Harbingers Hidden Weapon Squads

Title: Harbingers Hidden Weapon Squads
Author: Martin "Harbinger" Parzonka
Date: Jan 22, 2001 Rating: 4.0

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Cards:

’ Starting 1 Hidden Base/Systems Will Slip Through Your Fingers 1 Rendezvous Point 1 (Hidden Base System) 1 Heading For The Medical Frigate 1 Squadron Assignments 1 Superficial Damage 1 Do, Or Do Not & Wise Advice

Locations 1 Aquaris 1 Coruscant 1 Kashyyyk 1 Kessel 1 Ralltiir 1 Sullust

Characters 1 Bren Quersey 1 Captain Han Solo 1 Dash Rendar 1 Derek ’Hobbie’ Klivian 1 Elyhek Rue 1 Lieutenant Blount 1 Lieutenant Naytaan 1 Luke Skywalker 1 Mirax Terrik 1 Ralltiir Freighter Captain 1 Theron Nett 1 Wedge Antilles, Red Squadron Leader

Starships 1 Artoo-Detoo In Red 5 1 Gold Squadron 1 1 Outrider 1 Pulsar Skate 1 Red 10 1 Red 7 1 Red 8 1 Red 9 1 Red Squadron 1 1 Red Squadron 4 1 Tala 2

Interrupts 1 Darklighter Spin 1 Organized Attack 1 Out Of Commission & Transmission Terminated 3 Rapid Fire 2 Slight Weapons Malfunction 2 The Signal 1 Transmission Terminated

Effects 1 Goo Nee Tay 1 Haven 2 Kessel Run 1 Legendary Starfighter 1 S-Foils 1 Traffic Control

Weaponry 2 Concussion Missiles 4 X-wing Laser Cannon ‘

Strategy: ‘

Strategy

First of all, choose whatever hidden base you want, I alternate between Kessel, Aquaris and Sullust.

It seems like there is one major weakness in this deck, the fact that there is no ground force, but that’s no problem as I will explain in the ’Against major decks’ section.

This deck is fairly simple to play and the fact that there aren’t all that many expensive rares means that people that can’t afford a lot of cards should be able to make it.

Start off by deploying systems, (“gee, you think?” (Sarcasm)) Always deploy Kessel and Coruscant last, don’t want to be giving the opponent force to play with. If you get Haven in your starting hand, deploy Sullust with Haven on it, now you can get just about all your matching pilot/ship combos using Squadron Assignments deploying for just 1 force. If you don’t get Haven in your hand use Signal, if you don’t get Signal, deploy Sullust or Kashyyyk and a ship to the Rendezvous Point, that way next turn you can get another pilot/ship to the system you deployed and move the ship at Rendezvous Point to back it up.

Basically just repeat deploying pilot/ships and systems each turn and then fortify Kessel and Coruscant for big drains. Also put Red 7 and pilot at Ralltiir for an extra drain. Continue Kessel Running (actually you can only do it twice if you have Outrider deployed) and make them count, either use the Ralltiir Freighter Captains on Gold Squad 1, Outrider or Pulsar Skate to retrieve 10, or use Mirax on Pulsar Skate to retrieve 7 when Kessel Running from Ralltiir, or 10 when from Coruscant (not recommended sice it will take double the amount of turns due to the parsec difference). Sorry no one turn Kessel Runs in here, I am forced to use Gold Squadron 1 since I don’t have the Falcon, but by all means change it if you have the real Falcon, NB Gold Squadron 1 does count as Falcon for purposes of any card which targets the Falcon, eg. Legendary Starfighter.

If your opponent decides to battle you, use Rapid Fire to pull a weapon, deploy it on a ship in battle fire it, use Slight Weapons Malfuntion to add destiny, and watch you opponent cry as you just forfeit the weapon to cover battle damage and attrition. NB never deploy weapons without using Rapid Fire, it’s a waste if your opponent dosen’t come to battle you. Also when in battle try to deploy a X-Wing Cannon on one of the ships that add 1 to weapon destiny.

Never remove Darklighter Spin, it has saved my arse many a time and will save yours too, imagine it when the opponent feels pretty @#$%y and deploys a ship to beat on Luke in Red 5, use the above weapon combo to add a destiny and use Darklighter Spin to make one of those destinies an 8 because of Luke and R2 adding maneuver to Red 5, this is also a pretty good destiny deck so to add insult to injury you have a good chance to make that second destiny a 5, it’s like yeah I have a power of 21 out of just Luke in his X-Wing, the opponent should have taken the advice that Han gave to Luke “Don’t get @#$%y”.

Goo Nee Tay is primarily in there to stop M’iiyoom Onith from killing the deck, although you shouldn’t really have many characters in your hand because of Squadron Assignments.

None of the weapons in this deck can target capital starships, but that dosen’t matter since most decks use the Bounty Hunter ships.

Secret Plans is annoying but you just have to manage your Force properly and you will get past it, if you don’t have enough to pay for the retrieval you can always do things like choose not to use the game text of Pulsar Skate (it says may add ability) and just retrieve a little less.

There are two cards that I can think of that will help this deck, they are I’ll Take The Leader, this will make most of the ships immune to attrition <6, and will kill an opponent that uses a deck full of non-unique TIEs, plus it will put a hindrance on the Bounty Hunter ships. The second card is Concentrate All Fire, with the weapons in this deck, the average X-Wing will be power 8. The problem is I don’t own these cards, but they shouldn’t be two hard to get. If there are any suggestions as to what to take out to put them in, it will be greatly appreciated.

Well this strategy section is rather lengthy but this is the home straight so on we go.

As I said earlier I will explain the reasons for not needing a ground force here.

Against major decks

HDADTJ Cancel Visage as soon as you can, using Transmission Terminated. Search And Destroy will hurt but since they won’t drain for as much as you, you will out drain them. Plus you can retrieve. If they come to space, they won’t stay around long.

ISB Blount, Blount, he’s our man if he can’t do it… someone else probably will. Simple deploy Coruscant and throw Blount and some major backup there, they won’t flip, and as an extra added bonus, all Imperials deploy +2, OK that won’t do much against Outer Rim Scouts, but as long as they don’t flip it dosen’t matter. NB wait to see if they deploy Coruscant system first so you can convert it, and not have them convert yours, even though Blount can deploy to the Darkside version, you will lose the nice force drain.

BHBM Give them Luke, they will lose 1 each of there turns, and it’s not likely they will win many battles, you will out drain them. Plus there’s the fact that you can retrieve.

RalOps Deploy Ralltiir from reserve deck and they will have a harder time to flip as they will have to come to space to stop you controlling a Ralltiir location, of course you will then pound them. I played my friend’s ROps deck and he did manage to flip but the -1 froce drains didn’t hurt too much as I just stayed at Coruscant and Kessel, and after beating his ships put Red 7 and pilot at Ralltiir to add to the drain there. In the end I out drained him and retrieved enough to win by about 20.

I haven’t played Agents of Black Sun or MKOS but I would guess you would just win the drain war.

So there you go, you don’t need a ground force because they will be out drained, you can retrieve

Well that’s all for now, thanks for your time and I hope you like the deck. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Harbinger ‘