i would suggest a CIO in the build (counter intelligence officer).

It will keep activation control squads honest against you.

With 8 saboteur's you don't need the uggy. With 4 guys handing out relay orders(thanks for Kelborn), you don't need the mice. That's 9 points right there.

You can have 2 DW Mercs for the price of 1 sabotuer, so I'd lose about 5 of the saboteurs, and add 7 DW mercs, which leaves you with 15 more points. You now have 24 points left over and you can put your Captain in the base squad. You are now at 14 activations and you still haven't brought in your reinforcements.

Now you can bring in the CIO if you need him and you'd still have 18 points left to bring in any other options you may need (16 point gunsmith, 7 point crusaders, a 19 point scout and 11 point scientist, if you're up against Bastilla), point is, there are a lot of options now you're not having to bring in a 23 point captain through reinforcements.

With reinforcements, you'll be at 16 or 17 activations, with the potential to be at 18 (4 crusaders, splash works well with death shots).

Just my 2 cents.

You are welcome.

Yea, the saboteur's cloaked and traps SA's are very nice I do agree, that's why I almost always have 1 in my Mando squads. The big problem with 8 of them is the increased likelihood of rolling a 1 while attacking, especially with them having twin.

I understand what you are saying about front line commanders, but Pre Vizsla and Kelborn can do better damage when they are adjacent to their targets. If you brought in a Mando Protector to stay with them and take damage during the resol'nare process, they can be a very powerful 1-2 punch. Kelborn can hit for 120 damage and Vizsla can hit for another 60 and you got the protector hanging out to do another 40 damage. This squad really doesn't have any real heavy hitters other than these two. Without anything like a scout in the squad, you'll have to rely on them to take down the big targets.

You keep Jaster and Captain in the back of the group, out of line of sight, and have your mercs stay up front with your saboteurs. It's definately an aggressive way to play, and not for everyone, but try playing it sometime in a 'just for fun' match.

Cool. I'd be interested to hear how things go in your testing of this squads variations.

Yes, but it still basically gives the Saboteurs +10 attack at close range, which isn't bad for a 10 point shooter. If that still doesn't work just let them blow up in your opponents face. In that circumstance you do need a lot of them.

I do have one question though sine I was looking at the Merceary. Does the mercenary special ability restrict resol'nare? And I'm not a big fan of my troops not being able to move.

After reading through the rules, I'd say they can move with resol'nare. Hopefully, someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks for the play report. I think the more you play this, the more you'll get a better feel for what works. You mentioned that you'd like to have another mouse, has that really been an issue? With 4 commanders giving you relay you should have good coverage of your CE's.