The game before the game. Essentially squad creation. Countering other peoples squads with your choices in squad.

Lol, I'm not surprised Cad is leading, but I don't think his effect on the competitive game will be very large. 80hps on any figure over 40pts in cost is just asking your opponent to get some easy points.

Agreed. The shine wore off Old Man Han fast enough...

Honestly, I still am really excited about the Seps, but the Rodian Trader is a fun mini to play around with. Haven't quite played around with the Grenades portion just yet, but the Heal stuff is just crazy fun.

It's a pre-fix from Greek, that means "before (or after)" or "along side of" or "next to". For example, the term "Metaphysics" referring to what we usually call "Greek Philosphy" comes from the Greek libraries which considered MP to be the logical grouping "after Physics". It was considered a "science" in the ancient world.

Anyways, in gaming it refers generally to the game outside the game. Squad building as mentioned above, is only a very small part of it. Generally, it includes all the factors that help you win or lose that have little to do with the actual rules of the game itself.

So a squad can be tailored to a particular "Meta-game", which is a set of squads one expects to see at a given place or time, as well as the players we expect to see running each one. But also, a player can prepare for the person(s) they most likely expect to face for the top prize and tailor to that person. Further, you can use other factors to your advantage, such as "distraction" or in game strategies like, "baiting" when you know your opponent is prone to take the bait. And once they are on to your baiting trick, the next "meta" move is to use that against them, and give them "bait" they really should take, but that they will have to think twice about because of getting beat by it before. And so on.

Think of it like this. Many people believe this is a dice game and that in cases where skill (in terms of tactics and strategy) are equal, and squads are equal, that the dice is the only determining factor remaining. I beg to differ with that stance. Playing the "meta" game better than your opponent earns you wins in many of these types of situations. I could name several such victories that were not won on tactics, strategy, dice rolls, or squad strength. They were won by playing the opponent I was facing better than they played me. That is the definition of meta gaming :)

clone with repeat blaster !! love my clone army and hes gonna be a big part of it lol..kit fisto hoping hes a solid piece hes 1 of my favs. and cad bane looks like a solid piece also