I can see how this could maybe get ugly in mass battle, but I suppose it depends on the rules you are playing, and if someone has piles of SCs and Speeder Bikes, which most people don't.

I have to agree with Sithborg's points though. (including the bold text)

Really, seems like good fun to me.
And I haven't heard anyone grousing about Lt. Page lately.

Are you serious?

I can't even remember when i last saw a Storm Commando being played. It's a good piece, but not nearly as good or undercosted as you imply. And i don't see it in any of the top imperial squads?!
General Weir will actually make me play them, at that is great because i've had a hard time trading for the ones i have. I will look forward to actually enjoy the piece for once.

As for Atris, yeah she's annoying, i'll give you that. But far from broken i think. She is a 41 point commander effect/sitting duck who's not really any good at fighting. My Bastila kicks her a##

Wizards already escalated the game so that the majority of the early characters were obsolete, so that's kind of old news. At the release of MotF, how many of the old pieces did you play regularly?
The V-sets actually rotates some of those back into the game. Yes, it makes some other characters obsolete, but maybe next time they'll be the recommended minis for some entirely new stuff.
Also, no one is forcing anyone to use the V-sets. If you think it breaks the game, just play with the old pieces and have fun with that. I'll admit i was a little sceptical about it at first, but i really enjoy the new pieces. I think it keeps the game fresh.

Just hope you don't face a lancer, double lancer, pawned double lancer, yoda on kybuck, Bastilla Shan JM, High defense Jedi (Imperial/Atris, Republic GOWK, Atris or both, OR Jedi/Atris), Jaster/Mando Scouts, Mandalore the Redeemer/Mando Scouts, Nom/Bomb/melee mix, pure Melee Vong/Yammosk or any evading NR/Rebel squads and this should do fine. All of those unfortunately, can beat your SC superstealth squad in 200 to varying degrees from 60% to 100% of the time.

Storm Commandos are not top tier. They are marginally competitive in the current meta (pre-DotF meta especially thanks to no Yoda/Rebel/Lancer counters), as a single piece added as a purely inexpensive support piece. As a group, they are not even tier 2. I understand everyone will not like every piece, but SCs haven't ever made it close to the top 8 at Gencon, heck, I'm not sure even a single squad with one SC has ever made it into the top 1/2. Perhaps in 200pts in 2007 you could have done it (150 Vader JH/Lord Vader B&B with 2 SCs for support), but never since then.

And let's be honest here. I added the twin for the speeder because it was flavor for Weir (he both rode a speeder often, and always had speeders in his SC strike forces), but even I don't expect this to make them competitive. It might be fun for some of us to pull out a speeder or two just to say we've played them, but that's about it. Heck, I think the most useful part of that CE would be to combine it with Palps SL/Admiral Paleon to bring in a Republic speeder, then swap out Palps for something useful. But even that is a marginal use at best - just something fun to try.

This. As brilliant as DotF is, and as great it has been bringing the minor fractions further into the competitive scene, RnR, from what I've seen is incredible. It blows my mind how well the design team know this game, and how good at it they must be to be able to create such great, non-game-breaking minis that make it possible to either dust off old figures as proxies, or that buff those characters that need buffing. Props to you all.

General Weir, I am looking forward to trying him out.

I literally cannot wait for V-Set 3.

--Wier-dominate--
32 Thrawn (Mitth'raw'nuruodo)
28 Sly Moore
20 Bith Black Sun Vigo
18 Moff Nyna Calixte
68 Storm Commando x4
11 Admiral Ozzel
8 Mas Amedda
9 Rodian Brute x3
6 Ugnaught Demolitionist x2

(200pts. 15 activations)

Sly=Wier

Shields is the only way to make them playable, without banning Yoda on Kybuck, Lancer and Anakin on Stap. Twin isn't really a new benefit, as they could get it easily with a czerka, this just makes the squad more cohesive as a unit, but also now the twin is disruptible. So there is a small tradeoff for not needing a czerka. Personally, I've never seen the benefit of running superstealth and shields. It doesn't work with RCs, why would it work here?

Dreadtech may well be talking about mass battle stuff, where you can afford to stack defensive abilities, but in skirmish play, it's never been worth it to stack evade with Superstealth, or shields with Superstealth, etc. If anything, people are going to replace the czerka and Nyna with Weir, not run them together. If they run them together, they will have an underpowered and non-maxed squad design. It's just simply unnecessary to run multiple defensive that don't ostensibly stack with one another.

I'd say a more likely scenario would be using Atris, Weir, Thrawn of choice (old thrawn is actually equally strong and perhaps better than Opp Thrawn in SC squads) and a couple of SCs than Nyna. Sure, people will try it, but they will pretty quickly learn that Nyna is generally a waste of points better spent on another SC, or another damage dealer to compliment the squad.

--Thrawn's Shadow Squad--
32 Thrawn (Mitth'raw'nuruodo)
27 Lobot
21 General Veers
18 Moff Nyna Calixte
85 Storm Commando x5
8 Mas Amedda
5 Imperial Dignitary
4 Gran Raider

Preferred Reinforcements:
(Lobot) 8 R7 Astromech Droid
(Lobot) 12 Ugnaught Demolitionist x4

(200pts. 17 activations)

I couldn't figure out why this was such a loser squad, then it hit me, no General Wier in this.
At least jak will have to take out a couple SC's to fit him in.

I haven't seen where atris is a problem either. I'd like to hear your side of the story though zombie.

Thanks. DotF was about balancing the factions. R&R is about balancing the lesser pieces, making them a part of the game again - as much as possible, because let's face it: some pieces will never be playable no matter what we do (here's looking at you, Arcona Smuggler). VSet 3, in my estimation, will be about moving the game forward as a whole. I look for VSet 3 to focus more on the Jedi/Force users, to bring them into the game in their rightful place.