La Junta

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These light-hearted, loudmouthed fighters are as nimble in their actions as they are in their wisecracks. As supporters of a strong regime, these soldiers have decided to bring society into line, starting by shaving the heads of the wimpy youth. In the long term, they’d be more than happy to take over the running of the government from those “bunch of morons”.

Release Date

September 17th, 2006

Bonus

Damage +2 - La Junta’s Damage points are increased by 2 points.

Advantages & Disadvantages

Advantages:

Their bonus gives them an extra 2 damage, which helps them to 2HKO your opponent.
Many of the cards have very good stats, which help when taking life from your opponent or defending.
They have many good 4* and 5* cards.
Some of the cards work well as bluffs.
In the hands of a good player, they are a good clan to play mind games on your opponent, due to their damage, which makes them very unpredictable.
Some of the cards are 'Stop' cards which helps counteract their weakness to Stop Opp Ability.
Almost all of the cards are playable in ELO, and they are a good clan to use there as well.
They are a relatively cheap clan to collect.

Disadvantages:

Like several other clans, they rely on their abilities, so they are weak when going up against GHEIST and Roots.
They do not fare well against Montana or other clans that reduce attack.
They rely heavily on their damage to win, so they are weak against damage reduction. As such, they may have trouble against Pussycats, who counteract their bonus.
They may also have trouble against Jungo, since their bonus gives them life back.

Trivia

In English, 'junta' is a loanword from Spanish which can be used to refer to the ruling council of a military dictatorship; loosely translated, in context "La Junta" can be taken to mean "The Council".
La Junta's finishing animation shows a button being shown underneath the Junta card. When it is pressed, a huge explosion occurs, which kills off the opponent's card.
La Junta's finishing animation in their arena has huge explosion releasing outside of the opponent´s HQ, which then destroys the opponent's HQ in a big mushroom cloud.
La Junta's finishing animation in UR World, appears much screens with care symbols, one the ground with radioactive-form and later the opponent´s card explotes with a big mushroom cloud.
La Junta's weapon is a green grenade.
The color of La Junta is camouflage green.
In the online version (2017), the KO announcement for the clan is: 'This means war!'.
Their symbol is a green dog tag, which is often worn by military personnel for identification.
- On this dog tag, there is a big "J" standing for the word junta.
Their decision to recruit new young members is also nowadays hard for the military forces all over the world, but not for the La Junta as shown with Scooty.
- This might come from the fear of youngsters for wars they might face, being the opposite of the La Junta who enjoy battle and are not afraid of war.
In Farell's bio, its stated that despite serving two years with them, she was thrown out because she suffered from depression. This may mean that La Junta does not care much for people with mental abilities that may affect their combat skills, or ability to think properly.
- This was actually a method used by real life armies to sort out those recruits or soldiers who could jeopardize a mission by being mentally unstable.
- This also makes them enemies of the Psychos faction, namely the Paradox clan.
The clan's secondary bio reads as "Soldier, this fight is gonna be a wipe-out! With our damage, it will be done and dusted in two rounds! We've even got Support abilities to stay grouped! No neighborhood, you say! And sensitive to reducers? OK, OK, you may be right…"
As described in Kardashnikoff's bio, the La Junta are not shying away from recruiting former soldiers/lieutenants who were formerly part of the clan or special groups, as she was recruited and approached by her former superior, even though she retired from service.
- This practice is common nowadays among military armies around the globe, which sometimes, in dire times and shortage of staff, have to recruit former members of their army to compensate for missing or deceased soldiers/staff.
It was implied in Dark Drakorah's bio that the La Junta secretly work with the Oculus as they assisted the Oculus in their plan to capture and assimilate Drakorah by luring it to the La Junta docks so the Oculus could trap it and have it consumed by a parasite.
- It is currently unknown whether this collaboration is only one-sided or if the La Junta gain benefits from the partnership with the Oculus.
- They are the third clan to openly cooperate with the Oculus alongside the GHEIST (providing cloning technology) and the Vortex (who received money from the Oculus and aided with scientific knowledge), with the La Junta providing a provisional trap field with their docks.