How many times played

5 Times! 4 in person, 1 over tabletop simulator (that was first game).

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Component/Art PROS

• Filled with art cards! (Thank you FFG for having so many games to take art from!)

• Borders for factions keep deckbuilding easy to see

Easy to play/start/see Pros

• Easy to see central market with orienting factions to players, with upside down bounty rewards for the other player

• Iconography is very clear: attacking, using force, getting resources are all obvious

• Rulebook is very clear

• Player aids are good

• Setup is ultra fast

Gameplay Pros - Collecting bounty is well done

• More things to attack in a deck builder (players don’t have standing units with clearing your cards played each turn)

• Allows for thematic inclusion of bounty hunters who are good at killing market and giving extra rewards

• A bit of a racing game with opponent on buying your card before enemy can bounty it for crazy benefits

• Can voluntarily discard it through card abilities to deny

Gameplay Pros - Cool balance between deckbuilding an engine, doing damage, and the force

• DECKBUIILDING: Ways to draw more cards, or exile cards, or have archetype synergies

  • Capital ships are feel-good shield around base

• DAMAGE: Want big numbers to smack opponent wo actually win

  Or get more guys to attack opponent’s middle row, for more resources/force

• FORCE: Prioritizing can give you resources every turn, and having it on your side helps with many card strong abilities (and denies opponent of theirs)

Gameplay Pros - Clear, engaging, accessible asymmetry

• Same starting deck, many cards that mirror each other

  • Rebels: MTG “Aggro Deck”

    • Hard hitting heroes and big fighter ships

    • Sabotage through discarding cards from empire

    • More maneuverable through more exiling ways (killing empire units)

    • Start with force

• Empire: MTG “Control Deck”

  • About hulking capital ships and more combo-ing bureaucratic card play

  • Star destroyers and imperial carriers give amazing perks if kept alive, esp. with Tie Fighters

  • Playing market control through AT-ST’s and Boba fett to slow down rebel buys

Gameplay Pros - TONS of thematic interactions between cards

• Princess Leia can grab any rebel card in middle from free (can grab her bro Luke)

• Millennium Falcon can bring back Han Solo to draw 2, which maybe lets you play Chewie, to draw another

• Grand Moff Tarkin to add any empire card directly into hand to die later, so can get 1 time use tie bombers

• Nebulon Frigates to repair base

• Jawa Scavengers to buy from market discard

• Jabba the Hutt’s barge to grab bounty hunters from discard

Gameplay Pros - Brisk Progression

• Attacking mechanic of middle lets you have huge buying swings early

• Can kill something to +4 resources on turn 1

• Unlimited buys

• Capital Ships give income if kept alive

Gameplay Pros - Bases change up game pacing

• Choose up 10 as replacement after 1st vanilla one dies

• Can get new passive, sudden card buy

• Thematic, like Hoth gives armor every turn

Gameplay Pros - Good replayability

• Dozens of unique cards

• Starting market of 5 is probably different every game (deck of 90 cards)

• Switching between “control” and “aggro” styles is fun

• Optional modes to choose 4 bases instead of 10, or change win condition for more/less bases to scale time

Theme meeting Gameplay Pro

• Design of factions, all of cards, and even base designs speak to something in Star Wars Episode 4-9, including Rogue One and other Disney+ shows

• e.g. Death Star can blow up capital ships

• e.g. Darth Vader getting boosted from force on your side

Gameplay Cons —2 reasons it doesn’t handle randomness the best way, even for deck builder

1. Short and swingy nature doesn’t let you recover from 1 player’s great turns early

• Great hands early in a small deck means snowballing (no cost to playing anything in hand)

• E.g. Princess Leia bought 1st turn, which can get you a high value card when played is too good

• e.g. Jabba the Hutt early gives you literally everything amazing

2. No idea what’s gonna get flipped over from top of deck to market

• Can kill something opponent wanted only for a better thing to come out

• Sometimes same card can get flipped and feels bad

• Sometimes buying a card for you can unlock amazing buy for opponent on their turn

• Hard to calculate to 90 total galaxy cards

We suspect complaints about balance are from blowout games due to people having great openings

Gameplay Cons - Some minor imbalance?

• An inkling that Empire is slightly stronger than Rebel in long run, since they’re capital ship centric, which are VERY Efficient card which gives additional health and stats

• Empire can also buy neutral capital ships to boost tie fighters

• Rebels do have amazing hero cards so not focusing on balance too much for such a light game

Gameplay Cons - Market can stifle

• Neutral cards and weak capital ships can just sit there

• Game can slow down to past an hour if too much stifling

Gameplay Cons - Funkiness in base balance/design

• Both factions have base to buy any card from the middle when switched to

• This is auto-lock 2nd base if there’s something 5+ value in the middle

• Not so good base: exiling 3 cards from grave, which isn’t as good when cards are never useless, and game is so fast you don’t see too many cycles after exiling

• Bit of a damper on replayability once you figure out which bases are actually worth getting