Ground Assault

Ground Assault was the second installment of the Star Wars PocketModel TCGTM trading card game. Released on November 14, 2007, itintroduced an additional one hundred-twenty cards and thirty six styrene sheets—collectively printed with 67 units—to the game. Units included ship classes from the original and prequel films, as well as from the Expanded Universe, representing Rebel, Imperial, Republic, and Separatist forces. A stand-alone release, ownership of the Base Set was not required for game play, although cards and units from both sets were interchangeable. This expansion included ground units, such as AT-ATs and Spider Droids, and new rules for the use of ground units.
Supplemental products for this expansion included the Battle for Hoth Tin (BHoth), which included a fixed 30 card deck focusing on the Battle of Hoth, and AT-AT, AT-ST, snowspeeder and tauntaun PocketModels (MSRP $19.99). The tin also included an exclusive emplacement to be used with an equally exclusive objective card. Each Ground Assault expansion pack (MSRP $4.99) for this release contained 2 styrene cards (4-8 PocketModels), 6 cards, 2 dice and a rules sheet.
The pre-release tournament for Ground Assault was held at GenCon 2007. The expansion was originally scheduled for release in September 2007, but the release date was postponed to November. A promotional playmat poster was made available through mail-in offer with the purchase of five packs from participating retailers.
New gameplay rules and concepts in the Ground Assault expansion included:
*Rules for ground units
*New icons: Battle Droid, Blaster, Transport, and Armor
==Cards==
*Advancing Assault
*Aerial Assault
*Anger Leads to Hate
*Anti-Infantry Guns
*Attack From Within
*B1 Battle Droids
*Blast the Doors
*Blizzard
*Clone Troopers
*Close Attack
*Cover Fire
*Defensive Line
*Deflect Shot
*Droid Assault
*Ewok Ambush
*Fatal Mistake
*Flanking Maneuver
*Gungan Boomers
*Hide in the Trees
*Hoth Rebel Trooper
*Jar Jar's Strategy
*Jedi Defense
*Jedi Leap
*Jedi Reach
*Narrow Escape
*New Friends
*Pursuit Fire
*Rebel Stand
*Relentless Assault
*Shielded Troops
*Slow Advance
*Stormtroopers
*Tight Formation
*Timely Surrender
*Echo Base Command Post
*Endor Command Post
*Ewok Village
*Hoth Drop Zone
*Otoh Gunga
*Theed Royal Palace
*Altering the Deal
*Anticipation
*Antivehicle Barrage
*Assault the Shields
*Avoid Detection
*B2 Super Battle Droids
*Bottleneck
*Celebration
*Chain Blast
*Chain Reaction
*Damaged Droid Control Ship
*Decoy
*Droid Command Officer
*Droid Patrol
*Ewok Squad
*Fallen Comrade
*Fambaa Shield
*Find Cover
*FX-7
*Galactic Marines
*Kaadu Riders
*Logray
*Long-Range Barrage
*Missile Barrage
*Reinforcements
*Ruthless Tactics
*Scout Trooper
*Snowtroopers
*Strength in Numbers
*Submerged Attack
*Tauntaun Patrol
*Tow Cables
*Unstable Footing
*Wild Ride
*Dark Cave
*Droid Control Array
*Endor Base Outer Door
*Rebel Bunker
*Staging Area
*Support Ship
*Boss Nass
*C-3PO
*Chewbacca
*Chief Chirpa
*Coleman Trebor
*Count Dooku
*General Madine
*General Rieekan
*IG-100 MagnaGuard
*Jar Jar Binks
*Lama Su
*Leia Organa
*Luke Skywalker
*Mas Amedda
*Nute Gunray
*Padmé Amidala
*Probe Droid
*R2-D2
*Rune Haako
*Wampa
*Arena
*Echo Base Hangar Bay
*Ewok Trap
*Grassy Plains
*Hoth Snowfield
*Kashyyyk Beachhead
*Wampa Cave
*Anakin Skywalker
*Darth Vader
*General Binks
*General Grievous
*General Veers
*Han Solo
*Leia Organa
*Mace Windu
*Obi-Wan Kenobi
*Padmé Amidala
*Tarfful
*Wicket
*Yoda
==Units==
*Rogue Squadron Snowspeeder
*Rogue Squadron Snowspeeder
*Echo Four Tauntaun Riders
*Echo Eight Tauntaun Riders
*Green Squadron B-wing
*Blue Squadron B-wing
*Gray Squadron B-wing
*323rd Imperial TIE Bomber
*276th Imperial TIE Bomber
*221st Mechanized Assault Group TIE Crawler
*88th Mechanized Assault Group TIE Crawler
*39th Recon Speeder Bikes
*39th Recon AT-ST
*96th Regiment Republic Fighter Tank
*282nd Regiment Republic Fighter Tank
*96th Regiment AT-AP
*282nd Regiment AT-AP
*Z90 Division AAT
*X34 Division AAT
*C78 Division AAT
*K33 Division AAT
*Z90 Division Tank Droid
*X34 Division Tank Droid
*C78 Division Tank Droid
*K33 Division Tank Droid
*X34 Division Spider Droid
*D22 Division Spider Droid
*K33 Division Spider Droid
*C78 Division Spider Droid
*Y66 Division Spider Droid
*Z90 Division Spider Droid
*Star Squadron B-wing
*Blue Leader B-wing
*Lancer Squadron B-wing
*27th Elite Recon Speeder Bikes
*27th Elite Recon AT-ST
*Scimitar Squadron (Imperial) TIE Bomber
*Gamma Squadron TIE Bomber
*98th Elite Mechanized TIE Crawler
*71st Elite Mechanized TIE Crawler
*Cerberus Imperial Landing Craft
*Luminara Unduli's Jedi Fighter Tank
*Mace Windu's Jedi Fighter Tank
*121st Regiment AT-AP
*76th Regiment AT-AP
*121st Regiment AT-TE
*76th Regiment AT-TE
*Implacable Acclamator-class Transport
*Majestic Acclamator-class Transport
*L-2384 C-9979 Landing Craft
*L-1131 C-9979 Landing Craft
*Luke Skywalker's Snowspeeder
*Wedge Antilles' Snowspeeder
*Echo Three Tauntaun Riders
*Echo Seven Tauntaun Riders
*Rebel Infiltrator Speeder Bikes
*Chewbacca's AT-ST
*Blizzard Force AT-AT
*General Veers' AT-AT
*Vengeance Imperial-class Star Destroyer
*327th Star Corps AT-TE
*121st Regiment Clone Turbo Tank
*76th Regimnent Clone Turbo Tank
*Yoda's Acclamator-class Transport
*L-7230 C-9979 Landing Craft
*Stockade Lucrehulk-class Battleship
*Acquisitor Lucrehulk-class Battleship
===Battle of Hoth Tin===
This Star Wars 30th Anniversary commemorative Battle of Hoth tin (BHoth) introduced a new type of playable piece called an emplacement that was deployable with an included exclusive Echo Base objective card. Due to factory errors, no rules book/model construction sheet was included, so only the following items were packaged in the tin:
Units
*4x Rogue Recon Snowspeeders
*2x Echo Two Tauntaun Riders
*2x Echo Nine Tauntaun Riders
*2x Blizzard Force Speeder Bikes
*2x Blizzard Force AT-ST
*1x Blizzard Force AT-AT
*1x Hoth Shield Generator
Cards
*3x Attack from Within
*3x Blizzard
*3x Jedi Leap
*2x Pursuit Fire
*2x Echo Base Command Post
*2x Hoth Drop Zone
*2x Assault the Shields
*3x Snowtroopers
*2x Tauntaun Patrol
*1x Tow Cables
*2x Rebel Bunker
*1x Support Ship
*1x Chewbacca
*1x Wampa
*1x Echo Base Hangar Bay
*1x Echo Base
===Battle of Hoth Playmat===
A mail-away coupon for a promotional Battle of Hoth-themed playmat (Hoth mat) was available on the official WizKids site, or at an LGS upon the purchase of five booster packs, and redeemable when sent in with five wrappers with the corresponding receipts for them. The playmat was divided into zones for use in playing the game, with other areas labeled for placement of cards and game pieces held in reserve.
The background image of the playmat featured PocketModel units arranged in an icy landscape to portray a scene from Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back during the Battle of Hoth. The zones and fields used in the game were labeled on the map in both Aurebesh and in English.
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Category:Star Wars PocketModel TCG