A fully painted army = Victory?

Well...it took a little help from my opponent too, but yes. 

Fully painted army, check. Some of you may have noted that the black squad from my last post isn't included, meaning this isn't even all of them!

Up front I should say that I don't mean that in the sense of he did something really stupid and I capitalized on the mistake. Rather on the last turn, as I was about to make said mistake, my opponent convinced me to do otherwise. I was about to charge his AT-ST with my electrostaff armed Super tactical droid, when Tom stopped me and said: 'Don't do that or the game will end in a tie rather than you winning.' 

The Super Tactical droid in question, just before it killed his close combat-oriented agent who routinely kicks my ass. However, this time around said agent was taken down with ease by my Super Tac.

Tom asked if a could see the path to victory and flummoxed, I could not. He asked if my super tac could reach the nearby POI in my deployment zone, which it could. If it did so, then I would have 2 units (my T-series command droid was camped there all game) to his 1 (the aforementioned AT-ST).

The droid horde advancing earlier in the game. 

His plan was to double move his other AT-ST up to the objective, which would only allow him to contest said POI as the odds of the resident AT-ST killing one, if not both of my command droids in 1 volley was debatable. 

I had already taken his deployment zone POI with a dwarf spider droid, and we each held another POI in no man's land. As such we had a tie score going into the last turn. 

I apologize if this does not make a whole lot of sense as I only took 3 pics, so do not have enough for a battle report. 

General Grievous leading the charge in Tom's backfield. Of all of the Imperial troops in this pic, only a handful of Storm troopers on the right would survive the game. 

That said, many a time I have stopped a newer player from doing something detrimental to the chances of victory, not because what they were doing was wrong necessarily, but because their grasp of the game was still limited. I've even done this in tournaments (where I was already out of the running). 

As such, it was nice to be on the receiving end of that kind of advice for a change. Especially as, up until this game, I had never beaten Tom nor even come close to doing so (though he is always fun to play legion with regardless of my losses). 

I can't but help compare this experience to oh so many times witnessing the schmuck in Tennessee at my old FLGS whose 'teaching games' involved him grinding noobs into the dirt with meta-optimized tournament lists. Which sadly is very reminiscent of my first legion game here in South Carolina.