ROps Control

Title: ROps Control
Author: Jeremy "jerome" LaMere
Date: Feb 8, 2000 Rating: 4.0

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Cards:

‘Objective Ralltiir Operations/In The Hands Of The Empire

Locations (11) Ralltiir Forest Jungle Swamp Death Star Coruscant Kashyyyk Executor Meditation Chamber Hoth Ice Plains Hoth Wampa Cave Dagobah Cave

Characters (14) Darth Vader, Dark Lord Of The Sith x 2 Mara Jade, The Emperor’s Hand Grand Moff Tarkin Admiral Ozzel Commander Igar Commander Nemet Lieutenant Arnet Lieutenant Cabbel Lieutenant Watts Major Marquand Navy Tooper Vesden Officer Evax Dengar With Blaster Carbine

Weapons (2) Vader’s Lightsaber Mara Jade’s Lightsaber

Vehicles (5) Tempest 1 Tempest Scout 1 Tempest Scout 2 Tempest Scout 3 Tempest Scout 6

Starships (5) Devastator Vader’s Personal Shuttle Boba Fett In Slave I Bossk In Hound’s Tooth Zuckus In Mist Hunter

Interrupts (13) Alter x 2 Evader x 2 Trample x 2 Imperial Barrier Masterful Move Monnok Shocking Revelation Torture Twi’lek Advisor You Are Beaten

Effects (9) Bad Feeling Have I Battle Order Come Here You Big Coward Crush The Rebellion Imperial Arrest Order Oppresive Enforcement Security Precautions There’ll Be Hell To Pay x 2 ‘

Strategy: ‘

This deck uses ROps to control the flow of the game. After the flip, you are able subtract from drains and battle with an added advantage. Also, once flipped, you will be able to search for any card in your deck that you may need.

Card analysis

Locations Objecitve specific, and lots of twix sites for force activation. The Kashyyyk is there just in case I need a planet to satisfy Battle Order, plus it is a drain +1.

Characters Utility characters. DLOTS (the reason for 2 is because I will be adding to battle destiny with the objective already so I might as well just have to chokers rather than one of each and he has immunity is why I don’t use the EPP version), Tarkin, and Mara Jade are all strong. Igar kicks on Tempest 1. Nemet and Arnet for anti-react abilities. Ozzel and Evax have excellent stat ratios. Watts and Marquand to drive the AT-STs, plus they work well together. Dengar is a mad man, he can shoot vehicles and he shoots twice. Finally I have Vesden for a little bit of numbers protection.

Weapons Slice and dice.

Vehicles Tempest 1 rocks with Igar. TS1 with Arnet and has room for 2 pilots. TS2 for Watts and Marquand. TS3 has ability 2. And TS6 has cool react ability and has ability 2.

Starships Slave I and Misthunter because they are starfighters that can’t be clawed and have awsome abilities and stats. Bossk for adding destiny. Vader’s shuttle for anti-Claw and ability 6 thing. Devastator for some added power, good stat ratio.

Interrupts Alter because there are to many good effects that can be altered Savrip, Tank, OTE, Gimer Stick. Evader because I can forsee problems with revolution. Imperial Barrier, You Are Beaten, and Monnok because they are great utility cards. Masterful Move to get the Monnok, cancel Savrip, and it is a recyclable 6 that lets me look through my deck. Trample to stomp some wusses (chose it over Sniper because it is used and has a 4 destiny). Shocking Revelation for anti-Oola and easy recycler. Twi’lek to start with an effect. And even a Torture for added Numbers protection.

Effects Bad Feeling to help avoid the main stomping. Battle Order vs. fast drain decks, mainly Operatives. CHYBC to force interaction and anti-retreval. Crush anti-Clash and Revo. IAO for high forfeit on my pilots and to prevent Nabrun beats. Security Precautions for anti-HB and extra force activation. Grabbers are a must in any deck these days.

The deck is a thinking deck. You have to identify a deck type and get the cards out of your deck to defeat that deck type. You can’t over deploy to Ralltiir because it is to slow to try and move everything with ships. You can’t over draw because there is no Reactor Terminal. And you have to be patient to set up all the little mini-combos.

Good luck, and thanks for any feedback. ‘