They always come out every Battlefield game, the stunt runners, the gunners, the flyers and my favorites, the guys who just know how to have fun with explosives! Come on everyone, Coral Sea is only a few million kills away!
Well its been 5 years in the making but Gmail has finally removed the Beta tag from its title. Now vying for a spot of the Microsoft dominated email industry, Gmail has earned a place in my heart for its faster load times and better spam filters. So even after 5 long years in Beta form its always a work in progress. And as the official Google Gmail blog points out, you can always toggle the Back to Beta feature :P
Well this weekend is deck construction for our first face off (which should be in a week or two) and I'm going for a balanced air/ground deck. Now I'm not going to try blowing away the Death Star or anything like that. I'm thinking of going for a Yavin/Death Star split for ground locations and some balanced planets for space. The only thing that will partially suck is that I only have 2 Sense cards and 2 Alter cards to use. Hopefully I can offset this with some careful deck manipulation (thank god for Electrobinoculars).
I'm not too sure if I can do a lot of Force retrieval. If there's one thing I didn't see (or do) a lot of in Premiere/A New Hope was force retrieval. Then again I'd have to check over my cards to make sure I can do Force retrieval.
Well once again I'll leave a question if you've ever played Star Wars CCG before leave a message with your strategies and/or combos for Light Side players using Premiere/A New Hope only decks.
Way back in the year 1995 Decipher inc released a Star Wars Collectable Card Game called Star Wars CCG. Years passed and it was a pretty big game. Not Pokemon or Magic the Gathering big but it was a relatively well thought out game and was a lot of fun to play. I used to play a lot with my friend back in the day. So what happened? Well In 1999 the first of the Prequel Trilogy movies came out and everyone wondered how the game would implement prequel era material into the then only classic trilogy mechanics. Turns out the game design had difficulty adapting mechanics to properly account for the Prequel characters and events. By 2001 Lucasfilm chose to give the rights to create a card game to Wizards of the Coast (of Magic fame) which created a brand new card game (instead of continuing the exisitng one). Decipher went on to make a Lord of the Rings card game which became a hit while the Star Wars Trading Card Game faded into obscurity.
On their behalf, Decipher helped create a Player's Comittee to keep the game alive and they've done a relatively good job releasing content even up to this year.
So why do I bring all this up? Well my friend and I are intending to dust off our old boxes of Star Wars CCG cards and play the game throughout this summer. I'm a Light Side player while my friend plays Dark Side. Our rules are simple: using all rulings up to the 2002 final Appendixes released by Decipher we will replay the game slowly adding expansions every session. We're starting with Premiere and A New Hope (we're allowing Premium cards that don't violate the spirit of this agreement) along with cards from the Premiere Two Player box but no Virtual Cards.
Now the thing is that I was never a professional player (luckily neither was my friend) so I don't own all the cards, or even multiples of a lot of the rare cards. Also I was never an indepth strategy master at the game. So I'm hoping someone who reads this can help recommend me a few strategies to make sure that my friend doesn't totally destroy me (freakin Vader + Tarkin combo).
Well I'm hoping for the best. Wish me luck!
P.S. I would totally buy a Live/PSN version of the game (get on it LucasArts)!
Rooster Teeth generally seems to be shifting more and more away from comedy and towards story during the main series but this trailer really funny for the new season.
I agree in letting Vinny do it. If there's one moment I'd love to see is the Ghoul conversation followed by the clip from the episode where they realize they needed Ghoul for the fusion :P
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