Wookiee Warrior, from The Force Unleashed





The Wookie Warrior is one of the most anonymous pieces in the game. Its stats are unremarkable, it's a nonthreatening shooter with +6 for 20, and Grenades 20 is relatively innocuous; despite its fragility, the Rebel Vanguard from the same set with rangeless Missiles 30 is a much better direct damage option for the Rebels. The Wookiee Warrior just can't do anything well enough to justify table time - it's not completely incompetent, but I can't see it ever seeing the table outside draft games, 3/10.

I have to disagree. While the first one was a bit expensive and had its own issues (the low Attack, for example), I think that it's a more usable piece than the V-set Sion. One of the things which makes the WotC Sion worth using is the gimmick of being able to endlessly come back to life, thanks to Force Renewal from various sources and the various Force batteries, plus Sith Recruits for re-rolls. His 16 Defense and relatively low HP didn't matter so much when he was so difficult to chain to a grave. The new V-set Sion, however, doesn't have this ability for endless resurrections, because of Self-Reliant; even worse, it maintained the complete lack of Defense from the older Sion. All that'll really happen with the new one is he'll die, come back, and then die again, until he's reached his maximum of three tries, without having done much of anything. And, while the older one was fun to put into a squad because of all the ways he could be boosted, this new Sion can't be boosted in the Sith faction due to Self-reliant, which makes squad synergy nearly impossible to develop.

tl;dr: I like that the V-sets made a new Darth Sion, but I think that the older version is more useful.

Yeah, the issue with the old one is that he has just one trick, and it isn't a trick that wins games. He's too expensive and has too little damage output, and honestly you'll rarely get more than 3 essences of life anyway. Add in the significant cost difference and the new one is much more playable.

ysalimiri isn't the only thing you have to watch out for though, I've seen him go down on his first attempt at eternal hatred due to force defense, and with no MOF2 that means he 's done. I don't really think either version is very competitive, but they are fun to play in a fun game. I can even live with the no def. that he has but it would have been nice to see him get a little more offensive ability, maybe GMA to go with his double instead of ambush.

The situation seems clear. We need a Clobot boost.

His finger-pointing sculpt seems to be saying "That other bald guy over there is an imposter!"

Rebel Honor Guard, from Legacy of the Force





The Rebel Honor Guard is yet another 10 damage Rebel melee piece - which means that it's time to break out the Ithorian Commander and Han in Stormtrooper Armor. The Rebel Honor Guard is one of the weaker options for an Ithorian build though - at 10 points, it's relatively expensive compared to the better options like Aqualish Assassins and Rodian Brutes. It has some potentially useful abilities, but at 20 hit points it probably won't be around long enough to utilise Mighty Swing or Bodyguard, so Melee Reach 2 is its only point of difference. Not much to see here, 2/10.

I use one to protect Mandalore the Vindicated in one version of a Neo-Cannon build.

--Tactical Vindicannon--
58 Mandalore the Vindicated
28 Kelborn
56 Neo-Crusader Officer x2
24 Mandalorian Tactician
17 Mandalorian Protector
11 Death Watch Saboteur
6 Mandalorian Demolitionist

(200pts. 8 activations)

My opponents often didn't chose to bring him as they didn't want to lose a piece each round even a cheap one. But the thing you use is Sense the future to steal their rolls or anticipation to reroll and still get two rolls. So no matter what you are still getting three rolls

I always thought MTB trumps everything except Never Tell Me The Odds or rolling a 1 - which this link agrees with: http://www.bloomilk.com/forums/default.aspx?g=posts&t=14583

Q: How does Tactics Broker interact with Recon or Anticipation?
A: Multiple rolls and rerolls still result in the selected final roll being considered a 1. Only in the case of a tie (that is, the player with Tactics Broker also rolling a 1) would the Tactics Broker ability be lost.