whats wrong with u, I think u should look at these characters more closely,cuz u don't have very good opinions about these people, and besides, Yoda has always been better then Obi-Wan and he always will be.

well one on one plagueis is better and makes it "easy to kill" because in 3 turns GOWK is dead but other than that, what makes him hard to kill is what you can put with him, and republic has the cheapest ones like R2-Astromech, Rex, etc.

sure he can die, just not easily, I killed off all of this one squad and than he moved GOWK over to my team and well he spent 16 FP's by the time he died and he alone got my TBSV down to 10, Kyle JBM down to 10, wedge down to 30 and Boba Merc was at full for the finishing blow.

actually I think rather than Aurra I think it was Maul :)

Indeed. Then when Rex and Dash show their faces, Dooku eats blaster for 80 damage and 40-80 damage (Depending on whether or not Dooku has activated), respectively. He has no way to block non-melee. There is no way any player would let Dooku base GOWK.

I wish it were a simple as that. Rex and Dash both have Greater Mobile, so even getting them in your sights is hard work. There are not really any good shooters for the seps (unless paired with GGDAC, even then they aren't that good). The best you can hope for is to have a Dash of your own. I find Jango Bounty Hunter works quite well. Even if you ran Maul, Champion of the Sith, you still have to get him over to GOWK's support. The thing is, GOWK squads are like traps. A good GOWK player will stay back for the fist few rounds and draw the other player in, then when the enemy is close enough the trap springs and the GOWK squad swallows the other squad whole. It's not hard to do. I don't even play with GOWK any more because I feel like a jerk doing it.

Another reason that GOWK shouldn't be banned is because SWM has been really sucessful because it has never banned pieces from the game before, like other miniature games have been known to do. If they ban GOWK, even though their reasons are justified, the game could lose many players. And again, if GOWK is banned, then the chance that other pieces could start getting banned in the future increases.

nice statement"that's dumb" way to be diplomatic ya kriffin' sarlacc ! I know math is hard, but if GOWK was priced correctly (15-20 more) he would cost 70-75, not 75-80.these forums are getting way to mean-spirited and lack simple polite manners.

I will agree that GOWK is broken. He's an extremely defensive piece with an awesome commander effect that takes a lot of attacks, or a decent amount of Direct Damage to kill. That said, I would still rather not see him banned for a few reasons.

1) While he constricts the meta, or at least changes the dynamics of it, he has basically become a gatekeeper piece, and effectively created Tier 0.5. In order to make the best squads, they need to be able to beat Tier 1 and GOWK. And while this is a bit restrictive, I haven't seen anything showing it to be much more restrictive than what Tier 1 used to be.

2) While he's broken, I don't think he's what would have really shifted the Meta. Yes, Soresu is annoying and hard to kill, but he's a single piece with it. Lately a lot of figures have gained evade, parry, or cloaked. Or something that hinders their opponent's ability to attack either from range or up close. GOWK is more of the end result of this. In terms of Evade, Rieekan and Wedge have probably done more to reduce the effectiveness on shooters overall, and the squads that can really counter them are squads with Disruptive (effectively Rebels and New Republic).

3) It sends balance back towards the lower skill level. Most games have some sort of faction or army that are much more forgiving than others. In terms of new players (or returning old players) who don't have much experience, it can be a bit overwhelming to start facing down the top players at a venue. At least having GOWK means they can jump in, and even if they don't win they at least have a fight in which they can feel somewhat competitive. This is true even at my own venue. Most of the players who used to play got discouraged because the same people kept winning, and combining that with new games coming out and the long gaps between Champions and Bounty Hunters and Bounty Hunters and A&E really hurt the game.

4) This is hardly the first time a figure came out and basically rearranged the Meta. I don't know how many of you guys were around when Universe came out, but at the time Grand Admiral Thrawn basically rewrote the meta. Probably worse than GOWK did. For a comparison. GOWK has a special ability that basically defeats one of the basic part of the system with Soresu being able to stop the Roll to Hit and do Damage, and at least for himself negates a whole slew of figures. GAT has a special ability that also played with the basic function of the game with Master Tactician, in addition, Thrawn also has an ability that effectively nerfs a basic part of the game and a whole slew of figures for anyone within 6 squares of himself with Ysalamiri, there weren't very many truly effective Jedi when that ability came into play. GOWK has an awesome CE for followers. Thrawn also has an awesome CE for followers, and also has the swap ability which became an integral part of the game. GOWK's overall damage output isn't that great, Thrawn's Damage output isn't that great.

The major differences between them are that all of Thrawn's abilities make everyone around him much more effective, GOWK's abilities make him nearly unkillable, and there are more counters to GOWK right now then there was for Thrawn back then. It took at least 2 sets for any sort of counter to Thrawn to come into play, and for the most part those abilities can still be used quite effectively, and in the mean time he came out along side Vader JH, was in one of the better supported faction at the time, and in the following set he got even better when Mas came out. We just learned to adapt and play through it.

5) Jedi Academy is practically out now, and while GOWK is still very effective, we now have alternative figures that do a lot of damage then him and still have some of the survivability (GMY). We also now have more pieces that can effectively hurt him (lot of corruption), or negate his ability to reroll (Force Defense), or just have enough attacks that he probably won't do much more than drag the fight out.

I like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Unleashed. He is great fun to play.

don't know if this has been said on here but if you reprice GOWK then people will start calling for more repricing, like making Mas Ameeda 10-15 or Boba,BH 70-75. Then everything will fall into madness with pieces continually being raised in price.