HOW TO PLAY: STAR WARS CCG (1995-2001 Decipher) Customizable Card Game | Rick Adams 

Thank you for your kind comments I'm glad my video helped :)

Glad I could help!

Thank you for your lovely comment :)

I would like to agree, having not played the game since uni I thought I would play with my own kids and lttile did I realise how many silly mistakes we used to make. Thanks for the video and the effort you put in - it is much appreciated.

Thanks, I know I did it wrong when I filmed it years ago. Me and my mates obviously used to play it wrong! Thanks for the correction though :)

Again during the third battle: Dark side had 3 attrition and 7 battle damage to satisfy. The attrition means that out of that 7 battle damage, 3 must be satisfied by forfeiting one or more characters with a total forfeit value of at least 3. After you had forfeited the Imperial for forfeit value 3, you only had 4 more battle damage to satisfy. It's important to understand that attrition is NOT loss in addition to battle damage, it is damage that must be satisfied by forfeiting characters (even if you don't have battle damage to satisfy; it kinda simulates that even though you win a battle, you're still likely to lose soldiers on the battlefield, which is what happened to the light side in that battle).

@@rickadams No problem. Just wanted to clear that up for anyone watching the video to learn the game. Attrition can be a hard concept of the game to wrap your head around. When Decipher made their follow-up game to Star Wars after losing the license, they actually streamlined how attrition worked a bit to make it less confusing. That game unfortunately bombed pretty much out of the gate. Also, another minor correction: When you replace a character with a different version, the version that was replaced goes to your Lost Pile, not into hand. And one final thing: Even though the game "died" when Decipher lost the license in 2001, an official Players Committee was set up to carry on the game. This committee designs and releases so-called "virtual cards" that you can download and print for free and play with. They've managed to keep this "dead" game alive for 18 years with a considerable amount of people still playing it! There are both real-life and online tournaments being played. There's currently an online tournament going on that has 80 people signed up for it! You can visit the Players Committee website at www.starwarsccg.org. I recently got back into the game after 20 years when I came across the GEMP platform ( gemp.starwarsccg.org/gemp-swccg/ ) where you can play online. It's amazing stuff.

Thank you!

Another couple of considerations regarding attrition: Immunity of a character to attrition does not preclude you from forfeiting that character to attrition in a battle. You may voluntarily forfeit a character who has immunity to the amount of attrition during a battle. The immunity only means that you are not forced to, even if it means some of the attrition is not satisfied. Additionally, immunity to attrition is with respect to the total amount of attrition - not the attrition remaining after forfeiting other cards first. For example, if your opponent drew battle destiny of 4 in a battle, and you have two characters in that battle - one with a forfeit value of 2, and the other with a forfeit value of 3 but immunity to attrition

Hi I have done set overviews on my channel where I do go over the rules supplements (not it great detail I admit!)

Tanks for your great comment! I loved the almost infinite possibilities of deck creation with the game.

I'm here just as you predicted :)

I wish I still had that video but I don't, sorry

Glad it was helpful!

Glad you liked it!

I loved both SWCCG + STCCG :)

I tried at my old LGS but they were all younger than me and didn't remember the game or have an interest in it

That's an interesting observation. My group may adopt that as a House Rule. Thanks!

Thanks, I'm not surprised I missed this / made mistakes it's been like 20 years now since I played this regularly! I miss those days

Haha well it's been 20+ years since I've played properly so not surprised I missed a few things!

Yes it got more complicated with every set that came out!

Star Trek CCG is my other favourite (again Decipher!) I played a little LOTR back in the day but didn't get into it in the long run.

@@rickadams I really loved that concept of playing light and the dark side at the same time 😁 Brilliant idea 😁

Glad you like it! I was going through my old laptop and I found the master file of it and the Doctor Who CCG one so thought I would re-upload them.

Rick Adams I was really bummed when you (understandably) left and it wasn’t available. I have a small collection and didn’t know how to play until you literally taught me in the video.

Yes it's a shame they lost the licence. I would love them to resurrect it and do the new SW live action content that's been released since.

It's on the list once I've sorted it all out :)

Yes there are many other rules that came out with each expansion. Hoth, for example, had specific site deployment (Markers) so they had a certain order (so the screen accuracy was maintained) and the empire can advance to the rebel base. I have done set-specific breakdowns on my channel where I touch on the extra rules (but don't go into in depth detail). The Hoth one is here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hHGKP_DKQUo.html

Sure is!

They were just made up from my collection :)

Yeah the game has exploded in price since 2020-ish especially the later (lower printed) sets

No there's not really a way to play it solo unfortunately unless you play both sides alternately

@@rickadams ok thanks for replying !

my apologize Capitan Piet

Good luck, start with the basic Premiere set rules and work up to the extra rules in the other expansions

@@rickadams the unfair seller didnt include 1 card of "Run luke run" and Death Star Room 327. How can i compensate this? So, the starter set ist not complete :( (but i have a los of other cards AND I will see if i can buy those cards separate. )

If you have more cards the games are longer (I preferred longer games when I played!)

I belive so unless they are on an actual ship ( ship card ) that can hold more then one then only the ship has to pay the cost for movement or a card that give multiple characters the ability to move as a group

Lost

No to using starships. you obey the force cost to move FROM that docking bay to another docking bay. The game states that it’s symbolically transiting using starships that you don’t play with.

@@phomjachana oh gotcha! Thanks!

You can do what you said, it is just a much less efficient means, both from force and card economy.

I guess house rules you could, nothing stopping you. Although you and your opponent would have to decide who goes first plus what to do about unique characters, whether you can each have Darth Vader in play at the same time etc.

Sell em on eBay and pay off your mortgage. 🤑

Some of them are worth megabucks now, crazy!