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The Road to Schaumburg

The Road to Schaumburg With the Schaumburg Prime Offensive, Adepticon's Firestorm Armada tournament, coming up, I will be playing 900 point games about as often as I can get away with it. At 900 points, I have quite a few choices of fleet, even once I know that it's going to be Relthoza, probably with a squadron of Ba'Kash allies. My first attempt ran the following list: 1 battleship with extra PD and extra wings, but no other upgrades. 1 carrier, no upgrades. 3 cruisers, no upgrades.. 4 Drone frigates. 4 Nidus frigates. 3 Ba'Kash cruisers, no upgrades. As you can see, the list is extremely spartan (pun only about half intentional), but it does manage to squeeze in 6 activations. My opponent, one of the best in my local area, ran a list of Sorylians consisting of: 1 dreadnought with a single escort and a flight of interceptors. 4 regular cruisers. 2 squads of 5 frigates, I think. Only 4 activations, but each one packs quite a punch! The mission was Amb...