QUOTE (Hags888 @ November 09, 2007 11:20 am)
But, you have to admit, you could do the "attack, attack, attack" path first, before the direct damage path if that's the way the cards fell.

Actually, what I'm arguing is that this is in fact NOT a viable path to victory. If Vader is attacking, he is adjacent, which means his opponent can attack back, which means he's getting beaten down. Vader doesn't have the staying power to swap blows with an opponent at full health -- he must first be able to use the DD or he won't survive enough turns to both attack and use the DD. The advantage of his DD is that he can use it from anywhere, which allows him to damage the opponent without taking damage himself.

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo-clock.
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