Indeed it is. I'm guessing WotC was worried his CE would be too powerful for the faction. That's the only reasoning I can fathom. Of course to gain access to that CE (if he was named General Han Solo), you would have to pay 74 points. Pretty high price right there. It's not like you are going to have that much room for abuse.

Something to note: the continued trend of Hans and Grievouses without FPs. The last Han to have a FP was Han on Tauntaun. Before A&E, all Hans had a FP. I find that to be a rather big change in design philosophy. The same goes for Grievous. Before the Clone Wars set, all his previous incarnations had a FP and force rating. I'm not sure I like the change with Grievous. I think it makes more sense with him having a FP and a force rating.

Well, a LOT of people complained about Han having FP (and Greivious to a lesser extent).

According to the EU material though, Grievous was granted his connection to the force during his 'reconstruction'. They used Master Sif0-Dyas' blood to help save Grievous when they gave him the cyborg body. So, in a way, Grievous having a FP in his Cyborg form but pre-cyborg Grievous having no FP makes perfect sense. More sense than Han either having or not having a FP at any time. ;)

True. I do sort of like Han with a FP. I always thought it was a tad odd (especially when pieces with Jedi Hunter were attacking him), but I understood it was just game mechanics, and tried not to 'apply logic' to it. Personally, I always thought it would be better for Han to have specialized 'Luck' SAs or something instead of the FPs.

As to the difference with Greivous...I have no clue. Seems like Grievous stopped getting FPs around the same time Han did, more or less. So maybe Rob changed his mind on how he wanted to do things at that point or something.

I'm not blown away by any means from the new set, however it is not an utter disappointment either. It feels like any other set. ANd I also think at this poitn in the game we are going to notice some things that have mroe or less flavor than what we have for variosu reasons. Oh and the Taco Bell remark on the Vong back on page one, just awesome. The Vong had so much potentail for greatness and got saddled with teir 2 status because the design team didn't know what to do with them or even look at the soruce material for a couple of more unique characters with some beef to them.

ANd a faction that could have used opportunsit really well, the Vong a great team up ability with their thud bug ability, but oh well.....

short sighted seems a bit harsh, what was the squad out of curiosity?

Aye, personally, Force points are either for the could bes with force potencial or the force senstive. Even then, it probably used to fit for Solo because there were not enough thought abilitys to display his unique luck. Now there is.

The rest is best shown though unique named abilities really. The force point only really indicates a very narrow trend of whether they are capable of manipulating the force by having it, or unable to. It would not feel right to see Grevious with it, as his pull was being a incredable fighter without the force.

Plus, Nadd is good in the same way that Zuckuss is good, you don't use him to wreak stuff, you use him to help other suff wreak stuff.

I agreed with everything that Tony said in his post, but I wanted to point out my particular agreement with this statement.

I also think that you are not the only person who is disappointed with the set because Hoth isn't at Gowk power levels as well as numerous other pieces not getting this or not getting that. This set is very cool, with some new abilities, and millions (maybe just thousands) of new possibilities for squad building that make a different type of game.

Unlike tony though, I have absolutely loved these last two sets.

The point of these last two sets is that nothing has completely obliterated a different type of play. There was no IG Lancer or Yobuck to obliterate all swarm squads.

There was no Gowk or GGDAC to skyrocket a particular faction above all the others.

There was no newest and greatest thing that is much better than anything before it.

There was just a bunch of fun pieces that mesh well with each other, and what we already have.

It is funny. Some people would make better versions of all of these characters for the Virtual Sets. I, on the other hand, would remake Gowk, Yobuck, Ig Lancer, GGDac, Cad Bane, Captain Rex, Dash Rendar, etcetera.... to the power level of every other piece in the entire run of star wars Miniatures (which these final pieces are very close to)

I don't disagree that these pieces will be better than the Clone strike jedi. But I would argue that this mace is no better for his points than General Windu, and the republic jedi that we got aren't any more powerful than the jedi we received from Champions of the force all the way through Knights of the old Republic.

Han is fun, could be great, and friggin expensive.

Lando is sub par. Name me one set, and I will name you at least 1 sub par unique.

Hoth is good for the points.

Cay is fun and new and inventive.

Ganner is friggin amazing. (not as much by himself, but levitate GMLS and you will be having a fun game)

'Tis true. SWM is a squad game.

The Houjix alone is a valued addition to many squads, and the Ng'ok is just as powerful as Zuckuss. He can easily stop Yodabuck in his tracks with an AoO. The others won't be played as much, but there are options, and a ton of them. Hell, it is practically worth it tossing in a Monnok and another in the lesser factios for the sightless Recon. It is definately on par with all other sets. OR has some very powerful options in Cay, Hoth, and the Instructor. Just watch.