To bring things a little more up to date, last night's battle royale pitted Darth Horak against a wily Deputy Rebel Leader LaBan and a cunning Kent the Hutt.
Game #1. Right off the bat, the Hutts were in trouble. The Death Star orbited an occupied Gamorr and LaBan took down two outposts with combined garrisons of six Hutt legions. Somehow the scrappy Hutts pulled it back together, aided by a see-saw battle as the Rebels and Empire traded Sluis Van and the Wild Spaces back and forth. The Hutts eventually knocked out a couple inconvenient star bases and started to gain a useful number of resource planets. When the Rebels exhausted themselves in a fruitless and ill-fated series of attacks on the gradually strengthening Empire, it began to look like it might be a Hutt win.
Unfortunately, several large tranches of reinforcements let the Storm Troopers sweep away both the Core Worlds and the Outer Rim, an unheard of event. The Emperor was safely hidden away on Gamorr, protected by dozens of legions and the Death Star as well. Faced with immanent destruction, Hutts and Rebels sued for peace.
Game #2. In what could have been a replay of the first game, the Rebels quickly punished the Hutts with another initial loss of six legions. Once again the strong Rebel play slowly fizzled, leaving a strong Imperial presence. Perhaps the movement of the Death Star off of Gamorr to destroy Mon Calamari was a strategic error. That let the Hutts into the Wild Space and, ultimately, the El Rood Sector with its two resource planets.
Kent the Hutt very nearly threw in the towel when a huge assault on Rebel-held Duro was beaten back. The Storm Troopers responded with a bloody counterattack, but a second set of seven reinforcements allowed the Hutts to prevail. Finally, a KPW victory.
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