X-Wing Miniatures

 FAQ 4.3.0

Well my wish was granted the meta just got "balanced". The main changes to the meta were Manaroo getting the nerf bat reducing range to 1 and Emperor Palpatine having to call his result before rolling. Since the majority of all the winning tournament list contained either of these cards in their list I deem this as a good thing. I have been avoiding getting into Scum and Villainy because I hate to be "that guy" but now it's looking more appealing to me. 

My new 100 point list I am really liking did suffer a bit as I had Colonel Vessery with the TIE /x7 title. Before the FAQ you just had to dial in a speed 3 or greater move and you got a free evade. Now it's just considered a free evade action. So you have to be able to preform an action to get the token. It's basically rewarding good flying skills which makes sense on how it works. I don't feel it broke the TIE /x7 it just has to be played "better" to get the evade. The ship is still really solid with all 3's for stats.

I played this list on http://xws-bench.github.io/bench/# just to get a feel for it then took it to the FLGS to play on a table. My first opponent was playing a exact copy to Paratinni this was before the FAQ. I ended up losing but I was happy on how it preformed and just thought a few tweak might help. The TIE/SF is a really tricky ship to fly due to it's odd dial and it's going to take some practice. It consisted of this.

"Quickdraw" (29)
Outmaneuver (3)
Fire-Control System (2)
Lightweight Frame (2)
Special Ops Training (0)

"Omega Leader" (21)
Juke (2)
Comm Relay (3)
Twin Ion Engine Mk. II (1)

Colonel Vessery (35)
Push the Limit (3)
Twin Ion Engine Mk. II (1)
TIE/x7 (-2)

Total: 100

The changes I am thinking about are swapping Colonel Vessery and for Countess Ryad just because it's hard to clear Colonel Vessery's stress when using Push the Limit and keep moving at speed of 3+ to get that evade. The Countess has a better dial for that since she's allowed to change a straight green to a Koirgran turn. Then removed the Twin Ion Engines for Omega Leader and add a Pattern Analyzer to Quickdraw. That will allow Quickdraw to Sejnor's Loop or Koirgran turn and use an action then take the stress. That might get him into some tasty positions to get that double tap shot. We will see how it goes.



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