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Deathwielded's Son of Vader 9
A nice low-cost piece with a lot of variety.

pegolego's Vader, Father of A New Hope 9
Very clever name! Quite a powerhouse!

AndyHatton's Luke, Duelist Over Bespin 9
Like the view on his impulsive decisions, Brash Advance and Overconfidence is particularly good.

Lord Ball's Vader, Agent of the Empire 9
Good representation, the CE is a little overpowered, but I guess representative.

saber1
Luke of Cloud City 9
A good shot and strike piece, Force Leap is a good use.

Vader, Subjugator 9
Altering the Deal is a good idea.

My vote goes to pegolego's

Votes for this week:

Darth Vader, Hand of the Emporer (GunganBatmanClone), 9
Really nice version, nice theme with the bounty hunter synergies.

Lord Vader, Agent of the Empire (Lord_Ball), 10
No complaints. Epic piece here, perfect flavor for the contest as well.

I'm going to go ahead and rate saber1's Luke, but feel free to change it to Vader, and I'll go back and rate that one instead; Luke Skywalker of Cloud City (saber1), 9.5
Cool, piece, nice (and risky) low cost entry pulled off nicely. Simple, but great as far as flavor goes. True to the scene.

Luke Skywalker, Duelist over Bespin (AndyHatton), 10
Absolutely top notch entry here (who expected less?), could go toe to toe with any Vader in the contest (ok, maybe not in actual COMBAT, but, you know, for contest purposes ). EXCELLENT flavor. Even the new abilities work nicely.

Luke Skywalker, Son of Vader (Deathwielded), 9
Nice piece, great flavor. Game-wise, very powerful. I don't know about Escape Death on him though, with the force batteries and Mettle available in Rebels. Avoid Defeat would be sufficient and still get what you want across I think.

Tough decision, Andy's Luke or Lord_Ball's Vader... But, in the end, the mighty Lord Vader, while failing to turn Luke to the dark side, prevails in the battle and gets my vote for the week

I hope everyone enjoyed the two piece contest, and thanks for bearing the different format!

Luke Skywalker, Son of Vader by Deathwielded 9
Pretty much what I said in the comments, a lot of this works just still not sold on Luke giving Yoda Levitation. Nice Cheaper (good) melee Luke which are basically nonexistent.

Darth Vader, Father of the New Hope by pegolego 9.5
Loner is nice and Turn to the Dark Side is always a nice flavorful ability even if it i rarely used. Force Blast is a nice representation of Vader just chucking garbage at Luke. Not sold on Absorb Energy, I know why he has it but he isn't actually absorbing the energy (or even using the Force.) Lamely enough its his glove that repels Han's blaster bolt. But overall I really like it.

Darth Vader, Hand of the Emperor by Gungan Batman Clone 8.75Crushing Blow is a very nice touch, his CE plus Bring him to Me might be a bit much together though.

Luke Skywalker of Cloud City by saber1 9.5
Flavor of most abilities is excellent, MWYHL has had most of the "kinks" worked out and still retains its coolness, usefullness, and flavorfullness...ness.

Lord Vader, Agent of the Empire by Lord Ball 8.75
Not a fan of wrecking Talon squads that use Lobot, having it affect only your squad is cool, having it really mess with someone's squad right as it hits the table is another thing. Otherwise everything looks good with some interesting choices...Surprise Move does not seem very Vader like to me...but I understand why you have it. I think I would have opted for Surprise Attack instead.

Excellent entries everyone, and its a tough call between saber1 and pegolego...But I think I'm gonna go with saber1 this week

It only messes with the blanket +4/+10 so it's not like he becomes useless just slightly less effective. What it should mostly do to talon squads that use lobot is alter the players strategy (an altered deal ), such as have the reinforcement pieces become sacrificial lambs (MTB becomes an instant counter to Vader). Also you can choose to not add any characters I believe.

You mean like Talon?
:-D

I understand that, however I still think it is too hosey against a fairly new squad type.

Actually, even if you sacrifice the pieces with an MTB and then kill the MTB, they are still considered to be "in your squad," so Talon's stuff still wouldn't work. Kind of like how killing Ferus Olin after he switches sides also disables Talon's stuff.

Totals for this week:

GunganBatmanClone: Average rating of 8.333...

pegolego: Average rating of 9.16...7 and

Lord_Ball and AndyHatton: Tied with an average rating of 9.25 and

One vote also went to saber1, but we don't know his final entry, which did not qualify in the end as he was not able to rate this time around. Deathwielded also was not able to rate and vote.

So, LB and Andy (in my opinion, the two best entries, both deserving ) have tied as champions in this week's contest. One Vader and one Luke, coincidentally enough

You guys can agree to a victory, or default to a tie-breaker of some kind if you like. Let me know who is ultimately selected and I'll put up the thread for next week's contest. Since the extended schedule did not seem to help with participation, and some people still were not able to rate either, we will be returning to a more normal schedule.

Also, feel free to choose something a bit different if you like (such as my 2 way duelist contest this week), just not TOO crazy that it gets hard to rate... Feel free to BM me to talk it over.

Thank you so much for your participation this week, everybody!

Thanks! I'll send my thoughts over to Pego