The following is a video I recorded for out Patrons but since people wanted some game analyses I figured I’d use this. I’m playing Trilogy format Kylo Ren/Anakin Skywalker vs Han Solo and 2x Clone Troopers. Note: This is before the Maul Saber nerfs and the card is being played as printed, its actually not super relevant since I never played the card but I valued it in my hand higher than I would of now. I recommend watching this at 1 and a quarter speed.

Notes

1:49- I keep Maul’s Saber since it’s the most powerful card in the deck. I kept Crafted Lightsaber because if I “whiff” on getting the 3rd resource I’ll be able to play it after my opponent decides who he’ll be targeting. I keep Intimidate because it can do a damage or two if my opponent takes the shields or it can be discarded to Anakin’s ability.

5:04- This a tough reroll and the result highlights how important it is to consider Anakin’s ability. I did not consider rolling double Anakin special, which I did, but the chances of that are rather small and keeping the crafted is more important because I am way more likely to hit a resource than a double special. I’m more likely to hit two resources and if I do I can play the Maul’s Saber and power action. I kept the base 1 melee because of possibly hitting two resources off of three dice but it might be right to reroll it to try to get another resource to play the Crafted/Maul’s saber. Deciding to keep or re-roll the base 1 is actually the hardest decision but in hindsight I probably should have done it since 1 damage at that point of the game is rather meh aside from the Maul Saber pairing scenario. There is something to be said for discarding the Maul Saber and Keeping Your skills are complete because he does have the plus 2 showing on the upgrade. I didn’t do that because he has enough cards to reroll which can punish that play.

General: I’m naming yellow with Kylo’s ability because I know he has a Easy Pickings and I think he’s playing Entangle(aka fart face). Pickings is probably one of his best cards and I feel like naming yellow gives me additional insirance when he does draw it. Naming red is also reasonable but without knowing his list its kind of a guessing game.

10:01– Reroll decisions are tough and that’s why I’m going to talk about them. At this point Han is 3 health away from dying and if I hit either 1 or 2 melee from Kylo I can kill Han. Funny enough I consider rerolling Anakin’s special because I can always overwrite into the other Crossguard Lightsaber to deal 1 damage. I rightly decide that rerolling the Anakin die is greedy.

16:04- I’m pretty much playing possum here. I try to take as many actions as possible without trying to give away that I have a villain card. At a point I have to give it away by discarding a villain card and not rerolling the Anakin special but then he decides to roll in anyway. At the time I was slightly confused by this but it’s worth it for him to roll in instead of passing since its kind of bad for him if I pass and start the next turn and kill Han with a Kylo activation. He could resolve his 2 range to bait me to use the special on the next action but some of his sides are modified and its worth it to him to keep it out.

28:33- When I was watching this I thought I was having a stroke but then I realized by reasoning behind it made sense(somewhat). I have a 56 percent chance to reroll and kill him on my next action but instead I decided to claim and take my chance with a 33 percent chance of him rolling two damage on his Poe Dameron’s Blaster to kill one of my characters. The problem with rerolling to hit on 56% is that he can claim Obi-Wan’s Hut and take a shield which will make it so he doesn’t die from just 2 damage so my chances of killing him are much lower. If I miss completely he will get to claim which will allow him to go first and there is a theoretical nut roll that will cause me to die. The huge mistake that I made was placing the shield on Kylo instead of Anakin. Anakin is a much bigger threat because of his upgrade suit and because Kylo has a redeploy killing Kylo won’t be as big of a deal. As expected he did not hit on his 33% chance to kill but if he had I have much higher chance of losing.

I ended up winning but it was a lot closer than I expected. There were some other situations that were close-ish but these I thought were more interesting or I made a comment about it in the video that described my thought process.

Thanks for watching and as always…

May the rolls be with you!

@NJCuenca

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