That's certainly a lot of effort to boost Dash.

I believe what others are thinking (and correct me if I'm wrong), is that you're spending too many points to do too little.

A common mistake players make when building squads is this exact issue... "Piece A" is good, "Piece B" is good, and "Piece C" is good. Thus, in your mind, "A" + "B" + "C" = A good squad... But it doesn't.

You said it would be a good counter (yes, paraphrasing) to Slow Cannon squads, but what makes the cannon squads so powerful? Luke? Leia? Han? Rieekan? ... In my opinion, the thing that makes a "Slow Cannon" squad powerful is the combination of all the different pieces, working together to create a great squad. "Slow Cannon" without Princess Leia? How about without Luke's Snowspeeder? The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Of course, the same could be said about any squad, not just the "Slow Cannon". Trust me, I would know ;)

When a third of your squad has no synergy with another third of your squad, that just wont cut it, no matter how you slice it. You've got two beefy characters in your squad, but for what you're aiming for, you can only have one of 'em... Ferus Olin would be a fun piece to fit in your squad, either way you decide to go.

That's my suggestion! Good luck! :)

Posting squads for critique implies you are willing to hear suggestions.

This post for one turns me off to posting because anything I say will be rebuffed.

I am of a similar opinion as Joruus, the squad has a lot of points spent on CEs to boost one follower.

That may not be the point of the squad but it does seem a little techy.

Make the same squad with Flobi instead of GOWK, and I think you can see what he meant by his criticism. He also suggested Ferus (and did not specify either GOWK or Anakin leaving). Well think it through. Does Ferus offer help in the place of either? Sure does. I would be inclined to drop Anakin in this case, and go with GOWK, Ferus and Dash. In fact I made a squad based on those three. So please, stop acting like you have been insulted, and get back to discussing the squad. He didn't imply anything about your squad building skill at all, you inferred that completely on your own accord - something you have done before.

And do clarify, you did not "play Slow Cannon" at Gencon. You played against a couple of people running some version of it. To my knowledge however, you did not play anyone in the top 8 who ran it. I could be wrong on one of your early losses, I'm not positive. I know you didn't play me at least. To say that simply because you played against someone running a certain type of squad means you understand it, is not accurate. Especially when your "counters" would suggest otherwise. General Skywalker gets smoked by the SS, and is almost completely worthless as an attacker against it in many situations (Flobi generally is that exception). And he gets completely owned by it, once he attacks (as well as disrupted). So to say that using Anakin in your counter, suggests you don't know as much as you claim. (This is not to say that a squad containing GS, cannot beat the SS. I've argued exactly the opposite. What I am pointing out here, is that your squad design doesn't make use of Skywalker in a way that allows him to be at his best against the SS. So you've taken one of his major strengths (his CE) and made it nearly useless. That to me, suggests you do not understand the match up you are claiming superior knowledge on).

Putting GOWK in just as a counter pieces is also suspect. He's a good piece, and I get that, but he would work better if you built for him. Your squad is lacking in synergy (and this does not mean as you claim that it has 0), it means that it could easily have more, that would make it better. That's what everyone else was telling you, not, "Well you suck as a squad building so quit and go home" or some other non-sense. Get over the I've been insulted crap or don't post squads for critique in the "Squad Critique" section. In fact, don't post them on bloomilk in public at all, if you don't respect the comments made by others.

I will simply add this. The very person you said didn't know how you would run the squad, and claimed the authority on Slow Cannon to at least be equal on, was a person who also played at Gencon. The difference is, he placed 4th, without the Speeder in his squad btw. He also knocked out the only undefeated player in Swiss in the first round of the playoffs. I believe you went 4-3 or 3-4, and blamed your losses soley on the strength of the Speeder and your squad selection, and at one point claimed you played close to perfect. I'm not sure, given the history, that you have a right to make claims over what Jorus knows about squad building and strategy. Just saying, try to respect that others might in fact know more than you on occasion.

And to be overly clear, I state none of this to disrespect you, or anything. Quite the opposite. I respect you as a squad builder and a positive contributor to the site and the game. I think you perhaps take criticism too personally sometimes, but that's understandable. Just stick to the topic and tell us why you think this combination of figures works well, instead of "well you don't know how I would run it". That isn't particularly helpful, especially when you have yet to post how you would in fact run it. It's a totally different statement when you have already tried to explain to someone, and they just aren't getting it (either because you can't explain it well, or they aren't in a place to understand it). But to do so before you have tried, isn't really fair to anyone, and just starts fights :)

First, Skywalker isnt the counter to SS GOWK is and you of all people should realize that. Second, the point of the squad is not just to beat SS its to beat a wide variety of squads. Third the key to defeating slow cannon is killing leia not the SS.

Sweet, apology accepted, and glad to see you went back to talking about the squad. I believe at 200, the squad is decent, as you get another 50pts to gain Anakin and GOWK's CEs. But how much better would it look with Flobi over GOWK? Dash with 6 shots, and Anakin with triple? Then with the remaining points go with Jarael and a TBSV. It then becomes one of the top 200pt squads.