I voted didn't win leave her alone. I played in the championship at gencon and saw firsthand what she could do when given her fair chance. Yes atm salad took her all the way to the final table, however I am from the same playgroup as etienne and I don't think he felt as though he had many "easy" wins in getting there. She is a very good piece that in the hands of a skilled player is a very difficult matchup for almost anything out there, but so are a lot of other things. I will say that if you do roll the reserves in a game it does indeed give the daala player a much better chance of winning, but in all honesty that can be said anytime someone gets 20 extra points to replenish their squad with. However, I played daala with snowtroopers in the championship and only managed to get the reserves 1 time all day out of about 25-30 inits. so I don't think that is truly broken. I feel that the steps already taken water her down just enough to do what she was intended to do all along, which is give the Imp. faction a strong viable option for a non thrawn squad, and I think time will show that to be the case in the next 6-12 months.

I have never played a game with or against her, so my opinion is probably not worth much, but, if she is to be changed, I'm still in favor of finding a way to remove Pellaeon from her builds. I think that would fix a lot of the issues players have with her, without completely nerfing her squads.

As for my opinion on if she should be changed or not... I don't know. I guess I'm neutral, since I have no experience with her.

In an ideal world, I'd like to see some changes made to Daala. I think she should lose reserves - in my last five tournament games against her, there have been reserves early enough to make a significant difference in four of them. And she's tier 1 without them, so she doesn't need them.

Of the three main squad types:
- Elite Scout Troopers - are fine, good strong squad, but not OP IMO.
- Dr Daman's Raxus - noone else has managed to do anything with Raxus, so I think it's more of a reflection that he's a very good player who's well practiced with his squad. If I do have a concern in his setup, it's maybe Needa, who is a lot on top of the other attack boosts his squad gets, and means that he basically never misses against moderate defense targets.
- Snowtroopers - I am a little concerned about Snowtroopers still - I know they didn't make the top 4 at GenCon, but after running them at the NZ National tournament I felt like I had masses of power at my disposal and there wasn't much that most of the other squads I played could do against mine - all my wins were fairly comfortable, and three of my five wins were big pastings that were demoralising for my opponent. I would support a change in the Snowtrooper Officer's Rapport from 2 to 1. Snowtroopers are a very one dimensional squad in some ways, and they're probably less likely to win tournaments than the other builds, since they have less tricks. But at the same time, they're very extreme, and make life very un-fun for some squads.

Both of these changes are relatively minor though, and it might not be worth the administrative/confusion effort of a change on top of the previous change to enforce them.

Even had Daala won she isn't broken. Disruptive, high defense characters, gallop/strafe all can do well against her of played well.

I agree with a new card and that sep ability where you can only have one other imperial commander in your squad.

+1

A number of us discussed this topic this morning before leaving GenCon and we all were in agreement that dropping reserves is the proper (additional) corrective action needed.

I seem to recall many people talking about how the Lancer Droid was a major NPE (before all of the counters came out in recent sets), and yet that piece was never banned.

And that means...what?

First off Lancer is a WoTC piece, no one wanted to ban Wizards pieces. Daala is a Vset piece. One everyone is complaining about 2 Vsets later! She is a NPE that the designers created, as such she can be corrected. Poggle should be corrected while we are at it. Deri mentioned a Vset wide errata. I think that is a very intelligent thing to do personally.

Instead of saying we didn't do this when that came out, so Daala should stay. And we will just suffer through her. The difference back then, there wasn't an alternate Star Wars Minis game out there to go play. More than ever, this version of the game needs to be as fan friendly as possible.

may not be an NPE for the top 8 players at gencon. looks like you ran the gambit of top players (undefeated no less). so for the casual/new/middle level player it is definitely a NPE.

The game has any number of natural elements that can be an NPE for new players. I am not saying this is good, but comparatively my squad wasn't an NPE. I didn't abuse some game mechanic to out act and smash you. I never ever locked out my opponents out to win. I can't even shoot more than 7 times in a single round. I only used 3 diplomats and my guys could only ever hit for 30. What is an NPE about it?