Hutts Again

This week's battle for galactic domination was held on Wednesday to allow for the combatants to spend Thanks-a-lot Day with their families.  Kent rolled high and took the Hutts.  Ric chose the Imperial faction, leaving your author to play the despicable Rebels. 

The Rebels made good headway on their opening round and barely claimed the easy Hutt garrisons.  With two faction cards snagged by the Rebels, the play continued with Kent the Hutt, who quickly scrambled up to six resource planets.  Interestingly, the first starbase played by Darth Ric went to Tattooine.  His counter-attacks were weak but effective, giving him three faction cards. 

Turn two began with the use of the "Look under any Imperial starbase" faction card.  And, lo!, there was the e-vile Emperor on Tattooine.  The Rebels attacked with everything they had but failed to make headway against two 8-sided die.  Darth Ric made the minimum attacks to get his faction cards and reinforced Tattooine.  He also pushed the force meter to the dark side. 

With Rebel reinforcements piling up on Wayland and the force meter swinging back and forth with every turn, the pressure on the Empire continued to build.  Fortunately, a "blowie-uppie" faction card turned up in time to allow the destruction of the entire planet of Wayland.  With that, the Rebels were effectively out of the game. 

The Hutts continued to gain in strength and without any effective Rebel resistance, they soon had... wait, wait, let me count again... eleven resource planets. 

Victory goes to the numerically challenged Hutts.