If there is a change to act control in general, it would preferably only affect San Hill, Ozzel and Dodonna. Krayt, Ric Olie, etc do not need any change as they are not broken.

Coming back after being busy for several months:

Careful about changing San Hill and Ozzel to add the line of sight requirement. Currently, it is not optional, so in the right situation your opponent can use it against you. Giving it a line of sight requirement makes it optional. It's probably still a good trade-off: making them more accessible to kill probably outweighs the benefit they gain from optional act control. Just hadn't seen anyone mention it yet.

Also, put Double Agent on good pieces. Most of the pieces that have it are awkward counter pieces, so there's 0 benefit to mainlining them unless you know a tournament is going to be swamped with Ozzel.

That goes for a lot of counter-abilities, actually. A lot of the counter-abilities work great, it's just that they seem to get incorporated into cost like they're Evade or Double Attack, when they're more comparable to Strong-Willed or Resilient. The result is usually a piece that's only worth the cost when you can use its counter-ability, so it never gets onto the table to begin with.

Shevu is an example of how to do it well: he's got Double Agent, but he's still a great benefit to a GA squad even if act control never darkens the door of the squads you face.

TL;DR: Put counter abilities on characters that don't need them to be good.

I mean^^^^^ this "monster" has been around for a ton of time. It has only not been abused for a while. Its power is undeniable.

To the question when is enough? What combos are there? My play group plays without Ozzel and them and things seem decently balanced at that point. But if there is something designers SHOULD be able to take care of it.
Design is STILL an individual thing, it shouldn't be. Every piece needs a purpose and Balance committee should be involved with design.

Pretty soon, standard operations at Regionals will be...

1. Roll for map
2. Roll for initiative
3. Person who won initiative wins game
4. Submit results to the TO.


Play report. Such a great time seeing everyone. Regional was great, it lasted 1 hr (we took a lunch break after swiss) got home super early and spent time with my family. Congrats to Jason on another Regional win.

It's a little off the rails... but funny as!

Why does the wording matter? Surely the reason why you want to change act control is because it's broken, right? I don't see why you feel the need to errata Lord Krayt when he is completely fine as is.

+1 for Morrigan to be balanced, not Suppressive Fire. However, I still believe activation control is more important to adjust. Morrigan is a close second. The thing is that, suppressive fire in the Rebel faction ( Hera Syndulla or Morrigan ), isn't Meta changing because they don't have Thrawn Mithurondu. This is very important to note. Remember, Morrigan can be used in all factions, however she seems only to be dominant/op with the Imps ( Thank you Thrawn )

Could Morrigan be fixed by giving her Double instead of Twin? I've never played her, but it looks like the bigger problem with Suppressive Fire is that it's paired with her speed and high damage output on the move. Giving her Double lowers her moving damage output to 30. Sure, she can get GMA, but then you're also spending points on a TBSV you wouldn't otherwise have, and she's still slower than with Charging/Twin.

Or, here's another idea... although I don't like this solution, would Rival for the Empire make sense? I'm not familiar with the character, but I know she served the Empire under a false identity.

I usually despise when Rival goes on a piece for purely balance reasons, but if it makes thematic sense, I think it'd be worth it here.

Errata her Charging Fire. With Thrawn swap and charging Fire, she becomes ridiculous. Please don't nerf Suppressive Fire. The ability is cool, and let's not effect other characters that have it. Please focus on Morrigan specifically, because she has too many nasty tricks on a 31 pt Fringe mini!

Double Agent would maybe be a good idea, then...? She'd still be over-the-top, but if Fringe hasn't been running around ruining anyone's day, I don't see a problem with Talon/Morrigan being a solid core for all-fringe squads.