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Hey there guys I had my second OP4 the other day. It was a blast. I lost round 2 to the guy who came in 1st. We werecruisern to one ship and he got a lucky shot off, but a great game none the less. In round 3 I quickly got my opponent down to 1 ship and then focused on star fleet HQ. I managed to get 30 points out of star fleet before my opponent decided to fly off the board to deny me the final 5 points. However my efforts paid off and my attack on star fleet was enough to squeak me into 2nd place and bring home a 2nd sutherland




Two is nice, but thanks to some ebay purchases I now have a Nebula class squadron The clix ships are slightly darker in color but they fit in fine.



Sorry for the crappy pics but my camera is dead and I had to use my tablet. Now i really want to run a couple of breen battle cruisers with secondary torpedo launchers.

I'm not sure why this video turned out so grainy and almost unreadable, but here it is. It's the first mission from page 24 of the rulebook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP13aH5F9vU&feature=youtu.be


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This is the second mission in the rulebook, found on page 25. Loads of fun with lots to do besides blowing the enemy up - though that works too! Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXPYyXBxcww&feature=youtu.be



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This mission comes with the Negh'var expansion pack.

I find it heavily favours the attacker as the defender has so many points tied up in the stationary space station. If his other ships move forward too quickly his ships will be destroyed piecemeal without the support of the space station.

However, if he moves forward too late, the space station will be left vulnerable and on its own.

Here is the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hstq7Wa3-XY&feature=youtu.be

-Deathwingcrusader

I think the "Destroy the station" scenario would be a little more balanced it you modified it a little and use the DS9 token from OP1. The station is a lot more menacing when it can throw out 4 5die attacks a turn, pluse crew.

Great vids & thanks for sharing.

My mate is entering the op 4 event with me next weekend but is dead set on a pure federation fleet.
He's only played a couple of games and that against me, using a list I wrote for him.

I gave him:
ENT-D - picard and chekov,
Defiant - sisko and cheat death,
Galaxy class - Terrell and sulu.

Was supposed to be a hard hitting ent-d, with a defiant that absorbs damage and another big hitter, buffing the other two but hopefully being overlooked a bit.
He really didn't get on with it.

Do any of you have any suggestions on a federation fleet that would work better than my attempt? It can't include the sutherland or excelsior as neither are out in the UK yet.
He's not aiming for a win, just a fleet that won't constantly get tabled.

P.S. before you say anything I realised during the game I had miss-understood Chekov's abilities. Why he seems to be a weird choice in there.

To be a threat the defiant needs torpedoes. If your venue is going to allow the admirals orders and your friend like those ships I would recomend:
Enterprise D
Sisko
Defiant
Picard
Photons (5 shot)
Chekov
Federation Flagship
Galaxy Class
Terrell
Sulu
110 on the nose.

The defiant will be much more durable as the flagship. 4 attacks, 4 hull, 5 shields, and free battle stations. That way when shooting the main weapon you get free battle stations, the ship can evade, and picard can target lock or scan.

However if your friend can't use the admirals orders I would suggest going slightly out of faction.
Enterprise D
Picard
Galaxy
Terrell
Defiant
Independant Flagship w/battle stations
Khan (8skill)
That would give kahn a free battle station, and his ship can evade, plus he shoots at 8 skill with lethal crits and 4 attacks. Also with the independent flagship the defiant becomes duel faction so khan is only 5 pts. This way he has 3 ships coming in with 4 attacks each. Khan's abiloty is more lethal than torpedoes.

hope it helps

Thanks for that.

Going to get some more practise in soon as, so I will give him one of those fleets to try.

Fed lists just don't feel that competitive, don't know if its just me that thinks that though?

Feds can be very competitive, but are more complicated then other races. Klingons can get away with just hooking up good captains with ships. Romulans are about combining tech, ships and captains. Feds are about combining crew, ships and caps. It is just tough to balance out some factions when klingons are so easy. I am having a hell of a time with my romulans right now, but that will chang next month just a lot of trial and error.

Here's a video of my OP4 experience. There are three battles. My batreps are becoming more of a warning of what not to do, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcb4VthqkOs

Hey there Dakka,
My local store os replaying OPs 1-4 this month so far I am doing well. Last weekend we had 7 peoplefor OP1. The usual guys didn't show up and it was mostly new people so I decided to tone down my usual shenanigans and flew:
Vorch class
Martok (9)
Advanced Weapon System
Vorcha class
Koloth
Advanced Weapon System
K'vort class
Worf

It was a week ago so I don't remember a lot of details

. Round 1 was against a 2 ship build with Khazara and Enterprise D. I know I destroyed the station and the big D. I lost as the Khazara took me out and she had one hull left.

Round 2 was against a pure klingon list. I think he had a vorch, k'tinga, and k'vort. He had lower captains but weapons systems and torpedoes on 2 ships. I won this round. He took the station early. I was going to try and take it back but he was hammering me with its shots so I destroyed it in the next to last round. I do remember that I had all 3 ships left at the end, bit 2 of them had only 1 hull left.

Round 3 was against a pure federation list, Defiant, big D, amd Excelsior. I got some lucky hits through the defiants cloak and took it out on turn 2 and hurt the excelsior bad. I also took the station for myself and took 4 shileds off of the enterprise and it went down the next turn.. Excelsior took one of my ships on a long chance that lasted a few turns until I caught him in a corner. When the dust settled I still had all 3 ships and DS9.

The guy I lost round 1 to, lost round 2 and that together with me taking the station in round 3 put me over the top for a win and another Krayton



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Today we did our OP2 replay and only 3 of us showed up. We usually have 8-10 but I think the NFL playoffs are interfering with our turn out. For this I flew something a little different:
Neg'var class
Picard
Interphase Generator
Neg'var class
Dukat
Interphase Generator
Vo
Sar
Ferengi EM Pulse

I got the bye round 1

. Round 2 wwas a united force Picard on flagship Ent D, Donatra on Praetus, and Martok on the Neg'var. We inched it out with 1 maneuvers. One turn 4 or 5 my picard and dukat focused and took out his enterprise. He focused fire on my picard and he went down. Next turn I em pulsed his martok. Dukat one shoted the praetus. He was determined to do a 1 green with martok to get rid of the auxiliary power token so I flew the vo in front of him and he bumped 2 turns in a row and dukat was able to chip away at him. So I only lost picard and the Vo started gaining some respect.

Round 3 was a united strike force kirk on the big D with everything, and Gen Khan on a valdor independent flagship. We traded some early shots taking out the shields on the D. Then the Vo EM pulesed the Valdor. He took out Dukat on turn 3 or 4. The Vo got into a good pposition to bump the valdor and I was able to get some hits on it with my picard while the enterprise D slowly turned around on the other side of the table. The valdor took 3 turns of shooting to get through the Vo and Picard was all alone. I got behind the valdor as he turned around and got him down to 1 hull point and the Obital Weapons Platform finished him off. It was then kirk on picard. I had 3 hull and my shields left. Kirkmhad one hull and 3 shields. It came down toma turn of simultaneous fire amd Picard limped home with 1 hull point left and VICTORY. That was probably one of the best games I have played, despite the OWPs a lot of crafty maneuvers and fun on both sides.

I was the only one with 2 wins so I now have a 3rd real B'rel and my 20th Klingon ship


We shall see what next week brings

We had our OP 4 event yesterday and I ended up winning 3-0.

Federation Alliance United Force - 110 points

U.S.S. Defiant
Jean Luc Picard
Mr. Spock
Photon Torpedoes

U.S.S Excelsior
Clark Terrell
Dmitri Valtane
Hikaru Sulu

I.R.W. Valdore
Donatra
Tactical Officer

Had enough potency to tear through two klingon lists that were pretty scary. Assuming the orders are still available, I'll probably fly the same list next month, and see how it goes.

 DeathwingCrusader wrote:
Here's a video of my OP4 experience. There are three battles. My batreps are becoming more of a warning of what not to do, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcb4VthqkOs

I have to ask, if you were going for the 2 ship build why didn't you take 2 Neg'vars

 Mr. S Baldrick wrote:

 DeathwingCrusader wrote:
Here's a video of my OP4 experience. There are three battles. My batreps are becoming more of a warning of what not to do, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcb4VthqkOs

I have to ask, if you were going for the 2 ship build why didn't you take 2 Neg'vars

I wanted the rear-firing arcs, which both the Negh'var and Vor'cha lack. In retrospect, I might swing back to the Negh'var and Vor'cha.

 DeathwingCrusader wrote:


I wanted the rear-firing arcs, which both the Negh'var and Vor'cha lack. In retrospect, I might swing back to the Negh'var and Vor'cha.

Gotcha, I can see that.


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Maybe for more bang for the buck try
Neg'var class
martok
drex
negvar class
koloth
Nagaren
k'tinga
Gowron
Klag

the use the united force to give martok & koloth either advanced weapon systems or someone once more unto the breach. The INCHA talents didn't seem to be doing much for you.

So OP events are fun and all, but sometimes they leave you wanting more One hundred points is so limiting. Well I like to think big. When I first heard of Attack Wing coming out I thought of epic battles like we saw in DS9, not little skirmishes. Here is my idea of Attack Wing; I like to call it…

RUMBLE IN THE NEUTRAL ZONE:








What we have here is a 600 pt game with 34 ships of Romulan vs. Federation goodness. I think we used everyone in the box for this one

This is just the pregame phase, but my wife, my friend, and I will be playing this one out over the next few weeks when we have days off that coincide. This is just a tease for now, however I will be documenting the game as it progresses. So if you guys want to see more I will post it as a full report when it is finished.

Interesting, however, likely me and the other guy I play with would be able to finish that game in 4 hours max, lol.

PS, I'm very good with my attack die, lol. GO GO 7 Critical shots!!!

WAIT, how are you using the Intrepid, Oberth, and Constellation classes?

 DeathwingCrusader wrote:
Here's a video of my OP4 experience. There are three battles. My batreps are becoming more of a warning of what not to do, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcb4VthqkOs

I really enjoy your videos but you know what happens more than warp core breaches? You finishing every turn with "That's where we're at"

emperorpenguin wrote:

 DeathwingCrusader wrote:
Here's a video of my OP4 experience. There are three battles. My batreps are becoming more of a warning of what not to do, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcb4VthqkOs

I really enjoy your videos but you know what happens more than warp core breaches? You finishing every turn with "That's where we're at"

lol, I will try to stop that. I'll also try to stop losing so much.

 PlaguelordHobbyServices wrote:
Interesting, however, likely me and the other guy I play with would be able to finish that game in 4 hours max, lol.

PS, I'm very good with my attack die, lol. GO GO 7 Critical shots!!!

WAIT, how are you using the Intrepid, Oberth, and Constellation classes?

It would only take me and an exexperienced player about 4 hours to play, but my wife doesn't do OPs and likes to have time to think about her moves/actions. She can also only stay focused on the game for about 90 minutes after that she is ready for a Facebook break. It loook like nowit will just be us on this one, my buddy told me last night he has to work 7 days a week for the next month, so he is out. He is even going to miss OP 4, guess I will have to try and win a Sutherland for him.

As to your other question, we use the Oberth class as Mirandas and the Constellation is a micro machine replacement to give the Constitution class for a more Next Gen era feel. The intrepid class is the Bellerophon from tactics. We are using it as a Galaxcy flagship for admiral Ross... until april when we get Voyager in April. We just wanted a little more variety for larger games than the current models allow.

A 2vs2 modified PATROL THE BADLANDS video batrep::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slah2q-CPOY&feature=youtu.be

Here is a 2vs3 modified MUTARA NEBULA video batrep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm4lJ-nNFts&feature=youtu.be

So, Kronos one, or generic K'Vort? kinda wanted all 3 ships to have Advanced Weapon System...lole

 PlaguelordHobbyServices wrote:
So, Kronos one, or generic K'Vort? kinda wanted all 3 ships to have Advanced Weapon System...lole

I would go K'vort, form some reason Kronos One doesn't have a tech slot so it can't take the advanced weapon system. For whatever reasone the gave it 2 crew and 2 weapons.

Think this might get some interesting responses, as I am kind of curious to see what is out there.

What is in the fleets that you guys use when you are going to an op and aiming to bring home a ship?

For the last few tournaments- Enterprise D, Picard, Engage, Valdore, Captain with Elite Talent, Engage.

My last op was this:

Koranak w/ cloaking device captain by Dukat crew with Boheeka
Kraxon captain by a Cardi captain
D'deridex captain by Donatra

Came it 2nd because I forgot about the 180 arc on the Excelsior.

But for all the Ops I have run Donatra in Valdore except this last one and the first; that time Donatra was in a D7 with 3 other D7s and Gowron and Martok. Actually that might have been 3 D7s and a Vorcha, but I still got that Krayton.

So, regarding Resources, etc.

I play Klingons, and up until this month, I've been thrashing my fellow dominion player...

Now, with the simple addition of the Independent Flagship card (reverse Klingon side) to his fleet, I can't even destroy one of his ships... And I'm running an all star lineup of ships too that usually kick ass...

Here's what I generally run

Reinforcements Sideboard 10
Martok (9)
Advanced Weapons System
Barrage of Fire
Defense Condition one

I.K.S. Koraga
Klingon Captain - 0

I.K.S Ch'Tang
Koloth

K'Vort Class
Worf
Alexander

There may be a few things I'm missing, and I run with united Force Admiral Orders, so I usually buy some more upgrades.

Should I be eschewing the Sideboard for the Flagship cards? What about the Command Tokens?

If you venue allows united force I would go with the tokens or the flagship over the sideboard.

Why though? I can fit an extra 10 points on the sideboard so total it's like I'm running 120 points worth of stuff...

 PlaguelordHobbyServices wrote:
Why though? I can fit an extra 10 points on the sideboard so total it's like I'm running 120 points worth of stuff...

Yes, but the side board takes an action to use and you can only use it once a turn. The flagship can give you a free action and increase the stats of your ship. Being able to cloak and sensor echo in the same turn is nice The command tokens are also free actions and the rerolls could save a ship or finish off an opponent.

The side board takes too long to get the full advantage from it. If your opponent is on you fast and takes out a ship or 2 you will not get much out of it. Or you might need you actions for other things, cloaking, target locks, martok, etc. Extra stuff doesn't do you any good if you can't use it.

I think there is also a problem with your list
26 Koraga
00 klingon captain
22 Ch'Tang
04 Koloth
24 Kavort class
03 Worf
03 Alexander
20 Sideboard
102 total

your 2 points over

 Mr. S Baldrick wrote:

 PlaguelordHobbyServices wrote:
Why though? I can fit an extra 10 points on the sideboard so total it's like I'm running 120 points worth of stuff...

Yes, but the side board takes an action to use and you can only use it once a turn. The flagship can give you a free action and increase the stats of your ship. Being able to cloak and sensor echo in the same turn is nice The command tokens are also free actions and the rerolls could save a ship or finish off an opponent.

The side board takes too long to get the full advantage from it. If your opponent is on you fast and takes out a ship or 2 you will not get much out of it. Or you might need you actions for other things, cloaking, target locks, martok, etc. Extra stuff doesn't do you any good if you can't use it.

I think there is also a problem with your list
26 Koraga
00 klingon captain
22 Ch'Tang
04 Koloth
24 Kavort class
03 Worf
03 Alexander
20 Sideboard
102 total

your 2 points over

Actually, the sideboard only costs 10 pts to use, so technically, I'm 8 points under...

ah your right sorry about that.