Lieutenant Page

Great choices. I definitely do prefer Salacious to the Gunsmith. I use Lobot in most of my squads, and I often have 5 points left in my reinforcements that I immediately fill with Salacious.

It's really hard to pick a favourite from the set that started the journey to faction balance, but my pick is Bastila (no hate please).

I would have included the Spaarti CTD but a solid list. Sora & Jaina also getting an honorable mentions in this discussion, IMO.

So it looks like Lieutenant Page, Salacious, Spaarti CTD, Sora Bulq and Jaina Solo, SotJ are the other I left out.

Unfortunately I could only put 9 slots in and I can't change them after the fact.

I almost put in Jaina and Salacious, as I often use him for reinforcements also.

Some really nice pieces in the first V-set, many we still see play today. I agree that Bastila and Revan made their respective factions playable, a great feat indeed! The Yammosk is another great faction piece.

Bastila is easily the most powerful piece from that set. But if we're talking the best as in best designed, I'm going with Revan. The designers took a fan favorite piece, whose wizards stat block sucked, reimagined him, and made him a power piece that instantly made his faction playable, but in a way that wasn't completely over powered. Revan is one of my top ten pieces from the entire 7 Vsets.

I agree Bastila, Revan and the YWC really made those three factions much better. Without them I doubt the V-sets would've been as popular. I agree with all the pieces you mentioned for Honorable mentions, except maybe the Jedi Seer and the Yuuzhan Vong High-bred Warrior. Yes the Warrior is leaps and bounds better than the original Vong warriors, who are total garbage IMO.

I'm interesting in your reasoning on the Seers as I have tried (and failed) several times to make a good squad with them.

The Seer is basically about the Jedi Reflexes for cheap. Jedi Reflexes is incredibly strong as you take AoOs as someone approaches you. So the seer fits as a roadblock piece.
It was really the first strafe hate piece to exist. Tim mentions it because it was critical to the success of the only time the OR have won the GC championship. The seer would stand guard over Bastilla so it was really hard to get to her to shut down ABM without taking some hits (usually 30 dmg with ABM turned on).

You don't really build a squad around the Seer, you just take up one of your mid cost slots and put it in. The seer has Evade so its hard to make damage stick unless you deal with the JR and if you try and get away the surprise move lets it catch up. The surprise move also helps the Seer be where it needs to be most at the top of the round so its hard to catch it out of position. Its downside is the low attack but then the +6 on AoOs means you generally play the piece defensively forcing people through the JR to get at more vicious threats like Jaq, Carth or Bastilla.

Its a well designed piece but its not a centerpiece, quintessential support jedi.

Hilarious! My iPhones auto-correct strikes again!

I also have never found Bandon quite tier 1. He's an honorable mention, but just doesn't quite fit into the top Sith squads. He helps a lot of tier 2/1.5 Sith squads.