Colonel Jacen Solo (Reins and Reserves cost 2 pts more)

Maybe its time to start thinking about rotating legal pieces :)

V-set 14 has Unkar Plutt, which will hurt Reserves squads considerably. As Jason said, it's why he played them now - because they probably won't have any chance at all in 3 months. Unkar can turn off all init control and also negate 2 of Pong/Kazdan's Reserves numbers. Brings Reserves chances down to 15% from 70+%.

Han Solo, CotMF has a CE that will shut down Tactics Broker, Recon, Anticipation, and Sense the Future. That brings Jason's Reserves chances down to 25%. If he only gets Reserves every 4th round or so, he doesn't have much chance at all.

Ree-Yees can do something similar, but only for one round and only if he makes a save. Not much of a counter, but better than nothing, I guess.

Wuher and Col Jacen to make Reserves more expensive, but that won't do much tbh. You can still bring in a Republic Commando.

A squad with Deep strike capabilities is one way. Pong has 110 with no defensive ability. Kazdan 110 with LS Defense. Clobot is 30 hp with nothing, so the reserves guys aren't beefy at all. Not necessarily the easiest thing to do, but not impossible. Also, taking out R2 astro helps as it controls my movement making it easier to predict where I will be.

Another is just to get in there with beefy guys and start killing stuff as fast as I can make it. Spry was a roll away from beating me in this fashion. He just put ahsoka and Kanan in there and started going at it. I think I would have had a pretty rough matchup against Jangalore as well. Mace would give me fits as well.

Area effects also help as I tend to get clumped up as kazdan and pong both drop their loads adjacent.

Wait, I've heard people complain that Reserves are annoying, but I've never of someone dominating a tournament with them like this. So Unkarr Plutt wasn't necessary UNTIL urbanjedi mopped the floor with everyone... BUT, urbanjedi only played the reserves squad because he knew Plutt was coming...

I think we have a time paradox, folks.

In a all seriousness though, that sounds like an awesome tournament! Thanks for all the squad details everyone, I'm gonna have to try some of those out myself.

My first game against Jason I would have still lossed if it weren't for the fact that he only got reserves once in the 1st three rounds and twice in our 5 round match I do believe.

If you think you'd rather play against this then some other squads I don't think you really understand what it can do. Our champs match was a clown stomping. He got reserves the first 3 rounds... So at that point it was my 200 point squad against his 380 point squad because each round he could bring in 60 points worth.

Yes this game is heavily luck based and we all try to reduce that luck any way we can to increase our odds. However, playing a game where the whole game depends on what your opponent can roll for init is not enjoyable. When your opponent can get 60 points taylored to beat your squad and it starts in gambit... That is not fun, lol.

I my opinion, getting both sources of reserves from two separate characters is to much. That's a big reason daala had reserves removed, matching up with ozzel is to rediculous, but don't get side tracked on that comment.

Anywho, it was a great regional, thank you caedus for organizing and congratulations to Jason!!!! Coming in 2nd to you is perfectly fine in my book :)

Ugh I feel like I'm not going to like Unkar at all... why so much reserves hate when they generally suck and with the exception of this Republic all are tier 2 or worse.

i find it funny that this piece has been around for 7 sets and nothing has ever been said about him or the possibilities with him, and yet a piece that came out the set before it dominated the game for awhile, was complained about got changed because people didn't like it, but it still plays well enough to come in second is ok and not deserving of complaints.

whats even funnier is that he felt he had to play it now before a hard counter came out for it.... why are we making hard counters for something that has not had a single complaint or anything and has existed for years?

I guess i'll go the old route of mace windu talk to me when it wins gencon or dominates an entire season like daala

At least you live close enough that if Jak "practices" making soup again, he might invite you over to check and make sure it wasn't poisoned or something before he gave it out at a tournament for a prize

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