Imperial High Command
Title: Imperial High Command
Author: Andrew "Gadget" Ledwith
Date: Sep 9, 2000
Rating: 4.5
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Cards:
‘Locations (10) Alderaan Death Star Death Star Docking Bay 327 Death Star War Room Endor Executor Docking Bay Fondor Kashyyyk Kessel Sullust
Characters (17) Admiral Chiraneau Admiral Motti Admiral Ozzel Admiral Piett Captain Godhert Captain Lennox Commander Igar Commander Merrejk x2 Darth Vader With Lightsaber x2 DS-61-2 DS-61-3 DS-61-4 Grand Moff Tarkin Officer Evax U-3PO (Yoo-Threepio)
Vehicles (6) Blizzard 2 Blizzard Scout 1 Tempest 1 Tempest Scout 3 Tempest Scout 4 Tempest Scout 5
Starships (9) Accuser Avenger Bossk In Hounds Tooth Chimaera Devastator Dominator Executor Visage Zuckuss in Mist Hunter
Interrupts (6) Imperial Command x2 Prepared Defenses Twi’lek Advisor x3
Effects (11) Battle Order Blast Door Controls Come Here You Big Coward Imperial Arrest Order Lateral Damage x2 Mobilization Points Reactor Terminal Security Precautions Something Special Planned For Them You Cannot Hide Forever
Objective (1) Set Your Course For Alderaan/The Ultimate Power In The Universe ‘
Strategy: ‘
———Responce To Reviews——— Kuat Drive Yards? Eh, no. Ok, so it’ll let me pull my SDs out every turn. But the immunity? Have you noticed that I seem to have a large ammount of forfeit in this deck? Immunity doesn’t impact me much. If you draw junk for destiny, you’ll probably lose the battle anyway. If you draw a 5+, I’d have to lose something anyways, and every character has the ability to cover a destiny 5, most a destiny 6. I’d rather get the Executor out second turn and have immunity < 12 personally. ————————————-
This deck is pretty darn good, if I do say so myself. I’ve played with it at 2 tournaments. In that time it has gone 4-2.
It has beaten Profit Jedi Testing RTP Hidden Base w/ Squadron Assignments
It has lost to Brentson Profit (no, not Steve, Jeff Brentson, but it’s in the blood) There Is Good In Him (combination of a horrible opening hand for me and an excellent opening hand for him)
First off, start with SYCFA, the stuff it requires, Prepared Defense, IAO, MPoints, and You Cannot Hide Forever. On your first turn pull Executer, EDB, and the DS War Room. If you’re playing vs HB you’ll want to discard YCHForever to get out Security Precautions. Versus Ops (if anyone plays it anymore) you’d get out Battle Order. Other than that, you can discard it at your own discretion.
If you get Commander Merrejk in your opening draw, deploy him to the War Room and start to search for systems. If you don’t get him, but you do get Admiral Piett (or an Imperial Command so you can get Piett), deploy Piett to the EDB for 2, then pull Merrejk with Piett’s text, and deploy him to the War Room. Since there are 5 ways to get Merrejk (2 of him, 1 Piett, 2 Imperial Commands) you should have no problems getting him out early. The first system you’ll want to pull is Fondor, so you’ll be able to get out Executor on turn 2-3. If you’re playing vs HB (or even non-HB that starts Sqassins and is generating enough to drop a lot of junk), you may want to pull something else, and wait until you’ve got the 10 force. Then search for Fondor, since if the LS gets stuff to Fondor before you get the Executor there, it could be a while before it comes down.
After the initial setup, continue to pull systems. SDs and pilots will come with time. There is suffcient ground pound to at least keep a LS ground deck busy. And at any rate, you should be able to beat them in a drain race even if you don’t get your ground out.
Note You do NOT need Admiral Chiraneau to win He’s good, and he’ll help you finish up faster, but you can win without him. Ultimatum will make his bonus worthless at all of your systems except Kessel and Fondor. Test 1 and Menace Fades will kill it off completely (although setting up Menace Fades will be difficult for them). In short, don’t fret if you lose him to a drain or something. No, it’s not a good thing, but it’s not the end of the world.
I use 3 Twi’leks in addition to my starter because my effects are very important in this deck. Coward should be the first effect you pull, since it’ll cancel the drain of 3 presented at the DStar, plus the drain of 2 at the War Room. I use Blast Door Controls since everyone in Connecticut plays with Rebel Barrier, but no one plays LS SAC. Lateral Damage x2? Well, yeah. That card is frigin broken. It’s great on Super Falcon or Home One, and does a number on lone ships too. And of course, what deck would be complete without Reactor Terminal? You need the 3 Twi’leks.
This is not an interrupt heavy deck as you can see. I’ve never been big on any DS interrupt. Sorry. I don’t know what else to say. There’s also no Admiral’s Order card in here. Couldn’t find room, and concluded that I really don’t need them. I’m not too keen on them in the first place. I’d rather not play with them if I don’t have to, since they do help out the opponent as well as you. If you’d like to add in 1-2 you’re welcome to it.
Other than that, there’s not too much to explain. I think it can beat anything it comes across. If you have any questions just D-mail me.
Andrew Ledwith “Gadget” ‘