tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899368611583210454.post7000466776916999179..comments2024-03-26T08:11:02.778-05:00Comments on Cannot Get Your Ship Out: the speed zero maneuver: NOVA Winner Guest Post 2/2!Eric Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10721846237539911453noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899368611583210454.post-33342361887328966672019-12-05T09:42:00.366-06:002019-12-05T09:42:00.366-06:00None of the upgrades in RitR really appeal to this...None of the upgrades in RitR really appeal to this list IMO. Take Evasive Action isn't bad by any means, but Intensify Firepower is incredibly good, and you should have Nav dials anyway. I prefer Brunson to Iden on Demo, that's personal taste usually, and LTT is strictly inferior to TRC on the Arq because you have Needa. Nothing else springs to mind off the top of my head for upgrades. For the objectives, I don't recall having any that were wildly better than any others, but there are some options that can fit certain styles. All of the Rift objectives hurt your speed, and you need that velocity to dictate engagements on your terms. Surprise Attack is cute, and not necessarily bad for breaking enemy formations, but it also doesn't add value. If you're struggling to force good attack positions, take that. Ion Storm on paper increases your damage throughput, but your opponent can force situations where neither of you have the obstacle defense, so your tokens are being blown off left and right. Chimaera in particular hates that. Asteroid Tactics and Infested Fields are both good if you're not needing help shaping the battlefield but in dealing with enemy squadrons. On paper Fleet In Being is good, but it's also got the option to help your opponent, so I'd stick with Ion Cannons, same for Abandoned Mining Facility. Doomed Station is probably the least bad of the Rift objectives for you as a mobile Contested Outpost, but it's still not great. You're trying to stay moving fast, so trying to shape the battle and hang on to the station at the same time is very very difficult and gives up a lot of tactical surprise. Asteroid Field backfires on Brunson, and backfires on me personally because of how I use obstacles to create lanes of battle, so I can't recommend that one, though I won't not recommend it either. And Hyperspace Migration has the same issues as Doomed Station, you're forced to chase a slow-moving scoring point across the table, instead of pursuing and destroying the enemy. -GPMatt Ansleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03868702942224099474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899368611583210454.post-56184958251256946482019-10-06T03:13:49.007-05:002019-10-06T03:13:49.007-05:00Great write up
Do you feel if Rebellion in the ri...Great write up<br /><br />Do you feel if Rebellion in the rim will change this list at all?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03683976465409182950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899368611583210454.post-31482287773996304102019-09-14T12:33:10.279-05:002019-09-14T12:33:10.279-05:00Nope, Eric is completely correct. This list worked...Nope, Eric is completely correct. This list worked lacking squad cover because the dominant meta assumption at NOVA was that that would NOT be the case, thus the preponderance of Sloane.<br /><br />Re: LMSU more generally, I think it's a niche archetype but one that the current meta of "Two ship isn't dead but everyone still techs for it" provides a lot of opportunities for someone to call the bluff of Sloane fleets and damage race them. It's got a skill floor that I think compounds the matchup issue it has, but it's a fun archetype that I wouldn't mind seeing become more popular.<br />DeleteMatt Ansleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03868702942224099474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899368611583210454.post-42200061337378619422019-09-04T21:56:52.042-05:002019-09-04T21:56:52.042-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Matt Ansleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03868702942224099474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899368611583210454.post-427569135155525842019-09-04T15:10:40.869-05:002019-09-04T15:10:40.869-05:00Thank you for the reply! I enjoy the theory and fl...Thank you for the reply! I enjoy the theory and fleet building aspect of Armada the most. Only been learning for about a year. Ready to see the shake up with RitR and Wave 8!Wolf58https://www.blogger.com/profile/15284773129824914942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899368611583210454.post-86497903789472777512019-09-04T14:25:45.746-05:002019-09-04T14:25:45.746-05:00LMSU did well at a few events last year as well, b...LMSU did well at a few events last year as well, but Dumpster Fire also has a medium-sized squad wing and "only" 5 activations, which I consider to be a bit light for LMSU, which usually has 6-7, so I'm not sure Dumpster Fire really counts. It's a bit of everything (Big Heavy, MSU, squads) all kind of stirred together into a "does a bit of everything okay plus also Intensify Firepower and Yavaris and Garm act as force multipliers" soup. And that's fine! I just don't think of it as LMSU.<br /><br />My personal opinion is LMSU can do very well in events where bomber-heavy fleets are fairly rare. If/when you hit bomber-heavy they can keep you at range longer than you'd like and start bleeding your activations by dropping small ships fairly efficiently. Later on they'll try to bug out and grind down your big ship if you're not careful. NOVA seems to have been a meta where a lot of counter-heavy squads fleets showed up (a good amount of Sloane, for example), but not a lot of "proper" bomber-heavy squads. So Matt made a good meta call with his LMSU fleet and did correspondingly very well. I'm not so sure this type of fleet would've done as well at Gencon (which was CRAWLING with heavy bomber builds), but it's impossible to say for sure. I'll ping Matt and maybe he'll have a different opinion, though.Eric Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721846237539911453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899368611583210454.post-44210409927735737772019-09-04T14:16:59.244-05:002019-09-04T14:16:59.244-05:00Is this becoming a more viable fleet archetype? Du...Is this becoming a more viable fleet archetype? Dumpsterfire is a LMSU.Wolf58https://www.blogger.com/profile/15284773129824914942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899368611583210454.post-70388751228581012372019-09-04T11:57:27.498-05:002019-09-04T11:57:27.498-05:00Great battle reports and congrats on the well dese...Great battle reports and congrats on the well deserved win! Nice to see LMSU doing so well! Hautamakihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728761045600060096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6899368611583210454.post-70182527423076514572019-09-03T22:27:30.503-05:002019-09-03T22:27:30.503-05:00Thanks for the articles! The use of Thrawn in a di...Thanks for the articles! The use of Thrawn in a different way is awesome! Also perfect use of the Arquitens. Wolf58https://www.blogger.com/profile/15284773129824914942noreply@blogger.com