Looks like Miniature Market is the best deal right now at $7. Alter Reality Games want $13.40. They have 20 in stock, and I don't see them selling any time soon at that price.

Most stores don't allow you to proxy pieces because they want you to buy product. Once the SWM product has sold out for the most part I don't see why you couldn't proxy another piece for a mouse. Can a FLGS fault you for not buying SWM if they have none on the shelf? My play group has always allowed two things: pennies for Ugs and dimes for mice.

Quick question, I see what Gha does for mice, 33% discount, but what does Lobot do for mice?

Combined w/ Gha, he allows you to see your opponents squad and decide whether to bring in 10 mouse droids at 2 points apiece (which don't count toward scoring since they are reinforcements). Or, if your opponent is playing something where the activations matter less or you are worried about your mice getting strafed on the first or second turn, you can do something else with your 20 points, or you can do some combo of mice and other fringe stuff.

I do not believe this to be correct. The way the rule was written was always very unclear and open to interpretation. So, specific verbiage was added to the DCI SWM Floor Rules after (and specifically because) people started (or wanted to start) customizing the mouse droid. There is a lot of discussion about this in this thread:

http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75862/20135569/The_Super_Mouse_Droid_--__Possible_Stats_and_SAs_once_GAW_is_Released?pg=4

WOTC is out of the picture now and the community is in a position to do whatever it wants. I have 9 mouse droids and that is enough for me for all practical purposes (I have never used more than 4, and that gives me plenty to lend to other local players who don't have them). So, it doesn't really affect me. In spite of that, I still like the idea of allowing it quite a bit as I think we should do anything we can to keep the game accessible to as many people as possible.

I've always thought that figures like the Clone Trooper Sergeant and Battle Droid Lt. should have had relay orders. There's no reason we can't have some v-set trooper commander types with relay orders.

Instead of giving those figures a CE, just give them an SA called "Commander", so they don't count as followers and let them have relay orders. They'd be high-priority targets like mice, but you would consider bringing them because they might not die in one hit, or they might be decent shooters like the Clone Trooper Sergeant.

@Jedispyder... I respectfully submit that what you presented supports my point (especially the bold part).... You can have 10 of a figure but only one official stat card.

The other part about conversions was added specifically in response to the Mouse Droid issue, it was not in the floor rules before that time (I have all but one of the earliest versions, and I checked to be safe).

Regardless, it doesn't really matter any more. WOTC is out of the picture and the primary reason for the ruling is no longer relevant.

The main argument now seems to be that people with Mouse Droids will have their value diminished. But, this happens all the time in collectible games (game creators release reprints of sets of figures, or change the rules in a way that makes a previous valuable figure less valuable). Plus, nothing will diminish the value faster than no one wanting to play the game, which will happen sooner or later if we don't make it as accessible as possible and as fun as possible by making it so people can play the squads they want.

As a side point, I don't think this will affect the value of the Mouse Droid very much anyway. And, non-modified and original versions will always be worth more (in fact, the more that are cut up, the more the original will likely be worth). While many people will divide SOME of their Mouse Droids, few people will divide ALL of their mouse droids (especially if they have several). So, we won't really be doubling the number of Mouse Droids (maybe we'd be increasing it by 10-20%, which would still keep them pretty hard to come by).

All this could be solved with a simple house rule saying that Mas is Fringe. Make Mas cost more if you want. The entire idea of the mouse and Mas kinda of weakens the game anyway IMO.

part of the challenge is keeping those leaders alive while staying within 6. Keeps it a squad tactics game instead of giving super boosts to already powerful loner-ish pieces. Just IMO of course.

If somebody said "here, you can have these 4 mouse droids" I would take them in a second though. you have to fight fire with fire sometimes and they would be very nice in my droid army for combining fire while passing on all the CE's

Ya I agree, The Seps and the rebels having Booming Voice would be devastating to the game. I personally don't think Mas Broke the game at all. He may be a bit undercosted, and perhaps at the time he came out, I felt he gave the Imps and the Rep. a distinct advantage, but now seeing how the game has developed, Especially with the v-sets, I think A lot has been evened out. After all, even before the v-sets came out, how many Imperial and Republic teams could Dominate in the Meta, not just compete... Dominate the meta...Certainly Gowk, Yobuck , and Thrawn Squads with Mas.. they could compete, but I don't think they Dominated. If you want to say Gowk squad was dominant then the argument could be made that it was GOWK that was broken and not Mas.

As far as price goes. the mds might be a little on the expensive side, as far as dollars are concerned. But as long as the mds are high in price, that means there is still a demand for them. that's a good thing as far as the game is concerned.That means people are playing and I'm down with that. I'm kinda used to it. Remember back in the day when CS Darth Maul was going for $85.00 on Ebay... Thats expensive.

Btw, I just want to say thats it's great having sites like this one and SWM GAmers to have discussions like this. Happy Star Wars DAy to you guys

+1
Mas is great and Booming is justified on him. Relay orders on the mouse or

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Communication Tech
Fringe
7

HP 10
DF 13
AT + 4
DM 10

Evade
Relay orders

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Heres a thought on mouse.
Since the line between official miniature and custom is becoming blurred, if its cost effective to do why doesn’t someone who is proficient in model moulding/casting bash out a load of mouse droid moulds?

I know I’d rather pay $8 for 3 mouse droid moulded miniatures then $8 for 1 ‘official’ mouse droid.

I could be wrong but making any money on figures would be against Licensing issues. The vsets were done with no profit..And even the Guys at GAmers knew the line they walked making the sets. Thats why they were so concerned having the characters put up on Bloomilk. It might be possible, as long as the fine people over at LucasFilm didn't catch wind or deem it a threat. Then again I might be totally off base and it might be a good idea

What he said. I wouldn't do it unless you were selling it for what it cost you.