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--Crix's Commandos + Jax--
32 Bothan Commando x2
16 General Crix Madine
16 Jax Pavan
28 Veteran Rebel Commando x2
8 Mon Calamari Medic

(100pts. 7 activations)

This is a great combo squad. Crix provides Cunning +20 to the Vets and Bothans. The bothan's strategy is to move it's speed using Intuition, using Crix's Cunning, Deadeye, and Careful Shot so that they: Move 6 squares after Init, and when they activate they have +14 and 50 damage, use against any enemy that hasn't activated. The best way to guarantee all this is to win Initiative. Use the Mon Cal to stay by Crix, and use Jax however you deem best.

Please leave any constructive criticism

Jania Fel

I dont know how competitive you want this squad to be so if it is casual just ignore my comments.

I dont understand why you have so much cunning. If you are outactivating your opponent at 100 with 7 activations chances are you are not going to be getting a ton of cunning shots off.

also if Crix goes down then what?

I would try to maybe look and fit an oppritunist shooter in there. Whether Han or Lando. But it seems you just have too much on one side of the activation coin.

Honestly this squad isn't that competative, it'll fall easily to a well organized 100 point team. I know you don't have the pieces, but i made an example for you of a rebel commando team, that will do good.

27 Luke Skywalker, Rebel Commando
16 Elite Rebel Commando x 2
16 General Crix M
14 General Rieeken
9 General D

Putting rieekan ansd dodonna in a 100 squad that doesn't rely on opportunist isn't competitive.

I would drop them for something more relevant.

No reason for dodonna in a 100 squad, same thingwould be accomplished with 3 ugos.

First nothing wrong with having an opinion, and don't take my critique as criticizing you for making one, and arguing for it. Quite the contrary, take it as not a challenge, but as arguing for the counter points and their own merit. With that said:

Wow, do I disagree. So much so, that I will remind you and everyone else that I won Gencon in 2007 with a Rebel squad, without Dodonna, and he was released at that time. Robin here, won the Pax championship replacing my BG with Dodonna, but otherwise the same squad. Well, the reminder goes that in two different games in my tournament (87 people, so 7 rounds + 3 rounds single elim) I was disintegrated twice. I would not have won without the BG. There were also several times that the BG kept Han or Leia alive for the critical extra round, that Dodonna would not do.

Further points, your statement is a crutch statement if ever there was one, and it isn't true. Dodonna is not always needed. Sure, he can be helpful, but it depends completely on the local meta first and foremost, then also on what you are doing with the squad, and finally on your own playstyle and interests with the squad you are running. I would actually argue, that in the squad you listed, Dodonna and Reeikan are both a waste of points, because most 100pt competitive squads (which you made the claim that yours was), don't use primarily shooters. Further, those that are used, don't have accurate shot in many cases. Stealth already covers you more than enough, and having 7 activations in a cunning squad is more than enough to set up properly at the end of a round. You squad against the normal 100pt squads is overly crutched and not well maxed based on wasting 24pts that could have been used otherwise.

Yes, this is true. But I'm not sure what it does to make your point. The key is understanding how many you actually need (meta decision) and at which point you've gone overboard with it and start wasting points.

Yes, in terms of direct comparisons I agree, he is the best for the cost that exists. But this is a squad based game, and that point rarely matters in a significant way, even if technically it is in fact true.

Meh, I don't think that's reflective of the current meta at either point level. Dodonna and Reeikan were key when wide open maps, and small point scores were the rage. Now that these have been addressed, and melee figures have gotten better, it doesn't matter nearly so much. You can take or leave Dodonna based on the build, not as some auto-inclusion. I've got plenty of top tier Rebel squads at all point levels that use only one of them, or neither.

I question why you need it. Now, you also get Recon and mobile, which I think are more helpful in most metas, but this is only "worth" it, if your meta suggests such. If your meta is based on Rex, Dash, Mando Scouts and melee, which the 100pt games I've played lately tend to be, Reeikan isn't necessary. R2ES gets you recon, adds more override, and is cheaper, and stealth keeps the ERCs protected well enough.

That's 1/4 of your 100pt squad. Tough pill to swallow for something that in many matchups will do 0. I've argued it's not worth it, unless your squad gets some bigger advantage out of it. I hardly see how a cunning based squad, benefits more from this combo, then say, adding Dash to the ERC/Crix squad. Your damage output significantly increases, you don't lose much defense, and you gain the blasteded if you do, blasteded if you don't forced decision on your opponent every round that is a well proven game winner.

I don't bring this up out of random thoughts either, this comes straight out of experience. 100pt squads shouldn't be spending points on unnecessary commanders, you are almost always better off with more offense, and more beef, no matter how cheap the commander seems to be. Heck, I rarely run CEs in 100pts at all, as generally speaking, beef is better.

And again, please take my criticism as a challenge only to the ideas presented, to show the other side of each issue, not as a critique of Robin as a player or person. Hope the OP finds these suggestions helpful.