I am not upset. I am just tired of people wording things in a bad way. At Wizards I have read for quite a while how easy it is to be Gowk. Over and over.... he is simple to beat. The people that have posted that never post the squad they use. They never post a score or even give a play by play. They just make a statement. I can say I am king of the world.... it doesnt make it so.

So I have begun challenging these people to come and show me what makes him so easy to beat. I want that info. I think I have a pretty decent grasp of the game more so than some others. I have found nothing..... LET ME SAY AGAIN NOTHING!!!! that can consistently beat Gowk. A Gowk hate squad can only win possibly 45% of its games at best! A hate squad prior to Gowk should win at least 75% and has.

I have played it against:

Palps and Vader
B&B
Push
Lightening
Vong
Gungans
Missles
Double Flame Broiled

I have yet to see something that hurts it. I played a game against Jonnyb's Twilek BSV squad (a very good and creative squad one of the better out there) I avoided 800 damage and walked away feeling dirty. Why????? Because my squad did not need to be good or creative I just needed to roll an 11 or 7 or 3. If that is what people want from this game then either they dont get as bored as quickly as I do or they don't want to be creative.

I have heard the arguments of you guys are whiners be creative. Those words are never backed up by this is what works. This destroys him. Just be creative..... Or I have been told I am not a good player and I lack creativity....

Well instead of just saying that stuff I want folks to get on vassal, drive to missouri or tell me where you live so I can go there and show me how bad I am and how uncreative I am. I want them to beat the living crap out of me since it is so easy. It has not happened yet.

I can promise you Gowk will not be changed by Rob as of now. I know that for a fact. The only way to get his attention is to ban a piece that he designed and hope that sends him back to the drawing board to fix this.

If Gowk is not changed all these people that think he is easy will find out that he is truly dominant. The best players in the world will have an edge (not that they have not had one before ) but this time it will be bigger than ever. They will know without a doubt what is being played at every venue from the Local Game Store to the Championships at Gencon. They will have it easier than they ever have. I realize that not everyone cares about competitive star wars miniatures but if you dont then the ban does not effect you.

Try to remember no one including the people calling for the ban want to ban a figure. But also remember that the people that are being called whiners and told they are not creative are also the people that were the first to discover almost every current game mechanic around. I have 3 squads that are retired on shoebox (anyone remember that old site) because they were favorites of so many. So calling me out and saying I am not creative just doesn't fit the facts. Same for the others.

I understand people dont want a ban... hell neither do I. But asking for an errata or a change will not get Rob's attention. I email Rob as part of my DCI Content Manager job. When I banned Mustafar he and I conversed about it. I emailed him 6 months ago before the Clone Wars Starter was released to the public telling him there was a problem. I still have not gotten an answer about it.

Like dean said the best hate squad vs GOWK shooter is 45% at best. GOWK melee should lose to VONG. I have beat GOWK with my Vigos and Gungan swarms. But they are about 35% at best and get killed vs lacer/yodabuck. I have had some of the most craziest games vs GOWK. a 10 hp gowk vs a 80 GOWK taking out the support. GOWK only taking 40 damage out of around 800 with vigos. Bill failing about 80% of his saves and the game was still close vs my gungans. Sorry he needs to go after my games. All 3 games were vs top players. Gencon winner,3rd place at gencon,Regional winner.

A hate squad should win 65-75 % of the time not 50%. If you dont understand why he is going bye bye I dont think you will ever understand.

Why banning GOWK? In the regionals, some GOWK squads ended in the last places. Rebel Push squads never end in the last places, always in the top places. And GMY (Grand Master Yoda) sux, compared to GOWK. I'd never play Grand Master Yoda in a tourney.

GM Yoda doesnt suck, he is actually better than GOWK, with Ataru Style Mastery, he can do 80 damage at a +19 or he can lightsaber throw and do 40 damage to all with a +19(if only 1 enemy is within 6), and Ataru is easy to achieve when you have R2-Astromech.

and Yoda gives A +3 and +3 which sure is less than GOWK's but you can Mas Ameda this one,

and Yoda isnt as hard to beat because he only gets 1 save and thats if he spends a force point,

I think they made Yoda because they knew they were going to ban GOWK so they made a dulled down power house.

So before you make a claim like this could you at least say which Regional this happened at? Or are you just making a general uninformed statement?

It appears so when you follow it up with you GM Yoda sux comment1

the only wrong with GOWK is that he is priced to low, he needs to be priced 15-20 points more.

Again thats dumb. now in a 150 game your opponent can only kill 75 points to win. With GOWK at 75-80 you wont be able to win on points. You will have to kill him now so cannon squads,Gungan squads, and any squad that is made to kill GOWK support and win wont be able to.

No hes not!
He perfectly priced!
I dont know WHY all you people make such a big fuss about him!
Hes SO easy to kill!

I have generally stayed out of the discussions about General Obi-Wan Kenobi, but I would like to put my two cents in. To start out, I do not like to play competitively and I do not play on Vassal. I have pondered Kenobi for a while, and I came to these conclusions.

1. The problem with Kenobi is not necessarily just him, it is also his support. Kenobi made the plethera of good pieces in the Republic amazing. For example, if a piece with the exact same stats were made for the Old Republic, I doubt there would be many complaints over him. By the time the Old Republic got the support necessary to abuse the commander effect, the Meta would have moved on.
2. The issue is not the difficulty of beating a Kenobi squad, it is the variety in tournament formats. Kenobi is undeniably an excellent piece and the purpose of a tournament is to win, obviously. This severely limits the squads you will face to Kenobi squads, Kenobi counter squads, and squads that counter the counters. This severly limits what you can pick from and expect to win. I assume it is not very fun facing slight variations of the same squads all day long.
3. Kenobi will not be banned forever. Competitive play simply needs to catch up to him. It may take one or two more sets, but we will see him again. By then, people will have new great pieces to play and Kenobi will no longer be in a league of his own.

In conclusion, Kenobi is not unbeatable. I am not in favor of banning, but he simply makes the game boring. This is for the good of the game, we simply need to hope that this does not open the floodgates to other bannings (which I sincerely doubt). I realize many of these things have already been pointed out, I simply wanted to give my own opinion.

P.S. - As I said, I do not play competitively, but I know some people who do. Back around Clone Strike, I could have sworn Aurra Sing was banned. Was this a gentleman's agreement, or official?

Yes. And, if he gets close enough, Count Dooku of Serenno. In the rules book it states "When hit by a melee attack, this character takes no damage with a save of 11. Shii-Cho, Soresu, Ataru, and Niman Styles (including style mastery) cannot be used against this character.