How to play Star Wars Unlimited TCG on Cockatrice

Last update: 4/23 - Emperor Palpatine orientation

Cockatrice is an free, open-source, multi-platform program for playing tabletop card games over a network.

Cockatrice’s features:

• Lobby for finding games and chatting with other players

• Deckbuilder

• Replay function - automatically records all games to review later

• Built-in keyboard shortcuts to manipulate cards, add counters, and track game phases

• Easy to edit plaintext format for decklists

• Local games - you can make a single player game to goldfish a deck, or create a two-player game and play both sides to test a matchup

Pre-game:

In game:

Installing Cockatrice

Download Cockatrice for free here: https://cockatrice.github.io/

Copy the Cockatrice and Oracle apps to your Applications folder. You don’t need the Servatrice app.

(Mac users - by default the system will not let you open an app from an unregistered developer. Double click on the Cockatrice app and it will decline to open. Then go to System Settings → Privacy and Security, scroll down to the Security section and choose "Open Anyway".)

Open Cockatrice and follow the instructions to run the card database updater.

Download the Star Wars Unlimited assets

Download the cards xml and card images here

Installing Star Wars Unlimited

In the menu bar, go to “Card Database → Open custom image folder”. Put the “Star Wars Unlimited” folder of card images here.

Then go to “Card Database → Open custom sets folder”. Put the “01.swu.xml” file here.

Quit and reopen the client.

(Optional) If you’d prefer to only see Star Wars Unlimited cards, then you can go to “Card Database → Manage Sets”, disable all sets, then re-enable only the Star Wars sets.

Logging in

(If you just want to test decks locally, you don’t need to register to the server. Go to Actions → Start Local Game to start a test game.)

To register, in the menu bar, go to Actions → Register to Server.

Then go to Actions → Connect and log in to the Rooster Ranges server (default server).

After logging in, go to the Server tab and join the "Other Games" room.

Playing

One minute guide to the controls and playing on Cockatrice: https://github.com/Cockatrice/Cockatrice/wiki/One-minute-game-guide

Star Wars Unlimited specific tips:

• Create an Initiative token = Right Click on your base → Token: Initiative

• Play a card face down (resource) = Shift+Drag

• Deploy your leader = Right Click on the leader and create the associated Deployed card

• When playing with cards that have associated tokens (Shield, Experience), Right Click on the card to quickly create them.

• Look at your sideboard = Crtl-1. Or Right Click on the field → Sideboard → View Sideboard.

• Select multiple cards at once = Shift, Click, Drag

• Track damage = Right Click on a card → Add Counters

• Right Click on your base and choose “toggle normal untapping” to keep it in the horizontal position.

By default Ground units play the the front row and Space units play to the middle row.

Decklist format for Cockatrice

Luke green.txt:

3 Echo Base Defender
3 Obi-Wan Kenobi, Following Fate
3 Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight

sideboard
1 Regional Governor
2 Make an Opening

1 Luke Skywalker, Faithful Friend
1 Energy Conversion Lab

For unique cards, make sure to include the full name - Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight.

You don’t need to include the deployed version of your leader in the decklist - it can be created by right clicking on your leader card in the game.

Punctuation matters, but whitespace and capitalization don’t matter.

It’s easiest to put your leader and base in the sideboard section, since you’ll need to pull them out of your deck at the beginning of each game. You can put them in the maindeck if you prefer, though.

.dec decklists downloaded from SWUDB will work if you replace the “// Sideboard” line with “sideboard”.

If you find any bugs/typos or have any suggestions, you can message me @blackmetallic. (note the dot) on Discord.

Enjoy!

Changelog

4/14 - added full names for unique cards

4/15 - fixed typos in:

Benthic "Two Tubes", Partisan Lieutenant

Razor Crest, Reliable Gunship

C-3P0, Protocol Droid

Chirrut Îmwe, One With The Force

Lieutenant Childsen, Death Star Prison Warden

4/18 - K-2SO, Cassian's Counterpart

4/23 - Emperor Palpatine leader card orientation