Hutts... again

With Thanksgiving on Thursday (what a surprise), we delayed this week's battle for galactic domination until Friday afternoon.  The result was yet another Hutt victory.  In this case, it was Kent the Hutt defeating Darth Ric and Rebel Leader Horak. 

After a rousing start, it looked like the Rebels had a good chance at sweeping the e-vile Empire off the map while keeping the dastardly Hutts in their place.  For a time the Outer Rim was under Rebel control, but the Death Star took out a huge garrison on Wayland and the Rebels never recovered. 

Taking advantage of the weakened Rebels, the Hutts swept into the Outer Rim and Core Worlds.  The Rebels couldn't stop them and the Empire "forgot" to take out the weakly garrisoned resource planet at Elom in the Wild Space.  Victory, Hutts.  

Two More Hutt Victories

Play of the Day:  In a show of Bravado after Sith Wood rolled 6-5, Flight Squadron Leader Horak placed his dice 6-6.  Ric insisted on an actual roll.  Of course, it came up 6-6, blasting the attacking Storm Troopers to oblivion.  We laughed until our stomachs hurt. 

The Rebels nearly pulled this one off -- one battle, one roll of the dice were all that stood between them and Galactic domination.  Of course, at the time I didn't know that.  Thinking that the exposed star base was just another garrison outpost, I had no desire to exhaust myself on a tactically unimportant target.  I needed to save my troops to repel the inevitable Imperial counter-attacks.  Little did I know the Emperor was hiding within. 

Turns out, those counter-attacks never occurred.  The wiley Peetza da Hutt swept into the Core Worlds and with the capture of Duro, took control of the galaxy and the game.

In the second game the e-vile Hutts once again squeaked out a victory just ahead of Sith Wood's forces.  Kent had his standard hoard of reinforcements and faction cards for seven more legions--an almost certain victory for the Empire was assured.  This time the decisive battle was at Balmorra. 

Meanwhile, here are the summary statistics for 102 games that identified player roles in this blog to date.  (Nine other games were unattributed.  Four games were draws.)

	Horak	Wood	LaBan
Hutt	13	10	31	54
Rebel	7	11	7	25
Empire	14	2	7	23
	34	23	45	102

Clearly the Hutts have the easier time of it, especially when Peetza da Hutt is at the helm.  Interestingly, Deputy Rebel Leader Kent does well in command of the Rebels and Darth Horak has done well with the Dark Side.

My suggestion from this for a balanced and challenging game:  make everyone play to a weaker side.  That would mean Ric as the Rebels, Kent as Empire, and Karl as the Hutts.  Alternatively, Karl would play Rebels, Ric as the Empire, and Kent as the Hutts.