Alright in my last post ThereisnoTry brought up what I think a good topic for discussion would be. With the current state of the game what do you think each faction still lacks and needs to be competitive, mainly speaking about Mandos, Vong, Rebels, but feel free submit ideas for any faciton. I'll go first

Mandos: I feel like they are so close here with death shots, bodyguard shots, and Mando the Vindicated. I would like to see them get a true melee piece that can run interference and hang with the other factions beats for a little bit.

Vong: not really a huge Vong player, but I loved the addition of Vua and the chick with Bo'tus spore(can't think of her name). I think Vong have some great options for bomb squads with nom and onimi can be brutal with the bo'tus spore chick. I really think they just need a way to close the gap on good shooter heavy squads, not sure how to accomplish this without basically copying a different factions movement breaker... maybe something like vong allies gain speed of 8, so they can move faster and engage quicker.

Rebels: I don't really feel like they are to far off and of the three I think they need the least amount of help, but I would love to see the specforce continued, I like what they have going on and would like to see Rebels without ERC's doing well. I would also like to see a new Master Kota that could be the rebels high end melee beat.

Sweet a new Mando Melee beat with Teras Kasi style would actually be a lot of fun.

Well Sithborgs peace brigade idea can cover the ranged attackers.I am not sure if somewhere in the lore there was a peace brigade officer or something that had something we could abstract to give him yslamari. Death shots with them would make a lot of sense, especially when after the vong was killed their amphistaff would continue choking, or whatever.

The Vong never went down without a fight. Even to their dying breath, they were the epitome of spite. Hence, the cloud of poison upon self-destruct or something of that nature. I know vong bombs are such a passe concept which were revived once the slaves were introduced. Also, very good at sacrificing others to get what they needed. All pawns to the greater game. So, I could even see something like a Sith Recruit unit being able to be sacrificed for another attack.

I'm sure Vong have their fans and they won't like my opinion, but I have no problem with them being subpar in the meta and just serving as a spoiler to keep the meta from shifting too far to force-heavy squads. All of the other factions have far greater amount of canon to draw from (and it's growing for all of them), so straining to bring in more and more minis for minor Vong characters to try and get them (or keep them) up to speed seems unnecessary to me.

I'm not saying to cut them off entirely, but if they only get half the pieces of the other factions and never reach tier 1, that's fine with me.

I would hope Suppressive fire is never made again... Its such a bad idea to throw it around IMO. Especially on Non Unique characters that really don't deserve it.

As for my wishes to make a faction better... I think Sith need better CE for a cheaper cost. I have always been a fan of the faction, but have had no excitement to run them for what they are... Just big beats. I know its tough to come up with ideas of insignificant Commanders, but I always thought it would be cool to make Holocrons that had Emplacement, but your Opponent could set them up anywhere on your side of the map, and they would give whatever character of your army either really cool abilities, or Force Powers.

I know that adds a whole new element to the game, but I could see that being useful.

Another thing that I have been a fan of is another emplacement piece that I think would set Mandos up to be a Force to be wreckoned with.

A Mandalorian Communications Tower. Give it emplacement, and you can count CE from it but to a range of 12! Low HP, but its Relay Orders can not be Disrupted, or maybe only 1 Mando CE can not be disrupted, something to that nature.

Isn't Jaina just that?

No they don't - they have the only hard counter to act control - black ops

Love the Vong "death shot" idea, when this character is defeated you may immediately spit poison at one enemy character within 6 squares kind of deal. Also I think they would do well with a recon piece or two (considering they scouted for generations) as well as a piece that gives out counterattack to non-unique warriors, advantageous defense and bloodthirsty/droid hunter.

Seps need a force battery or at least a way to get renewal. And a commander to boost huges!
Example:

General Loathsoam, ground force commander
15, hp 60, def 16, atk 8, dmg 10
rapport 10 for huge droids
CE
huge droid followers gain advanced shields 1 and flanking attack

Finally the seps need Grievous wheelbike with dismount, because that's bad ass


Republic
Kamonein cloner with order 66 reserves/reinforcements

Old Republic/ Sith more The Old Republic specialized characters with beefy cards to represent different classes (I.E. cyborg commando or Chiss agent

Imperial Boosts for the lesser force users, NK1 Necrosis, a healer diplomat (Imperial Mission)

Rebel hero versions of the other main characters

New Republic Jedi Instructor Luke to train and boost the lesser force users, shamed ones

Mandolorian - cheap recruit scrubs

Fringe - cheap 3 point option, peace brigade boost, more Zann, more dathomiri, tough skin boosts to huge fringe

What more 3 pt options do you need? We have the Ugnaught, Mouse Droid, Rodian Brute?, and the Ewok.