From Endor I will Command

Title: From Endor I will Command
Author: Travis "Com Igar" Rumans
Date: Apr 29, 2000 Rating: 4.0

Cards:

‘Starting (6) Endor Operations/Imperial Outpost Endor Endor Bunker Endor Landing Platform Twi’Lek Advisor Perimeter Patrol (usually)

Locations (6) Kessel Kashyyyk Kiffex Endor Forest Clearing Endor Dense Forest Endor Dark Forest

Effects (8) Establish Secret Base Ominous Rumors Security Precautions Battle Order Return to Base Imperial Arrest Order Imperial Decree Expand the Empire

Interrupts (4, non-starting) Endor Occupation Heavy Fire Zone Twi’lek Advisorx2

Ships (9) Executor Dreadnaught Boba Fett in Slave 1 Death Squadron Star Destroyer IG-88 in IG-2000 Zuckuss in Mist Hunter Dengar in Punishing One Bossk in Bus Avenger

Weapons (2) AT-ST Dual Cannonx2

Vehicles (9) Tempest Scout 1 Tempest Scout 2 Tempest Scout 3 Tempest Scout 4 Tempest Scout 5 Tempest Scout 6 Tempest Scoutx2 Tempest 1

Characters (16) Comm Chief 4-LOM with Concussion Rifle Sergeant Brarich Ephant Mon DS-61-2 Navy Trooper Fenson Lieutenant Arnet General Veers R3-T6 Commander Igar Grand Moff Tarkin Darth Vader Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith Lieutenant Watts Corporal Drelosyn Mara Jade ‘

Strategy: ‘

With eight AT-STs and two Biker scouts, getting the flip set up shouldn't be too much of a problem. Stick one of the scouts at the Bunker to control an extra site. Both the scouts here are the ones that can add power to more than just bikes; Drelosyn adds it to the AT-STs and Barich adds to anything.
Perimeter Patrol will keep most people from even deploying to Endor. Set up Fenson and Ephant Mon at the Bunker to keep it safe. Get down Ominous Rulers early, especially if there's a system on table.
Once you've flipped, use any spare AT-STs you pull for beatdown. It won't be as powerful as a RallOps styl beatdown, but restricting your opponent to one destiny draw hurts a lot of Mains strategies. Besides, the point of this attack is less to cause battle damage but to distract them from fighting your huge drains in space. If you have the force, you can afford to spread across your opponents territory to stop them from draining and react them all to where your opponent initiates the battle. Your opponent should have to work to get sites to drain at while you sit back with Perimeter Patrol for yours.
Imperial Decree is an important card for winning the drain race, as is Battle Order. This is especially true if they stay inside. Of course, you can still hurt them some--Vader/Tarkin with this objective is killer.
You'll notice there's not much SAC protection, but that's because there aren't many interrupts and only two of the effects aren't immune (Expand and Return). These effects are going to be needed against decks that don't typically use SAC.
The destiny of this deck is mediocre, but since your opponent is only going to get one and there's a few ways for you to get multiple, don't worry about it.
Now to specific deck types

Training Endor is Hyperspeed 8. Once you get out Mara or Vader, go smack the muppet.

Hidden Base Waning in popularity. You may want to start Security Precautions, but with the rise of non-flip HB decks Perimeter Patrol is probably still safer. A flipping HB deck is a perfect matchup for this deck. Once hey flip, you can spread and drain without fear of battle damage. here’s enough capital ships and ships with immunity that you can hold a few key systems (put the Astromech on an important capital ship like the Bus to give it immunity). Use Return to Base to cycle the ships they do kill, especially the relatively cheap ones with good abilities, like Zuckuss, Dengar, and Iggy. After they fli[, the Drains on Endorbecome important because they can’t be canceled. Judicious use of your space forces will win the drain race. Against OMDH super retrieval, Decree kills what drains they have and the massive drain potential of Ominous Rumors with the systems HB was kind enough to provide mean that you’ll still hurt them, even if they are retrieving lots. If this is the hot item, though, drop a cannon for a Secret Plans.

Profit Your only alien is Mara. Unless you’re absolutely sure your opponent is playing a cheez profit deck, don’t deploy her. Lots of LS players end up deploying to rescue Han before they could take advantage of the retrieval. Many wait until you’ve actually drained them to set this up. If you don’t drain them early on, you can often get extra time. You should be well on your way to flipping by the time they flip, and have at least one good system drain. This is going to be a big drain race. You have a few aces in the hole, though. Most Profit decks will use some exterior Tatooine sites, allowing you to attack with your walkers, and if your objective is flipped, teamwork cards won’t be as much of a threat. Imperial Decree cancels their drain bonuses, but not the mains occupation. With Han on the ground (kill him with a cannon if you can), the Super Falcon is unlikely to put in an appearance, and you’ll win from your huge drains in space.Perimeter patrol protects your drains from mains attacks, and Ephant Mon keeps spies out of the bunker. The trick to beating profit is to make them work for their drains while yours are easy to set up. Decree and likely Battle Order are Important Cards.

Operatives Get out Decree and Order. Flip. Win the Drain Race.

Mains and Toys A Throne Room deck that revolves the bunker on the first turn makes for a difficult (but winnable) game. Fight them in the forests of Endor, and try to get at least one or two Ominous drains set up. Revo is not popular in my area. Revoless, spyless mains pose no real threat to this deck. Perimeter patrol hurts them for deploying, and the flipped objective kills multi-destiny madness.

Ewoks I’ll adress this strategy because they’re also on Endor. Make sure your opponent takes the hurt from Perimeter Patrol whenever they deploy a rebel (Read Main) to somewhere besides the Landing Site. Ideally, you want to get an AT-ST cannon going with a lot of spare force to wipe out a lot of Ewoks. Ewok decks don’t pack much space, so if you can get a few good space drains set up it would really hurt them. ‘