Battleground: Tatooine (Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron, Volume 3) [Paperback]

Michael A. Stackpole (Author), Jan Strnad (Author), John Nadeau (Author), Jordi Ensign (Author)

Book Description

Series: Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron | Publication Date: April 1, 1998

The crime and death caused by Jabba the Hutt is nothing compared to the chaos created in the wake of his demise. Jabba's legacy is a cache of stolen Imperial hardware and weapons, hidden somewhere on the desert world of Tatooine. Whoever finds the treasure will have enough firepower to rule the planet and perhaps even the sector. And that means Rogue Squadron must find it first, or else find it aimed at their heads!

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (April 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156971276X
• ISBN-13: 978-1569712764
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,682,815 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better fighter sequences, May 1, 1999

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This review is from: Battleground: Tatooine (Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron, Volume 3) (Paperback)

I really enjoyed reading this story, especially since it actually develops each of the characters. For instance, in most of the books, Winter is something like a cyborg: no feelings, just there with the perfect memory. In this she actually seems to have feeling and love. Another great plus is the abundance of action, both off the ground and on. It's great that they have more space fighter action than in Phantom Affair. Overall a great comic/story, with interesting plot twists. Plus for people who've read Tales from Jabba's Palace, good old Bib Fortuna comes back. So far, I've loved every X-Wing book and comic I've touched and read them again and again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, August 4, 2003

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D. Hansen "crichton007" (Riverton, UT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Battleground: Tatooine (Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron, Volume 3) (Paperback)

Thi sisn't even for die hard fans unless they have money to throw away. The art was passable but the story was weak, devoted mainly to action with little support. Even the characters who weren't created just for the comic (Wedge Antilles, Bib Fortuna, et al.) all acted about the same. I recommend picking up Dark Empire if you want a good Star Wars graphic novel instead of this.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A hidden Imperial weapons cache -- there's an idea!, February 6, 2001

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Nathan (Wilmington, DE United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Battleground: Tatooine (Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron, Volume 3) (Paperback)

Battleground: Tatooine is the third story arc of the X-wing Rogue Squadron comic series, and the second to see publication in TPB collected form. Picking up not too long after The Phantom Affair ended, this adequate sequel delivers the goods. While the art's not quite as good as the previous volume, and the story's a little more basic, there are more characters, just as much great dialogue, and many classic scenes -- plus, of couse, all the obligatory action scenes of a Rogue Squadron story.

In this volume, the Rogues must travel to Tatooine to reconnoiter the place and hopefully find a hidden Imperial super-ship and weapons cache. Unfortunately, a Twi'lek who's been conspiring with Bib Fortuna's brain has found out about these too, and is also after this prize, knowing that if he finds it he'll be the ultimate power on Tatooine. When he goes rabbit, taking with him the location of the stuff, the Rogue must follow him to Ryloth, where, you guessed it, the Imperials are also headed trying to get the information.

This book brings back Winter, whose character was somewhat mangled in The Rebel Opposition, and fixes her up some, while putting her and Tycho together some. It also gives us a ton of secondary characters who we'll meet later in the novels -- Huff Darklighter, Kapp Dendo, and Sixtus, not to mention some Twi'leks, familiar and new. Also, this collection has a two-page written intro by Tim Zahn, which is amusing and somewhat enlightening to the Star Wars afficionado.

Overall, while this book isn't quite as good as The Phantom Affair, it is still a very amusing and emminently readable addition to the series. Recommended.