I'm kinda disappointed that the Slave Driver SA was completely removed, I would have liked to see a much weaker and more balanced version. (replace turn and Touch even)

I completely Agree with Daala's changes.

Will we get the Boomilk Squad builder updated with these changes?

The main difference being, that those other example you cited are beatable and beatable by lots of different stuff. Had Daala been left as is, there is very little (a few hate squads and some hot rolling) that could have beaten her. It was on par with GOWK in his heyday.

There is a difference between a mistake that makes a piece/squad better than intended and one that pushes a piece/squad to be pretty much better than anything else. Mace/Poggle/most other v-set "mistakes" fall in the first camp while Daala and the Zyg fall in the second camp. Thus action was taken to fix it.

And I personally feel that Daala is certainly still competitive at the top levels. It's just now she doesn't win every game just by showing up.

I wish Slave Driver could have been worked to still work on only >9 point pieces or whatever, and simply raised the cost of the Slaver fairly significantly. Completely removing the piece's prime mechanic is kinda sad. I can see how the errata was necessary, and I hadn't tested it much so there is probably some merit in the decision that I am missing, it's just kinda disappointing.

The fix on Daala herself looks pretty good.

I still disagree with Tim regarding the Daala/Zygerrian squad. In that squad, Daala was a bigger problem than the Zygerrian (though they both needed the errata they received so it's a moot point). However, as demonstrated by urbanjedi, the Zygerrian is equally broken in a swap squad, where the range becomes even greater with a swap. The problem there is that whatever you drive forward can be swapped, so there isn't really any fix. Driving stronger pieces (cost >9) would probably be an even bigger problem, and thematically wouldn't make much sense. Maybe if it were just changed to 2 square movement (instead of double speed) the flavor could have been kept, but in either case I don't think it will be seeing the table very much.

Removal of the ability is the cleanest solution. Also the easiest to un-do if somehow some version is later determined to be acceptable. The last thing we'd want to see is a different version of Slave Driver coming out every season if the first "fix" was deemed too weak. I want to see a usable version someday just because I went out and got an awesome LilyWan custom for the Zygerrian that I'd like to continue to use somehow. But for now this is the best solution.

Yeah, Prideful is a tricky ability to balance. It gets worse the cheaper the character is. Honestly, I'm not a fan of Prideful on her at 27 as is, because that still allows some powerful commanders, and that damage boost is very stackable.

But the OR can't get the crazy good OTHER trooper boosts that The Imperials have and Daala affects all imperals not just troopers.

You forgot to add "takes 10 damage" but I only saw it mentioned a couple of times.

Andy was first on this about the OR comments but it's worth reiterating. Those are 2 completely different scenarios you are comparing. Imperials have a ton of significant commanders that can be mixed and matched to pump out a lot of damage on top of what Daala does. The OR with the Arkanian has next to nothing to also boost grunts. Complete apples to oranges comparison.

I have to guess that you're comments are purely reactionary and that you haven't stopped to see how good Daala still is. Snowtroopers still have access to Rapport -2 as well as multiple attack and damage boosters. There are loads of different trooper options to put together. They can still be nasty. I also guess that you didn't realize just how overpowered she was previously.

EDIT: Looks like TINT got in before me echoing the same.

The way I see it is that the designers (and the community as a whole) WANT Daala to be a top tier squad. She still will be in my opinion.

There is a huge difference between top tier competitive and meta-warping dominance.

The concept of Daala (trying to break Thrawn reliance, helping trooper builds) is a noble one. We don't want to castrate it. As TINT said - it may not have been enough.

The nerf we gave her was rather light in all actuality. We removed rapport (which through admittance of the designers of that set - was never meant to stay on and slipped through the cracks). Rapport was probably gonna go no matter what. And we simply removed the extra 10 damage. Instead of optimal snowtroopers being able to hit for 50 (90 with a czerka), they can only hit for 40 (80 with a czerka). Really not that big of a deal. If anything, perhaps it wasn't changed enough. It blows my mind that anyone would think we made it so nobody will use her now. She'll still make a splash at some Regionals and maybe even GenCon.

The Zygerrian on the other hand - I think we all recognize that we virtually killed it. I'm ok with that. It wasn't a noble concept such as Daala. It was a poorly thought out ability that was easily abusable and basically only made squads that didn't need any help better.

Nobody was going around calling anything a "Zygerrian Slaver squad". Daala is a core to a squad concept, and that remains. Zygerrians were an overpowered cheap fringe non-unique tech piece. You can still run any squad you might have before with a Zygerrian, and any that was good before is still good. Killing Slave Driver doesn't squash whole squad concepts, it only takes away one broken tool to make those concepts better than they needed to be.

That's still a Daala build.