I posted this on play reports as well: I run a game club at school and one of the students came up with a new format. Any 2 characters (faction rules still apply), no point restriction. The no point restriction really made it interesting. I suggested GMLS and Leia to one student. They ended up playing a 6 man brawl (typical highschoolers)-each with 2 characters on cloud city. Oddly enough it came down to an isp speeder against Vader JH. Vader won with Force grip. Has anyone ever tried the no point restriction version of dd? What would you use?

LOL, just because Bane and Revan are a lot of points doesn't mean they'd be the best combo. GMLS and either Han or Kyle JBM would easily handle that Sith duo.

There's some seriously crazy things you could do with this though. A big problem, certainly though, is that the NR and Sith can easily reach 170ish points, and many other factions would struggle to do that. The best the Imperials can do is 138 with Vader JH and Palpatine SL. Rebels can only do 125. Seps can only do 124.

And those max numbers aren't even necessarily the best combination of pieces you could run. Seps doing Grievous Scourge of the Jedi and Sidious DLOTS wouldn't exactly be competitive, even against the Imperial Vader JH/Palpatine SL team, let alone the Sith or NR ones.

This could be a fun thing to do, but I think you'd find out that people would end up playing the same things all the time. It's why having a point limit makes it worth while playing.

If you want to do a DD style that allows people to play GMLS or the other big pieces like the Sith beatsticks, then perhaps look at doing 120 points total.

I've always thought a fun alternative would be still to use the two piece max, but instead of exactly 100 points, make it a maximum of 100 points. (you could go higher for pieces like GMLS). You would still have some of the same power squads as DD, but more chance for variety. Haven't seriously built different combos or tried it out, but seems like it would work as an alternative without getting completely broken combos.

If you wanted to get GMLS into a DD game I'd consider allowing him to stand alone as he is the only piece, besides the AT-AT, that costs too much to fit in the 100 point limit.

Getting rid of the point limit on DD ruins much of the concept. Even if you don't require that limit to be exactly the squad's cost it is still pretty useful.