Tantives with versatile Han will wreck a lot of squads. Not to mention it can have a good matchup in daala.

Just to be clear, there is no way on Earth I would run Daala in this years GenCon champs. That is a promise.

Granted that's in cover and the tantives would have charging as well. They are only hitting for ten, but it can still be helpful especially when they can ignore double movement squares to get around. Plus if you do that you don't have ozzel and with my build I have more over ride. I also use Rieken to to try to make it so the tantives only die when I would like for them to. I think that would be a good game, but I think knowing the squad and map would determine the winner.

Indeed I do, I'll pm it

It's an evolving game - and always has been. I think there's a huge jump around Alliance and Empire, where the game evolves from casual to competitive - there were suddenly lots of competitive Imperial and Rebel pieces all at once. Or the addition on mass killers, or the introduction of big GMA shooters, or Rieekan/Luke RC/General Crix Madine all in one set. They're all big changes too.

Strafe and gallop pieces aren't that fun for new players, so it makes sense to limit them. I think the game will evolve to have some lighter mass killers (the new Mandos that have been previewed for set 9 are a good example), that don't wipe out an entire squad like a Lancer can. Paper arguably has an edge at the moment with less effective mass killers around, but I'm sure the designers are aware of the issue and are working on it.

I really think changes to the maplist are largely irrelevant. I like having 21 maps available for tournaments, variety is a good thing. I like having to adapt to a variety of maps and squads on the fly. Throne Room (Arica's best map, right?) was very shooty - I think having maps where Arica doesn't prosper is a good thing.

I've played 15 games in 3 Majors in NZ over the last year, all with reasonably high activation squads, and have had exactly one unfinished game. I think you can finish games most of the time if you play at a reasonable speed.

I like how you complain about swarms dominating, yet on the Daala errata thread a few months ago, you said:

Most people prefer to play rock, so when the gay keeper is a scissors squad your right that it helps the game, even helps keep high act squads down. Keeping to the same squad for years though isn't fun for anyone. So I am not glad people have perceived it to be daala, but I am not glad it isn't at least a partial scissors squad.

I like most of the maps we have now, a lot of the old maps made lancers and Arica have a big advantage. I don't like all of the maps we have now, but I think they have done a good job of balancing them.

+1 to that. I actually like the Options for maps, Overall at least, That we have right now on the total restricted list. SO many of the WOTC maps were just streamlined that they became boring. Now it is hard to know 100% of the maps perfectly which makes it a real challenge. IT doesnt allow people to just rely on maps to win.

My only answer to that is you all must be lou lol