Sometimes I amaze even myself
Title: Sometimes I amaze even myself
Author: Tom "Gand" Culpepper
Date: Jan 1, 2001
Rating: 4.0
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Cards:
‘Start(10) RTP/Sometimes I Amaze Even Myself D Detention Block Corridor D Docking Bay Y4 War Room Y4 DB Prisoner 2187 Staging Areas Insurrection Battle Plan Heading for the Medical Frigate
Locations (3) Dagobah Yoda’s Hut Rondezvous Point Spaceport DB
Characters(18) 8D8 x3 Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight Luke w/ Lightsaber Obi-Wan w/saber x2 Lando w/Vibro Axe x2 Han w/Heavy Blaster x2 Princess Organa Harc Serf x2 Commander Wedge Antillies Lt. Blount Chewbacca w/ Blaster Oorimarrko
Vehicles/Starships(5) Lift Tube x2 Millenium Falcon Red Leader in Red 1 Gold Leader in Gold 1
Weapons(2) Luke’s Saber Anakin’s Saber
Interupts(13) The Signal x3 Tunnel Vision x2 Lift Tube Escape x3 Rebel Barrier Tunnel Vision x2 Transmition Terminated Glancing Blow
Effects(9) Death Star Plans x3 Bacta Tank Echo Base Garrison Traffic Control What Are They Trying to Push On Us Order To Engage Reflection ‘
Strategy: ‘
editor’s note, out Anakin’s Saber… add Rogue 3 see comments on reviews at the bottom
strategy?????
RESCUE THE DAMN PRINCESS.
Use Lift Tube/Lift Tube Escape to deploy a tube to the DB at Death* Either Signal for Echo Base Garrison or if you drew 8D8, deploy him and move him to the Death* DB. BOARD THE LIFT TUBE. You can’t be snipered or battled aboard it. Move the tube to the detention block.
Use 8D8’s text to atempt to free Leia during control phase, if you get it(avg destiny of the deck is above 3) then deploy an escort force and board the tube, move the tube, transit to Yavin 4 DB. If not, draw some and save some to get your setup. Move to war room your next turn and flip.
Use EBG to pull Wedge and Bacta Tank to keep Leia alive and backed up. Use your strike forces to kill off uniques and put them out of play. That’ll teach ’em.
Some cards explained
Echo Base Garrison Pull 8D8, Bacta Tank, Comm. Wedge. This card is better for RTP than it is for EBO
8D8 Destiny 5, the man(or droid) for freeing Leia and making Death Star Plans runs.
Lift Tube Escape Used 5, pulls lift tubes, puts unoccupied lift tubes in used pile. Great for tracking a 5 and 6 together for weapon destiny/battle destiny/death star plans(draws 3 destiny to retrieve)
Epps Weapons to attack uniques, add destinies every now and then… killing off more uniques
Harc read his text. Harc is awesome. Together with Lando w/Vibro Axe, these are a force on Tatooine.
Order To Engage Flipped RTP? Are they a little afraid to fight? Deploy in front of them and let them decide what the hell to do now. Lose three to order or lose characters for good.
Spaceport DB Deploys to Tat, or another planet where they are unlikely to put a DB. Most other decks will use docking bays in some way, just pay the transit fee if you have to.
Blount Anti ISB, great fodder with Insurrection.
Matchups
MKOS Mostly a ground deck, no real protection from this. Based on several unique characters. Battle Plan will slow early drains untill you can put a strike team into the pallace or transit them over to the spaceport DB. Kill the Myo for abyssins while excluding Jabba or Boleo, kill off uniques with the weapons, and the +2 to attrition. Wash, rinse, repeat. Without Jabba, or Bib(or Myo for Abyssins) MKOS is doomed.
HDADTJ Kill Vader while flipped. The destiny is high enough to shoot him with Han(especially when tracked via lift tube escape/lift tube). ABSOLUTELY dependant on unique characters. Once a few of them are gone, do a couple Death* Plans runs to bump up differential
BHBM Give up Jedi Luke, go after other uniques, making sure you win battles. As you move toward the throne room, keep your strike team together and plow through defenses.
SYCFA Battle Plan will slow them down if it is TIEs, and it may be a bit harder to free Leia. If it looks like a flip deck, move as quickly as possible and then ship out to another palnet. If they are playing star destroyers, use your ships to take them down for good while using Reflection and Death Star Plans to retrieve them.
*remember 1) 8D8 can attempt to free a captive at ANY time during your phase, so do it before deploy, then you will have presence to deploy an escort. 2) Echo Base Garrison can pull 8D8, Comm Wedge and Bacta Tank. Use all three. 3) Harc + Lando on Tatooine is a Major force to be dealt with. 4) Harc rules 5) target Uniques when flipped, and don’t forget the +2 to attrition.
I hope this expalins my goals pretty well. That covers the most popular meta around here, so if you have specific matchup questions dmail me and ask before posting a ”this deck sucks” review
**Responses to reviews
The Ronto idea is a good one, but I don’t want to leave them any ability to battle my creature vehicle, so I am using Rogue 3 instead. Works well with Comm. Wedge and all, immune to attrition <6 with the EBG on table. I dropped anakin’s saber to add that.
Add another Prisoner 2187 in place of Princess Organa, deploy 0 is too good to pass on, and it frees up some force to deploy other people with them.
Also, I took out one Tunnel Vision for Courage of a Skywalker… provide a little more duel protection in case the others don’t kill vader while I am flipped.
Added another site for activation, took out the Falcon. I am using the Home One DB so that I can sneak away aboard my ship if nessicary.
I haven’t seen a trooper deck(or one that can draw a destiny less than 0 in quite a while, so full scale alert is not a concern.
thanks for the reviews ‘