This season (the 9th!) is extra-interesting because we’re using spoiled-but-not-released units such as Din, Rebel Boba, gun-less Dark Troopers, Din, Super-charged Imperial Boba with new command cards, IG-88 with no command cards (they got spoiled too late), Din, Cody with no command cards (argh), and finally, Din. That’s a variety you probably won’t approach until we have Worlds again, so if anyone reading this may be on the fence about playing “fake Legion” I’d encourage them to give it a shot for the competition alone. I’ve played four complete seasons so far and each time I was knocked out of single elims from someone in a new region of the world: Texas, Germany, Idaho, and Australia. But I also think that Invader tests slightly different skills, and perhaps more importantly is a forum where players across the entire world can play each other in one ongoing event. Pictured: A more well-balanced map than you’re likely to see very often IRLĭoes this mean that a player must be “better” to succeed in real life play compared to TTS? I think that’s a fair statement. It’s this latter item that I would argue is the most consequential, planning for a map and an opponent ahead of time makes a world of difference compared to the real-life situation where your Jedi list may be suddenly faced with a massive gunline on a table that only has scatter terrain. It’s absolutely true that Invader is a somewhat different game from real life legion, one where measurements are exact, maps are nearly universally of high quality, and where players have time to prepare for a match. But for all that time from the spring of 2020 to now, we’ve had Invader. The release schedule remains messy due to supply chain concerns and only in the last year have real life tournaments felt truly “normal” again thanks to vaccination. Putting aside the actual hardships that so many went through during the pandemic, the game itself is still recovering in many ways. I did get to play one real life tournament and was excited to do more when this…thing…happened. I didn’t even realize that they could share standbys until I heard some bunch of chuckleheads yapping about it on Notorious Scoundrels on some episode. We would be setting up 6×4 maps with minimal terrain, just kinda shooting away and very slowly learning that Obi-Wan probably shouldn’t “Guardian” every roll and even more slowly figuring out that the Clone Trooper keyword was busted at the time. I remember that time fondly, my brother Greg and I had absolutely no idea what we were doing, to the point where I was constantly bemoaning how broken General Grievous and Droidekas were (heh…sorry CIS players). I began learning this game in late 2019 a bit after Clone Wars released.
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