Record-breaking SWR Marathon

It was a disappointing evening for Rebels and Storm Troopers alike as the come-back kid managed to sneak in a late game Hutt victory.  Repeated failures of Rebel soldiers and bombers to crack the fortress at Kashyyyk ultimately led to dozens of losses and fatal weakening of the Cause.  In turn 10 Darth LaBan crushed a number of Rebel outposts, but left the Hutts too strong.  They swept up three resource planets from the exhausted Rebels, ending in a hair-raising one-on-one mano-a-Hutt battle.

To Exhaustion and Beyond!

A single long game was all that we were able to muster this evening. Rebel Leader began with a lackluster assault in the first round. Both Kent the Hutt and Darth LaBan took advantage of the situation. The Empire quickly captured the Wild Spaces, fortifying it with the Death Star and two star bases.

The Hutts soon ran up nine resource planets, forcing both Empire and Rebel forces to concentrate their fire on the green hoard. The Hutts made one concentrated assault to break free from Gamorr toward the Outer Rim, but the dreaded "Clumsy as he is stupid" card crushed that assault at the first go. That was followed with a near fatal blow when Darth LaBan used the Death Star to turn Balmorra and its sizable garrison into dust.

Once the green tide was beaten back, the Rebels were able to consolidate a position in the Ison Corridor. They gradually built up a fleet of bombers and with very large troop concentrations, were finally able to begin reducing star bases. At one point the Rebels made near suicidal human wave attacks against the Death Star at Kothlis and were able to destroy it by sheer force of arms.

Even with the Hutts driven to the brink of extinction, yet another flush of faction cards allowed the wily Hutt to once again reach nine resource planets.

By then there was only a single star base to provide cover to the Emperor. Despite its extraordinarily large garrison, it fell prey to the dreaded "Uprising" card, which destroyed all but one squadron. It fell to overwhelming odds shortly afterwards and the Hutts were robbed of their chance for a come-from-behind victory.

A vengence-driven grudge match is promised next week as the players plan to reprise their roles.

Standard Risk

Game 1. Generals Laban and Wood deployed heavily in Australia with an aim towards repeating Nathan's trick of quickly taking and holding that continent. Wood's initial assault went rapidly awry and left Laban in a strong position.

However, on the other side of the world, concentrated on South America, where little was done to counter-balance his forces, merely a token garrison of Woodites in Argentina. Gen. Horak struck out of West Africa and swept up the four cities objective, cutting a swath through Central Asia. Next he finished off South and North America, claiming the control one continent objective.

With insufficient troops to muster a counter-attack, Wood and Laban resigned themselves to their fate as Horak simply claimed the control North America objective and the game without any further effort.

Game 2. Laban watched Horak and Wood inflict mutal casualties on one another while he took Australia and began his march into Asia. Although Laban was poised to win, Wood snatched victory from him by sweeping Horak out of North America for his third objective.

Game 3. Another quick one. Wood took an early lead and held it. World domination was his in three turns.

Guns were silenced by shortly after 10:00.