All I will say is that there is a lot of love coming for the Vong in Vset 7. Shamed Ones true potential will become clear as more pieces are revealved.

I can see something along the lines of a new version of Nom Anor under the Yu'shaa persona giving the shamed ones a decent boost. Or perhaps even an entire Jeedai Heretic subfaction.

I hope they never get any decent boosts. I've been the one clamoring for more 3 (or even 2) point tech options, but I'm not looking for swarm options at that point level. But if they are strictly worse than a Worker (on a point per point basis) and the only reason to take them is blocking and activations for the forthcoming "Vong only" boost, I applaud it!

They can't ever be shaped or scarred, and we talked about how useful the current CEs are for them. Perhaps they have their uses outside of attacking.



oh, and . . .

Rumors spread quickly. I never confirmed this was happening.

One of the major goals in this set is to continue to give more squad options for competitive play. We are striving to not simply give pieces that make the best squads better. Rather we are aiming to bring the factions that need help (Vong chief among them) up to speed, but also to give wholly different squad types a shot in other factions.

I think the Vong have already gotten plenty of boosts, we just need to be patient and see how they pan out in the meta. The vong faction is probably the most mobile faction in the game right now. I don't think they need much more help in movement breakers. Personally, I think handing out Blastbug to all vong warriors was way to much power creep since there isn't anything you can do to prevent that damage at all. A Vong squad with the new Nom Anor can start 6 squares out from their starting area, then vong warriors can charge 12 squares & throw a blast bug 6 squares. That is 24 movement! If you have the preatorite vong scouts, they can pretty much reach anyone in the first round with their blastbugs depending on the map/door situation. So I say we need to be patient with the Vong pieces we already do have and not overreact since the Vong aren't in the top 4 in all tournaments right now. I think they can be if people played them. We just don't really know what the meta looks like right now after gencon, and once regionals start happening we'll get a good feel of where the vong are. Before then, to introduce even more gamechangers to the vong faction is premature, imo.

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I think the Vong definitely still needs some help. Have they come a long way? YES Absolutely, in fact it is impossible to overstate how much better they are thanks to the V-sets. (especially with the War Coordinator, can you say Auto include!)
Personally I would rather see them get something that makes them Melee beasts (like they should have been all along) The stats we got for the Warriors are just sad, I would like to see some crazy good stat boosts for the Vong I'm talking +6 defense. Maybe a commander that gives Melee Duelist? Something to give them the edge against Ranged characters.
Another way I would boost the Vong would be to give them really cheap Reserves options and I mean REALLY cheap, like it doesn't effect the cost at all. (okay maybe exaggerating)
I think Prideful would be a good bonus for them just with a higher costing character.

If we're talking about squad wide movement, I'd go for those Daala squads over anything the Vong have - the ability to have most of your squad run 12 then shoot is powerful. Vong need that extra movement to compensate for being melee.

The Republic is still the most mobile faction (not saying the Vong aren't a pretty mobile faction) lets see we have: Gallopers (Yoda on Kybuck, Bombad General Jar Jar Binks on Kaadu and new Dinobi) A good strafer (Anakin Skywalker on STAP) Order 66 GMA (Captain Rex who is one of the best shooters himself a great boostable character would be the Infantry Support Platform which was pretty mobile to begin with) Jedi gettin GMA (Cin Drallig, Jedi Battlemaster who is also pretty awesome) If you don't want GMA you have Master Yoda and his CE as an option, plus you also have Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth who can give you even MORE movement bonus' to the Jedi, handing out master Speed cheaply with Coleman, Lightsaber assualt and even Phasing from Darkwoman (beat that!) which means Ani on Stap is even better! Next on our list is General Skywalker (momentum, when they end their movement) Commander Ahsoka (rolling Cleave) these two can be a good combo too.
Don't forget Foul Moudama (master Lift) and the Icon of Movement Breakers itself: R2-D2, Astromech Droid (Doombot!!!) are we done yet?! Nope! The Republic also has Teleport Swapping with Captain Panaka/Mas Amedda. (teleswapping is what made the Empire so good!) +more minor ways! So yeah the Republics lacking in Charging and doesn't have Levitation, still what other faction has this many movement breaking options for this many different characters? Shooters and Melee Beats alike.