Hmmmm .... critique .....


Bartender - 1 point Seems reasonable when you mention your reason.

Stim Dealer .... Sure. "I wanna go home aand rethink my life ....."

Rancor - I noticed the V-Setters made some rapport -2 last time; I'd always gone Rapport -1 but if they want to change that rule .......

Explosive Traps - an idea I'd imported from my Kota's Militia set ... did seem vague; fixed to "Enemy characters get -4 Defense while they are within 6 squares of this character. Enemy characters receive +10 Damage when adjacent to this character each turn."

Dark Hellions - You didn't like the Dark Hellion Honcho & Moll on page 2?

Tatooine Hunter - I must have made him before "Desert Savvy." My bad .... maybe he's a dumb hunter ....

Pod Car - Against unarmed ships how much firepower would they need? I always pictured them as more cops than fighters.

Master of Assassins - A year later, who remembers where I saw the pic? I may have changed a sword into a lightsaber ...

Troubleshooter - I think I created her to remove those bothersome Diplomat's blocking doorways; can't remember.

Falleen Combat Instructor - Got the idea from the Plaguis book!

Reprogrammer - It does seem rather harsh; but Save 6 seems too easy. A tech could shut down a droid with a quick

restraining bolt in a sec. Maybe Save 11?

Kel Merc; It's a Big Gun! Seriously, Mercs can't move if they can shoot; HW says you can't move and shoot in the same move. It doesn't seem to be incompatible; why would you Want to move if you can shoot that thing? +9 Attack for 20 damage seems like a decent shot.

N1 - See Pod Car; never considered the Naboo an "Offensive" sepecies.

Arcona - Use the Force and Force Whirlwind are Not cheap FP's ....

To all the thumbs up, thanks!



On a side note, my grades are done and I may bring up my next batch sometime this weekend; not tomorrow afternoon thou; My tournament is saturday and I hope the Vong don't show up in Everybody else's squad ......

Got some pieces (I hope) coming!

Peace

.... trying Not to think abou facing Vong Tomorrow ......

Anyway .....

... grades are done and I've finally got around to getting this group out. No theme and to tell you the truth, most of these are Fringe again; whats more the non-Fringe only "came" to me in the last 7-10 days. But, hey, what it is is what it is. Some of these are quite interesting IMHO.




Advozse Explorer Scout Honestly, he's a grunt, but I couldn't resist using the pic; he's an Advozse. Not too many in my cards, but even less than anywhere else.







Chak I've got the first of this pair here; sorta a Han/Chewy Light.







Dark Acolyte Tol Skorr My last group had a large Dark Acolyte group. Tol Skorr wasn't quite ready then so here's another of Dooku's Dark Jedi.








Dorsk 81 Here's my first of the quite interesting piece. Dorsk is an interesting character with an interesting demise, and I tried something new to depict his ending; a variation on the "Thought Bomb" and I'm curious if its too much, too difficult to achieve, too .... but hey, its an interesting idea.







Espo Walker 91 Another piece of my Espo group. It's somewhere between an AT-RT and an AT-ST.







Experienced Jedi Padawan I'm actually quite curious about my "Meditation" SA since I always thought the younger Jedi needed to meditate to "renew" the Force.







Galactic Marine Commander I saw this pic and said "Commander" even though the Republic certainly doesn't need much help.








Gen'Dai Killer This is Durge's species; I didn't overpower him, kept him simple.







Ghost Thief An idea I got from the new "Scoundrel" book.








Iktotchi Trooper Fodder, but hey, its an Iktotchi.







Imperial Commando This guy looks more like an Imp Commando than the Storm Commando .....







Itinerant Gray Jedi My take on a wandering Jedi.







Kee, Devaronian Smuggler Chak's partner .....







Kyrisa, Nightsister of Hoth I saw this pic; had to wiggle and maneuver a little to get a full body. Advanced Empathy is a new idea ...







Mandalorian Shock Trooper Is Boba the only Mando with Missles? Actually yes, but I've tried some new ideas to corral this, I hope. Concussion Blast sounds right, but does the Single Shot Launcher sound ok?







Nelvaanian Shadowport Swindler I found this pic, and my Shadowportn subfaction popped up about the same time.







Omwati Acquisitions Expert I don't know why, but this guys stupid smile amuses me and I liked the idea of an "Acquisitions Expert."







Ootoolan Trooper More fodder, but hey, he's Ootoolan, which is even more rare than an Iktotchi.






Raxus Prime Scavanger You think this is where the Rodian Brute guy came from??







Siniteen Bounty Hunter Finally found an acceptable pic of a Siniteen.







Spiderclan Protector Thought about giving this piece Melee Reach 2, but otherwise this is a fun pic ...







Togruta Spacer Negotiator I always liked the idea of a "Conflict Manager" as a mini.







Voss Smuggler ... another Voss piece. Well, I Like the Voss ....






Xamar, Seer of the First Watch Circle Another member of the Covenant, and definitely a weaker member.







Young Padawan Another padawan, but I wanted to try the "Conditional Double Attack" SA.







Yuuzhan Vong Seductress Is "Seductress" too strong an SA? I thought about limiting it to non-uniques,or making it Save 16 for Uniques.







Well, I thought some of these pieces came out quite good; I hope you all like them, but whether or not you do, comments, as always are more than welcome.

Peace

Thank you for looking in. I figure its only real worth is it Distrction SA; and with 14 Defense, If it survives to come close to anything, it won't survive for long.

Well, lets see ....

Low Attack, I usually do that when I'm trying tp emphasize something else. But Tol has 9 Attacj; has powercreep gotten to the point where 9 is low??? Grey Jedi possibly left the order before she was a fully trained duelist. She's more of a jack-of-all-trades; I would've given her Force Heal if I could've fit it in. As for Krysia, I've never played the game but from her Wook description she seemed to lose a lot of her personal fights and seemed a better animal handler than a fighter.

... and Dorsk, I wanted to emphasize STTF. If you have a higher Attack you'll be tempted to stick your head out before you've powered up for your curtain call .....

Gen'Dai - I was trying for a less powerful member of the species; Was Durge typical 0r just a Gen'Dai on steroids??

Knapp just said they're overcosted; he didn't say anything else? You think regular evade would be better?

What did you think of Seductress and Conditional Double Attack?

Should the Spiderclan girl have Melee Attack 2?

You liked Single Shot Launcher, did you think Concussive Blast sounded about right?

Gen'Dai - I've not read as much of the SAGA stuff as I should. If I upped his HP to 60 and maybe create a Regen 30 would that be more in line? I've though about RPG'ing it but there's not much of that around where I live here in SoCal (believe it or not.)

Dorsk - I actually thought of giving him Droid Defender because of what Dorsk 82 did but frankly STTF is soooo big wordwise. I even thought of Rapport with Kyp ... you think Kyp's Impulsive Savagery comes from Dorsk's sacrifice? I guess Dorsk Could go to 9 since he and Kyp came up together and Kyp's 10 .....

On Tol .... not sure how I want to approach him; maybe a Hatred at the Force SA that's like Impulsive Savagery except he goes ballistic around enemy force users .....

Freshly humbled from a 1-2 showing - FYI - Playing against a Leviathon with only melee characters is not fun

Seductress scary?? Maybe not to a non-human ....

Ok .... no Melee Reach 2, and 9 for Dorsk .....

Conditional Savagery ... maybe against enemy force users??


I expected to get killed by the Leviathon; what ticked me off was the bad rolls against a NR Skywalker/Solo team; between Jaina's Parry, Leia LtSaber Throws, a Corran's Reach 2, and my couldn't roll for beans .... ah well. I Did win the last game at least .....

I eventually ran a Rebel squad

Vaders Apprentice Redeemed
Shaak Ti, JM
Obi Unleashed
Yodobah
K3PO
Uggie

First game against the Skywalkers/Solo's/Corran I was holding my own, nailed Leia a few times (but didn't kill her) and killed his Uggie with a Push 5, but couldn't get a clear shot for another. They ganged up on VAR and killed him, Obi isolated and couldn't touch anybody with out hitting Shaak and I discovered Shaak is useless other than as a stick; and I rolled so bad she didn't hit anything! .... and one by one, they went down .... the other player admitted he'd never rolled that well and never seen anyone roll as bad as I did .... I told him to watch .... "I do it all the Time."

Second game was against the Leviathon, Exar, and some Rakghouls .... the Raks died quickly and I learned enough from the 1st game to use K3 better, and nailed the Leviathon for 3 straight shots of Push 5 but the big mother killed VAR eventually, Exar was just annoying enough (and Shaak couldn't hit him at all), the big guy killed Obi .... and then it was soon over ....

.... and having learned lessons from those 2 games, I drew a poor guy who came to the tourny with an army of Talz! He had like 18 activations but nothing meaner than a Talz Chieftain .... I learned enough that Yodobah kept feeding VAR Push 5's, Obi got a few Repulse shots off, Shaak finally hit things (and killed a Talz with each swing) and the only piece I lost was my Uggie who got caught in an Obi Repulse shot .... hey I'll take what I can get .... had to leave to go to did at the oldest sons dinner so no 4th game ....

Lessons learned ....

1) Shaak is useless unless you want to go toe to toe with lightsabers ....
2) VAR is great if you can keep him alive and feed him force points ..... but he's a Big Target.
3) Yodobah is great as a Force battery, but useless otherwise; he used Force Defense and Stun once each.
4) Obi Unleashed can hit hard but if he's too close to allies, he's muted; if he's too far away he can't support ....
5) I don't like going against Leviathons without a missle/grenade swarm .....
6) Exar isn't dangerous unless he's on a roll .... but one/two hits from him Can mess you up .....
7) Rakghouls are easy to kill and doing it quickly is best so they don't become a nuisance .....

.... all things considered, I'd rather be a teacher than a student learning lessons ..........

Been changing a few things on some cards ....

Dorsk and Krysia are now at +9, Voss Smuggler is now Evade instead of Evade 2, and I believe I'll add this to Tol

Conditional Savagery This character gains Savage (This character must end its move next to an enemy if it can and does not benefit from commander effects.) as long as an enemy force user is within 6 spaces.

I'll get around to changing the actual cards later this week ......

Peace

@Corran - Lots to digest, and thanks for the comments. Glad to hear you liked a bunch of the pieces. I'm still coming down from the Super Bowl party here; the kids & grand kids were very cranked up. I'll have a few comments/responses to your ideas by the lunch tomorrow, unless something weird happens at school ....

Speaking of which, with one eye on the game (well really an eye and a half, I discovered a bunch of new pics so I'm already coming up with new ideas so maybe I'll start working on them soon ....

Peace

Chis Rogue- Honestly it's not the Careful Shot +4 that's the issue so much as Evade/Parry/Twin. I'd look at dropping Evade. He can stil get it pretty easily if you want it in a particular squad.

Kota- Still, though, like you say even as an old guy he should be pretty dangerous. I really think he needs an Attack boost to at least +12 to be good for his cost. Defensive stuff dosen't matter as much for him, he can get Evade and Mobile (for force Push 2) from Rieekan.

Rakatan- 20 sounds reasonable, if still very good.

Talz- Agreed, but I'd still bump his HP up to 100. He'll die too fast as is.

Techno Union- True, but to be a commando you'd have to be able to survive a battle.

Bail- Sounds good!

Rebs- I'd say Mothma is worth her price but she's Republic. Aside from that I'm with you there.

No problem!