Stuck on the Weather Vane

Title: Stuck on the Weather Vane
Author: Silent "Silent Bob" Bob
Date: Mar 7, 2001 Rating: 4.5

Cards:

‘Starships (8)

   Bossk In Hound’s Tooth 

   Dengar In Punishing One 

   IG-88 In IG-2000 

   OS-72-1 In Obsidian 1 

   OS-72-2 In Obsidian 2 

   Stinger 

   Virago 

   Zuckuss In Mist Hunter 

Characters (21)

   4-LOM With Concussion Rifle 

   Bane Malar 

   Boba Fett With Blaster Rifle 

   Darth Vader With Lightsaber 

 2 Darth Vader, Dark Lord Of The Sith 

   Dengar With Blaster Carbine 

   Dr. Evazan & Ponda Baba 

   Emperor Palpatine 

 2 Grand Moff Tarkin 

   Guri 

   IG-88 With Riot Gun 

   Janus Greejatus 

   Jodo Kast 

 2 Mara Jade, The Emperor’s Hand 

   Mighty Jabba 

   Prince Xizor 

   Sim Aloo 

   Snoova 

Weapons (4)

   Dr. Evazan’s Sawed-off Blaster 

   Mara Jade’s Lightsaber 

   Vader’s Lightsaber 

   Vibro-Ax 

Effects (11)

   Cloud City Occupation 

   Crush The Rebellion 

   Disarmed 

   Lateral Damage 

   Resistance 

   Secret Plans 

   There Is No Try & Oppressive Enforcement 

 3 There’ll Be Hell To Pay 

   Weather Vane 

Interrupts (7)

   Evader & Monnok 

   I Have You Now 

   Omni Box & It’s Worse 

   Prepared Defenses

   Shocking Revelation 

 2 Sniper & Dark Strike 

Locations (8)

   Bespin 

   Cloud City Carbonite Chamber 

   Cloud City Chasm Walkway 

   Cloud City Downtown Plaza 

   Cloud City East Platform (Docking Bay) 

   Cloud City Port Town District 

   Cloud City Upper Walkway 

   Cloud City West Gallery

Objective

   This Deal Is Getting Worse All The Time/Pray I Don’t Alter It Any Further 

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Strategy: ‘

UpDATE

Remove OS-72-1 in Obsidian 1 and Os-72-2 in Obsidian 2 for 2 Shattered Hopes.

UPDATE

Starting

TDIGWATT

Cloud City Chasm Walkway

Secret Plans

Prepared Defenses

Weather Vane (Tech) (Tech)

Crush the Rebellion

There is no try & Oppressive Enforcement

First Turn, deploy Bespin with the objective. Use Secret plans to get Shocking Revelation. Use Crush to get either I Have You Know or Evader & Monnok.

Turn, two get out Cloud City Occupation.

Here’s the tech, set up at the Chasm Walkway. Use Vader, Mara, Boba, Dengar, and Dr. E & Ponda to send characters to the Weather Vane. Here is why I like to play with the Weather Vane. During battle, I can get rid of a lot of high power/ability/battle destiny adding characters. Send them to the vane to get rid of them. This is tech for battles. Also, characters on the vane can’t be re-deployed. It’s nice to have Han sitting on the vane and not running around.

Why no Dark Deal or Bespin Cloud City? I don’t play with Bespin Cloud City because if my opponent controls that location, they can rescue people off of the weather vane. The idea is to keep characters off of the table. With out Bespin Cloud City, I can’t have Dark Deal. It is fairly hard to get that out and running. So, I don’t bother.

Menace fades also hurts Dark Deal. It sees a lot of play in Watch Your Step and Hidden Base Decks.

Instead, just hit the opponent with the occupation loss.

Shocking is a cycling 5 that allows you to see what’s riding in your force pile.

Evader and Monnok allows you to keep a control over the opponent’s hand.

I have 3 grabbers. Use those to get Harvest (first priority), The Bith Shuffle & Desperate Reach (Second), and other cycling cards. Most players play with The Bith Shuffle & Desperate reach because they can use the card to cancel Imperial barrier or shuffle reserve decks. That’s good. If they play it to shuffle a reserve deck, grab the card. That stops the opponent from getting characters off of the weather vane.

Sniper does make the characters lost, not sent to the weather vane (sniper card is the top action), but it does add 3 to lightsaber draws. That can help for an Obi-Wan, Luke, Leia W/, Han W/, ect.

Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith and the bounty hunters are immune to Goo Nee Tay.

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