If it appears to be a lack of appreciation that is my fault, not at all the intent of the topic.... But I will never stop "complaining" about pieces that are not costed appropriately to their abilities and what they bring to the table in squad building and future design.
I do not consider this complaining I consider it discussing, since in all reality what I am trying to say will have no effect on anything other then my own hopes.

Lack of appreciation and complaining are completely different things. I raise up concerns about pieces that I feel will change the way the game is played, and change the way future V-sets are created. I do not complain about the time and effort the designers put into these pieces, I just dislike pieces that are severely undercosted and set the bar way to high for other good pieces to be competitive.

These BHC pieces are just to good, hands down. You can give me 5-8 squads that can beat this Sidious, but out of those 5-8 squads, can they beat the new Luke? NO. Maybe 2/3 of them have a chance, but thats it.

So my concern is now, after an almost great regional (minus the undeniable Armageddon that was Mace Windu) where the meta was wide open, we will now see a siginificant decrease in what is ran. I will go ahead and tell you guys what the 5 most popular squads will be this regional.

My list as follows:

Mandalore the Vindicated

OR Satele/ Bastila squads

The BHC pieces ( unless I can convince you guys to ban them from 200 point play)

And the Spotter/Sniper droid squads

With honorable mention going to New Han and Leia, mainly because were all fans of episodes 4-6, and its nice to see some stronger versions of those characters.
Minis
Just go and play these pieces, don't play them against something that will beat it specifically, play it against something you want to run at regionals/ Minis Mania, and come back on here and give us a report, I promise you will not be happy with the results.

With much love for the V-set designers (who if they would listen to Shmi15/ Deaths_Baine things would be alot smoother)

Shmi15

You simply listed the some of the good pieces and called them game breaking. I deleted the references to set 4, because I didn't have anything to do with that. But in those first 3, I take some pride that I either designed, helped balance or offered some critical part of each character here, with like 2 exceptions. I stay far away from the "broken" arguments these days, but come on, these are broken??? Everyone??? Your definition is interesting to say the least.

I love Cantina Brawl though, perhaps one of my favorite design opportunities. I'm so glad some of these guys are being used and complained about.

What am I missing about Mandalore the Vindicated? What makes people so sure he's going to be top tier? Looking at him, I see a typical big beatstick with some luck bonuses and a movement breaker. Beskar'Gam and Evade or Parry will help him survive, but his HP aren't that great (not bad) and his defense is low for his cost (but typical since he's a shooter). I haven't played him, but looking at him I would guess him to be playable and possibly find his way into a competitive squad, but it's not clear to me at all.

People always confuse gatekeepers with meta. Not saying any of the above will or will not be in the gatekeeper category, but the argument that these will dominate is indeed premature. Just like the Mace comments were. Nothing we've released through 3 full sets and subsets has "dominated" the meta. That doesn't mean we won't ever make a mistake, or that we haven't made minor ones with individual characters, but all in all, we've certainly opened it up a ton from what WotC was able to do.

And I took a completely WotC squad (never even used a V-set reinforcement) and took it to 2nd at Gencon. And that was with a total of 3 tournaments played between Gencon 2011 and Gencon 2012 that I played in. In otherwords, I have very little experience with V-set 2 or 3.

Can someone explain to me how the BX's are overpowered? A BX Sniper squad is going to have a tough time against a mobile squad. For the most part, they are only going to be moving 6, then they can't move again or they lose their attacks. Your opponent will be able to take advantage of this. The mobility that either the A1s or the IGs alone will keep them the preferred choice for many players.

@Jedi Master: You think Anakin SL is broken? Really? He looks nice on paper, but having played him i can say that he is far from broken in real life. Making a competitive squad with peices which need him, in New Republic, is far from easy. Also i think the BX combo is copping a little too much heat. Dedicated squads are far from perfect as you have to predict what the opponent is going to do, and move all your peices at the start of the round. What harm are they going to have to the meta? If anything energy sheild is going to promote fun play as people charge their peices to avoid it, in rather than sneaking around shooting each other. Putting a single energy sheild into another separatist squad can be painful for the opponent, but really the separatists needed some sort of a boost as they haven't got much so far in the V-sets.

Myself, I take my hat off to the designers. Certainly there are mistakes and lessons learned, but to my mind there hasn't so far been a peice made that has completely dominated and needed banning. To that accord I reckon they've done a great job.

the Bounty Hunter Challenge pieces Luke Master of the Order and Darth Sidious, Sith Mastermind

Yes, but that is you. Were there any other WotC only squads there?

You're asking the wrong guy. Daniel? Trevor? Les? David?