So wait, Kota gives Independent Outfit, but doesn't have it himself? That's a little disappointing.

Maybe not the best option, but the 10 point hellion + tarkin or another tempo controller. He can do really deep strikes since he can swap in halfway across the map at end of the round, move 24 with flight, then win init with thrawn and use 2 activations with your tempo control to activate thrawn, swap back the e-web, and reek some havoc.

On a positive note for Kota, I'm digging the synergy I just realized he and Commander skywalker have together.

I was just about to say that. Still it would have been a cool Talon squad.

What about the Spacetroopers? We've been looking for a good imp swap option for them.

The evolution of this character was quite interesting. It was just "Jedi General" at first. I have a bug up my bum about adding un-represented and under-represented species, and especially when it's an easy add-on to a super generic name. (We also added Givin to the Black Sun Slicer). The RM was human, so we needed a near human species, and Brad took that and ran with it, Arkanian being his suggestion. It helped shape and color the figure in ways we hadn't planned on. It gave it better direction and depth. Then somewhere along the way, it started to become clear that with prideful and the point cost, it could become the anti-bastisla piece. Perhaps that was an overstatement. It could be a good first step in that direction. Before that, there wasn't even a notion of not playing Bastila in OR. She's just too good. I agree it may not be top tier, but it's a step in the right direction. (The right direction being variance in the OR.) We actually had to juice him up a bit. Make his CE really good (it's pretty darn good), especially with prideful. We also had to carefully balance not making him too good on his own, to discourage people from running a pack of these guys (they are non-unique after all). Note they earn their own prideful bonus. (but not if there is more than 1!) Otherwise we were afraid they might be run en masse with Bastila - completely contrary to their intended use. Anyway - I am happy with the final result. Like I said - a step in the right direction.

I didn't realize that the Arkanian Jedi General is also effected by his Prideful, that makes him a good deal better. This is a very well designed piece making great non-bastila squads. I think that lower attack was key for him to not get used with Bastila anyway. I could still imagine some decent squads with him and Bastila however, so great job on balancing him out!

(what was the flavor text he had that explanes his Sith Rage?)

Visas Marr might be a good bodyguard/Force Sense piece for him, but I don't think she has enough 'umph' to make that squad type too much better.

And I think people forget about the Tactical Officer who hands out It's A Trap and Recon which is nice and makes troopers cheaper. That will definitely help swarms against stealth. I'm with Deathwielded that I think Visas doensn't quite have the punch...a bodyguard for him would be good though.



Oh I forgot about Aric Jorgan he could be very fun with them

Yeah, it's certainly a direct method. It prevents the combining of the old auto-include and the new awesome piece. It has the advantage of squad limiting and a bonus built right in. Rival could also work, but it's very specific to get that to fit flavor.

The issue with Thrawn or Bastila being an auto include is that they cost in the 30s, nearly 1/6 of your squad, and dictate a very specific play style. As opposed to say R2 Astromech, who costs less than 1/22 of your squad, and helps ANY squad style out.

Yep, his attack was lowered specifically to make him weaker with Bastila, and then offset by including him in Prideful.

I really enjoyed following the design of this guy and Oteg. The 2 of them ended up synergizing very nicely.