A More Detailed Look At The Star Wars LCG

So the Star Wars LCG is back, risen from the grave of co-op as a new pvp beast. I know this is disappointing to many of you but I hope that you keep an open mind about the new direction of the game.

The first card we will look at is the Faction Card.



The Faction Card gives you 1 guaranteed resource and lists the phases that make up each players turn. The phases are:

• Balance
  
• Refresh
  
• Draw
  
• Deployment
  
• Conflict
  
• Force

The Objective card provides you with resources, sometimes has gametext and is what your opponent attacks each turn.



The Unit cards are what you attack and defend with. They have a cost, force icons, combat icons, and health.




Enhance cards give you or your units bonuses when played on them



Event cards are one time effects which can provide a variety of effects



And finally Fate cards give you bonuses during the edge battles during combat



The following is explanation of phases

During the Balance phase the player who the force is with gains a benefit at the start of the turn. If the Force is with the Dark Side they get an extra tick on their Death Star counter. If the Force is with the Light Side they get to damage 1 Dark Side objective.

The Refresh phase allows you to remove 1 action token from all of your cards. Action tokens are placed on cards to signify that they have performed an action that turn (such as attacking or generating resources).

The Draw phase allows you to discard 1 card from your hand, then you draw back up to your base hand size of 6.

You choose to generate resources and play your enhance and unit cards during the Deployment phase. Unit cards are the characters and ships you do battle with. Enhance cards are a variety of things, some can be attached to your units like a lightsaber, others are played on their own and can generate resources.

The Conflict Phase is where the meat of the gameplay lies. The active player chooses who to attack with and which objective they are targeting. The other player chooses any characters to defend with. Once both players have chosen you have a 'edge' battle. Each player starting with the attacking player plays a card from their hand until both players pass in succession. Once complete each player reveals the played cards and the player with the most force icons wins the edge and gets the first attack in the battle and gets to activate their white combat icons. Fate cards played during the edge battle resolve in priority order and give each player a bonus (like extra damage or replaying the edge battle) to use. Once a player attacks his opponent gets the chance to attack, they continue back and forth like this. As you resolve the icon effects you will either do damage to an opposing character, do damage to the attacked objective, or add action tokens to opponents characters effectively stunning them. This combat can happen up to 3 times per turn (once for each objective available) provided that the attacking player has enough characters to attack with. Undefended attacks against bases do extra damage to that base.

The final phase the force phase you can attune a character you control to the force to have them add their number of force icons to the struggle to see who the force is with in order to see who will get the bonus in the Balance phase.

Play continues with each player alternating turns until the Dark Side Death Star counter reaches 13 or the Light Side destroys 3 Dark Side Objectives.

I'll be adding new images to this article and adjusting the text as I get a better understanding of the game.