit<br />
Prototype, refit<br />
Prototype, refit<br />
Bandit<br />
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A very good list in my opinion if you can keep Dash at range 2+ of his targets.<br />
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I played my asteroids defensively, trying to prevent him from forming a 3 debris cluster in the middle of the board for Dash and deployed my swarm on the right hand corner where I would have the biggest lanes for my group.<br />
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He deployed in a large line, trying to flank me with either Dash or the prototypes.<br />
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I moved Howl group 2 forward to see whether Dash would rush in and moved 5 forward with Backstabber group, creating a staggered formation.<br />
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Dash moved very aggressively, pushing the limit for boost+ barrel roll.<br />
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At that point my choice was made for me: by moving so aggressively with Dash, Petit Batard gave me the opportunity to swarm Dash and try to take him out of the game fast. I moved left with all the swarm, trying to get Dash in arc of most ships and setting up block opportunities.<br />
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In the fire exchange I lost Howl while Backstabber and an obsidian managed to take down a prototype, and a lucky shot from the black removed 2 shields to Dash.<br />
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After that I swarmed his potential green moves (and even some whites), by parking Ties in front. He guessed wrong with a 3 white bank and collided with the black squadron.<br />
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Backstabber bought it this turn, but with no actions for Dash defense, my 5 Ties did a whooping 6 damages, destroying Dash HLC.<br />
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I blocked him again on the next turn and destroyed him with short range firepower. After that we went to time with my 5 Ties to his prototype and Bandit.<br />
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First win for the swarm! Take that meta!<br />
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Game 2:</h2>
My second opponent Da Dieg was flying an interesting double Decimator list:<br />
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Oicunn, Isard, Mara Jade, determination<br />
Kenkirk, predator, rebel captive<br />
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I was not to worried about that pairing as Tie fighters should chew through Decimators with ease, but I flew really badly and it was a lot closer than it should have been with only Howlrunner, the Black and an Obsidian left at the end of the game after taking down Oicunn.<br />
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I made several mistakes in that game :<br />
1) I blocked Oicunn with the AP, when I should have stayed at range on the engagement turn. This meant one less gun, and a stressed pilot for the next round.<br />
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2) I should have relied on Howlrunner rerolls and set up chain blocks on engagement turn 2 to keep my guns on Oicunn, instead I played into his hand and let my swarm be stressed and having to change targets.<br />
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The list differential carried the day though and I won.<br />
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My opponent for game 3 was Cornelius from my gaming club and one of my usual sparring partners.<br />
He was playing a list we discussed before, with me trying to convince him to use engine upgrades:<br />
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Chewbacca, C3P0, predator, Millenium Falcon title, engine upgrade<br />
Fringer, HLC, title, engine upgrade<br />
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I knew that I could probably stay in the fringer donut hole in the end game with my superior PS Ties, so I went all in on Chewbacca in the early game. As I feared, he used the engine upgrade to great effect, preventing a lot of shots early on, but made a crucial mistake and landed Chewie on a rock by 2 or 3 millimeters after a 4 forward and I took him down on the next turn.<br />
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The game ended with the fringer on 1 hull and I got a minor victory with my 4 remaining Ties. It was my closest game of the tournament and would have changed completely had Chewie managed to bypass that rock : 60 minutes rounds are hard for the swarm in this matchup.<br />
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Pelayo with :<br />
Chiraneau, gunner, Isard, predator, rebel captive<br />
Echo, VI, mercenary copilot, ACD, FCS<br />
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Following a suggestion by Hothie in his articles, I placed the asteroids in a loose basket, creating an enticing empty area in the middle of the board, hopefully to lure Echo and constrain his decloak options.<br />
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Chiraneau did not have engine upgrade so was a prime target for the swarm early on and I hoped to have enough ships left after that to deal with Echo.<br />
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He was unlucky with his attack rolls and failed to destroy a Tie only dealing 2 damages.<br />
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On the next turn I blocked Chiraneau on the rock and finished him. Echo barrel rolled to escape some fire arcs and again only dealt 1 damage having switched targets.<br />
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Next you can see how I blocked 2 of his decloak lanes, which meant that constrained by the board edge he only had 2 options left : either right front or front left.<br />
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Howl had initiative and removed 1 shield, and again with no action Echo only dealt one damage while the 3 other Ties finished him for the win (2 consistent hits versus 4 unmodified green dices are not that bad but he did roll slightly below average ).<br />
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If you're playing Echo : at this point you need to be conservative, you need at all cost to only skirt the swarm in order to keep a maximum of decloak options. Obviously for that the board edge is bad, constraining your moves.but remember that you don't have to fire every turn, and always keep in mind that you can extend and escape to return to the fray in a better position.<br />
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4-0 for the Tie swarm!<br />
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The swarm does suffer a bit against the highly maneuverable ships of wave 5, but blocking and focus fire will carry the day. Keep to the fundamentals and you should be okay.<br />
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Hope you enjoyed that report, time to reload,<br />
Ica<br />
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You can see more pictures of the finished model here : <a href="http://www.rule37.net/2014/09/x-wing-showcase-anakin-jedi-interceptor.html">http://www.rule37.net/2014/09/x-wing-showcase-anakin-jedi-interceptor.html</a><br />
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And my analysis of the raw material here : <a href="http://www.rule37.net/2014/09/3d-printing-future-of-miniature-gaming.html">http://www.rule37.net/2014/09/3d-printing-future-of-miniature-gaming.html</a><br />
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First I started by drilling a hole 6mm wide underneath to accomodate the ring magnet I used :<br />
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As you can see on the next picture the printing process leaves distinct straight lines:<br />
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Which I cleaned up like regular mould lines with an X-Acto:<br />
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To give me a better sense of the model, I blocked the canopy in black.</div>
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The front panels are flat and lack the distinctive armor panels of the ETA 2, so I started to free hand those, first painting the edges.<br />
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Then once the shapes were in, I blocked the panels in yellow.<br />
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The rear exhaust trails where made with heat thinned transparent rod, painted with white and a transparent blue.</div>
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IcaIcareanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313606220318490495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328944011869000782.post-80520422345802727682014-12-26T23:33:00.000+01:002014-12-26T23:33:10.630+01:00Tutorial : Ultramarine blueOver the years I have had a few people asking how I get my shade of blue for the Ultramarines.<br />
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This article will be a quick and dirty tutorial for that (sorry for the blurry pictures).<br />
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Hansa Procolor :<br />
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- White<br />
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Prince August :<br />
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- Enchanted Blue<br />
- Black Undercoat<br />
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Prime the models black.<br />
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Start with a zenithal white highlight on the models (airbrush is on top, spraying down):<br />
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The black should still show through in the areas you want to keep dark and the lightest part of the model should be almost white.<br />
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Next spray the Pro-color Ultramarine blue (airbrush should generally be below the model and the spray should keep to the darkest areas), this is more a tint than a coat.<br />
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Go back with white and rehighlight the focal points.<br />
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Finally give the whole model a coat of Prince August transparent blue (optional : mix a bit of Games-Worshop enchanted blue).<br />
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Finish by lining with necron abyss + black and edge highlighting with space wolf grey + transparent blue.<br />
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If you need to go back with a brush on the mid tones, you can mix something with enchanted blue + necron abyss and transparent blue.<br />
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Hope that was useful!<br />
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When I saw the wave 5 ships, I just knew I needed to repaint the Decimator. With it's sleek lines, aggressive angles and overall badassness it just begged for a good paint job.</div>
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There is not a lot of reference material out there, most pictures I could find showed it either grey or metallic grey so I went with a pretty simple imperial grey on the whole model, using color modulation to give it depth.<br />
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Engines were orange in reference pictures so I used the same colors as on the B-Wings.<br />
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To give it a focal point and a touch of color the cockpit windows were painted with a dark red tint, matching the cockpit on my lambda shuttle.<br />
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All in all it took me about 10 to 12 hours to repaint.<br />
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I'm still on blogger though, so ultimately everything should be the same for you, as the old blogspot address should redirect to the new domain name.<br />
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What can you expect in the future?<br />
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- day 2 of the X-Wing Worlds Championship<br />
- a showcase of my next projet : the VT-49 Decimator<br />
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Long term:<br />
- I'll eventually finish the Death Star trench table, so you'll see a couple of posts about that<br />
- More battle reports (I've been trying large base ships: YTs and Decimators and they rock!)<br />
- More repaints<br />
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<br />Icareanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313606220318490495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328944011869000782.post-48296239247993424772014-12-12T08:53:00.000+01:002014-12-12T21:20:05.475+01:00X-Wing World Championship 2014 debrief : part 3<h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Game 3 : Robert Thomas 2Bs and 2Ys</h2>
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Gold squadron with ion turret and R5</div>
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Like MrFroggies list, this list was heavy in hitpoints but low on agility. With mostly PS2, they would not arc dodge me so the swarm should do fine.</div>
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Robert deployed facing the center and I deployed to meet him in the middle.</div>
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I was expecting him to turn between the top leftmost asteroids, because otherwise I would get free shots on his flank but he temporised one turn too many. It left Jet 6 in a bad position (no place to bank because of the asteroid just in front), but gave me a couple of free shots.<br />
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He finally turned and my obsidians flanked him while the academies took position to block him on the next turn.<br />
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The lead B-Wing was taken down to 2 hulls in the exchange while I lost a hull or two due to the range.<br />
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I finished the B-Wings first and after that it was just mopping up as the Ys don't have the necessary firepower to take down Ties.<br />
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In the end I lost 2 ( maybe 3) Ties before finishing him.<br />
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Game 4 : Jeff and his YT+HWK</h2>
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Chewie, concussion missile, R2D2, C3P0, predator, millenium falcon title, hull upgrade<br />
Jan Ors, recon spec, moldy crow, blaster turret, stealth device, squad leader.<br />
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On paper it is a very favorable matchup for me but I totally misplayed the first engagement.<br />
Jeff build can really lay down the hurt with his first opening shot of 5 dice concussion missile with predator reroll and focus. but after that its just a falcon with 4 attack dice if Jan Ors is alive.<br />
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He played his 2 ships in a queue, with Chewie moving then Jan Ors moving to occupy the space that Chewie jsut left to prevent me from blocking her.<br />
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I took her down in the next turn, loosing a couple of Ties, then came the boring chase of Chewie with my remaining Ties. He managed to whittle them down to 4 before being destroyed.<br />
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Jeff played beautifully in the face of a bad matchup.<br />
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Game 6 : Kinetic Operator and his 3 Phantoms list</h2>
Aaron played:<br />
Echo, veteran instincts, rebel captive, advanced cloacking device, sensor jammer<br />
2 Sigma squadrons, stygium particule accelerator, intelligence agent, enhanced scopes.<br />
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Falcons to the left of them,<br />
Falcons to the right of them,<br />
Phantoms! in front of them,<br />
Volley'd and thunder'd;<br />
Storm'd at with shot and shell,<br />
Boldly they rode and well,<br />
Into the jaws of Death,<br />
Into the mouth of Hell<br />
Aaron is well known in the X-Wing community for his skills with Echo and his unconventional builds. He did not disappoint for worlds! That list is nasty in the right hands and he flew it perfectly.<br />
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As I told you in the part 2, the only ship I really feared was Echo. He is so unpredictable that he is impossible to block with the swarm and can take it on by himself. Well, it's going to be an uphill battle but let's do my best!<br />
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Aaron deployed his ships in front of mine:<br />
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His sigmas move before me due to enhanced scopes but fire before me (he got initiative), so I'm pretty sure his plan his to gun it forward (so with decloak a 7 forward), do as much damage with the sigmas as he can and finish me with Echo. So I devised a pretty devious plan : I'm going to advance as much as possible with the left Ties and turn left with the right ties to deny shots to his right sigma.<br />
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I think my tiredness was starting to show (the game was at 3AM Paris time), because even then I made a mistake with the 2 front left Ties : I moved 4 or 5 forward to allow Jet 2 and 3 to get actions. What I should have down was either bank left, or (more risky) K-turn. This took them out of the game for a couple of turns. But my plan worked! right sigma has no target!<br />
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Disaster! The dice are not with me and the 2 phantoms with targets proceed to one shot a Fighter each, while my return fire does nothing. One shot odds in this configuration are around 30% dropping to less than 10% for both so its definitely possible. I should have evaded as its the best defense against 5 attack dices.<br />
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After that severe blow, the jetlag got the better of me and I played really poorly. Landing on a rock and bumping my own ships. (Look at Jet 2 and Jet 4...)<br />
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I think in the whole game I managed to strip 2 shields of his sigmas!<br />
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I finished day 1 with a 4-2 record and a 31th place. Not really glorious, with 2 disastrous games but not that bad all considered. The level of play was incredible and I learned a lot!<br />
My list was good considering the rest of the meta, maybe a bit hard to play when tired, but at the time it was the only list I was really confident in.<br />
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I did make the supplemental list for day 2, so stay tuned for more swarmy goodness!<br />
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Time to reload,<br />
Ica<br />
<br />Icareanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313606220318490495noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328944011869000782.post-6939548802592918252014-12-08T20:28:00.000+01:002014-12-08T20:28:19.244+01:00X-Wing World Championship 2014 debrief : part 2It's day one at FFG X-Wing World Championship and I've come here to eat bananas and kick ass ... and I'm all out of bananas. Cause it's illegal to import bananas to the US and well, they don't joke with those things at Dulles Airport Customs. So let's kick some ass!<br />
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<a href="http://rule37-ica-fr.blogspot.fr/2014/12/x-wing-world-championship-2014-debrief.html">Article en Français</a><br />
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I've decided to go to worlds with my trusty 4 academies, 4 obsidian swarm for 2 reasons:<br />
1) After some testing, the only builds I really fear are Echo builds and I'm not expecting to see many at Worlds. I've done okay against Whisper builds (50-50 odds), as I'm usually able to block them with my numbers so the hardest matches will probably be mirror matches.<br />
2) For such an event and with the jetlag involved you should go with the build you've practiced the most. Never change your list at the last minute!<br />
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Due to my national win I got a bye in the first round so I got to roam around, and watch a few games.<br />
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Game 2 : MrFroggies</h2>
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And we're up! Game 2 is against none other than MrFroggies! A big name for the first game, I need to hit the field running. He is running 3 Blues with tactician and a gold with ion turret and R3A2.<br />
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This is a great control list and MrFroggies is going to carry it to the top 32. But if I play correctly I should be okay as with only 1 defense dice B-Wings ans Y-Wings are easy targets for Tie fighters.<br />
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I put my rocks in the corners and MrFroggies clumps his in the middle of the board to disrupt my formation. I deploy my Ties in 2 groups to flank his formation if he goes in the middle.<br />
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He goes left to use the rock formation and I reform my Ties to attack!<br />
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He told me later that he was hoping that the rocks would disrupt me more, but after my moves he only has 1 choice left. turn right and channel himself in the rocks where I would be able to block him using the academies.<br />
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The lead B-Wing is destroyed and I only loose 1 Tie in the exchange with another ioned. This actually helped as it allowed that Tie to do a 1 forward!<br />
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Next turn I know that he's not going to be able to evade my swarm with all 3 ships so I let the lead B go and concentrate on the stragglers.<br />
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Going for the firepower I take down another B.<br />
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The Y tries to escape but also buys it and I finish the last B shortly after that.<br />
MrFroggies was a great opponent and I'm really happy to have met him.<br />
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1 win, 3 left!<br />
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Game 3 : Dustin and his Tie swarm.</h2>
Dustin was playing a pretty good list with<br />
OGP+ enhanced scopes<br />
Holwrunner<br />
5 academies<br />
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So PS0 blocking and some nice firepower.<br />
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Alright I totally misplayed that game. The asteroid field was great for me, forcing Dustin to go through it while giving me lots of room to maneuver. But I took the bait and went for the shuttle instead of going for the swarm. I thought I could get a few shots in on the shuttle when my range 3 shots are not really effective on Ties, then turn right for the brawl.<br />
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That plan was not bad, I just needed to weather a round of long range shooting, hopefully doing some damage in return and swing my swarm right. However what happened is that Dustin 5 academies took down 2 of mine (hit and direct hit twice!), while I only stripped 3 shields from the shuttle.<br />
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- Freeze frame. A moment of choice.<br />
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- The swarm is defensive. I have a chance to get back in the game right here. Better turn right and face the swarm than push a bad position.<br />
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With a heavy feeling of doom, I picked up my dials and planned my next move.Things were bad, but if I could defeat the ties, even a lonely academy could probably defeat the shuttle in the endgame.<br />
There I had 2 choices with the left obsidians and I really picked the worse one, as it spread my firepower. Jet 4 K-turned behind the shuttle, while Jet 3 tried to cross the asteroid and got blocked on it. What I should have done was take a hard 1 right with 3 and 4, bank Jet 2 behind and hard 2 Jet 1.<br />
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Instead what happened is that even with some luck on my side I lost another 2 ties, taking 2 of his in return. My swarm cannot withstand firepower of this magnitude!<br />
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After that I just played really poorly while Dustin mopped me up. I landed on an asteroid at least once, and just generally failed to do anything right.<br />
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2-1 with 3 games left, I need to pull my shit together for the last 3 games, solid play may still carry the day!<br />
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Time to reload,<br />
Ica<br />
<br />Icareanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313606220318490495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328944011869000782.post-66123986043869405552014-12-01T21:48:00.000+01:002014-12-01T22:06:35.789+01:00X-Wing Showcase : Dagger squadron B-Wing with folding foilsFor my latest repaint, I was a bit late for my club monthly painting challenge (read : I still had not painted anything on the evening of the last day...) so I decided it was the right time to try a new B-Wing mod : folding S-Foils. Nothing like trying something new and superfluous when you're short on time!<br />
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I think it turned out OK, but not as good as I would have liked, the port wing especially is a bit crooked when folded.<br />
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Lock S-Foils in attack position!<br />
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If you've seen a lot of B-Wings, something should be strange by now. Try to find it or scroll to see the answer.<br />
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I used exactly the same techniques as on my first B-Wing for the rotating cockpit and paintjob, you can find the tutorial <a href="http://rule37-ica.blogspot.com/2014/03/step-by-step-dagger-squadron-b-wing.html">here</a>.</div>
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It's just that when I glued the wing back on, I glued the wing inverted! I'm so used to my other B-Wing that is inverted that I glued the wings with the same side up only realizing my mistake when I had to paint the squadron markings. If you try the mod, don't make the same mistake!</div>
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- superglue</div>
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- a thin paperclip</div>
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- a sharp x-acto</div>
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- a hand drill of the diameter of your paper clip</div>
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Here is what you're aiming for:</div>
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First remove the bottom wing ( try to wiggle it off the main peg, applying pressure alternatively on either side, you should hear a small crack when the glue breaks, then just pry it off).<br />
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Next remove the foils, they form a single wing.<br />
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Now's the hard part: using your X-Acto, make 2 cuts on each wing to separate them from the central core (forgot to take pictures, so this where to make the cuts, just imagine that the wing is separated):<br />
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When the wings are cut, drill a hole in the wing for the paper clip :<br />
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And 2 corresponding holes in the core of the wing:</div>
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Now take the paper clip, cut to size, bend it and glue:<br />
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Here is the finished model with my original (notice that the wings have the same side up...):<br />
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I was a bit pressed for time and did not strip the paint, now that the model is painted it definitely shows, especially around the cockpit and the engine where the original model had a heavy coat.<br />
It was not necessary on the lambda, but it really makes a difference for the smaller ships.<br />
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Time to reload,<br />
Ica<br />
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Public Service Announcement : for my Parisian readers, there are 2 tournaments coming soon.<br />
1) The Paris Open on the 6th of December 2014: <a href="http://www.tabletoptournaments.net/fr/t3_tournament.php?tid=13405">registration</a> and <a href="http://www.sw-xwing.com/t3186-paris-06-12-14-open-waaaagh.htm">info</a><br />
2) Uchronies games tournament on the 14th of December 2014 (full already) : <a href="http://www.sw-xwing.com/t3168-Uchronies-Paris-Tournoi-X-wing-Dimanche-14-D-cembre.htm">info</a>Icareanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313606220318490495noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328944011869000782.post-50284056938186228032014-11-26T23:17:00.002+01:002014-11-26T23:17:39.391+01:00X-Wing World Championship 2014 debrief : part 1Where to start?<br />
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That week in the US was simply my best tournament experience ever. Thanks to my win at the French X-Wing national championship, Edge flew me to Minneapolis where I got to sample the great hospitality of FFG for the X-Wing world championship.<br />
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<a href="http://rule37-ica-fr.blogspot.fr/2014/11/x-wing-world-championship-2014-debrief.html">Article en Français</a><br />
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This is what I saw on landing in St Paul airport:<br />
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Those Midwest guys really have their minds in the right place!</div>
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As they say, in the US everything is bigger and shinier and the FFG game center is absolutely an exemple of that:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The game center entrance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Welcoming area with its own restaurant, look at that gorgeous painting on the wall!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first gaming area</td></tr>
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Over the course of 5 days I got to play 19 games of X-Wing, most of those against top level X-Wing players, ate more food than is probably healthy, made lots of friends and got to discuss and put a face on many of the big X-Wing internet names.<br />
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Here is a picture of one of my best games of the week-end:<br />
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Keith the British champion, Nick the German champion and me (taking the picture) are playing furball with Max, Jonathan and Alex "I'm all out of bubblegum" Davy on Sunday. We'd start a game and randomly add more players whose only fault was to stand to close to the table, then just start a new game when only one ship was left flying.<br />
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Public service announcement:<br />
For my French and Belgian readers, I'd like to draw your attention to the OPEN tournaments:<br />
as described by <a href="http://www.sw-xwing.com/t3106-un-open-mais-c-est-quoi.htm">Aerion</a> (in French), the OPEN tournaments are a way to bridge the end of the 2014 season and the beginning of the 2015 one.<br />
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2 dates have been anounced:<br /><br /> - Saturday 29/11 in <a href="http://www.sw-xwing.com/t3105-Tours-29-Novembre-EN-CONSTRUCTIONS.htm">Tours</a>, <a href="http://www.sw-xwing.com/t3109-Mons-29-Novembre.htm">Mons</a> and <a href="http://www.sw-xwing.com/t3119-Bourgoin-Jallieu-29-11-2014-Open-R2A.htm">Bourgoin-Jallieu</a><br /><br /> - Saturday 06/12 in <a href="http://www.sw-xwing.com/t3186-paris-06-12-14-open-waaaagh.htm">Paris</a><br /><br />You can register on the <a href="http://www.tabletoptournaments.net/">T3</a> website, used by many X-Wing tournaments in Europe.<br /><br />If you're free and close to one of those tournaments, register and go play, you will not be disappointed!<br /><br />Personally I'll be at the 6th of December tournament in Paris, so even if you don't want to participate, don't hesitate to come and discover the tournament community.<br />
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This article is going to be the first in a small serie debriefing my world experience, stay tuned for more.<br />
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Apparently my win at the French X-Wing Nationals inspired some people, so I got a taste of my own medicine!</div>
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Game 3, PurpleBoy and a 4 academies, 4 obsidians swarm :</h3>
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He deployed in 2 groups while I deployed in a loose group on the left side of the board. His obsidians are left, and the academies hug the edge.<br />
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Since he split in 2 groups I decided to defeat him piecemeal, and concentrated on the academies, closing aggressively with ties. The shuttle started a stately turn to face the obsidians. With most of my firepower at range 1, and his obsidians farther away in turn 2 and 3 I took down 2 academies and 1 obsidian, losing a single academy plus some damages.<br />
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We played a couple more turns, I think, with me trying to keep the shuttle alive and finished on 4 ties on each side, with the shuttle still alive:<br />
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At that point, I think I was not too good if the game had continued, as the shuttle is mostly out of the action for at least 3 turns and his firepower is more concentrated than mine, but due to the time limit, his split deployment cost him the game with the screen of asteroids in between.<br />
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Game 4, Ptit Pierre and another 4 academies and 4 obsidians swarm:</h3>
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Ptit Pierre is a young player, but really impressed me with his knowledge of the game and skill. That game was really interesting and engrossing, which of course means that I did not take pictures as I should have...<br />
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Basically he deployed in a big lump on my left side, took a beeline to the lambda, and destroyed it, loosing 3 ties in the process to my flanking force. I then kept that 1 tie advantage to the endgame where we finished with 4 ties left on my side to his 3, giving me a modified win.<br />
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However, I think I had the weaker start. As you can see in the deployement picture I had 4 Ties deployed really far from the shuttle and decided to go forward fast to reach the board center and then flank him. That was a mistake. It meant that when our forces joined, half my force was still at range 3 diminishing my firepower. Thankfully he also made a mistake, attacking in 2 columns of 4 ties, meaning that the back ties were at least a range band behind the front ones.<br />
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<b>Game 5, Cahal and his anti-swarm list:</b><br />
Roark, recon specialist, blaster turret<br />
Blount, assault missile, squad leader<br />
2 Green squadron pilots, assault missile, adrenaline rush<br />
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Most of this game hinged on wether I would be able to spread my ships enough to prevent to much splash damage.<br />
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I deployed spread out, in 4 columns. He of course deployed grouped to benefit from roark and squad leader.<br />
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The leftmost A-wing, using boost and a squad leader lock, took a couple of shield off the lambda, but the Ties were too far.<br />
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I took down Blount and Roark in return (turn 2 and 3)<br />
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His adrenaline A wings K-turned and launched the remaining assault missile but it was too late by then.<br />
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3 assault missiles are no laughing matter for a swarm, but with 3 2 attack dices ships and a blaster turret, it really hinges on dealing good splash damage and even then the ships struggle to land hits on Ties.<br />
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Icareanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313606220318490495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328944011869000782.post-85413458247132558902014-10-26T20:54:00.000+01:002014-10-26T20:54:02.987+01:00X-Wing Tournament Report : La boite à Chimère (Rouen) - part1A bit late in my reporting! Last month I played in a small tournament at La Boite à Chimère in Rouen. The shop is nice, with lots of parking and really awesome tables painted by Hert:<br />
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I decided to bring my usual swarm but with a twist : I replaced 2 Ties with a buzzsaw shuttle:<br />
6 Academies 72<br />
OGP, Fire Control System, Gunner 28<br />
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I won't do a turn by turn report of all 4 games but only give you the highlights:<br />
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Game 1 :</h3>
Crevette and a pretty atypical list with :<br />
Shadow squadron pilot, advanced cloacking device +?<br />
Bounty hunter<br />
Dark curse<br />
Alpha squadron pilot<br />
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Deployment:<br />
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I deployed my ties in 2 groups ready to cross the first asteroid on my left, and deployed the shuttle in front of his interceptor. He then deployed the rest of his ships.<br />
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Pedal to the metal I closed the distance as fast as possible, taking down the alpha squadron on turn 2 with I think a lucky shot with the shuttle and some help from the lead Ties.<br />
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Turn 3 was brutal for him :<br />
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The shadow squadron got caught in the furball at range 1 of the shuttle and with the added firepower of a couple of ties exploded:<br />
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His list was not really optimized, but against my low PS swarm a shadow squadron PS5 is not really a problem, so it's actually not that bad. He lost the game when the Phantom entered the furball.</div>
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The buzzsaw was nice in this game, mostly for its firepower at all range even when blocked.</div>
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Yann is the owner of the shop and runs a pretty tight ship.</div>
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Etahn A'Baht, advanced sensors, R2D2</div>
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5 bandit squadron</div>
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A list that I was really interested to face as it's crit generation could pose a big problem to my Ties.</div>
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Turn 1, at PS2:</div>
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The only thing I knew was that I did not want to get caught byt the Z95 at range 1 while in the sights of Etahn so I spread my swarm in a big line to force some choices on his part.<br />
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He decided to go for the shuttle with Etahn so my Ties were free to run havoc in his lines. The shuttle lost some shields, but with 6 ties + shuttle to his 5 Z firepower I managed to destroy 3 Z95 while only loosing 1 Tie ( blocking with damaged Ties allowed me to spread his firepower, so it was not that loopsided in damage dealt but it left me with 6 guns to his 3.<br />
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I then mopped up the rest of his forces:<br />
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Here I think Yann made a mistake and should have kept Etahn on the Ties, allowing him to accumulate crits and reduce my firepower faster. However, I did roll above average with my defense dice so it was really hard for his 2 attack ships to land hits and I'm not sure it would have turned the game around but it would have been probably closer.<br />
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Expect part 2 soon.<br />
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Time to reload,<br />
Ica<br />
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The best ride to infiltrate a heavily guarded shield generator, the lambda shuttle is one of the most iconic ships of the original trilogy. I really enjoyed painting it.</div>
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With such large surfaces compared to the other ships in the game I had to increase the color modulation on each panel to keep it interesting across the table.<br />
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I went for a slightly non canon paint job, adding small red areas to the wings and giving a red tint to the cockpit.<br />
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I used a new idea for the ball joint with a ring magnet and a ball magnet, expect a tutorial soon!<br />
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I kept the folding wings for ease of transport:<br />
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Time to reload,<br />
Ica<br />
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<i>Would it help if I got out and pushed? </i></div>
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Starting from this line, I knew that to properly represent the Millenium Falcon I would need to push my weathering techniques to the max and get away from my confort zone.<br />
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Here you can see the various paints I used:</div>
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Main hull:</div>
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- pro-color white</div>
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- atronomican grey</div>
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- ceramic white</div>
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- chaos black</div>
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- shadow grey</div>
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- scab red</div>
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- codex grey</div>
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- dwarf flesh</div>
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- Fluorescent orange</div>
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Weathering:</div>
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- mars black (oil)</div>
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- burnt umber (oil)</div>
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The first step was to block out the main colors. On a black undercoat, I airbrushed pro-color white at an angle to keep some shadows, insisting on raised areas. Then I took my trusty raphael 1 brush and painted the colored pannels in scab red and shadow grey. The access holes and engines received a coat of chaos black.</div>
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Next came the weathering. Dipping a torned bit of foam in white and various shades of grey I painted a pattern of small dots on the hull:<br />
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The second step was the oil wash. The model was varnished with satin varnish then I prepared my usual mix of black oil paint + lighter fluid and applied generously:<br />
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Using Q-Tips damp with lighter fluid, I then removed the excess wash on the panels.<br />
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I then highlighted the top edges of all panels with ceramic white:<br />
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Then I threw caution out the window, and started experimenting with oils directly on the model.</div>
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I first mixed a bit of umber and black to create a dark brown color that I applied lightly with a brush to the area close to the engines (use a special brush for that folks, you do not want to mix oil into your regular acrylic brushes!). You can be a bit sloppy here as the next step will cover mistakes. You should use a dabbing motion more than brush stroke.</div>
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Using a lighter fluid damp Q-tip, then I went over the oils, gently fading the edges:</div>
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I did the same on the bottom edge of the open access panels. Then painted the canopy with dwarf flesh fading to black toward the front.<br />
At that moment the model was a bit too blue and lacked the characteristic rusty spots of the Falcon so I decided to try some oil filters. I applied raw sienna in small dots to the hull at random points:<br />
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Then gently worked them in a general rust stain shape with a dry Q-Tip:<br />
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If the rust stain is too intense, you can go over it with a lighter fluid damp q-tip to blend the edges.<br />
That's when I decided it was good enough! Letting the oils dry over night, I varnished again the model with matt varnish.<br />
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To give bit more contrast to the canopy I finished by blending fluorescent orange to the rear areas then varnished it with gloss varnish.</div>
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I then posted the paintjob online and got quite a few positive returns, but with several saying that the weathering was not pushed enough, that the Falcon was too clean.</div>
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First using a mix of chaos black and scorched brown I added lots of water stains, starting from the top of the panels and small details and going toward the edge of the ship. Then using the previous oil technique, I added a dark stain around the central round panel.</div>
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Now it really looks the part!<br />
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Hope this helps, don't hesitate to ask if you have questions in the comments.<br />
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So I just finished painting 2 Jedi Interceptors at 1/270th scale from Shapeways designed by <a href="http://www.shapeways.com/designer/Mel_Miniatures" style="background-color: #f5f7f8; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #08a3e9; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mel_Miniatures</a>.</div>
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Is this the future of miniature gaming?</div>
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However right now it is no replacement for plastic/resin models.</div>
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This model in Frosted Ultra Detail set me back around 11€, </div>
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which is a bit steep considering the level of detail and it's only 20mm long.</div>
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Here is a picture in it's raw state:</div>
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And with a black undercoat, to get a better view:</div>
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The 2 interceptors on the right have been cleaned before priming while the 2 on the left and the 2 Tie Droids have been primed directly. Pay attention to the small lines on the hull and the grain of the back of the cockpit. <br />
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Closeup of the underneath before cleaning:<br />
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So basically it is a great way to get the basic shape of a model, but the level of details (the resolution so to speak) is not there yet compared to a plastic/resin model, even in the frosted ultra detail which is the best level of details you can get from Shapeways.<br />
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As is you can get great results with a bit of work, but as you can see most of the details on the model where free handed and that's not everyone cup of tea.<br />
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Time to reload,<br />
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Icareanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313606220318490495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328944011869000782.post-77729973333292036592014-09-01T13:59:00.000+02:002014-09-01T13:59:12.346+02:00X-Wing Showcase : Anakin Jedi Interceptor<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>So what I told you was true. From a certain point of view.</i></div>
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Following Obiwan craft, I painted Anakin ETA-2 interceptor from Revenge of the Sith. It sports as expected R2D2 in the droid slot.<br />
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As the close ups of Obiwan fighter revealed a grain texture to some panels, I tried to weather the craft differently to hide/decrease the apparent roughness. <br />
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Here is a group shot of my 3 latest ships, the Millenium Falcon and the 2 jedi Interceptors:<br />
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Time to reload,<br />
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<br />Icareanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313606220318490495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328944011869000782.post-8359151301879648372014-08-29T09:26:00.000+02:002014-08-29T09:26:26.218+02:00Battle report : Fat Chewie VS double Defenders<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<i>I'm terribly sorry about all this. After all, he's only a Wookiee!</i> </div>
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Having been on the wrong side of the Fat Chewie stick much to often I decided to try it for once against one of my regular opponents Lanyssa. </div>
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You can read his debrief in French on his blog : <a href="http://escadronsabre.over-blog.com/2014/08/name-code-2dhlc.html">http://escadronsabre.over-blog.com/2014/08/name-code-2dhlc.html</a> with more pictures from his side of the table.</div>
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His list was the classic : how can I fit 2 HLC with Jonus for rerolls?</div>
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Deployment looked like this:</div>
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He deployed in triangle formation, to benefit from Jonus reroll. I deployed in 2 groups, with Biggs ready to slide toward Chewie and behind the middle asteroid.</div>
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There I made my first mistake, moving Chewie 3 forward in the 1st turn, while the rest advanced only 2. Of course Lanyssa closed as fast as possible with a 5 forward. </div>
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The 3 forward allowed both Defenders to fire on Chewie, taking a combined 7 hits, while I only took one shield of the defender on my left. I remember thinking clearly : he can move 5 forward, so you have to move strictly less than 3 to stay out of range, not sure why I put a 3 instead of a 2 forward. </div>
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I also made a mistake for Chewie shot on a range 3 defender. I took focus as an action, as I would be rolling 3 evade dices and 3 or 6 attack dices. I rolled hit, eye, eye with Chewie first shot.</div>
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Now in this position would you use Chewie focus or not, knowing that you have gunner?</div>
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I did not. He promptly rolled 4 blanks and took a shield and I did not roll a single eye in defense (odds of rolling at least an eye with 3 dices are only 37/64) . </div>
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Next turn he banked 2 toward Chewie, while the 2 Z flew 4 forward, Biggs hid behind the asteroid and Chewie advanced 1.</div>
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Sadly I misjudged the distance a little bit, and one of my Z could not fire on the left Defender. The rest of my ships did 4 damages, dropping it to 1 hull. In response his 2 defenders reduced Biggs to 1 hull (asteroid power!) and Jonus added another 2 damages to Chewie with a flechette (Chewie is now down to 4 hull).<br />
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Close up shot of the action (love the Defender at this angle):<br />
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No picture of turn 3, it was basicly a huge pile up of ships, with biggs banking one left, the 2 Z turning 2 left, Chewie doing a one forward. The damaged Defender bomber 5 forward to escape the action, while is wingman turned hard right 1. Jonus bumped into Chewie.<br />
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Fire was inconsequential : Chewie failed to finish the damaged defender, and Biggs survived the actionless shots of Jonus and the defender. <br />
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Turn 4, he K-Turned the damaged Delta to return to the fight, and bumped with the other one. Jonus took the place of Chewie who flew through the 2 asteroids in front of him. The 2 Z bumped to get firearcs on Jonus.<br />
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Jonus died to the combined firepower of my ships while dealing an additional damage to Chewie, and the defender killed Biggs.<br />
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Turn 5, Chewie turned right to evade the returning defender, while the Z turn to face it.<br />
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The front Z destroyed the damaged defender and lost 2 shields to the other Delta.<br />
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Turn 6 and 7 : Chewie maneuvers to get back into the fight, while the 2 Z dogfight with the defender:<br />
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Turn 8 : Lanyssa made a mistake and K-Turned behind the lead Z, putting it at range of Chewie and my 3 ships. <br />
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The combined fire took it down before it could fire.<br />
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The game was much closer than it should have been I think, mainly due to my first mistake with Chewie. Biggs really helped there to put me back in the game. If I had taken another 2 Zs, Chewie would have died on turn 2, and the game would have been much different.<br />
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I also think that Lanyssa list would be better with PS 3 defenders, or maybe one PS3 and swarm tactics on Jonus to get a PS advantage against filler ships.<br />
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Looking forward to see your choices for using tokens on a first gunner shot in the comment (with a small explanation if possible).<br />
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Time to reload,<br />
Ica<br />
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