Happy PQ Season and 2025! Yesterday, we were treated to a lovely livestream from our good friends at FFG, featuring Community Manager Xander, Design Lead Danny Schaefer, and Visual Design Manager Mercedes Opheim. It was an informative look into a hotly debated topic amongst SWU faithful- Carbonite Packs, this game’s version of MTG’s Collectors Packs…
In case you missed it, FFG Live posted their stream schedule for the month of January, which we quickly realized included a surprise stream today consisting of information on the new Carbonite Packs. Given the news, we’re taking today off to watch the stream, and we will be back tomorrow to recap it! If you…
Guest writer Jawa Jeff Glazer gives us his first hand account of his positive experience on the way to a top 4 finish at the Curio Cavern Planetary Qualifier in Springfield, VA on January 5th, 2025. This weekend, I really enjoyed seeing the great variety of decks at the Curio Caven PQ in Springfield, VA. Out…
The first PQ weekend completed. There are already a number of videos and certainly will be more breaking everything down, but we’re writing about it anyway. ** If you still want a video, you probably didn’t start here anyway, but check out our Where to Start With Streamers for a few good ones. Meta Health…
Meta Snapshot Updates This was week one of Planetary Qualifiers and we saw a wide diversity of winners from all over the world! PQ Barcelona – Sabine ECLPQ Tolouse – Qi’Ra GreenPQ Iowa – Han1 YellowPQ Wisconsin – Quinlan TarkintownPQ Nebraska – Cad Bane BluePQ North Dakota – Bossk GreenPQ Chicago – Quinlan ECLPQ Vegas –…
This weekend is going to be a doozy. Around the globe there will be eight Planetary Qualifiers on Saturday, January 4th followed up by another four on Sunday, January 5th. The meta has yet to be set and this could be a very open field of events. Who will end up on top? Will it…
2024 was a generally successful year for Star Wars Unlimited. While there continue to be some detractors, the game is in a good state after the close of its first calendar year. (Porg Depot recently covered this in more depth here.) Here’s what we have to look forward to in year two… New Sets Collectible…
Every game of Star Wars Unlimited needs something to signify which player has the initiative on each round. It is strategically important when figuring out the actions you want to take and even can be the deciding factor in a top cut tie breaker. Basically anything could be used as an initiative token. Here’s a…
Star Wars Unlimited has a ton of different things to track from round to round. Initiative, damage, experience, and shields. Up until now I’ve been using pretty generic six sided dice in different colors. Red for damage, green for experience, and blue for shields. While the colors make sense to me as a player, it…
If you are very plugged into social media for Star Wars Unlimited it is currently difficult to go more than 24 hours without seeing a post or comment about the game’s impending demise. This was also technically posted to those same locations so apologies for feeding the beast. The game is in a rather healthy state…
Welcome to this first article of Epic Battles and today I (Thorrk) am gonna tell you everything you need to know to play your own Epic Narrative Battle for Star Wars Unlimited! The objective of this article is to give you the rules and decklists to recreate epic battles of Star Wars with minimum efforts,…
Good morning! We will be taking a break from posting any written content the next 2 weeks as we spend time with our families and enjoy the holidays. We still have scheduled gameplay videos uploading daily on our YouTube channel though! When we return, PQ season will be upon us.. what surprises await us as the meta…
Thanks as always for being one of our readers here at GarbageRollers HQ. Behind the scenes, when we’re not waxing poetic about the nature of our Meta Snapshot or cooking up decks, we spend a lot of time talking with each other about the bones of the game we love. In that spirit, we’re taking…
The battle of the astromechs. Ornery little fellas that would surely throw insults at each other given the chance and without whom the entire Star Wars saga surely just falls apart. Let’s take a look at the feisty rollers and see who might come out on top. Both of these little cans come in at…
Chances are good if you are reading this already that you yourself are a Star Wars Unlimited aficionado or you have one in your life that must have shared this post with you. Here’s a quick list of where you could start for some gift ideas for the SWU player in your life. ** Note…
Meta Snapshot Updates This week, we’re making three changes to our meta snapshot: two removals and one swap. The first is removing Chancellor Palpatine from the snapshot. This deck is a personal favorite of mine, but I have to admit that it’s performance has not been at the level justifying its inclusion on the snapshot.…
Episode 3 | That’s Not How The 4th WorksSurprise! On Wednesday, 12/4 FFG surprised the SWU world by throwing out somewhat early spoilers for the game’s 4th set, Jump To Lightspeed. Early reactions have been, well, interesting, and we figured it was a good time to start a discussion on the very interesting implications of…
** If you want to dive straight into an online hypergeometric calculator go here. There is so much math involved in a card game. The number of cards in a deck, the number of each card that deck contains, the probability of drawing certain things at specific times. In this article, we’ll explore how probability…
The battle of the heavyweights. The star from Mustafar. The Darth burned in the hearth. Vader, the one-time crusader and relentless invader. Darth Vader goes up against the Sith with the scythe. Maul who took a fall after the brawl with Obi Wan. Will this be a one-punch knockout or will they go the distance? The tale of…
PAX Unplugged took place in Philadelphia this past weekend. It was another great event for the global gaming community. Game designers, vendors, players and fans took over the convention center space and invaded Reading Terminal Market for multiple meals. Fantasy Flight Games of course was there including a crew from the Star Wars Unlimited team.…
Meta Snapshot Updates We’re not making any changes to our meta snapshot this week. There was a (delayed) Season 2 PQ in Italy that was won by Cad/Tarkintown, which is already on the snapshot. Top 8 was: There were some smaller win-a-box/case/promo tournaments in the US. A 31-person tournament in Georgia was split by Yoda/Blue…
FFG Revealed four tokens yesterday during their live stream. Two returning ones with new art in Shield and Experience, plus two new ones, X-Wing and TIE Fighter. We have ten total tokens now which means it’s absolutely time to break them down into an art tier list. S Tier Shadows of the Galaxy Shield –…
FFG confirmed via a website post, social media feeds and a live stream that pilots are indeed coming to SWU. The pilots will take two forms, units that have the option of being deployed either to the ground arena or to a vehicle as a pilot. The second and more anticipated is a similar optional…
One of the coolest things about TCGs, all the way back to Magic: The Gathering, is how different mechanics and themes get expressed through different colors, the factions that the game’s cardpool is divided into. Having some sort of similar system that pays homage to this is just such a good idea that it’s persisted…
Battle of the turn one heroic space units. Ready? Fight! The tale of the tape show tremendous similarities between these two units. Same cost, same aspect, same traits, same rarity. The differences are subtle but worth digging into to help determine which of these spacecrafts should earn the slot in your Star Wars Unlimited deck.…
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