Narkina 4 Imperial Prison
It's one of the best days of the year - Doubleheader day!!! We get to play two Duels in one evening. That's all kinds of special. But that also makes for a looooooooooong night. So the first game needs to be a fast-moving board. Like the Narkina 5 prison board...that'll go fast, right!? Right? Guys...why is nobody looking me in the eye...?
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| First game at Rob's new house! |
Spoiler alert. This game took about 5 hours. It was what it was.
Here's a fun fact. Rob has played The Mandalorian three times - including this game! - and all three times he's had Whistling Birds in his first four cards. The first two times he played it as his first action of the game. This time he waited a whole round before he couldn't contain himself. He let them rain down all over the board, and basically divided the players into two teams: those who got hit, and those who didn't. From there everyone was scrambling to get into position to jump onto the work benches so their characters wouldn't catch damage if somebody wasn't "on program."
With everyone on tables the pace became grueling. Ian's Jango wasn't afraid to stay off the table. He also used his Zam to open up big damage on Alex A.'s Qui-Gon. Others focused fire on Grant D.'s Grievous guards and Parker's Pyke Syndicate. Parker was ultimately betrayed by his own alliance when Jackson's Lando used the Battle of Tanaab Maneuvers card to hand Parker his temporary Golden Jar Jar in last place. But that also meant Parker got to be the new prison warden!!!
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| Jackson visualizing Riley B.'s advice. |
While Parker's Cad was gone Rob's Mando used a combo Rising Phoenix and Grappling Hook to pull poor Elliot's Count Dooku until a kill box with Riley E/Anakin and Ian/Jango. But it would be Bekah's Night Owl - both Bekah and her character Bo-Katan were making their Dueling debut! - who would land the kill shot. Elliot sensed it was going to be a long time before game 2, so he wisely chose to leave the Jedi Temple and clear his head for a few hours.
Alex A. got betrayed by his alliance in his rookie Duel at CL Training, but this time around, his alliance was crumbling around him. Jar Jar did manage to pull off the Oopsa Bombbad card, but that only enraged an entire table against him. Atticus' Obi-Wan Kenobi ran to Qui-Gon's table to eliminate him in tenth. Alex could have left to go back to campus for his hall program...but he stuck around to watch the finish! That would prove to be a punishing decision.
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| Kamino enemies but Narkina allies. |
Grant D.'s General Grievous seemingly respawned his guards 17 times in the game, making it hard to kill Grievous as nobody was willing to venture a walk across the board, especially since Grant/Grievous and Jackson/Lando had no interest in going "on program." Atticus started taking damage from fellow Duelers as well as the floor of the board! And it would actually be the prison itself that got the last of Obi-Wan's health points. Curse these iron bars!!!
That left eight Duelers to go, and Bekah had tried to avoid conflict for most of the game but now she turned into the target. She pulled off some neat combos with the new Bo-Katan deck, but she ran out of partners and space on the board. Riley E.'s Anakin ended Bekah's first Duel in eighth. I think we only lightly scarred her, so that's a good sign she'll be back for more!
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| The white squares are death! |
Grant's Grievous became the next target, and he was finally running out of defense cards and minor characters. Ian's Jango, who had taken some damage by this point, went for his auto-damage Wrist Cable to prevent Grant from pulling any other tricks from his sleeves. Wait, Grievous doesn't wear shirts, he has no sleeves... Nonetheless, Grant crashed in seventh.
Jackson deserves a special shout-out. In just his second career Duel he was deftly playing Lando. But once Riley E.'s Anakin moved across the board again to land hits, Lando's time was limited. Once again Ian's Jango used a wrist cable to park Jackson in the top six.
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| Ian abusing wrist cables. |
Somehow we were past 9PM at this point. Good grief! Riley E./Anakin used a Wrath-in-good-faith on Riley B.'s Storm Trooper to join both him and Evan's Moff Gideon on one table, directly across from Ian/Jango and Rob/Mando. Experience Duelers know the "final five" is when alliance shifts are formalized, and after the dust had settled, Ian chose to move against Evan's Gideon. Rob, however, hopped off the table to use Amban Shock against Riley B.'s Vader! Long story short, it was quite hectic.
When the dust settled Evan's Moff Gideon managed to get the drop on Riley E.'s Anakin. She had sustained prison floor damage when she led charges against Lando and Grievous. The high school sophomore was ejected in fifth.
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| Like a Moff to the flame. |
This recap has done a poor job highlighting all the good things Riley B.'s Vader had accomplished throughout the game. With four Duelers left he was still at full health, and the the three remaining shooters put the target on him. Evan was on the same table, and he needed to be, because he finally used the Darksaber! That was a big blow to Riley B., but he had revenge on his mind. Sensing Evan was low on defense, Riley chose to attack. Evan chose not to defend. You know what happened next:
ALL TOO EASY!!!!!!!!
In one card Riley B. crushed 20 attack points on poor Evan's Moff Gideon!!! Evan was shockingly gone in fourth place.
Ian's Jango and Riley B.'s Vader were both in rough shape health-wise. Rob's Mando had good health, but he was running into an unbelievably bad redraw with his cards. He had nine in his hand, and eight of them were the deceased Cara Dunne. Rob got Ian to promise him they'd work together to get Vader, but Ian immediately betrayed him! With nothing but useless minor cards, Mando was soon eliminated by a Zam Sniper Shot.
Ian was dangerously close to a Wrath/Debris auto-death, but Vader didn't have them back in his hand yet. When Jango got him down to two health points it would be, YET AGAIN, a third kill via Wrist Cable! Ian was the winner...five hours after we started good lord... Big congrats to Riley B. too, who had a career-best finish.
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| Using Jango to win the Jango trophy! |
The final order of finish:
12. Parker/Cad Bane
11. Elliot/Count Dooku
10. Alex A./Qui-Gon Jinn
9. Attius/Obi-Wan Kenobi
8. Bekah/Bo-Katan Kryze
7. Grant D./General Grievous
6. Jackson/Lando Calrissian
5. Riley E./Anakin Skywalker
4. Evan/Moff Gideon
3. Rob/The Mandalorian
2. Riley B./Darth Vader
1. Ian/Jango Fett!
And this wasn't the last Duel of the night...
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