New This Month- Admiral's Orders!

She's almost always wrong- HOW IS SHE STILL AN ADMIRAL!!!

Okay, go here.

http://wizkidsgames.com/blog/2013/11/14/star-trek-attack-wing-organized-play-admirals-orders/

Take... a... look... at... that!

So, first things first, the use of Admiral's Orders have to be approved by your tournament organizer before they can be used. Check with your tournament organizer before the event- you know- actually talk to that person that runs your events and find out if this is going to be kosher.

Like I've said before, I don't approve of house rules, but these are approved fixes for some problems that may or may not be plaguing your group.

I think these may have been a fix a bit too far in one direction, but we'll have to see. Don't jump to conclusions quite yet. I think we've got to take a step back and take a bit more of a critical look at the Organized Play events, and their goals.

Obviously, the OP events are there to promote the game. They are also, from what I can see, scenario based, but not too ham fisted. In OP1, you could still just blow up DS9 and avoid that quagmire all together. In OP2, you simply jousted at each other. In OP3, you can avoid the planet entirely. That being said, these scenarios are geared towards fluff and fun, over pure competitiveness.

If the purpose of the OP events were Hard-Core-Competition, then they would be constant, straight-up death matches. You can disagree with me, but it's fairly clear that the OP events are meant to evoke battles from the show in a fun and fluffy way. What is fluff? Fluff is the stuff outside the game that makes the game as flavourful as it is- it's the flavour text on a magic the gathering card, it's everything that isn't rules in a Warhammer 40k Codex, and it's the entirety of the Television Show that Attack Wing is based upon.

That being said, the Organized play events are still quite competitive, but each one is a bit different and there are scenario aspects that don't just involve flying ships at each other and shooting at those ships.

So, these Admiral's Orders encourage certain builds over others, which I think is a bit of a step in the wrong direction. Supposedly, they will change from month to month- Hopefully they aren't always about based on the number of ships you have in your fleet etc.,

One issue to begin with, is that you can use multiple orders in your fleet. For January, you could take a Two Ship, Faction Pure list and use both Strike Force AND United Force and run a 105 pt list that's pretty nuts with upgrades etc., Three ship lists are still going to be prevalent, because they're very good. You could also just run faction pure ships and take United Force, and get a 3 ship 110 list, which may also be very good as well!

Why wouldn't you run a two ship list with those parameters?

You're going to have to have a good reason not to take advantage of these upgrades, and it could lead to very samey builds if these things become any more good than these first ones.

Should Tournament Organizers allow these Order to be used? Is your local group always using the same lists over and over again?  Each Organizer will have to decide for themselves, but if you're finding your games are stagnating, give these a whirl.

Anyone that reacted - OP - immediately upon release is pulling a chicken little- Play with the cards first, and then decide whether they are overpowered. Repeat for everything and we'll have a much better time overall.