Announcing the Third Force Pack in the Rogue Squadron Cycle

“Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to one.”
   –C-3PO, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce Evasive Maneuvers, the third Force Pack in the Rogue Squadron cycle for Star Wars™: The Card Game!

You’ll find plenty in Evasive Maneuvers that continues the main themes of the Rogue Squadron cycle. Whether you prefer to scramble your Fighters or command massive Capital Ships, you’ll find cards to support your affiliation in the ten new objective sets (two copies each of five unique sets) included in this Force Pack. Not everything is focused on tense dogfights and interstellar space battles, however. In Evasive Maneuvers, you can also hide from the Empire with an ancient Jedi, interrogate prisoners with the Sith, or hire a deadly assassin in a dusty cantina on Tatooine.

The Eater of Luck

In Star Wars: The Card Game, winning edge battles is almost always in your best interest. Not only does it grant you the opportunity to strike first, it also activates all of your units’ edge-enabled combat icons. This all changes with the Scum and Villainy objective set from Evasive Maneuvers, which rewards you for approaching edge battles in a much more unusual manner. By planning your attacks strategically, you’ll be able to lose the edge battle and still gain some dramatic benefits.

This objective set begins with The Eater of Luck (Evasive Maneuvers, 763). This objective has a powerful Reaction that triggers whenever you lose an edge battle as the attacker, allowing you to capture the top card of each opponent’s deck at this objective. If you lose an edge battle to capture cards with The Eater of Luck, you’ll be able to activate plenty of other abilities later, such as Slave I (Edge of Darkness, 390) or Relentless Pursuit (Knowledge and Defense, 566).

Losing the edge might be a dramatic setback for some units, but never for the deadly Assassin and Mercenary, Dannik Jerriko (Evasive Maneuvers, 764). Dannik Jerriko’s own combat icons are edge-enabled, but that hardly matters, because this Anzati also bears the text, “While this unit is attacking, resolve edge-enabled icons on friendly units as if you had the edge.” Not only do you resolve Dannik Jerriko’s combat icons as if you have the edge, but if he’s attacking, then every friendly attacking unit benefits from his ability. With the help of Dannik Jerriko, even units like Greedo (Edge of Darkness, 370) can become reliable combatants.

Of course, Dannik Jerriko needs some backup of his own, which he receives with two copies of the Advosze Mercenary (Evasive Maneuvers, 765). This unit is also a Mercenary and while it’s attacking, it gains an edge-enabled unit damage for each other attacking unit. If you attack with a large force led by Dannik Jerriko, Advosze Mercenaries can quickly become a force to be reckoned with.

This objective set concludes with some quick ways for you to manipulate edge battles and recover from losing any edge battles that you do lose. It includes a copy of the Supporting Fire (Evasive Maneuvers, 433) fate card, allowing you or an ally to place a non-fate card from hand into your edge stack, manipulating your total edge icons after you’ve seen your opponent’s cards.

This objective set also includes a Gamble: Calculated Wager (Evasive Maneuvers, 766). By playing this free event after you lose an edge battle, you may return one card in an edge stack to its owner’s hand, allowing you to reclaim a crucial card from a lost cause. For example, you could use a fate card such as Seeds of Decay (Knowledge and Defense, 514) to focus your opponent’s key attacker, while still losing the edge battle. Playing Calculated Wager restores your Seeds of Decay to your hand, allowing you to use it again in a future battle.

Outwit Your Opponent

You’ll uncover a host of cards in Evasive Maneuvers that give you ways to trick your opponent. Whether you intentionally lose edge battles with Dannik Jerriko, hide in the shadows with Vima-Da-Boda, or lead from the front in the Capital Ship Independence, you’ll find the cards you need in this Force Pack.

Look for Evasive Maneuvers at your local retailer in the first quarter of 2015!

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