Navy Trooper Odds
Title: Navy Trooper Odds
Author: Justin "MoffWicket" Alfs
Date: Apr 11, 2001
Rating: 4.0
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Cards:
‘Starting
SYCFA
D
DDB
Alderaan
Prepared Defenses
Battle Order
Mob Points
Secret Plans
Locations
Raithal x3
DWar Room
other D sites x4
Characters
Death Star Trooper
Navy Trooper x 12
Starships
Zuckass
Dengar
Bossk
Fett
Big E
TIE Interceptor x5
Effects
37201 x 5
Strategic Reserves
Lateral Damage
CHYBC
Interrupts
Trooper Assault x 5
Projective Telepathy x2
Abyssin Ornament
Twilek Advisor x2
Weapons
Interceptor Cannons x3 ‘
Strategy: ‘
This was originally a killer deck pre-DSII. With the invention of Insight, it’s now classified as a “fun” deck in my book. But if you think you can go through a tournament without seeing Insight, by all means try out this deck.
Always start Battle Order and Secret Plans no matter what deck you face. These are the two most important supporting cards in any odds deck because they force your opponent to activate and use force. Projective Telepathy helps too. It also gets you around Order to Engage.
Typical first turn
Deploy the at least 3 Navy Troopers to the DB. They’re nice and cheap there. If you don’t have 3, deploy what you have and use the objective to deploy the Death Star Trooper. If you don’t use it to deploy the DS Trooper, get out the war room. Insert odds. If you got one of the 3 Raithals in your opening hand, put that out too. When your opponent activates on his first turn and the odds pop up, laugh maniacally and mock him. Your three troopers with Raithal=12 to his 0.
If your opponent starts with Insight, you probably shouldn’t deploy any troopers. Do not let him see the 37201. Deploy a TIE to the DB and maybe you’ll fool him into thinking that you’re playing monkey TIEs. He’ll prolly ditch Insight for Aim High or the LS Search & Destroy. Try to hold back your smile as he seals his doom.
Guard Raithal with your life. If the Big E and bounty hunter ships aren’t enough, the TIE cannons should do the job. If your opponent tries to occupy their own system, kill them. Keep Battle Order working.
No more than 3 troopers should be on the Death Star. The rest go to your opponent’s sites. Interior are preferable, as your guys defend at power 3 each there. Trooper assault makes them 5 each, so 4 can pretty much hold a site. The only way the opponent can take a site away from you is with mains, and they mostly suck against numbers.
Vs. WYS
Take over the cantina and maintain control of Raithal. Insert like mad. If they try to retrieve, SP makes odds pop. If they’re light on space, control the Tatooine system too.
Vs. Jedi testing
Pray you don’t see Insight. If you don’t, you stand a good chance. Spread out on the D*, and their mains can’t kill all your guys. Odds will hurt them bad. Dengar/Bossk/LatDamage should kill the Super Falcon. Projective Telepathy stops the cheesy Dagobah decks.
Vs. EBO/Hidden Base
Hope you can kill EBO with odds before the drains kill you. Battle Order should help a ton. Hidden Base doesn’t matter because you have no drains anyway. Just keep control of Raithal. Cancel drains with Strategic Reserves.
Vs. Mains
If they put out a battleground site, dump your guys there. Keep control of Raithal. By owning 1 site and 1 system you should be able to drain for a little and odds for a lot. Let ’em have the Super Falcon at Kessel as long as you can cancel that one big drain.
This was one of my favorite decks before DSII killed it. Nothing beats watching your opponent flip 12 cards off the top before they finish activating for the first time. Or explaining how your 6 characters at the site are now power 5 each and all immune to attrition. Make sure to giggle a lot. This is one of those “Tee-hee” decks.
-Justin “MoffWicket” Alfs ‘