Damn Those Hutts, Damn Them to Hell

Pepperoni pizza and beer, definitely the high point of the evening.  After that it was just laser blasters, death star superlasers, and mayhem.  Darth Horak took on the dastardly Rebel Leader LaBan and Kent the Hutt. 

We knew we were in for something special when the Empire let the Hutts get six resource planets straight away.  He then dumped over a dozen legions onto Omwat while the Rebels loaded up their Wild Space garrisons and the Hutts put a sizeable force on Elom.  The resulting battle left the Rebels crippled and the Empire in full control of the Wild Space.  The Hutts made a hasty retreat with most of their forces intact.

Unbeknownst to the Rebels, the first starbase out concealed the Emperor and it protected the Wild Space from the Hutt's significant forces on Sluis Van.  Early on the Empire was able to destroy Gamorr and it's Rebel garrison with the Death Star.  Thereafter, the Rebel counter-attacks on the Empire continued to grow.

Meanwhile, the Hutts held on to Bespin, Sluis Van, Sullust, Kessel, Ord Mandell, and Tatooine.  Battles raged in the Core Worlds as the Hutts struggled to take Balmorra and move on to Duro.  In the Mid Rim the Rebels and Hutts fought a seesaw series of battles that left both sides dangerously weak, but the Hutts closing in on 7, then 8, and finally 9 resource systems.  But each time the Rebels pushed them back, occasioning a frustrated fist blow to the table that registered 7.6 on the Galactic Richter Scale.  (Today, three days later, I found four Hutt game pieces scattered around the game room.)

In turn four a huge force of Storm Troopers were assembled on Omwat, poised to overrun the Hutts on Sluis Van and Sullust.  As luck would have it, the "Money is Power" faction card in which "The orders never come" stopped the assault cold.  This gave the Hutts the breathing time to muster a force to attack across the Mid Rim.

When the Hutts started picking off Mid Rim planets in order to cement their victory, they had to veer around the asteroid field where Gamorr once orbited.  Even with five additional legions on Bothawui, the Storm Troopers could not stop the Hutts.  The surviving green hoard simply went around the blockade via Toydaria and Falleen to reach their tenth planet, Rodia.  Victory Hutts.