We're still trying to figure this one out... Darth Horak, Kent the Hutt, and Rebel Leader LaBan were dealing their usual Thursday night death throughout the galaxy. It certainly looked like it was going to be Kent's night at first, with the Hutts getting high into the resource planet counts only to be knocked back down again and again.
Things didn't go entirely badly for the Empire. Gamorr was destroyed, denying the Hutts a resource planet and a home world while protecting the Wild Space. The Emperor himself was secretly based on Excharga. But an attack on Elom went awry and the Hutts denied the Storm Troopers the sector they needed.
Meanwhile, the Rebels were doing very well in gradually conquering systems, harrying the Storm Troopers until they were holed up in their final redoubt, the Wild Space. With the Ison Corrior under their control, they were able to sweep the Outer Rim and the Core Worlds. They just couldn't find the Emperor's starbase and put and end to the game.
What wasn't expected was that the Hutts would turn on the Empire in the end. Faced with the prospect of the Rebels getting all the glory and destroying the E-vile Darth Horak, the Hutts attacked the last Imperial bastion and destroyed it. With nowhere to flee, the Emperor perished.
The question arises: who won? On page 22 of the rules, Section 5: Winning, it states, "The Rebellion wins the moment they take eliminate all Imperial armies OR when they take control of the planet with the Emperor's Imperial Base token." Meanwhile, "the Hutts win the moment they conquer their 10th green resource planet." It would appear that Hutts have failed to gain 10 resource planets and the Rebels have (indirectly) eliminated all Storm Troopers. I'm calling it for a Rebel victory, but one could argue that the Hutts should have taken the Imperial faction cards and battled on. Either the Hutts would gain 10 resource planets or the Rebels would conquer all 42 systems for a final determination of victory.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
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