Had this come up again during a playtest tonight. Simply outclasses pretty much anything else in it's price-range in most builds. Builds with others in the price range can be good, but not reasonably better for the most part. As mentioned, there are a few things that work against them, but just not enough of it, it seems, to really keep them from still being the go-to piece for most any squad in that price range

I don't really think they are 'broken' or anything. Just really powerful, obviously, and overall a negative element to the game, as they really cut out the diversity that could be seen in the squads that feature them.

Here's an idea for a solution: why not make an equally powerful/interesting piece for each faction at Cost 10, 11, 12, or 13 (whatever works best in that faction)? I agree with just about everything people here are saying (and have said before) but I don't agree that we need an errata or ban. That's always an ugly thing imho, and really not necessary for this piece - unlike the Zygerian Slaver.

Another idea: add an economical fringe piece that has an ability, (like defuse bomb) as a counter. Maybe some kinda 4-7 pt piece. I can see some piece at say, 6 points, that has defuse bomb AND satchel charge or a 4 point piece that just has defuse bomb?

But lets remember too that there already are a number of pieces (admittedly mostly characters with a force rating) that have AoE abilities that can eliminate these kinda guys without having to get adjacent. There are abilities that can ignore cover when targeting enemies as well. So let's be careful we don't act like the Klat is more than it is. I whole heartedly believe though that factions need more options in or near the cost range of the Klat that can be useful & solid enough for a player to think twice before just going with this piece.

This way also fixes a problem rather then furthering power creep more than we need to.

In Legacy we have pieces that are anti-cloaked like Bossk, Mercenary and the Mandolrian Weaponsmith has an ability that lets other people see cloaked by giving them infra-red.

Could be stuff to look at. If one or two characters in a squad have anti-cloaked rather easily, it can help a lot

Force sense 2 k bye

I think an excellent design choice for a future Force Power to get around his cloak would be a new Force Power called Force Sense 2. Here is what I think would be good for the game if we went this route on this force power:

Force Sense 2 (Force 2, usable only on this character's turn: Enemy characters lose Stealth for the rest of the round. Non-unique enemy characters lose Cloaked for the rest of the round.)

This way the Force Sense 2 user can still be effective at getting rid of stealth, but its ability to get rid of cloaked is limited to non-uniques. This is for the better, cause there has been a shift away from jedi centric squads and if we made Force Sense 2 able to get rid of Cloaked (through use of Force Cloak, which cost 2 force to use & replaces turn) on unique Jedi, then it really harms one of the best advantages that Jedi have on those pieces to survive against shooter squads. If it gets rid of Cloaked on non-uniqes, then I think it is a effective counter to the Klat Assassin as well as other figures currently being used, or future pieces that designers would like to give Cloaked to.

How about this: Change Cloaked to Stealth. Done.

Oops, that's errata. nvm....

force power won't matter, they are typically played in all fringe with talon karde, so they have a ysalamari bubble anyways

I stabs by my silver bullet Booster Terrik special ability then

Cost adjustment would be the simplest. The character would work the same, so there would be nothing to adjust to in-game. If no other changes were made, I think cost 17 or 18 would actually be appropriate, even at 30 hp. At cost 16, I think he'd still be Tier 1, but no longer crowding out every other option around him. At 17 or 18, he'd only appear every once in a while.