Can someone please clear up 2 things for me.

1. Can you open doors during Battle Ready movements? It would seem a wasted ability if you couldn't as there are only 2 or 3 maps that you can use the ability to it's full.

2. If I use new epic Boba in a new republic squad but bring in a Mandalorian commader, say Mandalore the Vindicated does Boba benefit from his commander effect or is Boba considered New Republic? In the same way would Jaina Sword of the Jedi gain twin from Boba as she can count as Mandalorian?

The vision of him in this concept is more of his one-on-one fight with Obi-Wan on the catwalk. He really wasn't too worried about what the army of Droids was doing when he threw out his extra arms to come at the Jedi Master in his path. (At least, in my opinion, and the other designers as we discussed it.)

oh ok I wasn't aware of the precedent with Mercenary.

This makes me sad lol
I loved the books and was very excited to see the 3 conspirators in this squad, very disappointed on how they turned out. I'd love to know 'what might have been'
I expected young Boba to have a little more going on.
Love the IG love now! About time!
Anakin Solo and Force Meld! Thank you!
Mara! Thank you!!

Suppressive Fire would get through Mara giving out Avoid Defeat, although it wouldn't do anything about it being on her card.

I don't think Mara is too bad. Avoid Defeat only has a 25% chance of happening; it goes up quite a bit (to 56.25%) with Leia, but you deal with it the exact same way you deal with all Leia Skywalker squads: kill her first. You don't try to cut through Kol Skywalker with his double Block rolls or whatever, you go kill her. Yeah, Winter makes it more difficult, but she is still relatively easy to kill even with Avoid Defeat. Everything having to be within 6 hurts it somewhat, too. You just go kill Winter first, then Leia, then Mara. Or just kill Mara when she isn't benefiting from Leia's CE (too far from her or kill the mouse droids). The damage output for that squad is really pretty low, and there is a relatively easy way around the survivability, so it shouldn't be an issue.

There has been some complaints about Override on a main attacker, as well as Avoid Defeat.

There's been some complaining about a Force user with Avoid Defeat.

@Lord Ball: I didn't say we made hard counters to address Mara. I said we made hard counters to damage negation. The goal of the NR Mara was to make something that was different but interesting from the long over-used Mara Jade Jedi. From a game standpoint, there's really not much difference between her CE and things like Rieekan or the new Yoda or General Wedge.

Yeah, so you kill Leia or the Force Spirit first. Or just burn her FP out, which shouldn't take long if she's regularly spending 2. A squad built around Mara and Leia might be alright, but I don't think it will be too strong or annoying, the order in which you kill things is just really important. That's always been somewhat true of Leia squads, though; kill her first and things will be way easier than if you try to kill other things first.

I wasn't specifically talking about mara when I brought that up either (hence why it was seperatted from the part of my post about mara), and perhaps I misinterpretted what you were saying, but the point stands that if a figure or ability created warrants a "hard counter" it requires more balancing.

From a game standpoint the new mara is an annoying figure - much like Rieekan and Wedge are only a bit more extreme in that there are clear and easy (every single attacker can do it) counters to evade - get adjacent. Not every attacker can counter Avoid Defeat and when it's on a character that has rather high survivability (decent HP, Defense and LS Defense) and decent to good damage output and force points for rerolls in a faction that can get auto rerolls and she could even gain mettle you up the annoyance to near intolerable levels. Add in that when she does finally bite the dust her ally gets a free attack (not huge, but certainly more icing on the cake). Again there are ways to deal with her certainly - she isn't going to "break the game" but she has high potential to take a lot of fun out of it - and that is why I don't like her.

* The most annoying thing about wedge and especially rieekan is that they are cheap costing figures with powerful CE - so at least Mara isn't cheap!

(Assuming you mean Mara's CE, because you're right about that)

Oh man, good point. I forgot that Mara didn't help Winter. So yeah, Mara + Leia + Winter isn't even that strong. Neither Winter nor Leia benefit from Mara. The damage output in your squad is relatively low and the survivability gimmick is easy to get around.