/swg/ Galactic Tabletop Edition

>Thrawn and Pellaeon are secret Armada fanboys.

Sort of makes me wonder how all the galaxy's best and worst naval commanders would play Armada if they all got together.

starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Fantafly_polyhedral_dice
Fuck.

An Vicstar, a couple Dreadnaughts and Strike Cruisers, half a dozen neb-Bs and a bunch of single IPV+TIE squadron set ups on the important planets

PABLOOOOO

To be fair, the MC80's mainly acting as a base for the fighters, with the Neb-B doing most of the actual fighting. I guess it might be too great of a resource to start out with, though.

Holdo brings an ork ramming fleet. Don't ask how, she just does and bitches until you let her play it. Tarkin and Isard both like to dump all their points into one big, bad ship and inevitably lose to fighter swarms. Wedge favors carrier lists and fighter swarms. Raymus Antilles likes corvettes and going fast. Keyan Farlander loads up on as many B-wings as he possibly can.

I mean, he did work on WEG back in the day.

Holy SHIT teegee, I just took THE biggest dump!

Hux runs nothing but plain ISDs and whines on the forums about wanting a SSD expansion. Also about how squadrons are OP. Grievous runs all Slaved Turrets, all the time except for the one time he tried Overload pulse.

You know, Hux actually seemed pretty cool in TFA. He reminded me of a young, brash Piett, one who was rough early on but could later rise to greatness.

Too bad he turned out like Ozzel and Isard's lovechild who ate paint as a kid in TLJ.

He's yet another victim of TLJ. Is it too much to ask for competent villains?

Aren't you forgetting someone, user?

With current year hollywood? Yes. Yes it is.
Gone is the days of actual scary monsters and competent villains. Now we need to dumb down everything or the millennials won't clap and buy our merch.

Why did you remind me? He's gone now, and the sequels will never see his like again.

>Hux actually seemed pretty cool in TFA
You can't be serious.

We don't even get competent heros, villains have no chance

I get the feeling he could have been a almost Pellaeon-tier commander if he just had been given the chance to shine.

Whatever you say Double-Satan.

He was alright outside of this scene, even if not exceptional. In TLJ he's always whiny and incompetent.

Well, he was an Empire veteran so it's a fucking given he would be more competent than the First Order shits.
Also, hi Sixes

>VicStar

Why have a manlet ISD when you can just have a regular ISD?

Which is why I said he had POTENTIAL, not that he was already there.

Again, my example was Piett. Piett's younger days, he was really brash and often reckless, and was dismissed by his peers as a poor naval officer. By the time of Endor, he's one of the greatest Imperial admirals and military minds of his time, and is much more cool and calm.

That could've been Hux's evolution, from a careless and fanatical youth into a seasoned and capable officer, but as points out, he became a total joke.

>one of the only likable characters of the entire NU is completely wasted

MUH SUBVERSION

He's the most popular Imperial character in NU thus far despite having almost no screentime on the basis that he's the only one we've seen outside of SCAR that isn't a fucking blithering idiot.

The villains are too stupid to threaten the heroes, the heroes are too stupid to thwart the villains.

Newcanon summarized

How did he accept becoming Captain of this fucking thing? With 24 defense lasers, this thing was a death trap. Was this guy suicidal?

The First Order doesn't seem like the kind of place that takes "no" for an answer.

Because this is a fairly low level dude who doesn't have the pull for a full-sized ISD

>forced to serve in the Shit Order
>have to take orders from General Spastic over there
>try to change the system from within but get cockblocked by your superiors that have no business being your superiors since they're like 20 years younger than you at the very least
>can't even sleep because some kid with a broken lightsaber keeps throwing tantrums every night
I'd want out too.

>Grievous runs all Slaved Turrets
What do you mean by this?

>except for the one time he tried Overload Pulse
heh

>star destroyer: angled wedge shape allows for wider arc of fire and ease of broadsides against targets at any angle, as well as dampening the impact of flank strikes

>fo dreadnought: flat as a piece of pizza with a dumb rectangle bridge see guys the new imperials are stupid applaud it for being different

Not him, but I guess it's because slaved=automated and Grievous commands droids.

Execute Order Triple 66.

My personal headcanon is that it usually was a backline sniper and had 2+ ISDs plus at least one Ton Falk worth of TIEs between it and anything remotely capable of hurting it. This made Canady very cocky, as his ship swept through several battles without as much a chipped paint while inflicting heavy casualties on the resistance. And of course the one time he didn't have a fuckton of TIEs between him and the enemy is when his overconfidence gets the better of him and he launches his own TIEs too late.

pretty sure the joke was that in TCW seppie frigates always only fired in one direction, with their primary forward guns.

Ackbar loves the current meta, and actually quietly has been figuring out a Mon Cal Exodus fleet he's determined to get work. Rieekan loves running MC30s but actually mostly runs Madine as a commander, because he loves the maneuverability and options in that.

Maybe Hux intentionally put him in the line of fire in hopes of rubbing out the only officer competent enough to realize how full of shit he is.

To be fair, the whole situation would've been fine if Hux had shot down Poe's XWing right away instead of wasting time with his speech.

The pizzanaught is silly and I don't really want to defend it, BUT it's clearly intended to take down capital ships and planetary defenses, not starfighters. That's what the TIEs are for.

>666666

>Canady is a highly-skilled player who lost his one chance at the championships because he forgot his squadrons at home and Hux was five minutes late bringing them, causing him to be utterly destroyed by Poe's suicidal bomber swarm

>No Pellaeon to ring up
>No proper Imperial Remnant to defect to
>The New Republic you wanted to match wits against is gone, replaced by a cheap impersonator shambling about in its skin
>Nothing is satisfying anymore

I've heard he was a bad commander for losing his ship, but really it's the fault of whatever lack luster fighter screen they had.

I miss him

SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY
I DONT EVEN KNOW WHO THAT UGLY FUCK IS

We will never have a canon show from the point of view of the storm troopers.

youtube.com/watch?v=3U3-boYeUMA

>implying Kyle is ugly

Canon Gary when?

Likely never.
Also, here's a full episode if anyone wants to watch.

youtube.com/watch?v=qwQNT_Ung9I

Now if the Resistance had just let that thing fire and jumped to Hyperspace, how much damage would it reasonably have done?

>Woah there! Why would you want to see the perspective of an Imperial? Are you a racist Nazi bigot fuck? Get exterminated loser.

>Wendig
Serious question: Could he look like any more of a cuck?

Only if he had jizz from his wife's boyfriend in his beard.

Or was wearing a Let Me Tell You About My Feminist Agenda shirt.

whats the best build for an X-wing squadron on TTS right now? how many points do people generally play with? I wanna build a First Order squad.

To be fair, is it that really him or Disney?

They turned the Empire into what amounts to a joke that makes Hethir seem logical and competent by comparison.

>To be fair, is it that really him or Disney?
Disney employed him because he suited their agenda. It's both of them.

Pretty sure Disney doesn't care at all about feminism or LGBTQetc stances, just how much money they can make from it.

Smile
Sweet
Sister
Sadistic
Surprise
Service
STARFIGHTERS

They just churned out the single most terribly-conceived SW movie ever, splitting the fanbase and bombing in important overseas markets like China, simply to say "haha fuck you whitey Star Wars is ours now". They'll absolutely sacrifice money if it means pushing poz.

Of course. They're all too happy to rope along crazies like Wendig who actually think Disney gives a shit about their terrible agenda, because wealthy SJWs are a source of cash.

These things are not generally profitable. Their real audience is children and parents who want to provide innocent entertainment to stick their kids in front of.

Except SJWs don't buy, they just bitch. Pandering to them as a marketing strategy is a reliable failure.

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Most SJW types are college kids or middle-aged dudes with plenty of disposable income for hipster clothes, Iphones, and Starbucks. They think buying into pandering shit makes them better people.

Look at Dragon Age Inquisition. Shit game, panned by most players, yet lauded by critics for its "diversity and inclusion" and it sold plentifully among Bioware's left-leaning fanbase.

>college kids or middle-aged dudes
Aren't those mostly in debt, unless in trades?

>They think buying into pandering shit makes them better people.

Yeah, but they don't always consistently buy into those things. See what happened to Marvel Comics with its attempts to reach out to that demographic that failed miserably.

Anybody have any good art for TIE pilots?

As a black man, I couldn't give a shit about SJW causes as I'm paying for this to be entertained, not read what amounts to cheap SJW propaganda.

Fuck off pol.

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Trying to take an injured pilot to the medbay? I like it.

Sher looks like all the blood went out of her brain

So Krayt Cup 3 just ended- I saw some fun lists there, and the Objectives format got tested in a really big tournament.

What do you guys think of this? I'm thinking it's a potential end to the always-kite-never-engage squads that are a decent chunk of the top tables now (Stuff like dash+Poe)

imgur.com/a/Ox7T9

Reminds me of the paintings of Jesus lowered from the cross.

Did the First Order have any ISDs?

>Not knowing Kyle
>Ugly
C'mon, the guy's spam is annoying but don't you be shittin' on my main man.

>when you fly over a rebel neighbourhood and the kids shoot you up with .22s and bb guns

At least 30 and possibly one Executor.

Wouldn't suprise me given they still use the old AT-AT's and AT ST's

30 years after Endor isn't such a long time that would make the ISDs outdated. I wouldn't mind if they used ISDs as much as I mind them using TIEs considering those were outdated. Fighters get old fast, but Hammerheads were used for centuries in the Old Republic, along with Invincible-class Dreadnoughts.

People usually pay at 100 points.

So you want to go all first order, or just some first order? I assume since you had no idea what standard point costs were, you are new to the game?

What ships seem cool to you? I can help you make a list.

Yeah, but after reading the New Canon, I have to wonder if Imperials and Executors are all trash designs given how bad they perform.

Considering the Tarkin doctrine is mostly "bigger and more imposing than it is threatening" I have to wonder if those things are even worth the hull metal their built of.

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>given how bad they perform

Nothing and no one in the Empire is allowed to show even the slightest hint of competency or strength in the Newcanon.

Given the build time of these spaceships you'd assume they'd try and keep them in service as long as possible.

I'm not sure how fast technology advances but they shouldn't become obsolete too quickly, especially if they get refits. WWI warships were obsolete almost instantly but late WWII ships could stay operational until the end of the Cold War depending on their cost and role.

The alternative is that you'd be designing the replacement for each model of ship before you're even done building it.

>not Triple-Double-Six

Someone posted a Discord link for the FFG RPG. Does anyone have it?

Now that I'm looking at it, a lot of my TIE Pilot art is ladies with scars. Wonder why...

>women and misuses of military hardware

Yeah, there's an essay on that and I ain't writing it!

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>rando at work telling me how awesome the First Order was in TLJ and how he’s so glad the movie “brought up issues the series needed answered, like why does no one ever run out of gas”
>muse internally that this is the same work of fiction that put “ummmm sweetie, I have the plans here and you don’t”, one-off noncommittal grey morality (what if da good guys pay money to da bad guys which makes dem also da bad guys hmmm), and Rose’s nonsense love-kamikaze into Star Wars
Part of me still can’t believe TLJ is a thing that actually happened.