I think this one is going to be a landslide. There was a time when I would have voted Imperial, but then the Rebels blew up their DEATH STAR. Twice. I'd love to see a OR or YV faction pure requirement at an event.

Republic for sure. I have all the good pieces for squad building, but hate running them only becuase it's not much fun playing a mirror team.

I feel spoiled that my play group rarely runs Rebs, lol.

Fringe is by far the most overused Faction, can't go far without seeing multiple fringe pieces in a squad. XD I ticked that simply because it is true, Fringe are pretty much everywhere, often on both sides of the same war.

Personally, I would go with Republic or Rebels, simply becasue they have one of the greatest melting pots of abilitys between them. One has multiple commander effects, a few study walls and Yobuck, not to mention the number of Republic figures in each set being fairly high in compersion to every other faction of late. (Not only did they get half a set to themselves, but they have also consistantly netted a between 5/7 figures in slots that have not been their own, from Knights of the old Republic to Dark Times, only exception being the purest Imperial entanglements.)

Rebels meanwhile have cheap, but solid figures with Raakin, and if something their flexable figure pool does not suit their needs, then undoubtably they can draw on Fringe to flesh out the army.


Imperial and Seps dispite being major factions are less used because they tend to be stuck to a trend more then the formentioned two. Often their uniques are simply not as diverice as the Rebels or Republic. Though no less effective, Vader with Thawn is still terrifying and Droids are definately solid in seps, though the pressence of the underpriced IG-86 indicates that Fringe is still the most commonly used faction.

Republic. Republic. Republic.

I use them too, but I try to use a different faction every time I play until I cycle through all of them. Unless I forget where I am, in which case I will play Mandos.

Rebels are pretty cheap, and they only thing they don't have is Swapping. Their only weakness' are enemy disruptive, enemy swapping, other Rebel Teams, and the Rebel's low health

Imperials and Republic just have so many options. Some might say they are over used, but you could build endless amounts of squads (from either faction) that don't resemble each other at all.

Just from what I've seen online (Not too many folks play in my area) there seem to be alot of Republic squads being used. Particularly with Rex.

Odd, but many players in our league don't play Rebels.
Odd, but I've played them the last two weeks.
Odd, and neither time was a top-tier squad; both were fun teams trying out the new figures. (This week features Han in Carbonite with General Solo.)

I voted Republic because we see a lot of that.
They've been more heavily featured in recent sets that current players have purchased.
They feature some of the strongest combinations and/or figures.
The players know those characters more.

I got pretty badly owned by a squad with Yularen, Anistap and Dass in it. It is quite a good combination.