I used my brain (people still do that right?)…and years of playing experience (lots of that around here!)…to come up with combinations of tweaks/changes that made sense with as much of the current characters as I could. These are just my suggestions, so take them or leave them. No skin off my back.

I don’t have the immense amount of time needed to test all these by myself. Hence the ask for help.

As for the very verbose response above, was that a suggestion or an offer to help?

And thanks for bumping the thread!

I have a question about your design philosophy with this project. On the first page you say " Here is an attempt at doing just that...by using the old characters and changing as little as possible to make players want to use them..."

But I've noticed that on some of your more recent work there are some pretty drastic changes. Revan with his brand new reserves type ability in Star Forge and (CoTF) Malak's new stacked card.

I'm just wondering if you've changed your mind on the above quote. I'd also like to clarify that I'm a big fan of this project (the new Malak looks awesome), that quote just caught my attention in relation to some of the V2 figures.

Totally cool, mission creep is always a concern. To your point, for Boba Enforcer V2 all you did was chop the point cost. I guess I'm just surprised the early sets (RS-UH) didn't need more Revan style help versus the newer sets.

Ask and Ye shall receive. Finished some playing, I won't do a play by play battle report just squads and highlights.

Squads were 200 points and followed all restrictions. It was time travelling Sith vs. Guardians of the Republic.
V2 characters for Sith were TFU1 Darth Revan V2 and CotF11 Darth Malak V2 (of course I used him because I can't seem to shut up about him.)
V2 characters for Republic were CotF26 General Windu V2 and UH5 Obi-Wan on Boga V2 (Why? Because I wanted to, shut up.)
Each squad had V-set and WotC vanilla pieces as well. Looking back the Sith team had better grunts, should've balanced that a little better but oh well. I included V-set pieces because the goal of these V2 pieces is that they're supposed to be viable in today's (V-Set) meta. Apologies if they were never intended to be used with V-Set pieces but it made sense to me.

Highlights
- Ambush + Juyo Mastery + Master Tactician is amazing. I may be biased here however since Malak ambushed into double crits and dropped 4 attacks.
- Revan's Star Forge went off! I got a 10 late in the game and got a Krath War droid. It uh, didn't do anything of value, but the ability went off and that was neat.
- Malak's CE + Exar Kun's Dark Aura = Almost impossible saves.
- General Windu is phenomenal with the V2 changes, specifically Force Attuned. Holy S@*t I cannot emphasize how great it is to be able to use Shatterpoint without blowing your entire turn. The Renewal and Lightsaber defense are icing on the cake.

Takeaways
- I think Malak's CE needs to be changed. Board wide -4 to saves against attacks is odd and kind of breaks game precedent. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe that there is a legal character with a board wide negative effect for enemy characters. Nute Gunray is the only one I can think of and he effects allies, not enemies. Even a "within 6 squares" addition would make me feel better.
- Obi on Boga V2 is better than Vanilla. But the Vehicles of War V-Set version is still better. Vanilla < V2 < V-Set.
- Malak and Revan work really, really, well together. I know they were designed to work well together, but I'm concerned they work too well together. Revan's Master Tactician, plus Intuition, plus getting Ambush from Malak lets him move 12 squares, and still get to make his triple attacks, with Advantageous Attack as well.
- Seriously, General Windu V2 is awesome.

Have you thought about the Solo twins at all? Cool pieces, but not the most viable...

I intend to do more play testing tomorrow and I wanted clarification on something before I do. Are these new V2 pieces designed to be played with V-Set pieces or are they for a pure WotC type game?
I just don’t want to play them in an arena they weren’t designed for and report back unrepresentative results.

Zip Line plus Thrawn...still leaves the swapped character open for one phase.

I will look at Palps...but I think for what he does, he should be pretty spot on. Given it's when he takes out 3 Jedi Masters in about 10 seconds...

As for Infinite Engine (Star Forge)...Revan giving the droids +4 Atk and being able to basically Intuition I thought was two good boosts to get them in the action faster, then boost them once they did. I'll take a look and see if any other characters make sense with him. Those two just stood out as they were droids and about the right point values with decent stats. (both had Double too...which goes well with Revan's movement portion of his CE)

I completely missed it. If I had accounted for it, it would’ve made the Empire’s victory easier.
I’d petition to move giving Jedi Hunter to O66 characters onto one of the ROTS Vaders but that’s a personal preference. It would help with the “this Palpatine does everything.”

As for the droids from Star Forge I’m not really upset that the Krath Droids didn’t do anything, they’re terrible pieces so getting them for free is totally ok with me.

Also...on the ARC Troopers...did you find only having 40 HP a problem?
And if so, would 50 HP be that one extra little thing to put them there?