I just built a few Glass Cannon squads. This challenge is to take your Cannon squad to the extreme. Build your squad and crunch all the numbers yourself. This is how your squad will be judged: Max damage per round from attacks for the whole squad.

Use a 200 point squad. Add up the total damage your squad can do in one round. You can include all bonuses: Cunning, Opportunist (but not both Cunning and Opportunist for the same character), Jedi Hunter, Ion Gun, etc. Critical hits can do infinite damage with Flurry Attack, so in your calculations assume all attacks can hit, but there are no critical hits.


Your opposing squad consists of just one character (so Strafe and Gallop won't help much - they each get only one attack):

Damage Sink, Cost 200
Hit points: 1000000000000
Defense: 1
Attack: 0
Dmg: 10

On each turn, you may choose to consider this character activated or unactivated.
On each turn, you may choose to consider this character as having a Force rating or not to have one.
On each turn, you may choose to consider this character to be Unique or non-Unique.
On each turn, you may choose to consider this character as either living or non-living.
Etc... same sort of thing for other potential damage boosts.

You can also take any Protective boosts as long as the relevant character is in the squad.
And imagine his base is whatever size you want it to be... Huge or even Colossal if you want.

Whatever squads you build will certainly have impressive damage output, but it is likely to be situational, and the squads won't have much in terms of defense or movement breakers, so don't expect these squads to be very competitive. I'll post my most recent glass cannon squad to get things started. I'm sure you can beat it easily, though.

(This contest ends Tuesday, 9/16 at 11pm Eastern)

--Max Damage--
20 General Whorm Loathsom
16 Geonosian Overseer
15 Battle Droid Sergeant
12 Gha Nachkt
135 Battle Droids x 45
(199pts. 49 activations)

45 Battle Droids @ 80 damage each (double/twin/roger roger) = 3600 damage
Geonosian Overseer = 10 damage
Whorm = 10 damage
Battle Droid Sergeant = 20 damage
Gha Nachkt = 10 damage
Total = 3650 damage

I drew a diagram and I think I can fit in up to 63 battle droids within 6 of the 3 commanders/pseudo-commanders.

I just tinkered with my build some more - I realised that the Geonosian Overseer was cheaper too.

Winner: TheHutts!

I'll just assume everyone is still busy building with the latest Vset right now. The last round of Theorycrafting had more participation in the late fall when things died down some. So I'll try again later.

I looked at this again, and in this build I could swap out the Battle Droid Lieutenant for Jabba Crime Lord, get an extra Jawa, and not have to worry about adjacency. I think it would take it up above 5000 damage.

--Max Damage--
16 Battle Droid Sergeant
16 Geonosian Overseer
15 Jabba, Crime Lord
13 Czerka Scientist
13 Techno Union Combat Engineer
125 Jawa * 25
3 Rodian Brute