Destroy green objects and lose cover but stay difficult terrain

Similar to Rally, a cumulative defense boost whenever you or an ally takes damage, but only lasts until the end of the turn. So, let's say it's on a new Clone Trooper, and that Trooper costs 7 points, so you can field a bunch of them. Your opponent has a Lancer with GGDAC, and thinks they're gonna just wipe them all out at once. Strafes in, has +14 atk to the Clone's 14 Def. Gone. Has +14 atk to the Clone's 18 to hit. Needs a 4 to hit. Gone. By the time he gets to the fifth clone, that bugger has 30 defense, and he needs to roll a 16 to hit.

Few things to note. First, yes, +4 at a time is probably overdoing it. Second, nobody Imperial would get this. No Naboo either. The idea for a piece with this ability would be so that it a swarm squad could be played in a manner that is fun for both sides - so maybe it has Guile to discourage out-act-and-smash tactics, and it doesn't get anything like Charging Fire that lets it hide in the back and then run 2 miles to kill you. This ability would get rid of the swarm's main weakness, and thus it would also need to get rid of swarm's usual strengths.



Another idea: Something like Duel, but a little more intense. Like, "while this character has line of sight to a Unique enemy, both characters gain Diplomat while it is not their turn. While it is their turn, non-Unique characters gain Diplomat." I've been trying to get this to work for almost a year, but the basic idea is that your big beat and your opponent's big beat have to fight each other and leave the rest of your squads alone. I'm thinking of the scene in the Old Republic trailer "Hope," where Satele and Malgus are beating the pulp out of each other while the non-Unique combatants completely ignore them.

One more: something to totally turn tempo control on its head, but doesn't crush it, and still requires some skill: "At the beginning of each phase, if your opponent has more unactivated characters than you, you may choose to activate 0 characters in that phase."

So let's say you've got your squad of three solid beats and some door control, and your opponent has 24-activation Daala. If it's early game, you can just make Daala spin a bunch of activations so you don't get mauled by the end-of-round charge. If it's mid-game, maybe you want to wait out the storm and avoid Opportunist, or maybe you do want to engage right away. You don't get destroyed by act control, but they don't auto-lose either: you still have to play intelligently, and it keeps your opponent on their toes.

Would it be bad to want Bribery 20? It'd have to be a piece that does a lot more than counter Reinforcements, so it'd be expensive enough that it isn't an auto-include - or even a common-include.

Hey, another idea: what about some sort of really stiff defensive ability that is negated by combining fire? Like, something as powerful as Advanced Diffusion Armor or Laser Defense System.
Defensive Position: Damage from nonadjacent enemies is reduced to 10 against this character. Attacks with lightsabers or with combined fire ignore this ability.

EDIT: OH! Here, I finally have an important one.:

Assault: Can move before attacking. This character can make extra attacks even if it moves this turn, but it must end its move before attacking.

It's Greater Mobile Attack, but you can't run back into cover. I feel like this could take the place of GMA in designing quite a bit of the time. Some pieces need GMA to be usable, but don't get it because they'd be too good. Some pieces have GMA, and need something else to be useable, but don't get it because they'd be too good. OR Troopers are fantastic, but you need to be very careful designing for them, because they're already 90 Dmg GMA turrets. In situations like that, you can give a piece the (very positive) ability to be able to move and unload, without giving them the (often negative) ability to run back out of sight with no chance of retaliation. (Also very thematic - I have yet to see a movie where non-Uniques run back into cover after running out to shoot )

That is quite interesting, IMO. I wonder what other limits might need to be put on it. Ambush/Backlash do the same thing, but are contingent on the enemy's activation status. Assault doesn't care, but would still benefit from bonuses based on activation status. I like the concept a lot, especially the non-GMA angle, but without some other requirement might just replace both of those other abilities.

Sorta related to the above:

Something we talked about for visa 14 but ended up on the cutting room floor -

Hit and Run [Replaces turn: this character may move up to 2 squares, make all its attacks then move its speed. This turn, it is immune to AoOs]

I have ALWAYS wanted lightsaber style specific combat moves in the game

Ataru style has always been "meh"
but for Legends we had

Hawk bat Swoop

(Force 1, Replaces attacks: This character can move 2 squares and make an attack at +10 damage against an adjacent enemy. If the attack hits this character can move one square without provoking attacks of opportunity.)

For djem so we had

Falling Avalanche (Force 1, replaces attacks: Make an attack, if it hits, push target back 1 square if medium or smaller.)


there are plenty of others that were made as well. Spryguy had some fun ones.

Actually that exists! Garm Bel Iblis' CE

I would really love to look at these... but the link takes me to my special abilities. I don't think there's a way to look at other's custom Special Abilities in list form.

Edit: NEVERMIND. Just search 'jak' and they'll come up.