To explain power piece:
it kind of has to be a hard counter, there are lots of soft counters to out activation. Double Agent helps against 13-15 activation squads but not the 21-24 activation squads. Amanoa could work if Sith was better, so making a power 11 Sith Master could do the job as well, imo. It has to be something that actually will shift the meta. Right now Out activation is ruling supreme.

Please explain why you choose the option you choose and if there is another option that you would choose if you could choose more than 1 option.

Choice 1: Do you want a full counter to out activate or swap?
Choice 2: Do you want counters that naturally bring jedi to the front or just power 10 and 11 jedi in general?
Choice 3: Do you have any ideas?

Choice 4: Do you want more balance in factions?
Choice 5: Double agent has tried to hurt out activate, do you think it can affect the meta if it was a lobot reinforcement?
Choice 6: Change could hurt those that do not come around often and want a "tried and true" squad (Dr. Daman rocked Poggled Bombs and Thrawn Swap this year)
Choice 7: What are the other options? jedi? non-uniques? etc. what do you think can actually compete?

I don't really see bastila as that bad tbh.

At least she helped OR get on the map.

I think power 9 and power 10 pieces are the way to go as well but designers are so afraid per 10 pieces that they end up being low power 9 pieces and not doing anything.
The other side of that is when a potential per 9 or 10 piece comes out there is no support from following sets.

I sincerely hope set 17 is helping army of light and Revan squads specifically. I was hoping that a set would help covenant as well.
Booster seems fun, needs support. Those kinds of things take forever (years) for people to support potential meta building pieces.

With no guarantee from consecutive set designers, if i was a designer, I would try to get everything done in that set rather then see good effort ideas (power 9 that need support) sit on the bench for years

Yes, Tim did play at least 1 yobuck squad as I am pretty sure that Etienne beat him in the early Swiss rounds. Rigged detonators to me are not as bad as suppressive fire. Your opponent can avoid the auto fail on rigged detonators by not standing in cover or against low objects. Brutal strike is another one but it helps beatsticks so generally isn't seen as a problem at least not yet.

I can agree with this to a point. There is a lot of direct damage. I did not see ATM's squad, but he should out activate. Kybuck and Tarpals have access to Evazan auto 60, flamethrower auto 40, etc. Once you kill Palps it is game over for that squad. (half the squad). Someone has to kill Evazan, wasting their turn as well or else he will do the 60 again (heaven forbid he makes the avoid defeat saves).

but it is great to see Palpatine at the top.
#moreBHC please

As for the poll I choose jedi need to be more competitive. If that means that they find a way to stop suppressive fire and rigged detonators (they are jedi after all they do sense things) than I am fine with that. I just cant think of a time where there is such a good shooter that they just didnt have a chance at stopping the blaster fire. heck, we have jedi stopping flamethrowers for crying out loud.

Oh melee absolutely needs help against shooters, and stupid shooters that ignore all defenses need to stop being made. My personal opinion is that several power 8 or 9 pieces would do the same job as a power 11 piece to help melee while also leaving room for different squads and variations.

Good point. I guess going off of that banning the problem pieces is the way to go. If people don’t want to errata WotC pieces (totally understandable IMO) but they are still a problem, then ban them.

All that creating more power 11 pieces does is just outclass more and more pieces. Right now a piece that would instantly let melee compete against Thrawn or Daala would also completely neuter other, nonbroken squads. Daala isn’t the only swarm, Thrawn isn’t the only one with swap and opportunist.