The Rebellion Must Be Crushed

Title: The Rebellion Must Be Crushed
Author: Douglas "Douglas" Harvilla
Date: Apr 23, 2000 Rating: 4.0

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Cards:

‘Objective

ISB Operations/Empire’s Sinister Agents

Locations (10)

Coruscant Carida Kiffex Death Star Endor Forest Clearing Endor Back Door Endor Landing Platform Hoth Docking Bay Hoth Defensive Perimeter Yavin 4 Docking Bay

Characters (22)

Darth Vader With Lightsaber Commander Igar Admiral Ozzel Officer Evax Lt. Cabbel Major Marquand Lt. Watts Sergeant Barich Sergeant Irol Corporal Drelosyn Corporal Oberk Corporal Avarik Sergeant Elsek x2 Sergeant Tarl Sergeant Torent Lt. Renz 5D6-RA-7 Snowtrooper Officer Lt. Pol Treidum Commander Nemet Veers

Starships (10)

Executor Bossk In Hound’s Tooth Zuckuss In Mist Hunter Boba Fett In Slave 1 Dengar In Punishing One Tempest 1 Blizzard 2 Blizzard Walker x3

Effects (10)

Imperial Arrest Order Imperial Decree Battle Order Security Precautions Imperial Justice Secret Plans Resistance First Strike Reactor Terminal Blast Door Controls

Interrupts (7)

Twi’lek Advisor x2 Tactical Support x2 Nevar Yalnal Monnok Ghhhk ‘

Strategy: ‘

First off, this deck isn’t loaded with ISB agents because they’re not necessary. The deck flips early and for good. Putting in more agents would reduce the deck’s battle capability. And don’t suggest Sneak Attack. It doesn’t work with permanent pilots or with Igar, Marquand/Watts, etc, so it has no place in this deck.

On the surface, it seems pretty simple. Ships and Security Precautions to cause some damage against Hidden Base and stop the drain canceling, walkers to protect the ISB agents, Decree and Battle Order for operatives.

There really is a lot more to this deck. Start with Imperial Arrest Order against most opponents. Go with Imperial Justice on Coruscant if the opponent chooses the Throne Room as a starting location. This buys you time to get those locations out.

The Yavin 4 and Hoth docking bays make an early flip possible, while the other locations are excellent for draining. Carida is beautiful, allowing you to lose a force to get a trooper back in your hand from the Lost Pile.

Late in the game, you can use this and the ‘retrieve an ISB agent’ text on Empire’s Sinister Agents to get virtually every character in your Lost Pile back. Lose an ISB agent to get a trooper, then retrieve the agent.

Kashyyyk and Endor are left out intentionally, to keep all the parsec numbers close enough for the ships to traverse. Also, I found in testing that putting Endor out opened up new movement possibilities to my opponent, helped Hidden Base decks cancel drains or drain bonuses, et cetera, so I just dropped it.

The Carida trick is good for one more thing, and it’s the coolest part of the deck. Walkers with the unique biker scouts aboard are terrible to behold. Even in the passenger spaces, these guys add battle destiny draws, or in Barich’s case, cut the opponent’s destiny down so far the walker is immune to it.

But Elsek is just amazing. Put him in a walker with another scout and he acts like a Ghhhk. An unpreventable (virtually) Ghhhk. 99 battle destiny? No problem. Lose Elsek. 30 speeders with S-Foils? No problem. Lose Elsek.

Then use Carida to get him back, or just Tactical Support to fish for another copy. When the opponent has given you his best shot, last ditch effort, and all it cost you is Elsek, you are now in control of the game. This combination makes setting up Decree against Speeder Ops pretty safe, since all the speeders in the deck won’t break through with a bit of battle damage.

Avarik is in there simply to add 2 to your total battle destiny when with Elsek. Nice touch, helps take on mains, especially against MWYHL with Yoda at his Hut taking 2 off the attrition.

Veers is a powerful addition. An ISB agent to begin with, he can cancel a destiny if he is with Commander Igar. Two for me, none for you. OUCH Marquand and Watts you should be familiar with by now if Ralltir Ops with AT-STs has caught on in your area.

A very fun deck to play, and very effective against mains, Hidden Base, and Speeder Ops. ‘