I moved this discussion from the Official Balance Committee Rulings post;



The way you attack these factions is to instead of banning, nerfing, or errata'ing, the Rebels and Imperials, make new characters, commander effects, and special abilities, that specifically attack these 2 factions!

1. Much more Rebel Hunter

2. Much more Imperial Hunter

3. Ability that negates booming voice

4. Commander effects or more "Never Tell Me the Odds" and abilities that negate Master Tactician

5. Abilities or commander effects that hinder Charging Fire

6. Abilities or commander effects that nullify Prideful

7. Some type of ability or commander effect that negates and nullifies board wide commander effects

8. More ways to deal with Diplomat ( especially the 5 pt diplomats, uggh )

9. Cheaper Disruptive and commanders that grant disciplined leader ( I mean, why do the Rebels get the only 8 pt Disruptive mini, 9 pt activation modifier, and 14pt crazy boardwide commander effect? )

10. More CHEAPER ways to deal with activation modifying commanders............................................This is something that has been an NPE for almost a decade! And whoever does this, allow them to sit and spin in the back as well!

11. A commander effect or special ability that can DESTROY AND ELIMINATE ridiculous, cowerdous, cherry picking commanders that just sit in a locked room, in the far reaches of the map, never to see the light of day, or a speck of dirt on their uniforms, or a drop of blood spilled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12. Special ability or commander effect that ignores or makes immune to Ysalamiri



Let's get creative here ladies and gentleman. Stop being lazy by just throwing Thor's hammer down and banning everything that has already been established,that just confuses the community and costs us more money and time consuming efforts with all the re-printing and re-designing of stuff that has already been established!

N.R. needs a really good player to run it

P.S. I have been saying that Ozzel and Dodonna run SWM. Imperials has it a ton better because they have Gilad who lets you drop Ozzel if desired.

Isn't there a counter to swapping pieces somewhere? If not, maybe we should get one. It would affect Versatility and Gilad (anyone else).

There is a counter, Booster Terrik (Interdict). TimmerB actually talked about how he has created counters to the very squad he won with this year (Booster and Unkar) on SHNN. Booster is a counter to both Pellaeon and Thrawn (Opportunist doesn't work and swapped characters get shot at). Currently, Booster is held back from being competitive by the lack of good pirates to be in squads with him.

Just reread booster. At 31 points and 1 attack I don't ever see him being played. But it is another example of a designer print something out and then no one continuing it.
I wonder if there is a way to make pirates playable in Seps and give them a good squad as well.

What kind of attackers were used in the squad? I don't see many great smugglers, scoundrels or pirates- most of them have bad stats and bad abilities.

I believe this was the squad:

--Boosted up!--
32 Talon Karrde, Information Broker
31 Booster Terrik, Smuggler Chief
31 Morrigan Corde
18 Unkar Plutt
15 Ponda Baba, Galactic Criminal
13 Czerka Scientist
12 Duros Scoundrel
12 Human Scoundrel
12 Kanjiklub Gang Member
10 Droopy McCool
8 R7 Astromech Droid
5 Salacious Crumb

(199pts. 12 activations)

It's deceptively strong. Jolt and twin, ponda protects the squishy pieces. Enemy moves out of turn - 60 damage to the face (+14/+15 attack with cunning/opportunist +20) MTB? Master Tactician? Don't be so confident. I'll spin salacious to WAGER you might just not win that init. Unkar might bring a couple thugs to mighty swing on you, and forget about stealth. Ysalamiri and disruptive are always handy. And of course, never, ever count out Morigan Corde with +4/10 always on and extra movement pre first activation.