She? Are you talking about Venku? Definitely a male

So I'm assuming Wager also suppresses Anticipation and Sense the future as well eh? And probably also master tactician and tactician eh? Would be interesting to see a list of abilities it affects. Either way I'll be the one to say it, I'm normally a positive guy but I really don't like this piece. For a few reasons:
- first and most personally biased reason (since I love Reserves) He completely and in my opinion unfairly shuts down reserves, which aside from one Republic build, is actually one of the weakest squad types.
- cheap enough to fit in the Lobot toolbox makes him accessible to counter any reserves team or initiative dependent builds.
- adds two fairly wordy new abilities to the game on a cheap piece. I think we need to be going away from that line of thinking of having one piece counter 5 things or introduce a boatload of new complex abilities. I know most of us are pretty pro and can adapt to the new rules but I'm the only one from my large playgroup on bloomilk and that follows the game closely. And while my group enjoys the game they are put of by many new pieces that have multiple complex abilities/commander effects, especially when they are this cheap. As much as I love the Rebels TV show characters, the player that brought a Rebels theme squad for the regional couldn't keep track of half of the abilities, and I'm sure it will be similar with the Rogue One subset as well.
Occasionally it works for large point BHC and epic characters that take up half or more of your squad, but trying to track 5-10 sub 20-30 point pieces that do ten different things each needlessly complicates the game and makes it difficult for me to teach new players or keep current semi-casual players interested.

Anyways that's my rant and I'm very excited for the rest of this set. But for the sake of those that don't take it as seriously as we do, keep it simple please. Only add a new ability if it needs to exist and nothing else can be settled on. And if that's the case then just let it have that, see Lok Durd for an example of how to introduce something new but keep it simple. And keeping the special abilities down, I think you should have max two existing abilities/powers/commander effects if you 10 points or less, 3 for 20, 4 for 30, etc... But even focus on just making a character focus on one thing/angle/boost instead of doing everything.

Alright second rant over and time to praise some awesome design. New post for that

huh?

Force powers fall under abilities?
I thought it meant abilities like Master tact and recon, not force powers.
Shrouded says abilities as well. that also means no force powers?

Does lightsaber protection and protection 2 last for all attacks?

So you are going to double twin with opportunist. I use lightsaber protection 2 and only take 10 from all 4 attacks?

Awesome and thanks for answering questions haha.

if it stops anticipation, sense the future and all that other stuff. Who can say it is only a soft counter to reserves?

I also highly agree that it kills a playstyle. A playstyle that has no need to be killed other than "oh designers screwed up so instead of dealing with it through the community, lets just design something else to hide our screw up"
Another case of the 'v-set team' taking things into their own hands without thinking if it is warranted. A design team should not have the ability to strongly hurt a play style just because they want to.
The community at large gets screwed. I said it before. If reserves are even a small counter to people running out act and smash than it should have been kept around until it proved as an issue as an NPE.

It is hard to be apart of the community and kind of be at the mercy of those designing without ever a chance to actually be a part of something. I said it before as well. To "get in" you kind of have to "buddy buddy" which I suck at doing.

So the community just sits around and waits and adapts...

I said it before as well. The design team should be CHECKED and balanced before pieces come out to ensure liberties are not being taken.

A very special group should do that. My personal 3 votes would be for Deaths_bane, Darth_Jim, and kezzamachine.
Not as if it will happen, nor would it be up to the community at large...

Unkar doesn't stop anticipation, StF or Recon?

It's how it's worded right now

Yes they do. See the glossary definition for Never Tell Me the Odds:

Haha, that's what the parenthetical was for.

"abilities" = Special Abilities and Force Powers
"Force ability" = Force Powers that specifically say they are Force abilities


Barada on Skiff says "special abilities and Force abilities".



ETA: To explain more, here are some examples:

Cunning Attack is a Special Ability and an ability
Force Push is a Force Power and an ability, but NOT a Force ability
Advanced Battle Meditation is a Force Power, an ability, AND a Force ability.