CADETS! FALL IN! Today I come to you not with news of victory but with reports of hubris and losses. Being deployed the Regional Long Island sector I engaged in some truly epic battles. I was overconfident and under prepared. I took the 2 ISD Fleet I have been posting about with 8 Squadrons. This build […]
Read more "A Humbling Experience"CADETS FALL IN!!! Today I come back from the front with news of Victory and a first round Regional Bye for the Imperials. The List (400pts): ISD2 – Motti, SW-7s, XI-7s, Boosted Comms, Flight Controllers, Support Officer ISD1 – Boosted Comms, Support Officer, XI-7s 5x TIE Interceptor Howlrunner Major Rhymer Dengar Advanced Gunnery, Contested Outpost, […]
Read more "3/26/2016 – Tournament Report"Today I am going to discuss a few different ways you can help grow your local communities in a positive way. The advent of social media, e-mail, group text services just to name a few has made it easier than ever to connect and coordinate events with people. While this article will have an emphasis […]
Read more "Building a Community"CADETS! FALL IN! Today we will go over a brief exercise in fine tuning a Fleet. The Fleet I posted back in the Fleet Building lesson was played. It worked well and I barely lost that battle. After playing it I have decided to make some changes. The Fleet was: ISD2 – Motti, Boosted Comms, […]
Read more "Fleet Fine Tuning"CADETS! FALL IN! This weeks lesson will be somewhat brief but none the less important. We will be discussing how to prepare an area for battle. To start, the second player places the first obstruction. Players then alternate doing this and keep obstructions at least band 1 from each other, and band 5 from any […]
Read more "Shaping the Battlefield"CADETS! FALL IN! Today we will discuss fleet building. With our latest reinforcements we can increase and bolster our fleets even more (to 400pts). These will be some of the general concepts behind building a well balanced fleet as well as some of the ways we can skew to risk it all in the name […]
Read more "Assemble Your Fleet"CADETS FALL IN! Due to the Terran holiday this week and the imminent release of new ships the fleets of both our Illustrious Empire and the vile Rebellion there will not be a lesson this week. Take this time to celebrate with friends and family, as well as get some extra practice in the simulators. […]
Read more "No Lesson This Week"Cadets, FALL IN! Today we will be learning about objective selection for our forces. This will be a direct lead in to our Fleet Building lesson next week. Players are required to take an Assault Objective, Defensive Objective, and a Navigation Objective. We will be breaking down each type objective by type and discussing them […]
Read more "What is our Objective?"Cadets! Fall In! You will be learning about the Squadron Command. Issuing a Squadron Command lets you immediately activate a number of squadrons equal to your ships squadron value. If you delay the order (take a token) to use for a later point in the battle you may activate 1 squadron. Squadrons activated via a […]
Read more "Lesson 4 – Squadrons"Cadets! Fall In! As we move in to our third lecture on how to command your fleet I hope your time spent in the training sims has been well used. Today we discuss the third command you can issue to your fleet, Concentrate Fire. Issuing this command bolsters your attack, opposite of last weeks lesson […]
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