Break It Down

Title: Break It Down
Author: Johan "Johan" van der Meer
Date: Nov 25, 1999 Rating: 4.5

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Cards:

‘Starting (8) Carbon Chamber Testing/My Favorite Decoration Cloud City Carbonite Chamber Cloud City Security Tower Carbonite Chamber Console Surface Defense There Is No Try Secret Plans Resistance

Characters (27) Boba Fett With Blaster Rifle Brangus Glee Zuckuss Boelo Jabba x2 J’Quille Outer Rim Scout x2 IG-88 With Riot Gun 4-LOM with Concussion Rifle Nizuc Bek Rystall Ak-rev x2 Barquin D’an Dodo Bodonawieedo Greeata x2 Lirin Car’n Lyn Me Kithaba Rappertunie Sy Snootles Tech Mo’r Umpass Stay x2

Starships (5) Jabba’s Space Cruiser Dengar In Punishing One Boba Fett In Slave I Bossk In Hounds Tooth Mist Hunter

Locations (4) Jabba’s Palace Audience Chamber Tatooine Cantina Tatooine Docking Bay 94 Cloud City Port Town District

Interrupts (7) Elis Helrot x2 Oo-ta Goo-ta, Solo? Stunning Leader Twi’lek Advisor x2 Unexpected Interruption

Effects (9) Ability, Ability, Ability Battle Order Come Here You Big Coward First Strike Presence Of The Force Scum And Villainy x2 Security Precautions There’ll Be Hell To Pay ‘

Strategy: ‘

** Check out the newer version Supersounds of the ‘70 **

When you play musicians, Carbon Chamber Testing simply is the only way to go. It gets the Audience Chamber for you, and you can start with Surface Defense to get out the 3 protective effects. Replace CHYBC with Search&Destroy and Oota with Tarkin’s Orders (latest improvements)

What makes this deck tick is getting S&V out and Greeata on your Audience Chamber, so your musicians are deploy -2, forfeit +3 everywhere, AND you retrieve 2 force each battle.

There are 13 musicians Ak-Rev. Gets musicians from reserve to hand. Substracts 1 attrition. Umpass-Stay. Gives power +2 to all other musicians and some immunity. Greaata. deploy -1, forfeit +3 to all musicians. Gets Rodians from reserve to hand. Dodo Bodonawieedo. A Rodian. Lyn Me. Reduces opponents power and bounty hunter deploy cost (Boba is free) Sy Snootles. Gets J’Quile from reserve to same site. Kithaba. Power 7 vs Obi. 6 vs Luke. Barquin D’an. Initiates wagers Rystall retrieves force and makes somone forfeit=0. Tech M’or. He’s Tech. Rappertunie. Power 3 and makes someone power=0. Lirin Car’n. Increases character deploy. Yuzzum. Ugly. Good on Endor, though, but stinks elsewhere so he isn’t in here,

Against Mains&Toys (Tosche, Fake HB, Test No.2)

Get Audience chamber with S&V, Jabba, Ak-Rev, Greeata. Seal it off with Lirin Car’n. Make them deploy their characters with AAA. Then beat them up with the musicians for heavy battle damage. You’re going to need Elis Helrot. I have yet to see a dedicated Mains&Toys deck with Insurrection.

Hidden Base with Xwings, other ships, Kessel Run etc….

Get Audience chamber with S&V, Greeata, Ak-Rev. Get Battle Plan and then Sec Precautions. Just load up your ships with ORS, Zuckuss or Brangus and musicians who are now the perfect forfeit fodder. Search&Destroy is nice here. Probe after the flip. If Obi or Luke (or both…) are deployed, use musicians to do some heavy battle damage.

Occupation/Liberation

Well, get Audience chamber with S&V and Greeata, Ak-Rev and just battle them away right from the start. Make 2 or 3 battle-parties, exclude/move along the ops, it doesn’t matter if the battledamage is houjixed because all you care about is to battle plenty and often and thereby retrieve force each battle and wipe sites clean every battle.

There’s alot of ‘tech’ in here (the 2 drain-2 sites where aliens are power +1 at, Brangus is Mr. Cantina and can excange docking bay for card in lost pile, EPP Boba with Jabba for 2 bd, Stunning Leader vs Luke, Obi, Han, Chewie at an interior site, Tarkins Orders, the ECC Droids, Jabba in his Space Cruiser to name a few things. But S&V and First Strike both on table is just awesome. ‘