You mean like the Guardian ability Bronson used on his Chewbacca! Awesome idea! It would be a great tool for melee defense.

Jedi Defense Expert (or some better name)

Cost 31

HP 110
Def 20
Atk 12
Dam 20

Melee
Speed 8
Greater Mobile Attack
Double Attack
Deceptive


Force 2 Renewal 1
Deflecting Slash: Force 2, When hit by a nonmelee attack from an adjacent opponent, this character can make an immediate attack against that attacker and takes no damage and this character takes no damage with a save of 11.
Lightsaber Block

See Aves.

Check the set 10 spoilers.

@TheHutts,
as much as I'm loathe (whormsom) to admit it,
gha nachkt to admit it,
GGDAC and Lancer (pre errata) to admit it,
yes, droid based Sep-squads are a little too competitive. Its ridiculous to spam 3pt battle droids who can attack at +12 for 40dmg... and to be able to bring more and more in via San Hill, Lobot, etc...

I think there'd need to be some balancing there - and thats also partly why I think shooters are, in Standard and especially in VSET era, too powerful and that force users and melee more broadly, are nerfed.
Maybe a simple fix is to limit the number of uniques or CEs/SAs in a squad?

@EmperorDragon!
Where'd that pure awesome come from?!
we couldve used that on the customs boosterpack competition thread hehehe,
there's some great ideas in there.
As Surf, Biggsy and LordBall advise me (amongst others hehe),
SWMinis is a simple and elegant game - many of the abilities flirt with the "SWRPG Lite" line that many doesn't want to see happen,
yet, that said,
I'd be happy to see those abilities on well points-balanced pieces. (Elusive is SUPER!)

I also agree with Lightsaber reflect wording,
I take it a little too far with my "Lightsaber Redirect" approach - because I want to give 'molecular shielding lite' to Force Users via Lightsaber Redirect, instead of Lightsaber Defense or the pithy Lightsaber Reflect/Deflect...

Terrain deformation - being able to alter the map in realtime in a tournament context, would be AWESOME.


@all,
there are so many ideas in this thread still - its great to see the 'ideas brainstorming' in real time.
maybe there'll be a better balance arise from those ideas?
So long as we don't have ridiculous shooter spam swarms of >10pts squads mowing down pieces, and with superstealth, and with direct damage/Area of Effect stuff... there'll be loads of life left in SWMinis.

Often times when I am watching Clone Wars you will see Anakin, Ahsoka, or Obi-Wan leading a charge or a retreat and blocking blaster fire that would not hit him/her, but would go past him to hit the group of people behind him.

I wonder if there is a way to represent this

Defensive Positioning: This character can use Lightsaber Deflect for any attacks that go through a square this character is adjacent to.
idea might need some help.
the idea would be that blaster bolts dont just go wizzing by this character and hitting people behind him

Build: (shot in the dark)

Jedi Defense Master

Cost 28
HP 80
Def 20
Atk 10
Dam 20

Melee
Double
Mettle
Defensive Position: If this character does not make any attacks on its turn, until the beginning of its next turn it can prevent any attacks from non adjacent enemies that go through a square this character is adjacent to with a save of 11

Force 2 Renewal 1
Lightsaber Block
Force Valor

Here's a custom character, and ability I made up a while back....maybe something like this could help, thoughts?

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/9057/ray-shield-generator

Great on paper fixes not sure they will do anything because of the high cost.

It doesnt do anything because of the high cost. Can you please stop making high cost figures trying to help melee this is not the answer? low cost ideas like Bill has is the way to fix this problem or if you want figures to even see play.

think we are talking about two different figures.