+ 1 on everything but the activation cap nonsense.

what need are a few good abilities like:


Scramble Signals: Suppresses relay orders and booming voice on all allied characters and enemy characters.

H.U.D. Modification: This character can target characters with cloaked or stealth regardless of cover or if they are the nearest enemy.

wording sucks but I will add some more later

When I think of an activation limit, I think more in terms of activations per round. I think you should be able to include whatever you can into a squad, but perhaps only being able to activate say 15 characters in any 1 round maybe reasonable. It would help speed some games up and make the high activation player choose what he wants to use most in that round with the possibility that his other activations may have to just spin where they are and face the possible consequences at the start of the next round.I dont want to limit squad building, but having a more level playing field as far as activation counts goes may be something to investigate.
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Shooters are easier to counter then cloaked blast bugs and junk.

Forgive me, I keep seeing it and dont know what it stands for. What is NPE?

Negative play experience

Boba isn't broken, but is he one poster child for power creep? Absolutely, toss him and Jangolore in the same bucket...

Thanks!



I havent played competitively for a VERY long time. I dont actually plan on doing so ever again. My play style is for fun now, maybe having big battles on large tables etc with friends and family for an afternoon/full day of fun. This conversation isnt really for me to comment on for that reason however (from the perspective of one that played competitively and often ran tourneys):

There are new abilities coming out for new characters that are interesting, and when combined with certain new V set pieces and WoTC pieces it becomes broken.

We can either, 1: ban the piece (1b: or the ability), 2: nerf the ability, prevent it from combining with those pieces abilities that make it broken,3: or ignore it and let it be.

1: WoTC pieces should be immune from ever being banned. if a new Vset piece royally breaks a WoTC piece to the point that it needs to be banned, then the community royally messed up. If a vset piece needs to be banned then it needs to be reworked. 1b: why have the ability in the first place?

2: this is an option, with the hope of keeping the flavor and fun of the new ability intact

3: likely isnt an option at all.

The above, in a round about way also applies to squads. This also goes to power creep. With more and more pieces making Vset status, the more and more options and combinations there are and the ever increasing likelyhood of a piece becoming OP. Even in the CCC there are those that warn me of powerful combinations that play off my submission and it actually counts against my submission (even though my submission will never make a Vset and thus be legal for a tourney). It may come to a point (not now obviously, but some years down the road) that any new piece would become OP because of the existing pieces combination with it having it do 500 damage to 6 targets while on the move and ignoring cover etc etc (sarcasm) .

The other side of the coin is, how do we continue to make cool new interesting pieces of new characters while keeping the power creep either in check or (never will happen) non existent?

It's an embarrassing oversight.

It was brought up multiple times during design that he should only have either anticipation or sense the future, not both. But he ended up with both anyway.

It was brought up specifically by the original designer that the 25% can't really be boosted, and we just went with that. Huge oversight, huge error, we are to blame.


What finally brought to light this giant mistake - was Jason playing it this weekend. The addition of the MTB is what countered the main counter that existed, thus showing it's true potential.


believe me, a big part of my ire is knowing that I was part of the team that let that slip by.


I take my share of the blame, for sure.



Having a 74% chance of rolling reserves was NEVER intended. Or even close.

Look, I have trouble listening to people discussing changing tactics that they use on the regular.

Not going to lie, it's hard to believe that you care as much about changing act control as you do reserves.
Considering 2/3 of the time you are using high act squad with act control.

Which is fine. But act control has held a dynasty on regional first place and second place and for gencon.
It is the most powerful squad type.

And it is lame to face it... Almost every single time.

Now the people wanting reserves gone so fast were playing act control and got beat.

I think it is amazing. To have a squad that can hold it's own (at least when played by a top tier player) with the out act tactic is perfect.
It should not go anywhere until act control goes somewhere.
We should face the old problems first and do something about them first.

These new complaints from mainly two people should not hold precedent over the years of complaints from stalwart pieces of the game and community.

To continue to keep pressing for reserves change before it has proven to be an issue is to put yourself, your play style, an your priorities over the large part of the community that wants to check and balance out activation squads.

Fix the old problems and put them into account before trying to change an unproven problem that just so happens to counter your own playstyle (high activations).

I feel it is very self serving to keep pushing this agenda at this premature time