American Pie

Title: American Pie
Author: Adam "General Solo" Prosak
Date: May 17, 2000 Rating: 4.0

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Cards:

‘Objectives (1) Quiet Mining Colony/ Independent Operation

Locations (6) Bespin (start) Bespin Cloud City Cloud City Leia’s Guest Quarters (start) Cloud City North Corridor Cloud City Carbonite Chamber Cloud City Lower Corridor

Characters (15) Obi-Wan w/Lightsaber x2 Son of Skywalker x3 Captain Han Solo x2 Leia w/Blaster Rifle x2 Lando w/Blaster Rifle x2 Lobot Pucimir Thryss Wioslea Tawss Khaa Orinmaarko

Weapons (2) Anakin’s Lightsaber x2

Starships (8) Milenium Falcon x2 Spiral Tantine IV Redemption ECC Z-95 x3

Interupts (17) Don’t Tread On Me The Signal x2 Shocking Information Path of Least Resistance x3 Rebel Barrier x2 Run, Luke, Run Courage of a Skywalker Glancing Blow Transmission Terminated x2 Weapon Levitation x2 I Know

Effects (11) Do Or Do Not Resistance Scrambled Transmission Battle Plan Cloud City Celebration x2 Bacta Tank Mantellian Savrip Order to Engage What Are You Trying to Push On Us? Traffic Control ‘

Strategy: ‘

For all of those who think QMC sucks, lets compare it to profit. While comparing them is an article, the two objectives are somewhat similar in their locations, efficency, and their ability to deal extra damage while retrieving. Start Don’t Tread On Me for all three effects against everything but Ops and ISB (go battle plan). Then setup your deck by pulling the sites you need and drawing for the characters and ships you need to flip. This is where most people dismiss QMC in the suck pile. They try to setup too quickly. You can afford to take your time and use Shocking Info/Scrambled Transmission to draw what you need. DON’T RUSH TO FLIP make sure you can hold Bespin before flipping. Once you flip, get Pucimir and Cloud City Celebration going. Use PoLR and Barrier primarily to protect Pucimir but you can also use them to setup beatdown. With Pucimir and high drain sites, you can inflict loads of damage and Celebration is used for retrieval. PoLR and Barrier also allow you to spread out and maximize celebration and drains.

Card choices

Characters- SoS is like Mara for the DS only Mara can’t use Run, Luke, Run, CoaS, Glancing Blow, and PoLR. Luke is a machine and he should be an ever present fighting force. The fact that you can deal significant damage with him makes his deployment restriction neglible. While you have Super Falcon capability, only use it when you need it to fight of a swarm of ships. Always give it backup if DiPO is a possiblility. Han and Leia are also useful on the ground. Wioslea is superior to R-3PO hands down. Lando has many aliens to fight with and Lobot is amazing.

Ships-you probably notice the absence of the Rebel Leaders. They can’t hang with the BH ships and only used them to flip and as backup to othe ships. ECC Z-95’s are better for this. I don’t need both because I don’t need 10 ships to defend 1 location. Rebel leaders aren’t as good as they once were

Anti-Hunt Down- no spies becasue I can’t back them up with Obi-luke and I don’t liek CHYBC ruining my day. PoLR on the Executor is nice but eventually your spy will get a visit from Mara/Vader. 3 anti-duel cards and 2 Transmission Terminateds are good. Celebration is easy to set up against dueling because they don’t have many characters and against non-dueling Luke and Obi with PoLR and Weapon Levitation are huge.

Weapon Levitation- these are huge, better than Fury against most decks. EPP vader is a rarity so you can expect to steal Mara’s and Vader’s Sabers. Canceling YAB is also huge. It can recycle as a 4 if you want.

The Don’t Tread On Me start- make shift protection using very few cards. Numbers, SAC, and manip are all significantly hurt (although not killed) by your start. You have a fighting chance in every game because of this.

Battle Plan is huge when you can Celebrate. enough said.

Most people play 1 magic bullet each for Bacta Tank, Savrip, and OtEngage. Any one of these effects are game changing and they are dead if caught without the magic bullet. The grabber is in here to catch the bullet so you can retrieve the effect with celebration and redeploy it.

cards i would love to add

Sorry About the Mess- sweet card, but I like my other tricks better. cards 61 And 62. Effective Repairs- see comment about game breaking effects. Advantage- I drool over this card, but in testing, I’ve never used it and stuck around long enough to deal more than 3-4 damage. Not useful enough.

American Pie (not Madonna’s version, the original Don McLean masterpiece) is one of the greatest songs ever.

And I knew if I had my chance, I could make those people dance, and maybe they’d be happy for awhile. ‘