Bespin and Beyond - Tips and Tricks - Part 6

Well I know some of you out there are heading off to a Bespin and Beyond tournament soon so here is #6 in the series called 'B&B: Tips and Tricks'. These posts will highlight a potential strategy you might find yourself playing against and how to combat it. This time lets look at a potential strategy we will probably see the Dark side play.

Well I know some of you out there are heading off to a Bespin and Beyond tournament soon so here is #5 in the series called 'B&B: Tips and Tricks'. These posts will highlight a potential strategy you might find yourself playing against and how to combat it. This time lets look at a potential strategy we will probably see the Dark side play.

Halt, Who Goes There. No Rebels Allowed

The Trick:
In the upcoming tournaments the Dark side will just love to keep EPP’s and company out of their Jabba’s Palace fortress of solitude with None Shall Pass. All the while draining from there secluded locations with Galid and Ev99.

None Shall Pass presents dark a powerful opportunity to force the Light side to waste force and to make poor tactical decisions (the common misconception is that you deploy outside and move in. -absolute tactical lunacy). In the hands of an experienced player it becomes even more potent by letting only one rebel through at a time and when combined with projective telepathy and the natural force advantage of Jabba’s Palace severely limits the Light Side offensive capabilities. The card itself destiny 5 and the new ease with which to track it increases Darks Offensive capabilities considerably.

Don’t loose hope though there are several methods for shutting down this deck lets take a look at some of them.

Rebel? Who’s a Rebel I’m a Alien. Them? They’re Just My Friends, They’re With Me.

The Tip:
To avoid him:

• 1. First don’t go there. Why bother really? The drains are not that great (unless he loads up droids in the workshop). So do your thing and let him do his. Ok this isn’t what decipher had in mind, that doesn’t mean it’s not the best strategically play. Pros: Don’t have to worry about fighting him at Jabba’s Palace. Cons: You have to worry about him sending out hordes of aliens (w FS/SV combo).

• 2. Shut down his drains. Try Liberation/Local Uprising it works great at reducing Jabba’s palace to a trickle. Bargaining table for Ev99. Or A gift. Pros: He gets a drain of two. Cons: You will make him mad and he will come beat up your lone operative with five Outer Rim Scouts. Or he will capture your droid and torture it.

• 3. Put Loje Nella at the Audience chamber with Boshuda. Cancels Galids text and the AC force drain. Pros: If he is playing SV he probably can’t cancel Bo Shuda. Cons: Bubo bait.

• 4. Out drain him. Bespin starting with B:CC and Beldons Eye. Will get his attention. Pros: You get to see him throw out all those NSP for force drains. Cons: you have to play Joe Smoos ‘I own the clouds’ deck next round.

To fight Him try:

• 1. Play all aliens, or at least a lot of them. Can’t NSP a horde of Wookies. This is probably the worst move you can make. Pros: He can’t NSP your Wookies. Cons: For every Wookie you deploy he can deploy 4 skrillings.

• 2. Attack him with your strongest assets at his weakest locations. Speeders with maneuvering flaps at T: JP and JP: Entrance. Use Hark Seff at the entrance to block three drains. Pros: He won’t like you. Cons: He won’t like you and if playing the SV/FS combo might retrieve a bunch of force (possible all the aliens you just blasted).

• 3. Kill Galid. Send in Melas with Disrupter pistol on a kamikaze assassination mission. Pros: You get to kill Galid and Melas in the same turn. Cons: You get to loose force and watch next turn as he deploys another Galid.

• 4. Use Tamtel Skreej. Pros: He is a good character. Cons: He not that good a character and since you have to control the location to make use of his NSP game text he probably won’t help much.

Hey all said and done just stay away from him, block his drains, and fortify your locations for his inevitable attack. Pack a couple of It’s a Trap to cancel his courageous charge then come down next turn and mop the floor with your main men.

In short lure him out of his fortress of solitude.

I hope this helps. Don’t forget to look for more in this series. And please don’t mail me saying I’m a _____ for ruining your deck idea. How rude I am for posting this stuff etc. Just adapt, improve, and evolve.