Designers also weren't worried about Critdu when he came out. But, I defer to your supreme knowledge, Caedus.

Tarpals with Gungans and Flametroopers have been seen.

I have played my fair share of gungan squads. Won the PA regional with them (2016) and finished 2nd in the NY regional with them as well (2014?15?). Played around with them at other points as well.

The squads themselves have morphed more towards tarpals and using better and better non-gungans with him (DR e, Momaw, Blizz, Vet uggie, etc, etc). I think the new gungan brings them back towards using gungans more. Which actually works because gungans biggest problems in the past were the fact that they only had 30hp and once they were based, were such bad attackers that it was a losing proposition (hence the change to the other characters). This new gungan changes that somewhat as he has some staying power, so just basing you isn't the end of the road.

Not sure if the gungans were ever top tier, but just like most things, they will cycle in and out depending on the meta and what players want to play. I mean when we talk about good squads we normally can come up with 20-25 (or more) viable squads (or squad types) and we have 15 or so players at a tournament so just by the nature of math some of the good squads aren't played.

Always use Boss Nass. Booming, Reinforcements and chance to bring them back full health

I would give this character a 3/10. Horrible CE, I will be willing to bet the movement portion of this CE gets botched in 50% of the games. Political Operative to all Non unique Fringe? Including Droids? I'm sure this was not tested no where near enough to see if its an issue. All characters who had Aggressive Negotiations, can now be attacked by an Uggie, and then they lose it. Overall horrible design and piece.

Its not that I am in love with characters with AN. But thats usually a huge part of their Niche right? So now, we have a created a 19 point piece that completely eradicates their effectiveness, board wide, undisruptable, giving it to all Fringe non unique followers, thats 204 characters not including whatever else comes out in this set, not to mention any future set that releases a non unique Fringe Follower... Which we can all agree will grow.


Being 19 points makes him a perfect All Fringe squad Lobot reserve. Oh whats this? My squad wasn't built to take care of something, lets create a piece we can throw in after set up that will give me a better chance to win because I suck at squad building.


Was the purpose of this piece to remove Diplomats and AN from the meta? I think only about 20 pieces have those abilities in total, but thats not including anything given out by CE/SA of characters.


Who signed off on this guy? And what were some playtests that went into his design?

There's a fine balance here - on the one hand, if a type of piece (diplomat) has hardly any representation in the meta, do we want to nerf it into oblivion for anyone with Lobot? But on the other hand, if a type of piece has hardly any representation in the meta, does it really matter if something with not much presence gets kicked out?

Maybe giving Political Operative to only GenoHaradan allies would have been better. Really though, they gave me this piece to playtest right about when school took over for a while (apologies for not saying anything, FlyingArrow), so I think I don't have much room to talk.

While the piece does give you a strong counter to AN and Diplomat, it's also 19 points of mediocre if you don't have a GH Assassin. Unless your opponent is just completely spamming Diplomats, I kinda doubt it'd be wise to choose the Liaison over whatever else you were planning on using.

The entire concept of Lobot reserves is to taylor your squad against what your playing. So yes, if I had Lobot, and had ZERO way to attack a Diplomat that I wanted to take out, why would I NOT bring this guy in? If I have Rodian Brutes, Uggies, ANYTHING, they can now take care of an issue my squad had. Screw the Geo's being used, Giving them TWIN against adjacent enemies is not game breaking, I can give them twin in Seps for just about the same price except I can still shoot with them! And I could just run Sidious for 36, which would prob be a better movement breaker than the one this guy gives them.

General Kalani, Separatist Hero -subset 6/6
Separatist - RM: 2-1B (TFU 24)
Cost 25

HP 70
Def 15
Att +7
Dam 20

Special Abilities
Unique. Droid
Indiscriminate [When this character attacks an adjacent enemy, it ignores enemy abilities and commander effects that prevent targeting and attacking. These attacks cannot be redirected.]
Tactician +6 [Add +6 to the initiative roll except on a roll of 1]

Commander Effect
Droids are subject to these effects:
At the end of this character's turn, 1 Droid ally within 6 squares may immediately use an ability that replaces attacks and then move up to 4 squares.

If a living Separatist ally is adjacent to a non-living Separatist character in your squad (including this character), both get +3 Attack.


Kalani was a competent battle tactician who had single-minded obsession in securing victory and producing results.

10/10