From looking just at the results, I don't think Daala is a problem. She went first-second in New Zealand but there were basically no scissors squads and the top players were using her. At GenCon, she did well but didn't win, and there were a lot of tough games. She has plenty of tough match-ups and depending on the build even some auto-losses. I didn't bring Bare Bones Snowtroopers (http://www.bloomilk.com/Squad/138208/bare-bones-snowtroopers) to GenCon because I couldn't see any way at all to beat Skybuck, and I expected it to be there. Even with the build I took I wouldn't have expected more than a 25% chance against a good player. (I was lucky to not have to see Skybuck.)

So I voted to just remove Reserves.

However, it is clear that she is an NPE for many people. More of an NPE than Naboo troopers? More of an NPE than Yobuck swap? Than a pawned Lancer? Poggle bombs? I don't know, but for some reason she gets all the attention. And I think the reason she gets attention is that the squads she beats most easily are the squads that most people want to play: balanced squads with 3-5 threats all in the 20-50 cost range. (Darth Jim's Talon squad fits that mold, so I'm not surprised it's an NPE for him.)

I've mentioned this before, but I think the solution is to introduce a handful of 20ish point pieces that are "minor scissors" pieces. Currently, in order to take out a bunch of small HP pieces quickly, there aren't a lot of options. Momaw is helpful, but just about all the other options cost too much to simply toss into a squad. A Lancer is optimized with pawn of the dark side and an MTB engine, which takes pretty much half of a squad. Yobuck is a huge chunk of a squad. Same thing for the newer strafing/galloping vehicles. For scissors, it's "go big or go home". If we had more options (including reinforcements options) that could cost about 20 and somewhat reliably take out 4 troopers all at once before dying, that would help a lot. Maybe you don't include a scissors piece in a squad - maybe you do. It's a risk to go without it, but no different from going without direct damage, where you might have a tough matchup against GOWK/Zannah/Caedus. But right now, those scissors options are not really available.

Those scissors options are needed for other squads, too. Klat swarm, Poggle, Naboo, Daala, Tantives, Vong swarms, Mouse dumps. A scissors piece that doesn't take up 25% of your squad would help against all of those. And I think I just named half the NPEs in the game.

So I voted for just removing Reserves. If Vset 9 doesn't have enough of those Scissors pieces to satisfy the majority, then I'd vote for a ban on Daala at that time. (Although I suspect this debate will then just move to Klats or Naboo.) I've had a lot of fun playing her and I really like the piece, but it's not worth running people out of the game for.

I think your right about that rapport 2 being an issue. Same thing with naboo troopers in my opinion. The only question is what about raxus prime squads? Because of their ten health do you think they aren't an issue? I know there are some players in new zealond that would argue that point tooth and nail, haha