I was starting to have some sucess with Freedon Nadd and Naga Sadow.

And it really depends on what pieces you are talking about. Exar and Bane were costed pretty accurately, and did quite well in different point formats. Some figures wouldn't be able to do well unless they were severly undercosted.

Ulic Qel is another one that I can think of. I think he is costed pretty accurately, however he's not that useful.

Well, here is where I think it fails. Bane, for his time, was truly one of the greatest pieces. Even by todays standards, he is great... but he's not that great for his current cost. The game evolved, and his faction did not. What happened is that a piece like bane became fish food for a shooter dominated game. His super high defense and lack of access to any further ranged defense outside of bodyguard meant that he fell out of meta as pieces like the IG-86's were released. If you lowered his cost there, as you said ,that would be devastating, If you lowered his cost now, I think he'd would simply have a chance to see competitive play again (maybe). While caedus's ability was unheard of at the time, i never saw a squad with him that managed really fight a good fight... his faction was already hurting for aid by that time, and his high balancing cost really just made him as unplayable as the rest of the faction. That may have been fixed some with v-set 3, i don't know as I don't get to hear many game reports these days.

I think the high costs were done in preparation for the future. The pieces would theoretically only get better as newer pieces were released that synergized with them. I think the V-sets have seriously helped this game out, but even after all they have done for the sith faction, pieces like Sion are still not worth running. Access to force renewal helped him, but for as much as he costs, theres just such better options for a fraction of the cost, that require far less squad devotion to get them to where they need to be to leave a dent.

I think the same can be said about GML. He's great, clearly there are new pieces that help justify his cost more... but will he ever have enough help to be worth playing? I once asked if the game has an new rule that said you could mix and max any faction, would GML become tier one (pre-vset question). The answer was, pretty much across the board, "no". When you inflate the price of a unit based on unknown future mechanics, and then provide the "aggressively priced" pieces access to the same powers, well... you end up collecting dust with scion, revan, nihl, nihilus, caedus, krayt.

I wonder if a piece that had report for some of the older pieces would let them come back. I don't know... seems like even with all the attempts at synergy that we see in the v-sets (Jango, Mandalore), its just not enough to give the old dogs a shot at prime time.

Oh, I've been asking for more ewoks since vset 1.

But that is a good point. A shame that a piece as iconic as gmls doesn't really stand a chance in the skirmish game. I think a great flaw of this game was that there was no character engine. It was very much built on "gut feelings". I think the vset is too, but they seem to play test much more throughly

I missed that, but I think he could definitely be boosted/synergized to become a viable option.

Clearly GMLS shouldn't be be as powerful in SWM as he is in the books... either he would cost to much to ever play or he would be completely broken... but for such an iconic character, I wish he was at least feasible to use (which, it sounds like he may be pretty soon).

hmmm will it be a broad band synergy for Jedi? He is the Grand master after all. Or will it be a Ben/Mara kinda deal.