Light Side
Locations (13): Dagobah Dagobah: Yoda's Hut Dantooine Jabba's Palace: Audience Chamber Rendezvous Point - Start Tatooine Tatooine: Cantina x2 Tatooine: Jundland Wastes Tatooine: Lars' Moisture Farm Tatooine: Mos Eisley x2 Tatooine: Obi-Wan's Hut Characters (20): Artoo B'omarr Monk x3 BoShek Chewbacca Han With Heavy Blaster Pistol Kal'Falnl C'ndros Leia With Blaster Rifle Luke Skywalker Luke With Lightsaber x2 Melas Obi-Wan Kenobi Obi-Wan With Lightsaber x2 Oola Saurin Tawss Khaa TK-422 Starships (6): X-wing x6 Interrupts (9): Don't Get Cocky Gift Of The Mentor x2 Life Debt Nabrun Leids x2 Rug Hug Sorry About The Mess The Signal - Start Effects (11): A Gift Goo Nee Tay - Start Lightsaber Proficiency Mantellian Savrip x2 S-Foils x2 Tatooine Celebration The Planet That It's Farthest From x2 Ultimatum Objectives (1): Hidden Base/Systems Will Slip Through Your Fingers - Start
When I got to my second game (I was LS) I couldn't find my HB and I was another card short. Fortunately the tourney director let me borrow his HB and I threw in Luke Skywalker (during that game I found out the second missing card was Dantooine so I couldn't flip, didn't matter though). Start by getting out Dagobah and then Yoda's Hut and then get going from there.
Dark Side
Locations (10): Executor: Holotheatre - Start Executor: Meditation Chamber - Start Hoth: Defensive Perimeter Hoth: Ice Plains Hoth: Wampa Cave Jabba's Palace: Audience Chamber Tatooine: Cantina Tatooine: Jundland Wastes Tatooine: Lars' Moisture Farm Tatooine: Tusken Canyon Characters (17): Bane Malar Boba Fett With Blaster Rifle Darth Vader With Lightsaber x3 Darth Vader, Dark Lord Of The Sith x2 DS-61-2 DS-61-3 DS-61-4 Grand Moff Tarkin Jabba the Hutt Lieutenant Commander Ardan Niado Duegad Officer Evax OS-72-10 Zuckuss Blue (6): Dune Walker Bossk In Hounds Tooth Death Squadron Star Destroyer Executor Tyrant Vader's Personal Shuttle Interrupts (20): Elis Helrot x2 Evader x2 Focused Attack x2 Ghhhk Hutt Smooch x2 Masterful Move Monnok x2 Point Man The Circle Is Now Complete Torture x2 Twi'lek Advisor - Start Vader's Obsession x2 You Are Beaten Effects (5): Bad Feeling Have I - Start Broken Concentration Presence Of The Force Reactor Terminal Visage Of The Emperor - Start Purple (2): Epic Duel - Start Hunt Down And Destroy The Jedi/Their Fire Has Gone Out Of The Universe - Start
Pretty typical here. Key to the deck is keeping Viasage on the table. On to the games!
Game 1: My DS vs a poor Hoth Clouds deck
I got the Cantina down and Vader to it with Tarkin. He started with Hoth so next turn the Bus takes it over and I put Officer Evax in the back to keep the bus alive. He finally gets so ground forces and a couple of small skirmeshes occur. Finally I Elis in Vader, Tarkin and DS-61-2 to join the Zuckster and Ardan. You Are Beaten an Elom, battle, hit one, forfeit 0, use Zuckess' game text to take the other Elom's Forfeit to 0, win big, drain him out two turns later. 2(+26)
Game 2: My LS vs. a DS Space deck
He starts with Fondor and gets an Asteroid Sector out. I start setting up and get a couple of characters on Tat and a couple of X-Wings at Tatooine. He brings down IG-88 in IG-2000 but can't battle. My turn. Lock S-Foils, attack. He attempts to Talon Roll but I tell him of the errata and he's doesn't believe me. He asks John Trouba who's sitting next to me and the Tallon Roll does nothing. He loses IG and ship I get more characters down. The rest of the game I had Oola keeping him in space and I was celebrating and finally draing for 9. Win by 19. 4(+45)
Game 3: My DS vs. John Trouba's (rating 1808, went to the '97 Worlds) HB.
I played to perfection. I got Vader and Boba at the Moisture Farm (the only battleground site on the table during the entire game). He gets a drain of four going but the Executor and Bus hit Kessel and the rest of the game we battled there (EPP mains on Ships, DS pilots on Executor). The game was basically like that. Finally he deploys Obi to the site where Vader and Fett are and battles. I play Focused Attack, power 16 to 8. Fett and Obi leave and that was pretty much game as Visage took it's toll (near 30 force I would guess), Combined with only having 2 or 3 drain systems on the table. Win by 19 I think 6(+64 or something like that).
Game 4: My LS vs. John Trouba's Nephew's Tat Ground Deck
He starts with Mos Eisley and I'm thinking this is going to be a fun game. He gets some characters out to Mos Eisley with a POTF. I deploy TK-422 and end my turn. We replaced each other's Cantina (he replaced) and Mos Eisley (I replaced). He draws during his turn. I send down Boshek, Luke with Stick, Leia with Rifle, Melas, and a Monk. Leia and Luke miss but I still kill everyone but Bane. Boshek dies for me and TK-422 breaks cover. Now he makes a mistake. He deploys Zuckuss to the Cantina and moves Bane to the docking bay. I use the shuffle, beat down Bane lose Melas and he loses 24 force. I drain him out. 8 (+80 and some odd amount)
Game 5: My DS vs. Daryll's (sp) HB Space deck
Daryll took a 3rd place finish away from me in the last tourney, that was fine by me though I knew my DS deck was strong. Anyway though I got Vader down to the Perimiter and got Executor in Space. He forgot to cancel my drains and I probed his base. He got several systems set up and was draining for 5 or 6. He deploys Obi to the site of Vader, they kill each other and next turn DLOTS comes down. I get another site out and put Niado Duegad and Jabba the Hutt there for another drain of two. He plays R2-D2 and undercover to stop my drain at the perimiter (He hit himself later on because he could have canceled Visage). I go on to win by around 20. 10 (+108)
At this point John Trouba is in second and needs a 47 point swing (he won his game by 24 so I would have to lose by 23 for him to win the tourney).
Game 6: LS vs. Daryll's DS Space Deck
I got started and put some X-Wings out, Celebration and had a drain of four. After two turns of battling he kicks the X-Wings out and I lose the Celebration. I get a monk and a proficiency so I play them to bring my drain to 6. He sets up a nice size drain and it's a race as Oola is taking care of his hand. Finally I draw a few cards and pull another Monk and the Cantina. Down the game increasing my drain to 9. He draws up and I win by 7. 12 (+115)
I won the tournament (my first win, my third tournament) John came in second, his nephew in 3rd, and Daryll in 4th. I got a Veers shirt, 4 packs of WB ANH, 4 Packs of WB Hoth, and 7 Packs of WB Premiere. I pulled a Commence Primary Ignition (butt ugly with the WB), Devastator (woo-hoo!), EBO, and then a bunch of other stuff I didn't need (Y4:MTR, Krayt Dragon Howl, a bunch of other doubles). Kai did a great job of running the tournament and didn't botch any rulings (Thanks to John and I =) ). I had a great time and traded for a Hypo (only 3 cards from ANH!), Red Leader in Red 1, Gold Leader in Gold 1, and a Millenium Falcon. I had a great day and am looking forward to the next tournament.
JS