I also really like Mandalore the vindicated, but I used it in an Epic Duo with the new epic boba, and with the damage out put, it was like an epic itself.

The complaint is more along the lines of "there are already a tun of 'save 11 for no damage' abilities out there and now we have a save 11 to make an attack." For melee characters it is even worse. Yeah, woo, you have the force, guess what though, even with GMA or twin you only have a 50% chance of attacking, then, that 50% chance of attacking gives you an attack roll which only gives you a what, 75-80% chance of hitting with the attack roll on a jedi. Last up, we have characters having parry or ls block/defense, giving the hit you had a 40% chance of getting out of two attacks a 20% chance of hitting. But it gets better! The average tactic against melee units is to simply take an AoO to get away from the multi attacker. It use to be that against double attackers or GMA'ers you just sat there and took it, after all, moving just gave them more attacks. Now though, now they have a lower chance of even getting a hit in so why not move and take the AoO? The ability nerfs the hell out of melee.

The argument has been made it is better than energy shield but that isn't true either. Energy shield encourages units to ENGAGE the enemy, speeding up the game. Ops encourages people to stay AWAY from the enemy, slowing things down beyond the adding another 50/50 luck save every other attack. Not only that but the two can be layered now in the republic. Not that it is a likely scenario but if the ability spreads guess what, it will occur. How fun would a game be where no matter what you have to make a luck roll to see if you can attack? I would think it would be a piss poor stupid game and quit/never play in the first place. We were already heading that way with the huge onset of "save 11 for no damage" abilities on characters. This just foreshadows even more bad things as a counter needs to be made, then a counter counter...ect...

+1

Does anyone know why "The Ganner" is 10 feet tall?

So is he supposed to be a medium sized character with a large base?

Also, why emplacement (ive never read the story, and can't seem to find an explanation of the mechanics on wookieepedia).

Finally, 150 points for an emplacement piece seems devastating. I guess you just have to set him up where no one can get LOS unless they're within 12 squares for force them to engage?

He has emplacement because the moment from the story that they are trying to represent, he was defending a location. He stayed there and did battle with the Vong without moving; it was all very dramatic, and emplacement makes sense as an abstraction of that. The large base was partly to make him work better in the game (more area for people to get adjacent to him) and also to abstract the large threat range he had at the time; no one was getting near him, and he was surrounded by many Vong (more than a medium base would accommodate).

He's one of the most thematic pieces that has been made yet, and that does have an impact on playability sometimes. Although on the right map None Shall Pass can be really brutal, and he's exceptionally strong against Vong, although considerably weaker against non-Vong.

Loves
1.Camaraderie
2.Rival
3.Acrobat, shame really underused. Suits Embo but suited others this set as well, Hope it stays on Unique characters though. both Shada & Laranth should of had this.
4.As a hole the set is better than last set,


HATES
1.Covert Ops Training
2. Characters been represented more than once per set, Dont give a c*** if ones in a mini or epic set.
3.Crimson Nova Guild Leader. (because bounty hunters really need jedi hunter as well?????????????????????)
4.Chew/Ewok in AT-ST (Really?????????????????????? +8 defense for a 3 point ewok WTF
5.Ewok Chieftain. Mainly because of what 3 point Ewoks can now get. Though the character itself is ok, just Ewoks did not need this CE.

Whats still needed.
I really think that Old republic need a reserves character within the faction. Its not a case of who the faction can bring in sometimes it's just about getting extra activations. All other factions have this now except Old Republic. A lot play faction pure squads in casual play. Also I think its the only faction without a huge.

Umm, my card is saying "Non-unique followers with Bounty Hunter" on the Crimson Nova Commander.

I don't see them getting an Immediate Reserves piece. And Tactician doesn't change the odds what the potential results, unless it is negative. And one Recon is the same has having 20.

Never said Immediate Reserves? But I dont see why not considering what other faction can now get.
However I was taliking about Reserves 20 or 30 on a roll of 11,this still better than been the only faction that can not bring in extra during a game.

However Immediate Reserves would only bring them in line with the rest of the factions can get. So IMO I dont see the problem