South West Regional X-Wing report!

This weekend I took part in the South West Regional X-Wing Championship being held in Crediton and hosted by Kirton Games.  Although I’ve entered a few X-Wing tournaments before (and even managed to do rather well in some of them) I’ve never being to one on this scale.  During the event we played 6 games, after which there was a cut and the top 16 went onto play knock out rounds to get to the final (which got them a place in the National Championship).  Unsurprisingly I didn’t make the cut.  I didn’t even make it into the top 64! Having lost 4 games and winning two I ended up 85^th (Out of 98) but I didn’t care.  I went to regionals not to win but to have fun (and to find an excuse to wear my Princess Leia costume!) and fun I did indeed have.  Although it was a long day spirits were high throughout and I’m happy to say that every game I played in was well spirited.  

There were a lot of strong lists out there, with a lot of variation in the builds but if there was an overall theme running through out them I would say that it would be s that of maximizing the amount of actions your ships can perform.  For my list I decided to try out the new U-Wing as a support vessel for two tanked out Y-wings.  I was going for Rogue One themed list, here’s what I came up with…

Cassian Andor (27)

Jan Ors (2)

Jyn Erso (2)

Advanced Sensors (3)

Adaptability (0)

Seismic Torpedo’s (2)

Gold Squadron Pilot (18)

Shield Upgrade (4)

Twin Laser Turret (6)

Targeting Astromech (2)

Seismic Torpedo’s (2)

Gold Squadron Pilot (18)

Shield Upgrade (4)

Twin Laser Turret (6)

Targeting Astromech (2)

Seismic Torpedo’s (2) 

Overall this isn’t the best list I’ve ever come up with.  Originally, I was going to have Nora Wexley in there in place of one of the two Y-wings but for whatever reason I decided to ditch her in favour of having the two Y’s.  Looking back on things I think I over equipped them as well.  The Seismic torpedoes, although fun was a bit hit and miss.  If I had dropped them I could have given Cassian Push the Limit (in place of Adaptability).  Equally the shield upgrades were probably not worth it.  With those extra points, I could have stuck a Z-95 in there or gone for a named pilot on one of the Y-Wings.  This is certainly not a competitive list in its current form and as such I don’t think I’ll be using it again, so it will be back to the drawing board with the U-Wing! 

However, having seen a lot of good lists at play during the tournament I’ve already started planning my next one, which is going to be Scum themed (and will be having Manaroo and IG-88 in it).

Here a few snaps from the day (Mostly ones of me in my Leia costume!) but if you head over to Kirton Games Facebook and YouTube pages page you can see many more from the tournament

My fleet

But I'm on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan!