Star Wars Thread: Episode II

thats true, I forgot about that. Leia always has had a snarkiness about her. But idk, I feel like they overdid it with Luke being a "grouchy old man" stereotype or something haha.

I hadn't thought about Snoke at all, I just kind of assumed it would be explained in this movie, and it just wasn't lol. Either way, he was super cool to look at. I'll probably look like that some day TBH.

OH MY GOD MY FRIENDS AND I JUST PLAYED OUR FIRST GAME OF TEAM REBELLION.

So normally, Rebellion is a 1v1 game, but we decided to play the 2v2 version. Two of my friends were Empire, me and the other friend were Rebels. He was the Admiral, I was the General.

We're doing pretty well here, we don't have many systems, but our base is out of the way and largely ignored on Geonosis. We started loading up the rebel base early on building turns, eventually leading to the building of a Mon Cala cruiser for free and getting three troops, an ion cannon, and a shield generator automatically placed in our base due to lucky mission draws.

I've mentioned before when talking about this game, the Rebels win when the Rebel loyalty marker and the time marker collide with each other and the time marker cannot move any further because it means the Rebels have garnered enough support to defeat the Empire. To gain reputation points, we have to complete objectives.

We were getting fucking shit objectives. Can't complete any involving loyal systems because we can't get any and can't risk starting any combats.

Eventually, our Geonosis base is discovered, so we have two options: move to Endor in a relatively untouched part of the map or make it on Bothawui, where we already have a ton of units and is in the center of Imperial controlled and subjugated systems. We settle on Endor and start loading up the base more after we take Utapau and get a Mon Cala cruiser and Corellian corvette under construction.

At this point, the Empire has been using a lot of missions to send out probe droids and are really narrowing down their options to find our base quickly. We've also Mon Mothma detained on a planet, Leia captured, and Lando captured and turned to the Dark Side. We're in trouble.

Suddenly, our luck starts to turn somehow? We get Mon back after a turn, we send Han and Dodonna to free Leia, and we've gained Chewie as a leader thanks to Han. At this point, they plan to attack Bothawui so I use our rapid mobilization mission to move everything we have there to our base. They've figured out its Endor but still attack Bothawui with a weak force that I shockingly defeated on a perfect roll, so we have some left over units there. We baited them. And because we rescued Leia, we got to play an objective card that gives us one reputation if we have no captured leaders.

We need five more reputation points to win. They've using every turn this move to move ships to Bespin, which is next to Endor. At this point, I'm pretty dejected but my admiral notices that we can attack Kessel, which is subjugated and only has a Star Destroyer, a TIE Fighter, and an AT-ST on the ground. We use Ackbar as our leader and they send Vader. Perfect. One of our objective cards is "Return of the Jedi", which gives us two points if we win a battle with Vader as their leader.

We send in a corevtte, two Y-Wings, and an X-Wing. We take down the TIE and do two damage to the Destroyer. We gain one reputation. Down by 4. We take down the Destroyer on our next turn. Gain one reputation. Down by 3. Now we have several cards related to ground combat, along with the Vader card and a card to gain a reputation if we win a ground battle in a subjugated system. We lose. I've lost all hope. The spark has gone out.

But do I give up? NO! BLAST IT! WE'VE COME THIS FAR! I pull a ridiculous, suicidal move and send Chewbacca to initiate a combat on the ground in Bespin. I sacrifice a Rebel transport ship to bring in four airspeeders against nine stormtroopers and an AT-ST. I roll incredibly on the first turn and destroy the AT-ST and three troopers. He takes down one speeder and I block damage to another. Next roll, I take out three more troopers. He needs to roll criticals to do any damage to me since troopers roll black dice, but speeders can only be damaged by red dice (crits count as one hit to the opposite color or two the same color).

He fails. I roll again and take out the final three troopers. He has one more shot and can't hit me. I've done three health worth of damage in a ground combat I initiated: one reputation. Down by one. I won a combat in a subjugated system: one reputation.

We did it. For the first time, on a wild shot at Kessel and a suicide mission led by Chewbacca on Bespin. The Rebellion has won.

I think lordcarson will be right about the time jump.  It's the only thing that will make sense.  I thought they did say they would not kill off Leia nor would they do creepy CGI but that was before JJ Abrams took episode 9 over. 

I totally understand where you are coming from.  Mr. Kingeomer can find something worthwhile in every prequel movie and did not care for TLJ.  I never thought I'd see the day that l like a SW movie more then my husband did.

I quite liked Rose as well.

Alfie Curtis, the actor who played the "I don't like you either" guy, died yesterday. Such a small role but very memorable.

Carrie died exactly one year ago.

"No one's ever really gone..." 

day dreamer to the haters:


and I will  at the movie so hard.

I absolutely love that picture of Mark and Carrie