Both at 400 - Theo won the toss and elected to go first. He looked at the objectives and chose Sensor Net - which is fair as I don't have Strategic Squadrons.
We placed the tokens and deployed. Theo had the last drop, so I deployed cautiously. I regret my deployment of Jaina's Light (the one facing right). I should have put them all in a neater line, but such is life.
Start of turn 2, and Theo used his Strategic Adviser, so I flung Quantum Storm forwards to gum up the Quasar's order... but this wasn't really a problem - the squadron ball wasn't really going to be a huge threat to me at this point. But I did it anyway. Everything else moved up with various levels of speed in order to trap the ISD. The other slicer tool moved up to annoy the ISD, expecting to be shot to pieces, but instead the ISD took shots at Quantum Storm (and failed to get the Accuracy) and one of the Corvettes (Minor damage - Cymoons NEED Vader IMHO) - the ISD instead rammed the Transport to stay in place and avoid getting shot by multiple Corvettes.
This is just a zoomed in view of Turn 3. Tycho is on the Station, waiting his moment of glory.
The Rieekan corvette does some serious damage to the Quasar, then ducks around the back to stop the Gozanti ramming Quantum Storm to death. I double rammed the Gozanti, expecting it to have to ram me in its turn and die, but instead Theo just dropped it to speed 0. Of course, that level of arrogance had to be dealt with, so Jaina's Light lined up a side arc through obstructions to kill it next turn.
I went first with Jaina's Light to kill the Gozanti and almost finish the Quasar. My Rieekan'd Corvette rammed the Quasar to death, then ET'd into the ISD, then died.
Start of turn 5 and I still have 3 Corvettes going (Rieekan's Flag is the middle of the three Corvettes).
I had dreams of a perfect role to kill the Raider with Ozzel on board, but it did not happen.
Tycho had jumped from safety to put a shot into the ISD, and went down to Theo's Squads.
I had 4 more tokens than Theo, which was enough to get me a 6 point win (6/5). Well, Theo did the maths, and I didn't have the brain space to check it, but he's pretty good on the addition and subtraction side of things.
A good game, and a good bit of training for the Rieekan Seven (and Tycho!)
Nicely described battle. Sounded like fun for all
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