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Continue reading Star Wars: The Force Awakens in Wired Magazine (Nov 2015)
I just wanted to start collecting all the featurettes in the magazines and putting them in one easy to find place. That’s what I’m already doing with the Official Trailers.
The Daring Genesis of J.J. Abrams’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens
For Star Wars, the Force Is Still with Us
I’m collecting all the Official Star Wars The Force Awakens Youtube Trailers in here. I just noticed that there are a ton of Comic Book Resource TV Spots and I’ll put those in another post to keep these separated.
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The internet is funny. How does someone figure out a very crucial tragic event from a screenshot on a notebook? This photo has huge potential spoilers so if you are sensitive to such things, please move on.
A long, long time ago (on Wednesday), we continued our Hot Imperial Nights campaign with ‘The Spice Run.’ In this mission, the reward is to have Chewbacca as a permanent ally that the rebels can call into battle.
Chris Chiuey as Gaarkhan
Larry Hobiwan Kenobi as Fenn Signis
Lanakin Ikaiwalker as Mak Eshka’rey
Samdo Calrissian Lee as Gideon Argus
Emperor Palpa-King as the Imperials
In this mission, Chewbacca is deeply concerned with Han Solo’s debt with Jabba the Hutt. He decides to organize a team to steal some Spice to relieve some of the heat on his friend. Leading a group into a spice factory, Chewbacca hits the guard at the door smashes the door in and the mission begins.
End of Mission Triggers
1. All 6 Spice Barrels are recovered
2. Round 5 ends
3. All heroes are wounded and Chewbacca is defeated
I was pretty excited for this mission. There was a little ‘hide the queen’ game and it gave me the opportunity to control a diverse group of figures. The initial deployment consisted of an elite Nexu, elite Trandoshians, and a Probe Droid. The mission allowed me to start the game with twice the amount of Threat level increase, 4 Threat at this point in the game. I decided to deploy a second Nexu to annoy the heck out of these guys.
The first part of the mission, the heroes needed to find the yellow keycard. When deploying the Trandoshians and the Probe Droid, I needed to place tokens under them with one of them holding the keycard.
The heroes made their way through all the Nexu figures, and eventually killed the 2 Trandoshians. With the tokens on the floor, I decided to create a diversion with the Probe Droid by sending him as far away as possible. It worked by splitting part of their group there to waste some turns. Eventually, the heroes picked up the keycard which triggered an increase in Threat level. After the heroes finished readying themselves to complete the rest of the I deployed some Stormtroopers.
The heroes opened the door, which revealed an additional E-Web Engineer (Stormtrooper on a turret). I moved the Stormtroopers in to start boxing in the doorway. This seemed to work at first, until they started taking advantage of Chewbacca’s Slam to move Troopers away.
Chris “Chiu-y” Chiu, Larry “Last Ho-pe” Ho, Ikai Lan “Solo”, “The Commanda” Samantha Lee and I started the Imperial Assault campaign. Here’s a battle report and quick review.
Chris as Gaarkhan
Larry as Fenn Signis
Ikai as Mak Eshka’rey
Samantha as Gideon Argus
Kingston as the Imperials
The campaign starts with some flavor text setting the theme of the campaign. It’s after the events of Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope. The Rebels have just destroyed the Death Star and the Imperials seek revenge against them. An Imperial beacon begins a broadcast on an Imperial outpost near the Rebel base on Yavin 4. An elite Rebel team is dispatched to silence the signal.
The first mission starts with guns blazing. The Rebels deploy directly in front of a group of Stormtroopers, an Imperial officer and a probe droid. Their mission is to break in to the Imperial outpost and destroy all of the broadcast terminals.
The Rebels were successful in stopping all broadcasts from the Imperial outpost causing the Imperial forces to fall into a hasty retreat.
This first mission was great. The players started and ended knowing that they needed to work together to complete the mission. I am not a good Game Master so having the flavor texts and triggers spelled out for me was very useful. The game felt balanced, I was 1 turn away from winning for the Imperials.
Thanks Ivan!! This is AWESOME!!!
