Backstory - Part 3

With regionals completed, the IA community takes a break, plays other games for a while. Most go to X-Wing, some Armada, some just disappear completely. When the unusual second regionals looms six months later, nobody returns. One new player is recruited, but I don't play for the six months before that. We get a few games in, but it's not long before it's off to regionals. My list remains the same, partially because it performed well last time, partially because I'd had no playtime with or against anything for months.

Backstory - Part 2

After the Store championship, the next wave of releases posed the biggest threat to mass trooper lists yet, the dreaded Bantha Rider. With the combination of Stampede and Trample, the Bantha has the ability to do large amounts of unblockable damage to large numbers of figures. The Bantha has a large potential to do huge amounts of damage to troopers, wiping large portions of them off the map with ease. And with the massive rule, it becomes impossible to prevent the Bantha from getting to your troopers.

Backstory - Part 1

My story begins in January 2016, when a local gaming store runs a deal selling the core set at nearly half price. A campaign starts up, but falls apart within a few weeks. A few players are interested in skirmish, and another store runs a store championship and we decide to attend. We get a good six or eight players, with basically everybody just running something that interests them. There's not much competitiveness going on at the time. (Note: This is post 4x4 nerf but pre-Bantha, right after Hoth released)