Hello all,

I am new to this game and was wondering if it's a game breaking house rule to allow New Republic and Rebel pieces be considered one faction when facing off Imperial or Fringe pieces. More specifically, Kyle Katarn who did fight during the Galactic Civil War.

If the consensus is that this is a game breaking rule, could anyone let me know if there is a Rebel faction Kyle Katarn out there I could pick up? Or perhaps a Rebel/Fringe character that has an Affinity Special Ability that lets him be in a Rebel squad?

Thanks guys!

For a collection of 200 pieces or fewer, 'light side' versus 'dark side' is probably the best way to play. Allow one side to use all of the light side pieces and the other side to use all the dark side pieces. Treat Yuuzhan Vong, Mandalorians, and Fringe as neutral, which could be used by either side.

For larger collections and in a competitive environment, following the faction rules becomes more important. Certain combinations could be strong enough to nearly break the game.

Wizards of the Coast stopped producing new pieces in 2010. Since 2011, there have been professionally printed Vset cards available, which are new stat cards (legal in tournaments) that use existing miniatures. One of those cards is a Rebel Kyle Katarn. The stats for all of the Vset cards and all of the Wizards of the Coast cards are available here on Bloomilk. If you choose 'Characters-Browse', you can see all of them. Sets are listed in reverse chronological order. Masters of the Force was the last set produced by WotC. The rest are Vsets. There have been 5 Vset releases, and each also came with an accompanying smaller set at the same time.

Thanks for the info fellas! Very helpful stuff. Nice, friendly community you have here. I usually see communities rip apart new members with silly questions so thanks again!

That Kyle is pretty awesome. I am definitely going to have to break out the green stuff and paints and make a mini to go along with those stats.

There are also lots of guys on bloomilk (see 'Customs' section of the forums) who are specialists with making custom pieces. I'm sure some would be glad to make you a custom Kyle to go with the stats, if you commissioned them to do so. This is, of course, if you want it bad enough, as their time will cost something of course.

Anyway, welcome to Bloomilk Katarn07

A nice easy custom for Rebel Operative is to take Combat Instructor, cut off his Lightsaber and glue a blaster into his hand, it looks like he is charging with the blaster. This is what I did and I think it turned out pretty nicely. (I believe I used a Death Watch Raider for the gun as I have a bunch and their blaster looks nice and is easy to get at.)

From what I understand, this poster stopped collecting during A&E. If that is true, I'd recommend a head swap for Rodian Scoundrel and either the original Kyle, Original RS Obi (hair and beard dyed) provided you have them to spare. If not use a pilot and paint a beard on one. :)

Out of interest, what uber combos would you get from hypothetically combining the New Republic/Rebel factions. I'm sure there are some strong combinations, but they do share a lot of the same tech options - eg Dodonna, Levitation, Disruptive - so I don't think it's as extreme as combining some other factions (like bringing Whorm into the Republic).

Some ideas:
- get Rieekan into New Republic.
- get Ferus Olin into a New Republic squad - he could be pretty handy in a Luke GH squad.
- get Anakin Solo into a Rebel squad.

These all seem handy, but nothing spectacularly amazing. What uber squad can you make with combining Rebels and New Republic?

Either of the new Lukes with Evade might be a problem.

Rieeken's definitely great. General Wedge Antilles does almost the same thing for the NR (followers only though, not all allies), and is much easier to get.

Friendly games me and my brother do this kind of stuff all the time mixing factions, at an actual competion though you won't get away with it. Your first squad is pretty decent for 100 points :) I approve.