Stay on Target: Disco Vader 4 Tournament report

This Thursday I took part in the 4^th Disco Vader X-Wing tournament being held at Kirton Games (and their last in their current venue, as they’re moving to a new, bigger store!).  

I decided to enter my new scum list (IG-88C, Manaroo and Gand Findsmen), even though I had only played it twice before during some practice games I really wanted to see how it would hold up in a tournament and this would be a good opportunity for me to test it out and start to develop some strategies and tactics for it. 

As in previous Disco Vader tournaments we were going to play 3 games over the cause of the evening.  My first game was against and Imperial List that featured the new Kylo Ren shuttle from the Force Awakens.  The game was closely matched and even raised a few questions (Like what happens to condition cards such as “I’ll show you the power of the Darkside” if you destroy the ship that created that condition.  If you know the answer comment below because we were stumped!). In the end I managed to snatch the victory. 

My second game was against Disco Vader himself and I was almost tabled!  I had some really unlucky dice rolls (and my opponent also had some very lucky ones!).  At one point I had an opportunity to destroy one of his ships with IG-88 but I drew the damage card that prevented me from being able to attack during the next opportunity to do so, which left me missing out on the perfect chance to take a ship out at range 1.  Fortunately IG-88 managed to hold on just long enough to prevent me from losing 100 nil! 

NB: My opponent during this game would go onto later win the tournament.  So I don’t feel too bad loosing this game to the eventually champion! 

In my final game I faced a scum off.  Both of us were using Attanni Mind links which is a very nice trick the Scum faction have access to.  I messed up a bit early on in the game forgetting the order my ships would fly in and as such ended up bumping IG-88 into Manaroo (I’m putting this down to being tired).  In the end I managed to win this game as well, finishing with IG-88 down to below 50% damage and Manaroo just over 50%, so it was close.  

In the end I finished 7^th out of 14, so middle of the table, which isn’t too bad at all. More importantly I’ve also got some more games under my belt with my new list and I’m fairly happy with the set up.  I just need to focus on some tactics.  Anyway here are some photos I took during the tournament.  Hope you enjoy them.