As a designer, it's really tempting to "fix" current SWM game play issues.

Where to start, certainly not at mouse droids.
medium base 3 point fringe Rodian Brutes
3 point Ugo's
Override in general
Gambit (an OK bandaid that was applied to a larger "why should I engage problem")
Mas
Boardwide CE's vs ranged CE's
IG-86's (silly cheap fringe droid that the Seps can totally exploit better than every other faction)
The general cheap costing of fringe pieces
Mouse droids granting cover with their high Jedi like defense (IMO larger issue than any SA on the mouse)


The issue with changing on of these is not addressing all of them. At the end, the game will not look much like the SWM that we know. Let's say you have been out of the scene for 2 years and return to play (it does happen). You show up to play a tourney only to find out that the pieces you brought to play are no longer "legal" with the WOTC provided stat card. The other way... You show up to play after 2 years with your WOTC cards. You learn of the "new" "insert cool unique fig name" that came out in the V sets. When you get home you print out the PDF and you are now using the new (hopefully better) figure. I like the second story better than the first.

jak and I have been using this house rule form some time: Mouse Droids do not grant cover and do not count as the nearest enemy. They they may also be walked over(sometimes crushed) by other figs. Cannot stop in thier space.

One additional factor is that the secondary market is STILL looking to make money. Personally, I don't think mouse droid sales alone would make a scratch in their profit margin, but what other ramifications would that rule change have?

It's the price of doing business. Either we make the few of you who don't have enough mice happy, or piss off every player (many more than those without mice complaining) who already bought their own. Not to mention, I'm about 99% sure Sithborg is correct, changing the rule now would not change the price of mice in the secondary market. CMG markets despite the constant confusion about this, are never large enough to be affected by "market principles" that most of us learned in Economics 101. Our secondary market is so small that changing the rule just for one figure, isn't going to change the prices of that figure anyway. People still want more mice, and there aren't more out there to be had, other than in IE boosters. It doesn't matter if you reduce the demand, because the supply is still much lower than even 1/2 the demand. Further more, if the price did drop, you simply piss off others. I suggest either following the custom rules already in place, or getting over the fact that there are some pieces in any collectible game that will cost more than others. That is a fact that never changes, no matter what you do.

In short, the bad consequences always will outweigh the good on this one.

Lol, I hadn't thought of it that way.
Doesn't affect the adjacency rule when choosing targets, does it?

i have 2 and they do me fine, i mean they are great and id like about 4 more but the two i have are ok for me, to be honest i dont know how i got mine lol

For the first time in about 15 boosters I pulled a Mouse Droid. So excited to finally get another...

lol do you supply mice for your whole group? Even with lobot/gha you should have more than enough at 14 to make any squad you could possibly think of.

Except an Uggie Boss swarm squad.

You can never have enough Mouse Droids. We are not trying to make the secondary market price come down, but this unit is very valuble for game play in every faction. I really don't think anyone would complain if we made Mouse Droids more accessible, by allowing people to have the option to turn one mini into two. The rule every custom mini needs to be an SWM restricts players from using alternate lines for customs (clix, d&d, Monpoc, WEG, Knight Models, etc.)

Also here is a crazy thought, what about including Mouse Droids as a reprint in a V-set so players can use whatever small based mini they have available?