I know, but it just seemed to fit in this thread.

EDIT: It would work with the Peace Brigade Soldiers. ('cause they need the boost)

As I said - it's mixed on Bastila (and The_Hutts makes perfectly reasonable points)

But is anyone against toning down blast bugs and Daala?


There has been talk of Vong Scouts losing Warrior (which is great), but that doesn't go far enough. If blast bugs were only for Unique warriors - then done. Problem solved!

Daala - again, make it charging ASSAULT (must be adjacent), then it's all good.

In the current meta, would Bastila be stronger if she had a range 12 disruptive instead of board-wide ABM? It would almost be easier to just make an alternate one - we have two Thrawns.

How about ABM costs Force 2 and just suppresses Commander Effects? Or It costs 3, but it's +4/+4 instead of +10 damage?

EDIT: I totally agree on Daala and Blast Bugs. Actually, if Blast Bugs were changed to be Unique only, I seriously wouldn't mind if they even did 30 damage. That's probably a bad idea, but I'd prefer Unique-only 30 damage to non-Unique 20 damage swarms.

I'd be okay if Bastila was changed. Honestly, she makes the OR a real pain to try and figure out, because you can't just have a squad that does X, you have to figure out if your gimmick can work with Bastila... and then for the entirety of the game, you're spending some of your brain power micromanaging ABM.

Just to play devil's advocate for a second, though, Bastila does encourage you to play quickly. Seems like you usually need to get in there and do your damage before Bastila runs out of FP.

And if we did change Bastila, the OR would need some serious help of another form. Right now they have the most widely-applying damage boost in the game, but because of that, they have just one damage boost. All except a small handful of OR pieces have been built with Bastila in mind, so their damage output will bottom out substantially if Bastila is changed the wrong way.

Haha sorry, I should've included that you playing fast includes blowing every door on the map sky-high to get to them before ABM shuts down. But your point still stands, it only encourages fast play for one player.

I know this thread is entitled blast bugs, but it has become the de facto thread for suggestions to the balance committee.

I think every designer can attest to having a piece that they are ashamed of. Overall I have been proud with the final result of every set I have worked on. But along the way there have been a few pieces that in hindsight a designer sees that it should've been made different.

One of those such pieces for me is Pong Krell. I really don't know what we were thinking. It's a bit embarrassing. (Sorry everyone.)

If he just loses sense the future and anticipation then he'd be fine.


The main reason I am suggesting this, is because I feel it is a better option than a blanket floor rule.

There's a small handful of people that would be very upset if we make a blanket floor rule concerning reserves. Fixing pong I think would alleviate the problem.

A blanket floor rule would fix the problem for good, but I think the true problem is Pong.

Granted if we don't make a floor rule then we will have to be vigilant to not make such a foolish piece. I think (I hope) we would collectively make sure that never happens.

I agree here 100% You can't make Unkar, and then change Pong. Thats 2 birds with one stone, while destroying the eggs in the nest.

If Pong gets changed, Unkar need to be banned. If Pong does not change, Keep Unkar, but a play style is officially countered for good.

Blast Bugs should go to Unique only. Playing swarms of characters who can do auto damage with FI is unbearable, especially when they cost less than 10.

Daala is stupid, and has been changed so many times, I think we can all agree she may have been the worst designed character that we have kept. Who knows what the best way to take care of her is. I do think Charging Assault is a good step, but I also think a complete redesign of her would be better. This piece is terrible. Absolutely terrible.

Good way to say it Shmi, fix Pong but remove Unkar. It's the only way to bring back balance and currently I think Unkar is worse than Bastilla as a counter as with Bastilla you MAY see her on the field and have to be prepare for a commander effect counter that works some of the time. With Unkar there is a 100% chance that you will run into him against any squad and he shuts down your entire team all of the time. So fix Pong, but don't through the entire playstyle baby out with the bath water.