Two-thirds of a Trifecta

Last Thursday's galactic brouhaha went down as another Wood victory, this time as the Hutts.  With one Rebel victory and this Hutt victory, he only needs a third consecutive victory as the Empire to gain the much coveted "Trifecta" title.  There's only two little problems with that plan:  (1) Ric and (2) Karl.

The real winner of last week's match was "card lust," that insatiable desire to get that one extra faction card by knocking off a single garrison somewhere.  When it goes horribly wrong, as it did for both Rebels and Storm Troopers, the result is a long list of weak systems barely defended waiting to be picked off by anyone with any troops at all. 

Rebel Leader Horak quickly went down in flames with a long series of bad dice rolls against Hutt targets.  Soon after, Sith Lord Laban did the same.  Within 4 turns, the Hutts had amassed a critical number of resource planets, which in turn gives them a large number of faction cards.  This in turn leads to more resource planets and then more cards.  It's a positive feedback loop and it always ends poorly for two out of three players.

At least with a quick, decisive loss, I was in bed early after a long week at Sandia.  On top of that, Wood gets stuck bringing dinner for the next battle.