I still don't like non-melee lightsabers. Theme-breaking and confusing rule.

No worse than Mouse Droids providing cover. I can live with Brianna stats.

Since he wasn't spoiled, no. Sorry.

And now he is, thanks to SHNN, Bill, and jedispyder who posted the full correct wording on Gamers.

20/60
Count Dooku, Separatist Leader
Cost 57
HP 130
DEF 20
ATK +0
DAM 0

Special Abilities
Unique. Draw Fire
Immediate Separatist Reserves 20 (If you roll exactly 5, 10, 15, or 20 for initiative, you can add up to 20 points of non-Unique Separatist characters to your squad, adjacent to this character, immediately before your first activation of the round)
Turn to the Dark Side (Replaces attacks: range 6; 20 damage to 1 target with a Force rating. The target can choose to negate this damage and instead make a save of 11; if the save fails, the target joins this character's squad until the end of the skirmish.)

Force Powers
Force 5
Anticipation (Force 1: Reroll initiative once per round)
Pawn of the Dark Side (Force 1, replaces attacks: sight; 1 non-Unique ally takes an immediate turn, which does not count as one of your 2 activations this phase; at the end of that turn, it takes 10 damage)

Commander Effect
If this character would take damage from an attack, an adjacent follower can take the damage instead.
Whenever an enemy within 6 squares damages this character, one adjacent follower with line of sight to that enemy may make 1 immediate attack against that character. This attack does not use the targeting rules.

blasted I really don't see any1 playing this Dooku at all;
He's a strange piece, his CE doesn't involve droids, so only alive shooters could "guard" him so that they could use their shots, no renewal which means that he won't pawn too much, and he can only damage characters with force rating; so what's up with him?
He draws fire only to transfer damage to adjacent living follower, which can shoot the attacker.

On the bright side he can drop some reserves (yeah and you can rereoll so that you could really get it)
For that cost I would rather use either Darth Tyranus, Legacy of the Dark Side or Count Dooku from CS.

While His CE may be somewhat flavorful, personally I don't see his stats as being Dooku. Dooku was a saber fighting master, not a heavy force user (except lightning - which this incarnation doesn't have). Overall an interesting take, but disappointing to me.

From everything we've seen, its been good. I like flavorful minis, this one looks clunky but fun to play, he may be easily forgotten. I'll give him a good go, I hope to be surprised.
I suppose you cant hit zingers all the time otherwise they wouldnt be zingers.

Exactly. The CIS members did not fully know he was a Sith Lord, and they didn't know about Sideous being Palpatine, or even all know about Sideous. The public face was the diplomat Dooku. This is him. I know people wanted a combo of a 49pt Dooku fighter with a CE, but to be honest, making a 55-65pt Dooku with a CE was incredibly lame and didn't help the living part of the faction at all. What you all said you wanted, wouldn't have done anything. This one can do both, he can pawn and bring reserves, so droids can be used, at the same time, you are gonna want living figures to utilize the CE. He works best either with all living figures or with a mix of droids and living. And I can promise you, when you figure out how to use him in squads, he's an amazingly powerful figure - similar to Darth Sideous in that way.

What I said last night, is the image we worked on, was Dooku standing on the platform at Geonosis. He never draws his lightsaber and uses his BGs and army to fight. This is the image of Dooku as a commander. He does not publically use his LS and reveal him being a Sith. So in a sense, a Dooku with all his normal LS fighting abilities and a CE, is not canon. I understand he's weird at first glance, but give him a chance. He's definitely a very powerful mini, and probably only the fact that his reserves are slightly luck based away from being an automatic tier 1 upon release.

I'll tell you what we learned in playtesting. Save your judgement till you see him played by someone else and play him yourself. Dooku is an interesting piece and dropping down droids you didn't start with is awesome. Once you see some more of the droids you'll get a little more excited about him.

Not necessary, we fully expected reactions like this, and even considered that a significant part of the community would initially see it this way. Odds are we will eventually do a new Beatstick Tyranus (Seranno could use a revamp for example, considering the nerfing he got by dealing with SSM in competitive play). Probably not in the near future, but I'm sure eventually. Anyway, we wanted this one to be different than other Dookus, and when we decided on the image of him at Geonosis balcony, it started coming together. As for those who don't think he's competitive, I suggest patience. At least in play testing, he was a very strong piece. It might take a while for people to figure him out, but he's actually quite a bit better than Kazdan. Part of it is some of the other pieces in RaR and BoT, but another part is that his squads don't look like normal competitive Sep squads. They end up quite a bit different, and really do add something completely new - something a 65ish Beat/Commander wouldn't have been able to do.