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I posted this on our Facebook group before our big New Zealand Tournament. Some of it's obviously silly..... Does anyone else have some hot tips?
1) Know what you're good at - I'm an aggressive player. I like to use a fast squad that can make a big move at the top of the round. I hate playing squads where I have to outwait my opponent, and then strike - I'd rather lob Mara in and smash stuff.
2) Empathy - watch the relevant scene from the movie or tv series, or read the relevant book, to get yourself psyched up beforehand.
3) Fine-Tuning - run your squad past someone else. At a recent local tournament, I saw one squad where the primary pieces complemented each other nicely, but the choice of filler pieces was completely random, something that might have cost the player a close game or two.
4) Assertiveness - if you move your pieces decisively and confidently, you'll look like you have a plan, and the other player will worry.
5) Intimacy - I like to sleep with my squad under my bed for a night or two before a tournament, which leads to.....
6) Memorisation - if you know your squad's special abilities, and force powers, it helps you to make good decisions quickly. If you know all your squad's stats, you don't need to refer to your cards as much and you can play faster, which leads to 3 point wins and making the top 4.
7) Insomnia - so you can lie in bed awake for a couple of hours, and think through how all of your squad's potential matchups will play out.
8) Parental Expectations - my mum (I'm in my thirties and have my own family) wants to know the reasons when I fail to win.
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4) You might not always want your opponent to worry, because they will be more careful, and that might not be what you want.
5) You could also sleep with the cards taped to your forehead, but that may lead to some bent cards.
Another thing is that you have to know your opponent's cards well, too. Not just your own. That is very important, and that was the only thing that allowed me to win against CoDy on VASSAL. I was constantly searching up sith characters since I have none at all. I found out their weaknesses, and I eventually but barely took him down. He chose a good squad, but maybe didn't know my squad too well. Either that, or he didn't tape the cards to his forehead.
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Know the maps. Especially your map. If you know where you want to go and how far it is to get there, it makes it much easier then having to count out squares every turn.
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Pray for good rolls or at least make a deal with your dice.
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urbanjedi wrote:Know the maps. Especially your map. If you know where you want to go and how far it is to get there, it makes it much easier then having to count out squares every turn. I played a game with thereisnotry, and had some trouble figuring out the map. It had pits everywhere, and I kept ending my turn in them. I think I would've lost either way, though. He's one tough cookie!  So is CoDy, though. I think that 1 die roll could've changed the game.
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Chess Strategy. You have to know your next series of moves and how your opponent will counter them. This just takes practice to figure out but if you play 1 squad enough times you will learn all of the counter options available.
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