Who let the Raiders out
Title: Who let the Raiders out
Author: Andy "Solo337" McClure
Date: Oct 29, 2000
Rating: 4.5
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Cards:
’ Objective (1) Agents In The Court/No Love For the Empire
Locations (8) Jabba’s Palace Audience Chamber (s) Tatooine Hutt Trade Route (s) Yoda’s Hutt Tatooine Lars’ Moisture Farm Jabba’s Palace Entrance Chavern Tatooine Mos Eisley Tatooine Jundlund Wastes Rendevous Point
Characters (21) Jedi Luke x3 EPP Han EPP Leia Ben Kenobi x2 EPP Obi Palace Raider x7 Tessek Harc Seff Boushh Lt. Blount Broken Lando (Lando w/ Vibro Ax) x2
Vehicles (5) Patrol Craft x5
Weapons (2) Luke’s Saber Obi’s Saber
Interrupts (11) Nar Shadda Wind Chimes x2 Trans Term Rebel Barrier The Signal Tunnel Vision You Will Take Me To Jabba Now x2 Lost In The Wilderness Clash Of Sabers Heading For The Medical Frigate (s)
Effects (12) Yarna d’Al’ Gargan (s) Aim High (s) Uh-Oh (s) Wise Advise (s) I hope She’s All Right Order To Engage What’re You Tryin’ To Push On Us? x2 Bo Shuda Underworld Contacts Sandwhirl Bagaining Table
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Strategy: ‘
This is a powerful deck in the hands of an experienced player. It has great drains, powerful fighting power, and it murders TIEs. I used it to win the B’Ham Grand Slam, and it went 3-0. It won by 27, something like 17 and one really close game against HD, I only won by 4.
I played a slightly weaker deck at the DecipherCon team event, and it only lost to Martin Akesson’s Court flip, which I am not ashamed of at all. We’ve been having Closed tournaments, so it’s tournament record is 4-1.
Basically you just want to set up Tessek at the Audience Chamber with Bo Shuda to increase your drains, and give you a little bonus activation and save some force on your Raiders.
What you do after that depends on the deck you are playing against. I will have a more detailed explanation of what to do vs. each deck later.
Once Tessek is at the AC, a Palace Raider in a Patrol craft is deploy 2 and power 4, and it adds a battle destiny, can react, hold a pssenger and moves for free. It also makes all Force Drains +1.
Here’s why I play some of the cards I do Underworld Contacts Gives me Generation +1, 4 destiny, keeps drains from getting cancelled, raises my converted site to the top.
I Hope She’s Alright I sometimes have problems with a fast TIE deck, and this helps immensely. With no starships, this makes them come to me.
Aim High GREAT against TIEs and Court flip, also helps out against Scum. With this and I Hope She’s Alright, I can beat TIEs at least 80% of the time.
Lost In The Wilderness All my sites (besides the Bo Shuda one and my generators) are exterior planet sites, so why not?
Only 1 Trans Term and no duel protection I beat a Hunt Down deck to win the GS. I am not worried about Duels, because I have Enclosed vehicles to stick my Jedi in, and Visage doesn’t hurt me too bad because I can keep them on the table.
Only 1 Tessek He can’t die very easily, thanks to Bo Shuda, and You Will Take Me To Jabba Now will get him from reserve.
Mos Eisley and Lars’ Moisture Farm Mostly for generation, but it also gives me more sites to drain at. I can spread no problem to force drains, because I can react for free.
EPP Obi Ben Kenobi can only deploy on Tatooine, and this guy is great for taking out those pesky interior off-planet drains.
Against SAC I just use Wise Advise and catch their SAC cards.
Here’s what I do against common DS decks
Hunt Down Play smart. If you can cancel Visage early with a spy or Trans Term do so. If not, get Obi or Luke aboard a Patrol Craft with a Palac Raider and another character to get 2 destinies. Try to get your generation and spread and drain as much as possible. Order to Engage can help make them battle, and you can react your forces together.
TIEs Set up I Hope She’s Alright and spread and drain like mad. Aim High will make them pay for their retrieval. You should be able to outdrain them with Tessek. If they have Battle Order, try to getthem off of their Battleground site.
BHBM Let the have Luke and then just use your own judgement. Go after Vader if you think you can kill him, or spread and drain. If you’re scared of getting Circled, put Ben Kenobi in a vehicle and let him react and revive people. Use Broken Lando and Han and Leia to fight, along with (of course) Palace Raiders.
Court flip This is probably this decks toughest game. Bo Shuda doesn’t protect your aliens from Trap Door, and your mains getting captured SUCKS Stay away from the Audience Chamber and drain like mad. Broken Lando helps out a lot.
Space decks in general Set up Tessek and spread and drain. Bargaining table helps a TON
Well, I think that about covers it. Look for a tournament report showing how I used this deck in the next 2 or 3 days.
Thanks for reading Andy McClure
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