With so much focus on what's wrong lately - I thought I'd promote some positivity here.

What are your favorite v-set piece designs?

I am talking about the way it is designed. Competitive but not broken. Gives a key component to a faction/squad type.

It could be simple yet elegant, or it could be complex but ingenious.

Throw in your 2 cents.

My Favorite is Luke, Hero of Endor. (with a close second to mandalore the Vindicated)

- HE has versatility which makes alot of the older lukes much more playable
- He is a Good Melee piece in his own right
- 80 damage on the move or standing still
- Overwhelming Force!
-Decent Movement with Knight speed
-Decent Base Defense In addition to Lightsaber Defense.
- And Melee Defense with Djem-so

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I have a lot but I do really like IG-88A. I was able to design him right after I read his story in Tales of the Bounty hunters. I love that he boosts all the other 88's and makes them useful. Breaking the rules with Unique was also fun.

I also really like Daala. Storm troopers are a thing. The empire ran an entire galaxy on the power of Stormtroopers so they should be strong. I also really like that you can't get Lobot or Thrawn if you want to get her mojo. Very fun.

One of my favorites is Freedon Nadd DFS. Incredibly simple yet so well designed.

-inexpensive
-can give renewal to one character while also providing more FP for another.
-helps really force-dependent characters
-Screws with the enemy if you kill him

These dudes don't get the props they deserve. I remember soon after that set came out I heard somebody say they were terrible and unplayable. I've used them a ton though and think they're really strong and well designed. Probably my favorite V-set design; it's subtle but strong and makes you build squads differently.

For me, it would be either the NR K'Kruhk or Luke Skywalker, Galactic Hero (leaning toward the latter). K'Kruhk is 34 points of raw muscle, and he can go places quickly - especially with Ganner. He's what the original K'Kruhk should have been. Luke, GH is probably my hands-down favorite - similarly to K'Kruhk, he's built for one thing: demolishing enemy melee beats. He's cost-effective, a great boost to the NR, and has just the right amount of really cool special abilities. He can hold his own against shooters (provided he has enough FP) with LSDefense and LSThrow 3, and he can annihilate lone beatsticks with his +19 for 30 four times (with GMA!). With both of these, however, they're not overpowered, they're not invincible, but they're cost-effective and really fun.

Mando already beat me to the punch, but I have to say that Luke Hero of Endor IS the reason I play this game. My favourite Star Wars character from my favourite Star Wars movie... and, even though I didn't know he was coming when I first started playing, I felt his presence.

Lot of great ones named so far - but I have to go with Darth Revan Sith lord.

Revan was a pinnacle of design even to this day, many consider it one of the best made and most balanced set of stats yet. With the addition of Jaq and Kaan in the next set, Sith were now competitive. It took until Caedus (another excellently designed figure from the 5th set) to have a competitve Sith squad without Revan SL, and even then it has never matched the success of Sith squads with Revan SL. It’s pretty amazing that a piece in the first set has almost universally always been competitive, but never thought of as overpowered.

The one phase move-swap-do something is the key. I remember having it explained to me, and at the time when all I knew was Thrawn style swap, it took awhile to wrap my mind around the subtle brilliance of it, and how it needed to be used differently.

Of course master tactician is integral and a nice through line from the older, over-costed version. It helps his cunning, and that with LS assault makes him offensively legit as well. Of course master speed, good stats and LS defense round out the package - making him a design for the ages.

Like Mando and Jak...Celeste Morne. Thanks, Bill.