Icebreath Surplus Military Hardware

icebreath Surplus Military Hardware is a Light constructed list published on Game Players Network.

Deck info

• Player: icebreath
• Published: 29 April 2004 (Game Players Network)
• GPN category: Standard
• Format: Premiere - Original VS6
• Side: Light
• Starting Card: Watch Your Step
• Starting Interrupt: Heading For The Medical Frigate
• Strategy: Watch Your Step
• GEMP Importable deck: Download (omits Chewbacca (V) (Virtual Set 3), Commander Luke Skywalker (V) (Virtual Set 4), Lobot (V) (Virtual Set 6), Dual Laser Cannon (V) (Virtual Set 4), Wokling (V) (Virtual Set 3), Imperial Atrocity (V) (Virtual Set 6), Civil Disorder (V) (Virtual Set 6): not in GEMP)

Introduction

Incom T-47's, missing parts (P1's). WYS Speeders, anybody?

Decklist

Objective 1x Watch Your Step Character 1x Captain Han Solo 1x Chewbacca (V) 1x Wedge Antilles 2x Talon Karrde 1x Mirax Terrik 1x Dash Rendar 1x Melas 1x Theron Nett 4x Palace Raider 1x Artoo, Brave Little Droid 2x Commander Luke Skywalker (V) 1x Lobot (V) 1x Lando With Vibro-Ax 1x Phylo Gandish Weapon 2x Dual Laser Cannon (V) 1x X-wing Laser Cannon Starship 1x Millennium Falcon 1x Outrider 1x Red 6 1x Red 7 1x Red 10 Vehicle 1x Rogue 1 1x Rogue 2 1x Rogue 3 1x Rogue 4 2x Patrol Craft

Location 1x Tatooine: Docking Bay 94 1x Tatooine: Cantina 1x Tatooine 1x Tatooine: Mos Espa Docking Bay 1x Spaceport Docking Bay Effect 1x Insurrection & Aim High 1x Wokling (V) 1x Squadron Assignments 1x Tatooine Celebration 1x Echo Base Garrison 1x Bacta Tank 1x Imperial Atrocity (V) 1x Honor Of The Jedi 1x Civil Disorder (V) 1x Staging Areas Interrupt 1x Heading For The Medical Frigate 2x Nar Shaddaa Wind Chimes & Out Of Somewhere 2x The Signal 2x Rebel Artillery 1x T-47 Battle Formation 1x Life Debt 1x Houjix & Out Of Nowhere Admiral's Order 1x I'll Take The Leader

Notes

• Posted 'Tatooine (Ep1)' dested Tatooine (the posted note presumably names the Episode I printing).
• Posted Nar Shadda Wind Chimes combo dested Nar Shaddaa Wind Chimes & Out Of Somewhere (the strategy plays Out Of Somewhere); Houjix combo dested Houjix & Out Of Nowhere; Wedge Antilles (unmarked) dested the printed card.
• Original-era (V) cards: Wokling (V) and Chewbacca (V) (Virtual Set 3), Commander Luke Skywalker (V) and Dual Laser Cannon (V) (Virtual Set 4), Lobot (V), Imperial Atrocity (V), Civil Disorder (V) (Virtual Set 6).

Strategy

"Watch Your Step? Who plays that anymore?" I do.

I've been looking for new and fun ways of using the WYS objective, and this is what I came up with. Basic idea is to get your speeders to the three docking bays, play T-47 Battle Formation, drain away, and retrieve Battle Formation with Celebration. With I'll Take The Leader on table, you're looking at a total drain potential of 14 a turn.

The deck is also a bit of a 'react'er. With the two Patrol Craft running around the surface of Tatooine, the two copies of Chimes & Out Of Somewhere, and Lobot (V), you've got some decent 'react' potential. A fun one to try: play Out Of Somewhere to pull Lobot (V) (drops free to a Scomp Link!), use Lobot (V) to pull Lando w/ Ax, then 'react' over with a Patrol Craft... it's not an "impossible combo"; I've done it a couple times already, and it's absolutely devastating.

Even more fun is tossing Lobot (V) on a Patrol Craft, 'react' with the PC, then use Lobot (V) to pull an alien. Ouch.

Setup is actually fairly simple. You should get a Luke, a Signal, or EBG in starting hand or after drawing up first turn. Get Luke on table (with some forfeit-fodder backup) quickly so that you can start using his card pulling abilities to grab Rogue 1. After that, keep pulling speeders and dropping smugglers on 'em! Don't forget that EBG can also pull Bacta Tank and Artoo BLD (check his lore, he's a maintenance droid).

Now some of my card choices...

Red 6, Red 7 - WYS is decidedly low on matching starships, so I thought I'd throw in a couple high-destiny X-wings in here. Red 6 is a destiny 6, while Red 7 is a destiny 4.

Rogue speeders - every other speeder has a permanent pilot, which translates into a +6 deploy cost. The Rogue speeders also have some basic immunity to attrition while EBG is on table.

Attrocity (V)/HotJedi - Walker damage? What walker damage?

Staging Areas - better activation potential if you can pull it early enough. If not, it's a destiny 3, so no harm done. >:)

Enjoy!

David Kangas

Shadow 31

Ophidian Agent

Vancouver, WA

See also

• Game Players Network decks
• icebreath
• Game Players Network
• GEMP importable decklist

Sources

• Surplus Military Hardware (Wayback, 20051102154456)
• GPN Star Wars Decks page 7 (Wayback, 20050430203312)