Despite many Order 66 characters being created by the V-sets, the Republic still has very few competitive clone builds.
This week's challenge is to create a custom character that makes clones better or is a better clone grunt.

Rules:

1. The character must be canonical to either of the Canon or Legends continuities and from the chosen faction when required. They can have affinity, but the character must start in the chosen faction.

2. You may update any existing versions you already have and/or create a new one. You may update/create several versions of the character but you must ultimately select 1 you wish to run with. (this must be done by the schedule below)

3. Place a hyperlink in this forum to make it easier to find your character. You can just post the stats or image here but if changes are needed it would be easier (and save space) if you just used a Hyperlink (If you don't know how to post Hyperlinks in a forum setting please ask and we will help you. It's not hard )

4. Voting works as follows, pick your three favorite customs based on accuracy to the character, design, balance or whatever you decide makes the best incarnation of the challenge character. First place receives 3 points, 2nd place receives 2 points, and 3rd place receives 1 point.

5. You do not have to enter the contest in order to vote. But unless you enter you must have at lest 10 forum posts.

6. To make things fair you must vote in order to win the contest. You must choose three characters entered in the contest and you may not rate or vote for your own character.

7. The winner will be decided by how many points they receive. Ties will be broken by most 1st place votes, then if still tied, 2nd place votes and then 3rd place votes. If still tied, then the outcome is a tie.

8. You may not change or update the entered character AFTER the deadline.



You will have until Sat, Sep 8th, 2018 @8pm EST to get your submissions in. Anything submitted after this point will not be included in the voting.


Voting will start at 8pm on Saturday evening and end at 11pm EST on Monday, Sep 10th, 2018.

At the conclusion of the voting the scores will be tallied and the winner will start a new topic with their choice of theme.

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/35313/clone-trooper-squad

It's Waaay to easy to turn a Jedi into a Clone Booster and also too easy to use a known unique Clone Commander as well. The old WOTC had several non-unique Captains/Commanders so I thought I'd go that route.


Now, what's wrong with your basic Clone Trooper?

Hit Points 10 - Can't change that; never been done in the game and I'm not touching That line in the sand.
Defense 13 - Dies to easy, but can be fixed.
Attack 6 - Not horrible but not great.
Damage 20. Quite acceptable.
Cost 9. Not quite worth it; they die too easy.


The HP, can't touch but Def. and Attack … those can be worked on.

Advantageous Cover - Judicious use can boost a Clone's Defense to 21; quite acceptable.

Agile - Could be quite the movement breaker with 4+ Troopers in a squad.

Ex. Matters - Just an explanation, frankly, of how a "Trooper" can gain enough experience to be a "Veteran" and justify CE abilities. What IS a veteran? Someone who learns when to duck and when to take risks. Dumb soldiers never survive their first firefight.

Loyal - Sort of the Anti Order 66; most Clones rolled with Order 66, but not All.

Rapport - Coupled with the other abilities, a cost of 6 is more workable as a squad solution within limitations.

CE - Gives the Clones AD. Cover, Agile and a further movement jolt; an extra of 4 totals squares moved possibly After activations.


It is what it is and it was just sitting there so … whatever


Veteran Clone Trooper Captain






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Experience - What a "Veteran" is/when it occurs could be argued forever; for game mechanics & Simplicity, I just arbitrarily made it after the first round is done.

CE - Yes, stack it. Clones were reasonably relentless; let them keep coming at you.

Lastly, Rapport & the Captain's cost; Jen, Jak and a host of others have been complaining/clamoring for Meta this and Power Level that ... so I give you a piece thats dirt cheap yet causes mayhem and now its too strong?? Well, I guess you can't please everyone .....

This is where it could be tricky; its "Meant" to be only for Clone Troopers, not just any Republic Trooper. Not Spaarti, not Raxus, Not 501st, heck, not even Clone Trooper Gunners or Grenadiers ... just Clone Troopers. It'd probably be one of those explanations where the "Card Test" would be shortened and the "Glossary Text" would give the complete definition of the ability .....

here is a non-entry to enjoy
www.bloomilk.com/Custom/35318/gen--skywalker-and-cpt--rex

would make Clone troopers playable

Surf I really like your piece and it's definitely a solid booster, my only two comments is maybe dropping the Experience Matters just to simplify tracking which of the clone swarm has the boost and which doesn't, especially since all troopers should get it by the end of the first round. Then obviously tweaking the CE to just say clown troopers. Thematically that ability is cool but mechanically I think it's harder to track and over complicated. If you want to still keep some sort of veteran status then you could change it to something along the lines of Boss's CE that grants an extra turn/attack to a nearby clone Trooper. Or even just a straight adjacent characters gain double attack or some such bit.

Insight on my link above...

Not 100% my idea. The star wars saga d20 rpg that was meant to be used with swm had the idea of combining multiple low challenge level grunts into a single large base unit. The idea being you could throw more grunts at a higher level party without slowing the game down with tons of activations. Their solution saw higher attacks and defenses on a squad, a splash damage attack to stimulate multi attacks, and receives double damage from area effect attacks.

My own creation focused on the general concept that fewer activations is better. I'd much rather reward a player for running bulk clones with more staying power, while not promoting ultra high activations.

What I like the most about this concept is I feel like it's a simple template/equation that could improve any non unique genetic

1. General_Grievous
2. Oakel
3. Jak

Really liked all 3 of your pieces. Wish they were real.

Jak, a simple and proven boost that would definitely help. I do think Twin might be too much combined with what they can already do and get, especially with the blanket rapport meaning it will mostly be spaarti's leading the way here. That being said it would be nice to see Clones make a return more than the Republic Commandos and Naboo archetypes. And we all need more Aayla in our lives.

Adam, normally not a fan of the combined squad base ideas but you executed yours really simply and love that it can turn into rogue units when the squad is destroyed.

Oakel, a very powerful clone Leader and the one we see in the latter part of ROTS, so great stuff there. Still a bit Ability heavy in terms of what he has and hands out though but the theme of getting close to your enemy and ambushing them with a surprise attack makes this the most well executed Order 66 theme out there.

Surf, likewise awesome character and boosts, I think he just needs a few things trimmed down for simplicity and then he's great. Also in regards to your comments on my piece:
to me Double and Extra attack is less bad then Twin and extra attack. One whole less attack, and it forces one to bring in Rex if you want the mobility, or play the stationary Cody game if you want the extra attack. I think the limiting to only one other commander allows this piece to be competitive and yet toned down enough that you have to pick which one other commander you want to build with and there are plenty of other Jedi and Clone Commanders that you can choose from.


All in all a hard week to vote on, everyone accomplished the mission very well in their own way and using different methods entirely. I think this is the most diverse and interesting response to a simple challenge I've seen yet. Makes it very hard to vote but in the end I'll go with the ones I would like to see most out of the excellent entries.



3rd Adam
2nd Surf
1st Oakel



Side note where did Gandalf go? Posted an excellent week and I was hoping to see an entry from him, must be fighting a Balrog on a bridge somewhere. Haha