Well no, I am talking about the "gatekeeper" of those costs. Mace Windu is too powerful and jumpy imo to be a standard.

Corral Horn and vset Revan for 62 are the ones for the 60 pt range imo

That piece is so good I love it. I have been so excited for this piece since I was asked to play test it.

Or, you could jut tell us

Glad you are liking what you see.



One note about the Antarian Ranger Tactical Soldier - He does give quite a boost to them by making all Antarians "troopers". There are so many Trooper boosts (Arkanian Jedi General, Kenth Hamner, Mirith Sinn, etc), bringing them into that subfaction is quite major. However, allowing them to have double made them max out to the extreme. You could boost them up to 40-50 damage per shot with a very high attack - letting them have that with double was way too much for a 12pt piece (11 with rapport). Not to mention, the only way you could do it was in NR resistance, and it made them better than anything else in resistance - completely squashing that subfaction. Is the ART soldier a power 9 or 10? No - but we hope still playable. We wanted them to be a utility piece, a piece you would include 1 or maybe 2 of in your squad, not spam them. That's why they have a relatively high price. But non-unique LoS disruptive and stealthy door shatter is pretty great utility.

Here's a squad to think about:


Bryan Hole took this squad to 10th place at GenCon 2014, and this piece would improve it

--"Hollaback Girl" (Bastila's Rangers, the GenCon 2014 10th place Squad)--
33 Bastila Shan, Jedi Master
27 Lobot
23 Jedi Shadow
20 Antarian Ranger Captain
19 Old Republic Captain
17 Jedi Sentinel
55 Antarian Ranger x5
6 Mouse Droid x2

Preferred Reinforcements:
(Lobot) 20 Bith Black Sun Vigo

(200pts. 14 activations)


Swap in the ART Soldier for either the Shadow (and you get a little more fodder) or the Sentinal (-1 rapport from the captain makes them 17). It gives even better door control with Shatter beam, you can shut off NU CEs with LoS, and the captain and the ART Soldier count as the same name as the regular Antarians. So their squad bonuses don't fall apart after losing just 2 of them. Now you have 7 that count as "Antarian Ranger Trooper", and you can spread out more and still get the squad bonus. Solitary Attack has zero effect in this squad.


Another squad:

--The ART of the OR--
30 Arkanian Jedi General
23 Jedi Shadow
20 Antarian Ranger Captain
14 Tactical Officer (-5 rapport from ART Soldier)
14 Old Republic Senator
17 Antarian Ranger Tactical Soldier (-1 rapport from AR Captain)
66 Antarian Ranger x6 (-1 rapport each from AR Captain)
9 Mouse Droid x3
6 XT-6 Droid x2

(199pts. 17 activations)

Shadow keeps the +4/+4 going, and they have pretty incredible GMA firepower. GMA not possible without the ART Soldier. 8 "Antarian Ranger Troopers" keep the squad firepower going. All the Antarians (minus the captain) get sniper, recon and it's a trap. +4 to inits, and throw on Force Valor and the Rangers get +17 attack and 25 defense in cover. Oh - and cannon shots with the senator for 50 damage. And you get that extra activation when you need it from the XT droids - twice. Again - Solitary Attack has zero effect in this squad.



Then you have NR options:

--Dropping the Antarian Hamner--
34 Kenth Hamner
23 General Wedge Antilles
20 Antarian Ranger Captain
17 Corellian Security Officer (-5 rapport from ART Soldier)
17 Antarian Ranger Tactical Soldier (-1 rapport from AR Captain)
66 Antarian Ranger x6 (-1 rapport each from AR Captain)
9 General Dodonna
5 Killik Drone
9 Mouse Droid x3

(200pts. 16 activations)

They now get cunning from Kenth Hamner (not possible without the ART Soldier), and It's a trap + Deceptive from the Corellian. Again - 8 "Antarian Ranger Troopers" keep the squad firepower going. Boardwide mobile and Evade from Wedge, Dodonna does his thing, and door won't be a problem between the killik and the ART Soldier. And again - Solitary Attack has zero effect in this squad.

Mirith Sinn is another option for Super Stealth Antarians.




I hope these squads show a little more potential for the Antarian Ranger Tactical Soldier than it first appears.

The Jedi Holocron amazing!

Check out this video tutorial to get a better idea of how a Jedi Holocron is used.

It's a small movement breaker for Lightsaber characters.
It's a force bank for rerolling, moving faster, and Lightsaber Defense.
It can give a Jedi access to LS D who didn't have it before.
It gives all Lightsaber characters w/6 squares Range Defense Expert +2
It can be used to block off a square and prevent an enemy from becoming adjacent.
It allows a Jedi to safely hold a door open out of LOS of enemies.

I know people throw shade a lot on here, but the execution of the holocron, IMO, is terrible.

I would have just added it to a jedi by simply putting the card slightly beneath the choosen ally, and the choosen ally gets whatever the holocron gives. Then when the choosen ally dies, the holocron goes to the next valid adjacent character or it dies as well.

making it a physical piece is silly.

I love the concept, it's something I've wanted for a while, but making it move with a character and occupy new squares is odd to me.

I was not part of this set, just individual pieces and had no input whatsoever on this piece, so that said take this with a grain of salt....


I think they wanted to avoid "equipment" pieces. that's all I have lol.

not necessarily I think of a holocron as more like something you study and can leave at home once you learn its secrets after that time period its optional to carry.

neither of which lends itself to a board game easily.

as I said I think that they were trying to avoid opening up the game to stuff like:

helmet modification- cost 3 character gains x
blaster upgrade- cost x character gains x

because it gets out of hand and stuff, as well as changes rules and timing and blah blah blah.

Read something wrong

really thought there would be more buzz about this guy. maybe when people play around with him they will get excited.