From the SHNN last night

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Yaddle, Jedi Master -- SMALL BASE
Republic
Cost 44

HP 90
Def 21
Att +11
Dam 20

Special Abilities
Unique. Melee Attack; Double Attack

Shien Style [When hit by a nonmelee attack, this character takes no damage with a save of 11 and the attacker takes 10 damage; save 11]

Force Powers
Force 2. Force Renewal 2; Master of the Force 2

Force Sacrifice [Force 3, usable on an enemy's turn whenever this character or an ally would take damage: For the rest of the turn, no character in your squad can have its Hit Points reduced below 10. At the end of the turn, this character is defeated.]

Lightsaber Assault [Force 1, replaces attacks: Make 2 attacks]

Master Speed [Force 1: Can move 6 extra squares on her turn as part of her move]

Morichro [Force 2, usable only on this character's turn: range 6; Target enemy gets -4 Attack, gains Speed 4, and cannot make attacks of opportunity until the end of this character's next turn, or until she is defeated]

Commander Effect
For the rest of the skirmish, Unique Republic allies with a lightsaber and without Double, Triple, Quadruple, or Twin Attack, gain Shien Style, Force Renewal 1, Lightsaber Assault, and Master Speed.


"She embraced and, eventually, achieved unity with the Force."
―Even Piell

And the really cool things about this CE is that its effects are immune to Distraction, Disruptive and ABM. Since it specifies that they gain these things for the rest of the game, they will never loose them once the figures that benefit from the CE get them at the beginning of the skirmish. A really well made CE and it took a while to get it right, but after a lot of playtesting, I think this CE is what teh older CS needed to become playable. Shien Style is on par with SSM as far as anit-shooter. So those Shooter squads are going to have some real problems.

Yaddle is amazing! I have a question though, If one of the jedi benefiting from her CE gains extra attack, does her CE still work? I'd think so because Extra is not on the list in the CE, but I would like to be sure.

Only if the Commander Effect specifies 'Followers.' 'Allies' applies to all allied characters, Commander Effect or not.

Force Sacrifice should have a range. so she can literally be 24 squares away and through 4 doors in her starting area and do this?

She is most likely that cost to avoid Jorus weirdness, she has some good force powers on her, and sharing them probably isn't great (especially Sacrifice)

Just what I quickly pulled together for her
--Better Jedi--
44 Yaddle
28 Plo Koon
26 Saesee Tiin
24 Ki-Adi-Mundi
24 Shaak Ti
21 The Dark Woman
14 Coleman Trebor
9 R2-D2, Astromech Droid
10 Spaarti Clone Trooper Demolitionist x2

(200pts. 10 activations)

I'm sure it was playtested a bunch of ways, she still gives out a bunch of Force Powers on her own, and maybe it was found to be unbalanced if those Jedi could share MOTF2 from someone.

She was one of the toughest characters in the whole set to balance. I had a plan from the start to dramatically boost the old "unplayable" jedi - but that is harder than it sounds to just specifically target those jedi. Cast too wide of a net and you miss your objective, since if it effects too many better pieces, people still won't play the old crappy ones.

We don't ever use set names in abilities or CEs, or else it would have been easier. [Republic allies with a force rating from Clone Strike or Revenge of the Sith sets]

So we had to base it on abilities they had (or didn't have). We must have gone through at least several dozen combos trying to get it down to a reasonable set of recipients. It's still not perfect (Coleman Trebor and Dark Woman still shine above), but I'm still happy with the list of recipients. As you can already see by some of the proposed squad builds, there's still a lot of variety that can be had within those perimeters. I'm personally not a fan of abilities that name three or four specific characters that get a boost (as was suggested numerous times while designing this piece), because I feel like often basically that builds the squad for you. On the other hand giving it to too many recipients is bad as well. I was really aiming for about the size subset to get variety but be very specific about what we boosted. Even though it's a bit wordy, it's probably the simplest set of restrictions to understand. It comes down to having "single attack" (even though that is not a term Defined in our game). So no double, triple, quad or twin. We did think about adding "extra attack" to the list of restrictions, it was already long and verbose we felt it wasn't necessary. Yes you can benefit from extra attack and still get all these bonuses, but the only way you can currently get that is with 66 point Flobi, and if you do that there's really not much room left in your squad for Jedi to get the bonus. Besides I think three more cheaper Jedi would be better in the squad than Flobi and a few with Extra.

When talking about what these Jedi needed to be anywhere near usable, we first assessed why they are not. Most of them are laughable in what they needed. First and foremost, defense to make it to the fight. Next, some kind of offensive boost. Next more force, and finally more speed. They pretty much needed it all. So, we gave it to them.

I don't expect Yaddle squads to shoot to tier 1. She was always meant to be more of a fun piece and give people a chance to actually play some of those old Jedi. Above all I hope people find her fun.

I am excited about her new force powers. I actually don't expect force sacrifice to be used very often. It's a big trade off. Keep in mind it's only for a single TURN, not the rest of the round. So really it will only be used in devastating situations. A massive strafe or Gallop, perhaps a large unleashed the force or thought bomb. In other words at a time when you're going to lose a significant portion of your squad. Because Yaddle dies immediately afterwards, which is no small loss. And the way she's designed with her CE she'll generally be the most expensive piece in her squad. And more than likely you won't run a bunch of under 10 point scrubs in your squad, so she usually will be saving key components of her squad (if it gets used in a skirmish at all).

I'm also really excited about Morichro. I think that is a fun force power that has some potential.

Anyway - glad there seems to be some excitement around her.

I think her with the Rebel master Yoda that has affinity for Republic and lets jedi make an extra attack at the end of their turn if they have only made one attk. can be really good together with some of these weaker jedi, as she can let them spend force to run adj. with master speed and still get the two attks. because of yoda and he also gives them LS defense which could come in handy for any missed shien saves.