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#23 Gungan Soldier, Scout
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Entry: 13 July 1999
The Unofficial Jedi's Guide to the YJCCG Galaxy.
Compiled by jinnandtonic, June 1999.
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jinnandtonic's Grades:
Economy: B
<>Gungan Soldier / Scout is your standard universal <> character. Deploying for 2, with Power 2, Damage 1 and a location bonus of Power +2 at Naboo/Battle Fields, it is a reasonably economic card. A fairly average Destiny of 3 combined with the fact that <>Gungan Warrior / Infantry is a much better proposition for a Gungan deck, means that you will probably not use this card until future expansions are released. Or you shouldn't anyway.
Decipher: A-
There is hardly anything wrong with this card in terms of tying it to the film. Everything seems fair, and the only reason that <>Gungan Soldier / Scout does not get an A is that the image is inexplicably almost identical to the image on the <>Gungan Warrior / Infantry.
Overall Usefulness: B-
Currently useless, in every sense. Why use this card when you can use Gungan Warrior / Infantry, and get an extra location Power bonus at Naboo / Theed Palace? This card will obviously become more useful when Naboo / Battle Fields is released.
FLAVOR TEXT: "Wesa gotta grande army." - Jar Jar Binks
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CARD FACTS:
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COMMON, GREEN-DOT, NON-STACKABLE
Deploy: 2
Power: 2
Destiny: 3
Damage: 1
Power Bonuses:
Naboo/Theed Palace: +0
Naboo/Battle Fields: +2
Naboo/Gungan Swamp: +0
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SPECIFIC INTERACTING CARDS:
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Some sort of specific interacting cards here. Repeated in all the Gungan entries.
<>Electropole
(#39, Menace of Darth Maul, Common, Orange-Dot)
- This weappon card gives a Power bonus of +2 and a Destiny ? Draw to any <> Gungan in battle, or a Destiny ? Draw to any other character. Although it only has a Destiny of 3, it is still a handy card in any Gungan themed deck. I probably prefer the next weapon card for Gungans, however.
<>Kaadu
(#41, Menace of Darth Maul, Common, Orange-Dot)
- My fave Gungan weapon, giving a Power bonus of +1 and a Destiny ? Draw to any Gungan in battle. While it doesn't allow for non-Gungan characters, it has a slightly higher Destiny (4) than the Electropole. This can also be helped by using as many Gungans as possible in the blue-dot and green-dot categories, and heres hoping a red-dot universal Gungan is released soon. (Hint: How about a Gungan Division, ala Battle Droid Squad? Won't use weapons but is still cool!)
Gungan Curiosity
(#54, Menace of Darth Maul, Common, Yellow-Dot)
- Anyone who reads everything on the site know how much this card annoys me. Maybe it is just my YJCCG ineptitude, but anyway...this Battle card allows any three <>Gungan characters to fight together in battle. I would include 1-2 in a Gungan deck, but that is pushing it, I feel. If I draw one more Gungan Curiosity when I *need* a The Negotiations Were Short, I'll spew. And so will you.
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IN BRIEF:
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<>Gungan Soldier / Scout is one of those cards that you won't use unless you absolutely are forced to. And it is not a bad card. It's just that the site at which this character is most effective is not yet released. I think it would be interesting to see just how many cards are effectively useless when compared with other cards which have location bonuses at usable locations (or duplicates [shudder]). Probably quite a few. It is very annoying.
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GENERAL PLAY TIPS:
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Okay, what about the Gungan deck? Right now? Well this card will not be in your ideal Gungan-themed deck. Green-dot would feature Gungan Warrior / Infantry (maybe 10 copies if you're game), blue would feature Gungan Official / Bureaucrats and Jar Jar Binks / Gungan Chuba Thief, and maybe Boss Nass / Leader of the Gungans. Yellow-dot would have Gungan Curiosity (2-4 copies, and that is pushing it) and The Negotiations Were Short (because you have to). Orange is an easy category, with a nice combination of Blaster Rifles, Kaadu and Electropoles the way to go. The real problem area for this kind of deck is the red-dot category. I think one of the best bets is Ishi Tib / Warrior, to help you on Tatooine, or maybe a couple of Jedi (they never hurt, unless you overdo it).
* The Force Quotient (FQ, like IQ) of <>Gungan Soldier / Scout is 5. Which is pretty ordinary, the same as <>Gungan Guard, <>Jawa / Thief, <>Royal Guard / Veteran and several others.
* Style tips:
- I really can't think of any. Needless to say don't use this card until Naboo / Battle Fields is released.
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ADDITIONS:
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Up to you. Think of anything else cool about his card, or combos that you have used to great effect? What about a particular game in which this card made you win? Send anything like that to jinnandtonic@angelfire.com and I'll add it here.
Why is it that Decipher couldn't give us characters that *work* with the sites from the first expansion in the first expansion, and save the others till later?
Looks like a case for Mulder and Scully.
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