Friday, 7 June 2013
Darth Badger is Victorious at the X-Wing South West Regional!!!!!!
Last Saturday I entered the X-Wing South West regional event at Clifton Road Games in Exeter.
I have only been playing the game for about 3 weeks but have been really enjoying it so thought it could be a fun day out.
The local club leader Tom (Chew-ginga) joined me and we headed of to go PEW PEW for the day.
The plan was to do a full report on the event, who I played, what they used and such. But, I got caught up playing games, laughing, chatting and having a great day I totally forgot that plan. I did get a shot of the standings after round 2 though which listed everyone that played!
My list for the day was a TIE Fighter swarm. I had run a similar list the week before with good results and lander the single Fighter expansion on ebay a couple of day before the event. This gave me the pilots I was after to make a decent looking force of 100pts.
Howlrunner + Stealth Device
Backstabber
Dark Curse
Mauler Mithel
Night Beast
Black Squadron Pilot - Draw Their Fire
How had I managed with this list in the past? Well, I hadn't used it before. Round 1 was the first game with it.
To my surprise I was in the final 4 cut after the first 4 rounds. In each game I had only only lost 2 Fighters and won with a clear 100pts of the opponents force destroyed.
The semi was a lot closer. 3 Fighters down vs a Firespray and 2 Interceptors.
Everyone had a single damage point left and lucky dice won me that one with 2 Fighters remaining.
The final was against another player that had only had a few games before this event. A Falcon list flew towards me and the dice were in my favour again.
At the end of the day, Darth Badger had won the 4 round swiss and the 4 person cut. Finished the day with and awesome trophy, plastic focus, rebel patch, token bag and an invite to the World Champs in America in November!
Sooooooo pleased!
Had a great day and would like to say massive thank you to Steve at Clifton Road Games for running the event, all the players that attended and Chew-ginga for giving me a new Interceptor for taking him!
Will I be off to America? I don't know yet.
Hendybadger awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
Labels:
clifton road games,
event,
regional,
star wars,
tournament,
x-wing
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Good job! I won the local Kessel Run tournament with a similar list. 4 Obsidian Squadron TIE fighters and 2 Storm Squadron TIE Advanced. I never got an invite or anything to the next level of competition, but I figure that boils down to not actually having a regional tournament where I live.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteWhere are you? There have been a few regionals around.
Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Found out there was an invite only regionals about three hours away in Ottawa.
DeleteThat's a shame. Hopefully there will be more next year.
DeleteSo that was the disturbence in the force I felt......
ReplyDeleteWell done mate!
Indeed. The Dark Side becomes stronger every day.
DeleteCheers
Never before have I seen such a hive of scum and villainy! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteDo you mean the list? Mwah ha ha!
DeleteThanks
Well done chap :D
ReplyDeleteCheers Simon
DeleteGreat job on the win! I just love the Tie Fighter lists!
ReplyDeleteThey don't look like much but they are great fun to use and really hard to stop.
Deletewell done must get a game of this soon had the figures since it canme out
ReplyDeletePeace james
It wont take long to get hooked.
DeleteMy fleet is quite big now and I havent even been playing for a month