Rather than just have boring standard battles for tourniments, it would be nice to have a choice to use tourniment-legal "Objective Cards".

For example,

1. Title: "BOUNTY!" Picture shows Slave One tracking Millennium Falcon. Text: "Place a Bounty token on the enemy ship with the highest cost. If that ship is destroyed, you add that ship's cost to your own remaining total for determining winner. If that ship survives, its owner adds its cost again to his remaining total for determining winner."

2. Title: "CLEAR A PATH!" Picture shows TIE Bombers bombing asteroids. Text: "Bombs, miissiles, and torpedoes can target asteroids. Any hit destroys the asteroid. Each destroyed asteroid adds 20 points to your remaining total for determining winner. Each surviving asteroid adds 20 points to your opponent's remaining total for determining winner."

3. Title: "GRAB THE CARGO!" Picture shows YT-1300 flying near cargo capsules. Text: "Your opponent places 3 Cargo Capsules anywhere on the board but not within 3" of a board edge or asteroid. Your large ship can pick these up by ending its movement and overlapping the capsule. Opponent may not pick up nor destroy these capsules. For each picked-up capsule, you add 20 points to your remaining total for determining winner. For every capsule not picked up, your opponent adds 20 points to his remaining total for determining winner."

4. Title: "SILENCE THE NETWORK!" Picture shows X-Wings shooting satellites with lasers. Text: "Your opponent places 4 Satellites anywhere on the board but not within 3" of a board edge or asteroid. You may target satellites with any weapon. Each destroyed satellite adds 10 points to your remaining total for determining winner. Each surviving satellite adds 10 points to your opponent's remaining total for determining winner."

5. Title: "ESCORT DUTY!" Picture shows Senator's Shuttle. Text: "Place the Senator's Shuttle in your deployment zone. It moves forward 1 during your movement phase. If it survives or moves off opponent's board edge, you add 30 points to your remaining total for determining winner. If it is destroyed, add 30 points to your opponent's remaining total for determining winner."

6. Title: "CAPTURE!" Picture shows ionized ships. Text: "Any of your oppenent's ships receiving three Ion tokens in a single turn and is not destroyed becomes dead in the water. It may not move or shoot for the rest of the game and may not be attacked by your opponent. Add the cost of any such ship to your remaining total for determining winner."

The choice to use an Objective card during tourniment play would be optional. You could use or not use one.

What does everyone think?

Stormtrooper721 said:

nobody's stopping you.. go and talk with your local players and see if they are interested.. i don't see it becoming a tournament factor though, as one side of the objectives are always favored over another

executor said:

If you were to set it up, you'd probably want to have players bring a squad for each faction - and run the game twice - because of the above.